1 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,583 (light music) 2 2 00:00:04,910 --> 00:00:08,020 Let's use Photoshop and create a thumbnail image 3 3 00:00:08,020 --> 00:00:09,778 with me pointing on it. 4 4 00:00:09,778 --> 00:00:13,600 Photoshop on a Mac and Windows is very, very similar. 5 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,721 If you ever hear me mention Command + C for copy 6 6 00:00:17,721 --> 00:00:21,310 and you're using Windows, then that's actually Control + C. 7 7 00:00:21,310 --> 00:00:25,250 By the same token, if I use the Option button on a Mac, 8 8 00:00:25,250 --> 00:00:28,350 use the Alt, A-L-T button on Windows. 9 9 00:00:28,350 --> 00:00:29,530 This will make much more sense 10 10 00:00:29,530 --> 00:00:32,420 as we go through this exercise here together. 11 11 00:00:32,420 --> 00:00:33,740 The first thing we're gonna do 12 12 00:00:33,740 --> 00:00:36,517 is we're gonna look at which image we want to use. 13 13 00:00:36,517 --> 00:00:39,350 You could see here I have a number of different images, 14 14 00:00:39,350 --> 00:00:41,600 which are just screen prints from that video. 15 15 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,270 What I do is I label them all accordingly. 16 16 00:00:45,270 --> 00:00:48,130 So, the face screenshot of me pointing right 17 17 00:00:48,130 --> 00:00:49,930 is labeled POINT_RIGHT. 18 18 00:00:49,930 --> 00:00:52,430 The one of me pointing left is labeled POINT_LEFT. 19 19 00:00:53,766 --> 00:00:57,443 What we'll do now is I'm gonna open up Photoshop. 20 20 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:00,720 We're gonna create a new document. 21 21 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,950 Now when you create a thumbnail image in YouTube, 22 22 00:01:03,950 --> 00:01:07,680 you have to make sure that the parameters are correct. 23 23 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,140 The parameters are a width of 1,280 and a height of 720. 24 24 00:01:12,140 --> 00:01:15,490 We can enter that in right here, 1,280 25 25 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,890 and then 720. 26 26 00:01:18,890 --> 00:01:22,410 If you wanted to, you can even create a preset here, 27 27 00:01:22,410 --> 00:01:23,550 meaning a template. 28 28 00:01:23,550 --> 00:01:24,780 We're not gonna do that right now. 29 29 00:01:24,780 --> 00:01:27,140 We're just gonna keep it really simple. 30 30 00:01:27,140 --> 00:01:28,380 Let's click on create. 31 31 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:30,140 It doesn't matter if you have a background color. 32 32 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:32,170 I'll just leave it at yellow for now. 33 33 00:01:32,170 --> 00:01:33,770 So, create. 34 34 00:01:33,770 --> 00:01:34,760 Great. 35 35 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,050 Now you might look at my version of Photoshop here 36 36 00:01:38,050 --> 00:01:42,198 and realize that your toolbars look a little bit different. 37 37 00:01:42,198 --> 00:01:45,680 What I want you to do please is right here, 38 38 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,340 when I click on windows within Photoshop, 39 39 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:50,730 you'll see I have a number of different items selected. 40 40 00:01:50,730 --> 00:01:53,890 Make sure you have these exact same list selected. 41 41 00:01:53,890 --> 00:01:56,040 If I deselected layers, watch what happens 42 42 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,320 to the bottom right-hand corner of my screen. 43 43 00:01:58,320 --> 00:01:59,153 Layers is gone. 44 44 00:02:00,030 --> 00:02:01,994 Again, pause me and make sure you have 45 45 00:02:01,994 --> 00:02:06,280 all of these items here selected. 46 46 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:07,583 Okay, great. 47 47 00:02:07,583 --> 00:02:10,340 What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna open up the image 48 48 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:12,843 that we're gonna use in this thumbnail. 49 49 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:15,713 I'll go to file, open. 50 50 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,037 I will grab the first one here, 51 51 00:02:19,037 --> 00:02:22,160 or the last one, I should say, here, it's sorted by date, 52 52 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:23,543 which is called POINT_LEFT. 53 53 00:02:24,687 --> 00:02:26,590 I'm gonna open it here. 54 54 00:02:26,590 --> 00:02:28,980 Now what we wanna do is we wanna get rid 55 55 00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:32,960 of all of the information around my face and around my body. 56 56 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,180 We're gonna get rid of the green background 57 57 00:02:35,180 --> 00:02:38,340 and the awful floor where I did a hack-job painting. 58 58 00:02:38,340 --> 00:02:41,200 You can see little pieces of green paint there everywhere. 59 59 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,180 Click here and go to magic wand tool. 60 60 00:02:44,180 --> 00:02:45,320 Yeah. 61 61 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,340 You select it. 62 62 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:48,485 And then you can do cut, 63 63 00:02:48,485 --> 00:02:52,420 Control + X or Command + X on a Mac. 64 64 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:54,970 You can see that I selected a bunch of stuff 65 65 00:02:54,970 --> 00:02:56,123 but not everything. 66 66 00:02:57,060 --> 00:03:01,283 I'm gonna hit Command + Z or Control + Z to undo that. 67 67 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:07,227 Now what I can do is I can actually add to that. 68 68 00:03:07,227 --> 00:03:09,580 I can go here to quick selection tool 69 69 00:03:09,580 --> 00:03:11,083 instead of magic wand tool. 70 70 00:03:12,420 --> 00:03:14,980 By the way, if you ever aren't sure 71 71 00:03:14,980 --> 00:03:19,780 how to get rid of all of these dancing ants 72 72 00:03:19,780 --> 00:03:22,610 as they call these lines here, what you can do 73 73 00:03:22,610 --> 00:03:25,650 is you can hit Command + D or Control + D. 74 74 00:03:25,650 --> 00:03:26,520 I'll do that right now. 75 75 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:27,853 See how it deselected it. 76 76 00:03:29,302 --> 00:03:31,560 This time again, we're gonna select the top one, 77 77 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,749 which is quick selection tool. 78 78 00:03:33,749 --> 00:03:36,410 I'm gonna select around here. 79 79 00:03:36,410 --> 00:03:38,330 But you see how my fingers are now covered up, 80 80 00:03:38,330 --> 00:03:41,950 like darn, I want my finger to actually be in the image. 81 81 00:03:41,950 --> 00:03:44,471 I can hit Control + Z or Command + Z. 82 82 00:03:44,471 --> 00:03:46,130 I can do it again. 83 83 00:03:46,130 --> 00:03:47,494 Watch here. 84 84 00:03:47,494 --> 00:03:49,484 'Kay, I'm happy with that. 85 85 00:03:49,484 --> 00:03:50,567 Select again. 86 86 00:03:51,446 --> 00:03:52,442 Oh. 87 87 00:03:52,442 --> 00:03:55,380 Now I hit Control + Z or Command + Z to go back. 88 88 00:03:55,380 --> 00:03:58,550 You can keep doing that until you have everything selected 89 89 00:03:58,550 --> 00:04:02,050 around the picture, and then hit the Delete. 90 90 00:04:02,050 --> 00:04:03,280 Let's say I'm happy with that. 91 91 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:04,530 Looks good to me so far. 92 92 00:04:04,530 --> 00:04:05,563 Let's add more. 93 93 00:04:06,830 --> 00:04:07,663 Oh. 94 94 00:04:07,663 --> 00:04:09,770 I lost my head. (laughs) 95 95 00:04:09,770 --> 00:04:10,882 How do we get around that? 96 96 00:04:10,882 --> 00:04:12,690 You can go up here. 97 97 00:04:12,690 --> 00:04:13,840 You see the minus? 98 98 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,160 There's quickest ways to do it. 99 99 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,280 I'm gonna show you the easier way to do it. 100 100 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:21,363 We're gonna click on this minus to subtract from selection. 101 101 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:23,610 I'll go here. 102 102 00:04:24,670 --> 00:04:27,390 Lo and behold, my face is now back in the picture, 103 103 00:04:27,390 --> 00:04:28,720 so to speak. 104 104 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,880 Great. 105 105 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:31,990 Now what about my finger? 106 106 00:04:31,990 --> 00:04:35,259 What if we wanna have a more precise way 107 107 00:04:35,259 --> 00:04:37,790 to pick around my finger 108 108 00:04:37,790 --> 00:04:40,420 so that it is selected part of this? 109 109 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:42,330 You can go up here actually. 110 110 00:04:42,330 --> 00:04:45,080 You see here the size of the brush. 111 111 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,270 You can make the size of the brush bigger or smaller 112 112 00:04:48,270 --> 00:04:49,533 if you want to. 113 113 00:04:51,570 --> 00:04:52,823 I'm gonna zoom in now. 114 114 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:54,553 Woops. 115 115 00:04:54,553 --> 00:04:55,826 I select a little part there. 116 116 00:04:55,826 --> 00:04:57,360 I'm gonna hit Command + Z or Control + Z 117 117 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,403 or you can go up here to go undo. 118 118 00:05:00,380 --> 00:05:02,440 Then I'm gonna zoom in. 119 119 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,273 'Kay. 120 120 00:05:03,273 --> 00:05:05,570 You can always go to view to zoom in or out, 121 121 00:05:05,570 --> 00:05:09,450 or you can use a mouse like this to zoom in and out. 122 122 00:05:09,450 --> 00:05:12,920 We all have different mouses or mice I think is the plural. 123 123 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:13,753 All right. 124 124 00:05:13,753 --> 00:05:17,530 Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to select my finger here, 125 125 00:05:17,530 --> 00:05:18,363 see if it works. 126 126 00:05:18,363 --> 00:05:20,200 Okay, not perfect. 127 127 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,040 Get a little bit more of my finger. 128 128 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,490 Little bit more. 129 129 00:05:23,490 --> 00:05:24,323 Little bit more. 130 130 00:05:24,323 --> 00:05:25,290 Okay, good. 131 131 00:05:25,290 --> 00:05:26,326 All right. 132 132 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:27,159 We're getting there. 133 133 00:05:27,159 --> 00:05:29,330 Then what I wanna do is I actually want to go 134 134 00:05:29,330 --> 00:05:31,053 and get rid of this area here. 135 135 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,260 Let's select it. 136 136 00:05:33,260 --> 00:05:34,093 Oops. 137 137 00:05:34,093 --> 00:05:37,123 I gotta go back up here to plus, add the selection. 138 138 00:05:38,650 --> 00:05:40,200 Okay. 139 139 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,033 Good. 140 140 00:05:41,033 --> 00:05:41,866 Good. 141 141 00:05:41,866 --> 00:05:44,270 I'm not really worried about what's below there 142 142 00:05:44,270 --> 00:05:45,840 'cause I'm gonna cut it off in a second. 143 143 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:47,250 I'll show you what that means. 144 144 00:05:47,250 --> 00:05:48,216 All right. 145 145 00:05:48,216 --> 00:05:50,070 Let's take a look. Yeah, that looks decent to me. 146 146 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:52,120 Now I'm gonna cut. 147 147 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,393 You can go edit, cut, or Control + X or Command + X. 148 148 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:58,673 Okay, good. 149 149 00:05:58,673 --> 00:05:59,811 It's gone now. 150 150 00:05:59,811 --> 00:06:00,644 Oops. 151 151 00:06:00,644 --> 00:06:01,810 I noticed a mistake, two mistakes, 152 152 00:06:01,810 --> 00:06:04,380 one is my finger, the other one is my neck. 153 153 00:06:04,380 --> 00:06:05,375 All right. 154 154 00:06:05,375 --> 00:06:06,453 I'm gonna go to undo. 155 155 00:06:07,591 --> 00:06:09,230 I'm gonna go back in here 156 156 00:06:09,230 --> 00:06:12,050 and make sure I have this selected properly. 157 157 00:06:12,050 --> 00:06:13,543 Go back here to minus. 158 158 00:06:14,980 --> 00:06:15,813 Okay. 159 159 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:18,693 All right. 160 160 00:06:18,693 --> 00:06:20,085 And then here as well. 161 161 00:06:20,085 --> 00:06:22,753 Let's go back now and let's cut. 162 162 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:25,570 All right. 163 163 00:06:25,570 --> 00:06:26,403 Getting better. 164 164 00:06:26,403 --> 00:06:27,236 It's not perfect. 165 165 00:06:27,236 --> 00:06:28,070 I messed this up here, 166 166 00:06:28,070 --> 00:06:30,580 and I've got a little bit of my neck left here. 167 167 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:32,840 Control + Z or Command + Z to undo again. 168 168 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,340 You're gonna have to do this multiple times. 169 169 00:06:35,340 --> 00:06:37,850 That's why I like doing little brush strokes 170 170 00:06:37,850 --> 00:06:40,500 or clicks here and there instead of selecting everything 171 171 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,700 and then taking your finger off 172 172 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:44,360 because this way, if you mess up, 173 173 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,760 you can always Control + Z, or I should say Command + Z 174 174 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,710 if you're using Windows. 175 175 00:06:51,710 --> 00:06:53,962 Let's go here and deselect again, 176 176 00:06:53,962 --> 00:06:57,710 and then deselect a bit more here around my finger. 177 177 00:06:57,710 --> 00:06:59,360 We can clean that up in a second. 178 178 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:02,250 Then we're gonna cut again. 179 179 00:07:02,250 --> 00:07:03,100 Good. 180 180 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:04,950 It's looking a lot better now. 181 181 00:07:04,950 --> 00:07:05,990 Okay. 182 182 00:07:05,990 --> 00:07:09,132 What do we do now about this little green part here? 183 183 00:07:09,132 --> 00:07:13,120 We can click here on plus and get rid of it again. 184 184 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,180 The higher resolution the image you have, 185 185 00:07:16,180 --> 00:07:17,750 the less you're gonna have to finesse it 186 186 00:07:17,750 --> 00:07:19,950 by clicking here and there. 187 187 00:07:19,950 --> 00:07:21,030 We took a screen print. 188 188 00:07:21,030 --> 00:07:25,360 But if you're using Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, 189 189 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:30,230 for example, to take videos, you can actually go 190 190 00:07:30,230 --> 00:07:33,010 and you can export just the current frame, 191 191 00:07:33,010 --> 00:07:34,710 which is usually higher resolution, 192 192 00:07:34,710 --> 00:07:37,000 especially if you're shooting in high res, 193 193 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,420 meaning 1,080p or 4K. 194 194 00:07:40,420 --> 00:07:41,253 Okay. 195 195 00:07:42,248 --> 00:07:44,481 Let's zoom in here. 196 196 00:07:44,481 --> 00:07:47,893 Let's go and deselect part of that here. 197 197 00:07:49,110 --> 00:07:49,943 All right. 198 198 00:07:49,943 --> 00:07:51,160 Good. 199 199 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:51,993 All right. 200 200 00:07:51,993 --> 00:07:52,826 Getting better. 201 201 00:07:52,826 --> 00:07:55,150 A little part of my knuckle there. 202 202 00:07:55,150 --> 00:07:58,370 We're gonna add a little bit back here. 203 203 00:07:58,370 --> 00:08:00,380 It takes a while to perfect this. 204 204 00:08:00,380 --> 00:08:01,213 Cut. 205 205 00:08:01,213 --> 00:08:02,106 Okay. 206 206 00:08:02,106 --> 00:08:02,939 That looks good. 207 207 00:08:02,939 --> 00:08:03,810 It's not perfect. 208 208 00:08:03,810 --> 00:08:05,030 We'll grab this little part here. 209 209 00:08:05,030 --> 00:08:06,080 It's not perfect, okay? 210 210 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,690 What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna erase that 211 211 00:08:08,690 --> 00:08:10,500 with the eraser in a second. 212 212 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:11,333 Okay. 213 213 00:08:11,333 --> 00:08:12,990 Let's take a step back now. 214 214 00:08:12,990 --> 00:08:16,060 I'm gonna hit Command + D or Control + D, same thing, 215 215 00:08:16,060 --> 00:08:17,530 if you're using Windows. 216 216 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:19,520 I'm gonna deselect everything. 217 217 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:20,353 Okay. 218 218 00:08:20,353 --> 00:08:23,283 Now what I wanna do is I wanna cut what's below here. 219 219 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,580 I can select this here, this item, 220 220 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:31,423 and then I can actually highlight and cut what's below here. 221 221 00:08:33,210 --> 00:08:34,043 Let's see. 222 222 00:08:34,043 --> 00:08:35,630 I'm gonna hit Command or Control + D 223 223 00:08:35,630 --> 00:08:38,160 and go a little bit lower. 224 224 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,170 That might be good there. 225 225 00:08:39,170 --> 00:08:40,550 Now hit cut. 226 226 00:08:40,550 --> 00:08:42,029 Okay, good. 227 227 00:08:42,029 --> 00:08:45,030 Eh I think I wanna cut a little bit more than that. 228 228 00:08:45,030 --> 00:08:46,150 Cut. 229 229 00:08:46,150 --> 00:08:47,070 Okay, that's fine. 230 230 00:08:47,070 --> 00:08:47,903 That's fine. 231 231 00:08:47,903 --> 00:08:48,910 Okay, good. 232 232 00:08:48,910 --> 00:08:52,410 Now I can zoom in and retouch these areas here 233 233 00:08:52,410 --> 00:08:53,683 by selecting eraser here. 234 234 00:08:53,683 --> 00:08:55,371 This is the eraser. 235 235 00:08:55,371 --> 00:08:58,200 You can make your eraser smaller or bigger 236 236 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,423 by selecting here. 237 237 00:09:00,950 --> 00:09:04,423 If it's too big, then of course it's gonna delete too much. 238 238 00:09:05,530 --> 00:09:07,990 I can make it a lot smaller. 239 239 00:09:07,990 --> 00:09:10,450 There's many ways to do what I'm about to show you. 240 240 00:09:10,450 --> 00:09:12,600 Here, I'm just erasing this. 241 241 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,140 I like to do little brush strokes, 242 242 00:09:14,140 --> 00:09:16,160 meaning I click and take my finger off. 243 243 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,040 So, I can always go and undo if I take too much off. 244 244 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,330 Mkay. 245 245 00:09:21,330 --> 00:09:22,290 We're gonna zoom way out. 246 246 00:09:22,290 --> 00:09:25,130 So, this might not even show up as we zoom out. 247 247 00:09:25,130 --> 00:09:26,980 So, it should be fine. 248 248 00:09:26,980 --> 00:09:28,530 I can go here and cut that out. 249 249 00:09:28,530 --> 00:09:30,100 You can even recolor it. 250 250 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:32,680 That doesn't look perfect, my finger there. 251 251 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:35,870 Of course, you can change it around a little bit there. 252 252 00:09:35,870 --> 00:09:36,703 Oops. 253 253 00:09:36,703 --> 00:09:39,840 Control + Z or Command + Z to get rid of that. 254 254 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,070 The difference between a model and a supermodel, 255 255 00:09:42,070 --> 00:09:44,490 when people are using Photoshop for its work, 256 256 00:09:44,490 --> 00:09:46,890 is literally one millimeter. 257 257 00:09:46,890 --> 00:09:48,350 It's crazy. 258 258 00:09:48,350 --> 00:09:49,760 Okay. 259 259 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:50,593 All right. 260 260 00:09:50,593 --> 00:09:51,426 Let's zoom out. 261 261 00:09:51,426 --> 00:09:52,660 That looks good enough for us. 262 262 00:09:52,660 --> 00:09:53,758 It's not perfect. 263 263 00:09:53,758 --> 00:09:55,450 I won't make it look perfect or more better 264 264 00:09:55,450 --> 00:09:57,520 as my kids say in a second. 265 265 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:58,353 All right. 266 266 00:09:58,353 --> 00:10:00,096 Great. Now I'm gonna get the selection tool. 267 267 00:10:00,096 --> 00:10:02,610 I'm gonna select this here. 268 268 00:10:02,610 --> 00:10:03,883 I'm just gonna hit copy. 269 269 00:10:04,725 --> 00:10:06,730 I'm gonna put it here. 270 270 00:10:06,730 --> 00:10:09,150 In order to actually show the outlines, 271 271 00:10:09,150 --> 00:10:11,170 I'm gonna just drag and drop and make this bigger 272 272 00:10:11,170 --> 00:10:13,930 instead of worrying about the coordinates over here. 273 273 00:10:13,930 --> 00:10:15,170 If you go up here to the menu, 274 274 00:10:15,170 --> 00:10:17,910 you can click on show transform controls. 275 275 00:10:17,910 --> 00:10:18,743 Okay. 276 276 00:10:18,743 --> 00:10:21,070 It's probably defaulted on for most of you anyway 277 277 00:10:21,070 --> 00:10:22,460 watching this video. 278 278 00:10:22,460 --> 00:10:24,870 Then I can make this bigger if I wanted to 279 279 00:10:24,870 --> 00:10:27,510 by just dragging and dropping of course in the corner. 280 280 00:10:27,510 --> 00:10:29,340 Now I'm gonna put myself here 281 281 00:10:29,340 --> 00:10:31,259 in the bottom corner here, 282 282 00:10:31,259 --> 00:10:33,270 I should say, on the right side here. 283 283 00:10:33,270 --> 00:10:36,850 Now be careful if you wanna show something important 284 284 00:10:36,850 --> 00:10:38,690 right here over my forearm 285 285 00:10:38,690 --> 00:10:42,840 because that's where the time code is gonna be in YouTube, 286 286 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,410 which will actually block out whatever information is there. 287 287 00:10:46,410 --> 00:10:49,785 So, the important stuff should usually be on the other side. 288 288 00:10:49,785 --> 00:10:50,950 All right. 289 289 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:52,220 Now what I'm gonna do 290 290 00:10:52,220 --> 00:10:55,973 is I'm actually going to change the background. 291 291 00:10:57,210 --> 00:11:00,630 You can change the background many different ways. 292 292 00:11:00,630 --> 00:11:03,730 What I like to do is I like to throw in different layers. 293 293 00:11:03,730 --> 00:11:07,050 Now if you look over here on the bottom right-hand side 294 294 00:11:07,050 --> 00:11:10,190 for layers, if I get rid of this little eyeball here, 295 295 00:11:10,190 --> 00:11:13,480 you'll see that the layer of me disappears. 296 296 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:14,553 I'll turn it back on. 297 297 00:11:16,470 --> 00:11:19,350 If you click on this little item here, you see this, 298 298 00:11:19,350 --> 00:11:22,120 that will turn off selections. 299 299 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,410 I'll show you what that means. 300 300 00:11:24,410 --> 00:11:27,120 If I turn it off, I can see two layers, 301 301 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,563 the background and the layer of me. 302 302 00:11:31,270 --> 00:11:35,010 Now I can isolate if I want to as well 303 303 00:11:35,010 --> 00:11:38,270 by turning this on and just selecting certain items. 304 304 00:11:38,270 --> 00:11:42,750 If I wanted to select just let's see text, 305 305 00:11:42,750 --> 00:11:43,940 I could do that. 306 306 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:46,540 Or if I wanna select just other items, 307 307 00:11:46,540 --> 00:11:47,880 I could do that as well. 308 308 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,250 I gotta turn this off for now though 309 309 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:51,760 because it can be a little bit confusing. 310 310 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:52,620 Okay. 311 311 00:11:52,620 --> 00:11:56,343 Now I can turn off the background here or turn it on. 312 312 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,181 Now in order to color the background something different, 313 313 00:12:00,181 --> 00:12:02,639 you have to select the layer. 314 314 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:04,770 You always have to tell Photoshop 315 315 00:12:04,770 --> 00:12:07,140 what layer you're working on. 316 316 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:08,100 Let's tell Photoshop, 317 317 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:09,950 hey, we're not working on layer one anymore 318 318 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:11,330 or working on the background. 319 319 00:12:11,330 --> 00:12:14,000 We can see both these layers because the eyeball is there. 320 320 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,296 If we took it off, we wouldn't see it. 321 321 00:12:16,296 --> 00:12:20,710 Let's tell Photoshop now to color the background here green 322 322 00:12:20,710 --> 00:12:21,713 instead of yellow. 323 323 00:12:22,710 --> 00:12:23,660 The way we're gonna do that 324 324 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:26,280 is we've selected the layer here. 325 325 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,785 I'm gonna go over here to the color I want to use. 326 326 00:12:29,785 --> 00:12:32,900 This eye drop thing will select the color 327 327 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:35,900 if, say, I wanted to use that red color, 328 328 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:36,840 which should appear here. 329 329 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,040 I don't wanna use that though. 330 330 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,580 In this hypothetical case example, 331 331 00:12:40,580 --> 00:12:42,290 I wanna use green, something that looks cool 332 332 00:12:42,290 --> 00:12:45,840 that it's easy to see for the eye 333 333 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,750 because we're competing 334 334 00:12:46,750 --> 00:12:49,320 against many, many other YouTube thumbnails. 335 335 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,193 Let me select this green color, which I absolutely love. 336 336 00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:53,973 All right. 337 337 00:12:53,973 --> 00:12:57,370 Now we wanna do is we wanna select a paintbrush. 338 338 00:12:57,370 --> 00:12:59,120 So, you select the brush tool here. 339 339 00:13:00,460 --> 00:13:04,370 If your brush is really small like you see right here, 340 340 00:13:04,370 --> 00:13:07,020 it's just gonna paint a small amount. 341 341 00:13:07,020 --> 00:13:08,630 Undo those too. 342 342 00:13:08,630 --> 00:13:11,670 If I make the brush a lot bigger, which I like to do, 343 343 00:13:11,670 --> 00:13:14,080 it'll just paint the whole screen. 344 344 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:15,000 Watch this here. 345 345 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,040 Great. 346 346 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,650 Now we have the background done. 347 347 00:13:18,650 --> 00:13:21,143 Now let's go back to the layer of me. 348 348 00:13:22,270 --> 00:13:24,760 What I wanna do to make this layer pop 349 349 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,371 is I wanna have a little bit of a shadow. 350 350 00:13:27,371 --> 00:13:29,380 Mkay. Let me make this a little bit bigger. 351 351 00:13:29,380 --> 00:13:31,650 So, we can all see it now. 352 352 00:13:31,650 --> 00:13:34,640 Now in order to do that, like I mentioned before, 353 353 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,897 there's many ways to do stuff in Photoshop, 354 354 00:13:36,897 --> 00:13:38,603 I'm gonna double-click on this. 355 355 00:13:40,370 --> 00:13:42,510 You can name your layers as well here. 356 356 00:13:42,510 --> 00:13:44,790 I'll call this me. 357 357 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:47,590 I really recommend naming everything 358 358 00:13:47,590 --> 00:13:50,410 because eventually you're gonna have many, many layers 359 359 00:13:50,410 --> 00:13:52,070 in different documents you work on, 360 360 00:13:52,070 --> 00:13:53,370 and you're gonna get lost. 361 361 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,880 Now for a shadow, just come over here, 362 362 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,720 a little bit off to the side 363 363 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,803 and double-click in a blank area but not on the words. 364 364 00:14:02,850 --> 00:14:05,070 What will come up are a number of different parameters 365 365 00:14:05,070 --> 00:14:07,490 that you can use to change your image. 366 366 00:14:07,490 --> 00:14:09,700 Now make sure that you selected 367 367 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,230 the layer you want to change or alter. 368 368 00:14:13,230 --> 00:14:15,700 What I wanna do is I wanna add a bit of a shadow, 369 369 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:17,670 or drop shadow as they call it, around me 370 370 00:14:17,670 --> 00:14:19,820 to make the image of me pop a bit. 371 371 00:14:19,820 --> 00:14:22,500 Watch what happens when I select this. 372 372 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:24,030 As you can see behind me, 373 373 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:25,883 it's got a bit of a 3D pop. 374 374 00:14:26,830 --> 00:14:29,380 If you wanted to, what you can do 375 375 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:31,623 is make sure you select here, drop shadow. 376 376 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:37,480 I could actually change the angle and the distance as well. 377 377 00:14:37,710 --> 00:14:38,950 You see that? 378 378 00:14:38,950 --> 00:14:42,230 But I like to keep it slightly behind me 379 379 00:14:42,230 --> 00:14:44,700 without much of an angle at all. 380 380 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:46,800 It's just my personal preference. 381 381 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,150 If you wanted to, you can actually put in 382 382 00:14:50,150 --> 00:14:53,370 another outline here, which is stroke. 383 383 00:14:53,370 --> 00:14:55,980 In this case, I have blue selected. 384 384 00:14:55,980 --> 00:14:57,250 I'm gonna get rid of that though 385 385 00:14:57,250 --> 00:15:00,942 and we're just gonna stick directly with the drop shadow. 386 386 00:15:00,942 --> 00:15:02,660 I'm gonna click okay now. 387 387 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:03,493 All right. 388 388 00:15:03,493 --> 00:15:06,900 That actually makes the problematic finger outline 389 389 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,913 I have before that looked like ET Phone Home finger (laughs) 390 390 00:15:10,913 --> 00:15:13,590 look the mistake I made there or imperfection 391 391 00:15:13,590 --> 00:15:14,800 a little bit less noticeable. 392 392 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,250 Keep in mind, people are gonna be looking at this 393 393 00:15:16,250 --> 00:15:17,900 from far away anyway. 394 394 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:18,909 All right. 395 395 00:15:18,909 --> 00:15:21,540 Next up, let's now add text. 396 396 00:15:21,540 --> 00:15:24,320 I'm gonna add a text to this here 397 397 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,530 and then I'm gonna doctor it 398 398 00:15:25,530 --> 00:15:27,700 by getting rid of a couple things. 399 399 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:30,600 I'm gonna get rid of the word YouTube there, 400 400 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:31,860 which is a lot of fun. 401 401 00:15:31,860 --> 00:15:34,000 But let me add the text first. 402 402 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,630 We click here on text. 403 403 00:15:35,630 --> 00:15:37,710 And then we'll click here. 404 404 00:15:37,710 --> 00:15:39,800 We'll make the text size smaller. 405 405 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,800 I'm gonna make its size just for now 50. 406 406 00:15:43,270 --> 00:15:44,460 Let's call this... 407 407 00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:49,430 Let's call this Best Book Ever. 408 408 00:15:51,026 --> 00:15:53,743 We'll pretend this vlog is about the best book ever 409 409 00:15:53,743 --> 00:15:55,243 or this thumbnail. 410 410 00:15:56,270 --> 00:15:57,140 All right. 411 411 00:15:57,140 --> 00:15:59,310 Best book book. (laughs) 412 412 00:15:59,310 --> 00:16:02,520 Best book ever or best business book ever. 413 413 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:03,980 How's that? 414 414 00:16:03,980 --> 00:16:04,813 Okay. 415 415 00:16:05,677 --> 00:16:07,280 Great. 416 416 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,523 I'll click here to get the pointer back. 417 417 00:16:10,610 --> 00:16:13,310 As you can see, another layer was created for us here. 418 418 00:16:15,020 --> 00:16:16,790 That's important because if I wanted the layer 419 419 00:16:16,790 --> 00:16:19,060 to be behind my head, watch what happens 420 420 00:16:19,060 --> 00:16:21,490 when I drag and drop this layer. 421 421 00:16:21,490 --> 00:16:23,050 It goes behind me. 422 422 00:16:23,050 --> 00:16:24,960 I'll just keep it up here for now. 423 423 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,430 Great. 424 424 00:16:26,430 --> 00:16:27,263 All right. 425 425 00:16:27,263 --> 00:16:29,330 Now we're gonna do is we're gonna resize this, 426 426 00:16:29,330 --> 00:16:32,850 make it a bit bigger so that people can read it easily 427 427 00:16:32,850 --> 00:16:34,760 when they look at the thumbnail from far away. 428 428 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,920 You wanna try to mobile enable everything 429 429 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,130 'cause people are gonna look on smaller form factors 430 430 00:16:40,130 --> 00:16:41,260 like these things. 431 431 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:43,610 You wanna make sure they can read the writing. 432 432 00:16:43,610 --> 00:16:44,443 Okay. 433 433 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,920 What I like to do is I actually like to use 434 434 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,701 font that has an outline as well. 435 435 00:16:51,701 --> 00:16:55,000 It just pops a little bit more and makes it easier to read. 436 436 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,260 I usually like to use the color black. 437 437 00:16:58,260 --> 00:17:00,630 And the outline, I like to use a different color 438 438 00:17:00,630 --> 00:17:02,550 from the background. 439 439 00:17:02,550 --> 00:17:06,320 What we'll do is we go here and we double-click 440 440 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:07,400 as I showed you before. 441 441 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:08,233 Here we go. 442 442 00:17:08,233 --> 00:17:09,220 Good. 443 443 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:11,030 We're gonna create the stroke here. 444 444 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:13,957 Let me move this over here. So, you can see what I'm doing. 445 445 00:17:13,957 --> 00:17:15,670 I'm gonna click on stroke. 446 446 00:17:15,670 --> 00:17:17,010 Yellow is already there. 447 447 00:17:17,010 --> 00:17:18,780 I guess I select it before. 448 448 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:20,080 But you can actually change this. 449 449 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,620 Go back to stroke here to change the color if you wanted to. 450 450 00:17:22,620 --> 00:17:25,890 You click there and select whatever color you want. 451 451 00:17:25,890 --> 00:17:27,740 Let's just stick with yellow for now. 452 452 00:17:28,650 --> 00:17:30,810 I like the size to be a little bit smaller. 453 453 00:17:30,810 --> 00:17:32,240 Watch this. 454 454 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,710 The outline gets a bit smaller there. 455 455 00:17:34,710 --> 00:17:36,050 Okay, great. 456 456 00:17:36,050 --> 00:17:37,890 I can also add a bit of a drop shadow 457 457 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:40,260 and make it have a bit of a 3D pop. 458 458 00:17:40,260 --> 00:17:41,530 On, off. 459 459 00:17:41,530 --> 00:17:42,800 On, off. 460 460 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,980 That looks nice. 461 461 00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:45,074 Okay. 462 462 00:17:45,074 --> 00:17:45,907 We'll keep it simple. 463 463 00:17:45,907 --> 00:17:48,063 Maybe make it a little bit bigger here. 464 464 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:50,550 Let me make it a touch bigger. 465 465 00:17:50,550 --> 00:17:51,840 Good. 466 466 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,640 What I like to do, and to each, their own, 467 467 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,080 is I like to actually put in my logo in the bottom corner. 468 468 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,430 Sometimes I'll make the logo a little bit faded, 469 469 00:18:00,430 --> 00:18:03,410 which means the opacity is lower. 470 470 00:18:03,410 --> 00:18:04,810 I'll show you what that means. 471 471 00:18:04,810 --> 00:18:06,590 If we go over your selected layer 472 472 00:18:06,590 --> 00:18:08,123 and then we select opacity, 473 473 00:18:09,860 --> 00:18:13,100 see how that's a little bit, it's less noticeable. 474 474 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:15,240 I'll do that easily with my logo in the corner. 475 475 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,483 I'm not gonna do my logo right now. I wanna keep it simple. 476 476 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,054 Okay, great. 477 477 00:18:20,054 --> 00:18:22,570 I'm happy with this so far. 478 478 00:18:22,570 --> 00:18:24,090 I think what I wanna do now 479 479 00:18:24,090 --> 00:18:26,670 is I wanna do a couple things. 480 480 00:18:26,670 --> 00:18:30,880 I wanna make this a little bit sharper, the image of me. 481 481 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,180 I also wanna get rid of the word YouTube. 482 482 00:18:33,180 --> 00:18:35,280 Let's just say for some reason, I wanna get rid of that. 483 483 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,430 line:15% Let's do YouTube first.