(upbeat rock music) 2 2
-: Okay, today we are going to 3 3
try to recreate a thumbnail that looks like this 4 4
and 5 5
as you can see, I just took a screenshot 6 6
of just an expression I was making in my video 7 7
and then I added this little cartoon here 8 8
to give it a little bit more color. 9 9
So you can use images that you get, 10 10
from like, from stock footage or something 11 11
or you can make your own little cartoon 12 12
which is what I'm going to do today. 13 13
So, 14 14
I'm gonna open up this screenshot here. 15 15
So I'm gonna click with my two fingers 16 16
or maybe it's like a right click 17 17
on your computer 18 18
and I'm gonna go open with Gimp. 19 19
Because as you know, 20 20
that's what I use to do my thumbnails. 21 21
And it's not the exact same screenshot 22 22
but it'll do same idea. 23 23
And I wanna make sure that it's exactly the right size 24 24
so I could leave it like this, 25 25
but it might be a little bit off around the edges, 26 26
because when I do the screenshot, 27 27
sometimes I go a little bit over (laughing) 28 28
and there's like a little black line on the side. 29 29
So to prevent that, go up to the top File, New, 30 30
and just go 1280, 31 31
height 720 pixels, and go Okay, 32 32
and now I have a new project over here, the white one. 33 33
Now I go back to my picture that I imported recently, 34 34
and I'll just, I'll usually go to this Move Tool, 35 35
click on it, then Copy 36 36
and go to my New Project and paste. 37 37
So Copy Command C, Paste Command V on my Mac here, 38 38
and it's too big. 39 39
So you go to Layer, 40 40
and Scale Layer, 41 41
and just make it a little bit bigger than 1280, 42 42
so maybe like 1290 will be enough. 43 43
And I click here and it's 1290, 726, 44 44
which means I'm gonna lose 45 45
a little bit of stuff on the side, 46 46
and so if I did go over the lines, 47 47
when I was taking a screenshot, then it's not gonna show up. 48 48
Perfect, okay, now I can get rid of my other file, 49 49
so I click over to that other project and just oh, sorry. 50 50
There, discard changes, yeah, just throw it out. 51 51
We don't need it anymore. 52 52
And I wanna make a little cartoon here, 53 53
so I'm gonna do that in another project file. 54 54
So go to the Top File, New, 55 55
when I do little cartoons, I do 800 by 800, 56 56
it doesn't matter though, you could do 900 by 900, 57 57
it doesn't matter, so okay. 58 58
And then I go to Layer, New Layer. 59 59
I was like to keep it like this (laughing). 60 60
And now I can just start drawing, 61 61
and I can increase the size of this, 62 62
you wanna pull down and 63 63
here, I could go to 100% or whatever up to you 64 64
to do details you wanna zoom in, 65 65
and you do that by going down here. 66 66
Now I just go to my Paintbrush Tool, this black will work, 67 67
it's a little bit too big, 68 68
so I'm going to go down here, under the Tool Options 69 69
you see size, maybe I can put it at 12 or something, 70 70
how does that work? 71 71
10, 10 will be fine. 72 72
And I just make a baby here, hold on a second, 73 73
what does it look like? 74 74
Oh, yeah, it's a little baby and a bed. 75 75
So or maybe I'll make the bed first, 76 76
I really just hand drew this. 77 77
Oh, I'm gonna Undo, I forgot. 78 78
You see how the line here is a little bit fuzzy 79 79
at the edges? 80 80
I want a clean line. 81 81
So Undo, and change the brush. 82 82
I think I want, you know, a brush that is not feathered 83 83
on the corners. 84 84
Ah, that's better. 85 85
Actually, I am gonna make it a little bit smaller, alright. 86 86
So I think I had a little pillow here. 87 87
So I'll just make a little hand-drawn pillow. 88 88
To paint, all you do is just click and drag 89 89
and it'll show up as a black line, and I had a little bed. 90 90
Again, if you don't like doing this stuff (laughing), 91 91
you could use images that somebody else made for you 92 92
or stock photos or whatever, 93 93
but I want something that's a little fun 94 94
and I don't mind it looking kind of imperfect, 95 95
because I said this another one. 96 96
I think imperfection kind of screens comedy so, 97 97
and then I have my little baby, what does it look like? 98 98
Anyway. 99 99
It doesn't really matter to me that much, 100 100
actually, I'm gonna make this a little bit smaller still. 101 101
So go to my size, and I'm gonna pull it down even more. 102 102
Let's get the head here. 103 103
Here's my baby's funny little head, 104 104
kinda looks like an alien this time around (laughing). 105 105
And if you make a mistake, just Undo man. 106 106
Wanna just get my baby one tooth, 107 107
you can draw anything you want. 108 108
This time my drawing or cartoon is a little bit more 109 109
complicated (laughing) than just like a heart or an arrow. 110 110
Oh yeah, that's fine. 111 111
Again, I'm not looking for 112 112
a very professional looking cartoon, 113 113
I just want something that looks pretty bad actually. 114 114
And how does I have the hand there? 115 115
The baby is pouring milk 116 116
all over the bed. 117 117
There we go. 118 118
And here's the spilt milk. 119 119
And 120 120
finish it off by 121 121
doing the diaper, 122 122
and his cute little baby legs. 123 123
Now, 124 124
again, I'm doing this quite quickly. 125 125
If you wanna do something that's more perfect, 126 126
you're gonna be doing a lot more Undos. 127 127
And let's zoom in here a little bit. 128 128
You see here the lines like they're not perfect. 129 129
If you wanna fix those, just go to the Eraser Tool, 130 130
and there you go, you can erase those mistakes, 131 131
make it a little bit more perfect if you want to. 132 132
Now, I'm gonna color in my baby. 133 133
So I'm gonna go to the paint bucket 134 134
or the Bucket Fill Tool, paint bucket, whatever, 135 135
and change the color, 136 136
so you can find your baby's skin turn here. 137 137
Just, I don't know, just play around, 138 138
you can touch anywhere you want to 139 139
and the color will change. 140 140
So yeah, I'll go to a peachy color, 141 141
which will bring me closer 142 142
to what I want my baby skin to look like, 143 143
maybe I want a little bit more pink, that looks all right. 144 144
And then you just touch here, and 145 145
it'll fill in whatever's enclosed. 146 146
There, that's fine, I need his ears to be skin color too. 147 147
If you make a mistake, and you go on to the black, 148 148
that's what happens, so Undo, 149 149
try to be careful. 150 150
Um, and then the bed, I had it quite bright. 151 151
So I have blue pillow, and a blue bed skirt? 152 152
Is that what it's called? 153 153
And I think I do pink too 154 154
on the bedspread. 155 155
And 156 156
guess I'll put brown for the legs there. 157 157
And what else? 158 158
Um, yeah, if I wanted to 159 159
make a little bit of a milk line on the bottle, 160 160
I could do that, let's go back to the Paintbrush Tool, 161 161
make sure it's quite small. 162 162
I guess I'll keep it white, no, not white, 163 163
then I can't see it (laughing). 164 164
Maybe like a whitish blue color there. 165 165
And 166 166
yeah, that's okay, and then I can use my Paint Bucket Tool, 167 167
and I can kinda color that in. 168 168
So it's like a little light blue bottle 169 169
with the white milk at the bottom. 170 170
All right, and then we're done with the cartoon. 171 171
You can make this more perfect, of course, 172 172
and I'm sure you will. 173 173
So now we're gonna go, 174 174
do I want a white background on this? 175 175
I think I did. 176 176
Um, so yeah. 177 177
Sometimes I like to keep it transparent. 178 178
So I'm gonna save this, 179 179
Save 180 180
baby cartoon. 181 181
And if I do that, that means I can use it later, 182 182
and I can open this project and change it 183 183
at a later point in time if I wanna reuse it. 184 184
Actually, right, now, what I want is, 185 185
I want to bring it into my other file. 186 186
So I'm gonna merge this down, I'm gonna merge it down. 187 187
So I go to this Layer, 188 188
and right now the background is transparent, 189 189
but I want the background white. 190 190
So I'm going to merge down and then 191 191
it becomes the same file as the background. 192 192
Or the same layer as the background, 193 193
they're merged together. 194 194
And then I'll just copy, 195 195
and I'll paste it onto my new project 196 196
or my project that I was working on. 197 197
Layer, To New Layer, 'cause I don't want it to be floating, 198 198
and I can move it by selecting the Move Tool 199 199
and kinda moving it to the side here a bit, 200 200
and now I wanna kind of get rid of this square. 201 201
So I'm gonna go to the Eraser Tool, 202 202
and under Tool Options, I'm gonna choose one that 203 203
has a little bit of feathering on the outside, 204 204
so it's softer, softer brush, increase the size here, 205 205
how big do I want this? 206 206
Smaller, I don't know exactly what I want yet 207 207
so I just kind of play around. 208 208
That looks kind of okay. 209 209
I'm gonna erase the outer corners of it. 210 210
I could go for an even softer brush, 211 211
or I could increase the size of my brush. 212 212
That'll make it even softer. 213 213
Go with this one, 214 214
here we go. 215 215
And I'm just going around, kind of, 216 216
making it a little thought bubble cloud, kind of thing. 217 217
All right, that looks good, not too bad. 218 218
Now I wanna add some text. 219 219
So go to the Text Tool, 220 220
And the text in this case is 221 221
Salah, times 10 222 222
(foreign language) 223 223
that's Indonesian for, it's wrong times 10. 224 224
And then I can increase the text size, 225 225
so I can see it better. 226 226
What color was I going for that time? 227 227
I think it was an orange. 228 228
Okay, so I'm gonna change the color, 229 229
clicking on this color box here, 230 230
and click on orange, I already had an orange. 231 231
If you can't find it in orange in that spot, 232 232
then you just click, click on all the colors 233 233
until you find the one you want, okay. 234 234
And I'm gonna change the font, so up here, 235 235
I just clicked I, 'cause I'm pretty sure 236 236
I was using impact as I often do, 237 237
and still looks a little small. 238 238
So increase, all again, 239 239
and that looks all right. 240 240
Now I move it by just pulling on these corners here, 241 241
there we go, okay, that looks good. 242 242
Now I had a little red outline on the text 243 243
and here's how I did that. 244 244
I went up to the Fuzzy Select Tool, I think. 245 245
And I clicked 246 246
on the Letters. 247 247
And I wanna click on All the Letters, 248 248
so now I'm gonna have to press the Shift button as I click. 249 249
See the little Plus sign that appears when I click Shift, 250 250
that means I wanna include the other letters as well, 251 251
so I'm holding on to that Shift button 252 252
and clicking everything here. 253 253
Now, I've got all of the letters selected, 254 254
and now I go to Select up top, Grow, 255 255
and I can grow up by four, six, eight, 256 256
nine, whatever I want. 257 257
I guess I'm gonna choose eight and see how that looks, okay. 258 258
And as you can see that selection grew 259 259
and now I have something that could be a good outline. 260 260
And I'm going to now go to Layer, New Layer, 261 261
okay, and I'm gonna pull that Layer below my Text Layer, 262 262
and the selection is still there, okay, 263 263
and now I'm gonna go to the Paint Tool, Paint Brush Tool, 264 264
and I think I want a red outline this time. 265 265
So okay, choose the color you want, 266 266
and now all you have to do is paint. 267 267
As I told you before, I like a clean edge when I'm painting. 268 268
And you might as well keep it large, 269 269
and you just click and drag it, and there we go. 270 270
I think that looks up okay. 271 271
And if you want, 272 272
you could actually go to the background here. 273 273
Oh sorry, Salah times 10 is still selected, so select None. 274 274
Now I can go to my background 275 275
and make it a little bit more I don't know, 276 276
(laughing) attractive, 277 277
by maybe changing the brightness contrast, 278 278
or going to curves, 279 279
playing around with the color a little bit. 280 280
If I wanna increase the contrast maybe, 281 281
that'll make it pop a little bit more, you know, 282 282
or maybe I want to Colors, Curves, 283 283
play around with the curves here, 284 284
pull that up to bring the weights up. 285 285
Okay, that makes it pop a little bit more, 286 286
yeah, if you want to. 287 287
And there we go. 288 288
Now my thumbnail is finished, and I just go, 289 289
I can close this too, 290 290
this color changes. 291 291
And I wanna save my Editing File 292 292
just in case I wanna change it later. 293 293
So Save, and that saves it as an XCF. 294 294
So 295 295
call it what you want, 296 296
Save 297 297
and I wanna export it as a JPEG, 298 298
so I can upload it as a YouTube thumbnail export as 299 299
Salah 10jpg, 300 300
export, 301 301
export. 302 302
And 303 303
where did she go here? 304 304
So, oh, oh, oh! 305 305
Salah, 10. 306 306
Where did she go? 307 307
Hold on a second. 308 308
Salah 10 Document. 309 309
Salah. 310 310
All right. 311 311
And there it is, there's the finished product. 312 312
And now you know how to make your own little cartoon 313 313
that you can put in your Thumbnail Images.