(upbeat music) 2 2
-: All right guys, welcome back to another 3 3
thumbnail-making tutorial! 4 4
(takes a breath) 5 5
I got my tissues out, just in case 6 6
I get a little sweat mustache here. 7 7
It is hot today in Bali. 8 8
I just checked online 9 9
and it says it feels like 98 10 10
.6 11 11
degrees 12 12
with the humidity, it's nuts guys. 13 13
Let's start though. 14 14
The work must go on. 15 15
So, I'm going to recreate this 16 16
thumbnail here that I did, 17 17
and this is one of my favorites actually. 18 18
It reminds me of a like, film poster, or something. 19 19
It did really well for me, it got over a million views, 20 20
and, 21 21
I just manipulated the background a little bit, 22 22
so that my subject stands out. 23 23
And, I'm gonna teach you how to do that, now. 24 24
So we're gonna open GIMP, 25 25
♪ to-do-do ♪ 26 26
Open her up. 27 27
And, 28 28
let's 29 29
say File, 30 30
New, 31 31
and start with our YouTube thumbnail template, 32 32
which is 1080 33 33
by seven-twenty. 34 34
And we're gonna go, okay! 35 35
Now, don't worry about this white background. 36 36
We're not gonna use it. 37 37
It's just there (laughs). 38 38
All right, now we're gonna import 39 39
my two... 40 40
screenshots. 41 41
I used two screenshots for this. 42 42
So, the first one is the background, 43 43
so I'm just going to click on my photo, open with GIMP. 44 44
And, here she comes. 45 45
All right, wonderful. 46 46
(hums) 47 47
I'm just going to 48 48
choose the Move tool here. 49 49
I'm just gonna click on this, 50 50
and copy, 51 51
which is Command + C on the Mac, 52 52
and go to my white background and Command + V, paste. 53 53
And as you can see, it's all zoomed in, 54 54
and I don't want that, so, 55 55
I'm going to resize it. 56 56
So I'm gonna go to... 57 57
uh-oh. 58 58
See here? 59 59
It's a Floating Selection, Pasted Layer. 60 60
That's this thing that I just pasted on, 61 61
so go to Layer, to New Layer. 62 62
Okay, here it is now. 63 63
And, I need to resize that layer, 64 64
so while it's selected I go to Layer, 65 65
Scale Layer, and I'm gonna make it... 66 66
more 67 67
close to 68 68
1280, 720. 69 69
So let's just 70 70
go 1290? 71 71
And see what happens? 72 72
Yeah, 73 73
there. 74 74
I made it a little tiny bit bigger, 75 75
just in case when I took the screenshot, 76 76
I might have gone over the line just a little bit, 77 77
so there might have been a little bit of my desktop 78 78
in the background, you know, in the corners. 79 79
So that will keep it... 80 80
safe. 81 81
Wonderful. 82 82
Now I'm going to bring my other photo in. 83 83
This file here I don't need it anymore, so, 84 84
just... 85 85
delete that. 86 86
Discard changes, gone. 87 87
Great. 88 88
And the other photo that I need for this, 89 89
is, this screenshot here. 90 90
So, 91 91
open with GIMP. 92 92
And I'm gonna pull that in. 93 93
And, 94 94
I'm gonna put this lady's face 95 95
right on top of my background. 96 96
(sighs) 97 97
She looks very (laughs), 98 98
concerned (laughs). 99 99
Okay, take this tool here. 100 100
This is the 101 101
Paths tool. 102 102
Okay. 103 103
Notice that this is its own file, 104 104
all right its own project right now. 105 105
I'm not gonna import the whole photo. 106 106
I'm just going to cut out the body, 107 107
using this tool, Paths tool. 108 108
With the Paths tool, 109 109
here, I'm just gonna make this a bit bigger 110 110
so I can see all the edges. 111 111
Okay. 112 112
With the Paths tool, 113 113
make sure it's on design mode. 114 114
And, you just point and click, 115 115
and let go, 116 116
and then click again. 117 117
Click, keep on clicking. 118 118
You can click roughly all the way all the way around 119 119
your subject. 120 120
And, notice that my subject has 121 121
straight hair. 122 122
This makes things so much easier. 123 123
There we go. 124 124
It doesn't have to be perfect at this point. 125 125
Okay great. 126 126
Now, 127 127
we've closed it, okay? 128 128
We've closed it, and it's like a closed circuit, 129 129
and now we can zoom in a little bit. 130 130
So, down here, 131 131
you can see, 132 132
I can click on this arrow and make it 100%. 133 133
Oh my gosh, that's big. 134 134
50% (laughs). 135 135
All right. 136 136
And, just scroll around here. 137 137
There we go. 138 138
Uh-oh, I 139 139
have an extra dot right here, see? 140 140
So now that I've selected it, 141 141
I just press Delete, and it's gone. 142 142
So, if you make that mistake, now you know how to fix it. 143 143
Okay, so, you can drag any of these lines, here. 144 144
So just click on the line, hold it, and drag it 145 145
so that, 146 146
it's close 147 147
to the border of your subject. 148 148
I can click on this side, pull it out a little bit. 149 149
Okay? 150 150
Very easy to do. 151 151
You're just clicking, holding and dragging 152 152
on those lines 153 153
and it will copy the shape of your subject. 154 154
Scroll up a little bit. 155 155
Pull that up. 156 156
It doesn't have to be super perfect, because 157 157
thumbnails are quite small. 158 158
They're not gonna be zoomed in as much as this is. 159 159
Okay, just do the best you can and 160 160
it depends on how much of a perfectionist you are. 161 161
(laughs) 162 162
Okay, here we go. 163 163
Don't worry about this little piece of hair. 164 164
It'll work well without it. 165 165
And, 166 166
here. 167 167
There we go. 168 168
That looks pretty good to me! 169 169
And, there's a little bit at the bottom here. 170 170
I could adjust it to use that as well, 171 171
but I don't need it. 172 172
And we're done. 173 173
Okay. 174 174
I'm gonna zoom back out. 175 175
So now what I'm gonna do 176 176
is I'm gonna go to Selection from Path. 177 177
Okay. 178 178
And now, 179 179
just this woman is selected, 180 180
and I'm just going to copy. 181 181
Command + C, on the Mac. 182 182
And then go back to the file 183 183
that my thumbnail is going to be, 184 184
and I'm going to 185 185
paste. 186 186
And there she is. 187 187
And is she ever big (laughs). 188 188
Too big. 189 189
So, 190 190
we go to 191 191
this is a Floating Selection still, see that? 192 192
(makes disgusted noise) 193 193
I don't want that. 194 194
So go to Layer, and To New Layer. 195 195
And now, 196 196
Layer, 197 197
Scale Layer, 198 198
and this little arrow will make her a lot smaller. 199 199
All right, I don't know, maybe 200 200
the height 201 201
at seven-twenty might work? 202 202
Or, let's just see what it looks like, okay? 203 203
You can fix it later. 204 204
Scale. 205 205
Hmm, 206 206
that looks pretty good actually. 207 207
I just wanna compare it to 208 208
my other one here. 209 209
My example. 210 210
Yeah, I think this one, 211 211
oh look, see? 212 212
Do you see the top of her head here? 213 213
Yeah, I must have been in a rush. 214 214
I did not do her hair very well. 215 215
It's kind of choppy here. 216 216
But nobody complained (laughs). 217 217
Okay, close that up. 218 218
I just wanted to have a look. 219 219
Okay, I'm gonna make her a little bit smaller still. 220 220
Layer, Scale Layer. 221 221
Click this downward pointing thing. 222 222
Make sure this is 223 223
linked up, okay? 224 224
If you click on it and it's not linked up, 225 225
then everything is gonna get warped. 226 226
And you don't want that, 227 227
so make sure that's connected. 228 228
On to Scale. 229 229
All right, I think that's fine. 230 230
So we're gonna go to the Move tool now. 231 231
This one here. 232 232
And, make sure it's on the first one here, 233 233
with the little picture image, here. 234 234
And, 235 235
I'm gonna click on her. 236 236
It's selected here, make sure it's selected here, yeah. 237 237
The layer that you want to move. 238 238
And I'm gonna drag her down, because you can see there's 239 239
some space at the bottom of her, 240 240
so I'm gonna move her down a little bit. 241 241
All right. 242 242
Let's pull this out to see. 243 243
Yeah. 244 244
See I pulled it 245 245
down here. 246 246
So, there's no gap anymore. 247 247
All right. 248 248
I kind of like the way she looks already, 249 249
but I can put a little bit more contrast, 250 250
and see what it looks like. 251 251
Does it look better? 252 252
Go to Colors. 253 253
Make sure she is still selected here, okay guys? 254 254
Go to Layer, sorry Colors. 255 255
Brightness-Contrast. 256 256
And you can play around a little bit. 257 257
Don't go too overboard. 258 258
Okay. 259 259
Yeah, maybe there. 260 260
If I click... 261 261
this then I can see before 262 262
and then Preview, after. 263 263
Yeah, that's fine for me. 264 264
It might even be a little too much. 265 265
There. 266 266
Okay. 267 267
And then, 268 268
I choose the background layer here. 269 269
I want her to pop even more. 270 270
So I go to Pasted Layer. 271 271
The one where... 272 272
she's walking 273 273
with her boo. 274 274
And, 275 275
choose, 276 276
you can do this in several different ways, okay? 277 277
There are more than one ways to do things. 278 278
This is an easy way though. 279 279
Paintbrush tool, 280 280
and, you have the chosen color black, 281 281
and I turn the Opacity down here, 282 282
these are the Tool Options, okay? 283 283
Opacity, 284 284
down, 285 285
if you hover over it, 286 286
you'll see this little stick arrow thing, 287 287
and just drag this to 25. 288 288
Or, something like that, okay? 289 289
Yeah. 290 290
I think I always used to do it at 25 291 291
for this particular series. 292 292
And, I usually choose a different brush, 293 293
and increase the size so it goes quicker. 294 294
Yeah. 295 295
There we go. 296 296
And I just color in. 297 297
Don't lift your finger 298 298
off until you are finished coloring. 299 299
Because if you do, then it's gonna look like that. 300 300
See? 301 301
It like, 302 302
undo. 303 303
It kind of overlaps itself. 304 304
So you gotta do it in kind of one stroke, and, 305 305
there she is. 306 306
Now, I need to... 307 307
add some text. 308 308
You can see here that it already looks like 309 309
it's popping more, 310 310
like she is really standing out of the crowd here now. 311 311
Choose the Text tool, and, 312 312
just click where you want your text to go. 313 313
And, 314 314
what was it? 315 315
Nasib, 316 316
Saya, 317 317
Nikah, 318 318
and, 319 319
I... 320 320
select all of it, and then go to 321 321
my favorite 322 322
font. 323 323
And, you could choose the font from here too. 324 324
If you click on here you can see all the fonts, 325 325
but I already know what font I'm using. 326 326
And now that I've changed it to Impact Condensed, 327 327
I'm going to increase the size of the font, 328 328
so I'll just, 329 329
♪ To-do-do ♪ 330 330
All right, 331 331
can't really see it (laughs). 332 332
Because, if you look over here, it's actually under 333 333
the woman here. 334 334
So I'm gonna click on Nasib Saya Nikah, the text 335 335
and just move it up 336 336
to the top. 337 337
You just click and drag and let go 338 338
and it should be on top now. 339 339
I'm going to change 340 340
the font color to, 341 341
I think it was an orange-y type color. 342 342
Okay. 343 343
And, oh I had, 344 344
all caps. 345 345
Sorry, I'm gonna fix that. 346 346
Nasib, 347 347
Saya, 348 348
Nikah. 349 349
(makes non-affirmative sounds) 350 350
Sorry guys. 351 351
Nikah. 352 352
And, there was a five. 353 353
But the five I think is a separate, is it separate? 354 354
I'm not sure. 355 355
Here I'll put a five here. 356 356
The five appears to be a bit bigger, 357 357
so I'm just gonna select the five here, 358 358
and increase the size on the five? 359 359
There we go. 360 360
And, I can drag on these corners here, 361 361
and move 362 362
the font. 363 363
There. 364 364
And I think I put 365 365
a drop shadow on this font 366 366
to make the font stand out a little bit more. 367 367
So I go to Filters, 368 368
Light and Shadow, 369 369
Drop Shadow. 370 370
I might have increased this. 371 371
Sometimes I leave it like that, 372 372
sometimes I... 373 373
put it to like 10. 374 374
I might have put it to about 10. 375 375
And the Blur radius, I don't know, 21. 376 376
You can experiment and I usually turn the opacity up. 377 377
But, play around and do what you like. 378 378
And then, 379 379
I usually click this off out of habit now. 380 380
And okay. 381 381
There we go. 382 382
I think that looks great, 383 383
and now, I'm just going to 384 384
Export 385 385
as 386 386
JPG, 387 387
okay? 388 388
That's what 389 389
YouTube likes, and I'll name it 390 390
Nasib 391 391
Nema. 392 392
And, I'll put it on my desktop I guess. 393 393
Export. 394 394
Simple as that, 395 395
and now I'm going to save the GIMP file itself, 396 396
so that you guys can see what I've done here. 397 397
Maybe you wanna recreate this, 398 398
just for some practice. 399 399
You wanna do it along with me. 400 400
File, 401 401
Save, 402 402
Nasib Nema, and I'll put that on the desktop too. 403 403
Okay. 404 404
There we go. 405 405
I will quit GIMP. 406 406
And, 407 407
there she is. 408 408
Our 409 409
new thumbnail, 410 410
all ready for upload. 411 411
Thanks guys, and, 412 412
I wish you the best 413 413
in your 414 414
GIMP 415 415
adventure.