-: I'm gonna make this a little bit sharper, the image of me. 2 2
And I also wanna get rid of the word YouTube. 3 3
Let's just say for some reason I wanna get rid of that. 4 4
So let's do YouTube first, let's get rid of that. 5 5
So make sure you select the appropriate layer, 6 6
meaning the layer of me. 7 7
And then you go over here and you select this guy here, 8 8
which is called a clone stamp tool, okay. 9 9
So let's get rid of YouTube entirely. 10 10
Now watch what happens when I click here. 11 11
It's gonna say, hey wait a second. 12 12
I don't know what you're trying to do. 13 13
And so what you have to do is you have 14 14
to tell Photoshop what do you wanna clone. 15 15
And so watch the box here. 16 16
Let's say option click on the area 17 17
to define a source point first. 18 18
It might say ALT click, if you're using Windows. 19 19
Okay so I'm gonna hit option, and then I'm gonna hit there. 20 20
Good, and now I basically told Photoshop 21 21
what I want this cloned place, 22 22
this cloned stamp to look like. 23 23
So watch this. 24 24
I'm not hitting click yet, but it's gonna look like that. 25 25
Now I'm gonna click. 26 26
Okay, good, we're getting rid of YouTube, okay. 27 27
All right so I'm gonna do another, 28 28
I'm gonna start here and then I'll come down here 29 29
and I'll do another clone of another section. 30 30
This will make more sense to you in a second, okay. 31 31
Good, good. 32 32
Good, and then what I wanna do is I like 33 33
to finish off the top part first. 34 34
So I'm gonna go here, hit option or ALT. 35 35
And then I'm gonna get rid of this. 36 36
And you can make it even bigger if you want to. 37 37
I like to keep it smaller 'cause if you make it too big 38 38
sometimes it looks artificial. 39 39
Okay, but you want the imperfections of the shirt 40 40
or the person's skin, whatever, to appear here as well. 41 41
Or the shade in general, okay. 42 42
All right, maybe I should make my biceps bigger. 43 43
All right, just kidding. 44 44
All right, so going down here. 45 45
Oh, actually good, it's working out nicely. 46 46
All right, sometimes I have to reselect another area. 47 47
That looks kind of fake, okay. 48 48
So I'm gonna go over here and reselect another area here. 49 49
Good, looking better. 50 50
Good, good, good, good. 51 51
We're getting there. 52 52
And you can always change the brush size 53 53
up here if you wanted to, okay. 54 54
Good, almost there. 55 55
All right this part here I have to zoom in. 56 56
It's just too hard to see. 57 57
And the more you zoom in, the more imperfections you'll see. 58 58
But this will work out well enough for us, you'll see. 59 59
Okay, little bit too much red there. 60 60
Almost there, and what I wanna do now is, 61 61
I don't want the outside to be soft. 62 62
I want it to be very hard, okay. 63 63
The hardness, okay, so instead of it allowing some 64 64
of that red to stay there by my tiny little bicep, 65 65
I'm actually gonna make this harsh. 66 66
Okay, and I can always control Z or command Z 67 67
if I make a mistake. 68 68
Like that, I don't wanna do that. 69 69
So right over here just a little bit. 70 70
Okay, good, we're getting there. 71 71
And there's millions of ways to do things. 72 72
Or many ways to do things in Photoshop, 73 73
as I mentioned before. 74 74
Alrght, that's good enough. 75 75
And when we zoom out that should work. 76 76
There's a little bit of red there, but that should be fine. 77 77
Okay, good, good, okay we're getting there. 78 78
It's looking good, eh? 79 79
All right now what we're ready to do is I wanna change 80 80
what my face looks like a little bit. 81 81
Meaning I wanna change the contrast 82 82
to make it look a little bit sharper as well. 83 83
So watch this here. 84 84
Okay, so I'm gonna go up here. 85 85
And I'm gonna go to, hmm. 86 86
All right I'm gonna go to filter. 87 87
And I'm gonna go to sharpen. 88 88
Okay, so I'm gonna go sharpen. 89 89
Watch what happens to my face. 90 90
Okay see how it got sharpened there? 91 91
I'm gonna hit undo here, watch. 92 92
Now I'm redo, pretty cool, huh? 93 93
And you can sharpen a couple times if you want to. 94 94
Then what I wanna do is I actually 95 95
want to change around the color. 96 96
So what I'll do now is I'll go and put in a new layer. 97 97
It's called the new adjustment layer. 98 98
So right here I'm gonna go in, I'm gonna change 99 99
around the color and also the brightness and contrast. 100 100
Let me do the brightness and contrast first. 101 101
So I'm gonna select that 102 102
and I'm gonna name this layer whatever I wanna call it. 103 103
I'll just let it default to that. 104 104
So anything below is gonna get, 105 105
the brightness and contrast will change. 106 106
So if I hold it up here, 107 107
if I move drag and drop this up here, watch what happens. 108 108
Watch the letters first, okay. 109 109
The letters are gonna change as is the brightness of me. 110 110
Okay, so what I wanna do is, 111 111
I don't wanna change the letters, I just wanna change me. 112 112
So I'll drag it just above me. 113 113
Okay, now watch when I do this. 114 114
Drag it over here, the letters don't really change. 115 115
Obviously that's too much, undo. 116 116
And I can change the brightness 117 117
of me a little bit if I wanted to, 118 118
if it was a little bit too over-exposed, 119 119
I can change the contrast as well if I wanted to. 120 120
And sometimes when I record these videos, 121 121
I'm a little bit washed out 122 122
because the lights I made too bright. 123 123
And I looked at a light and I can't see anything. 124 124
But what I usually do is I go back in post-production 125 125
and I change the filters on my face in the video 126 126
as well as here in the thumbnail. 127 127
Okay, my eyes are back now. 128 128
Don't even look at the lights. 129 129
All right so I can change that contrast a bit. 130 130
And then what I can also do is 131 131
I can go here, insert another layer, 132 132
which will be for colors, color balance. 133 133
Okay great, call it whatever you want. 134 134
And again, it's gonna affect everything 135 135
below it okay, not above it. 136 136
Then I can go here and say I want a little bit 137 137
more warmth in my face. 138 138
I can go here to yellow and drag this over a bit. 139 139
Okay it might be a little bit too much. 140 140
And a lot of times I get Christine, my wife, 141 141
to look at it because I can't see colors 142 142
as much as I used to. 143 143
Okay, and that should be good actually, that should be good. 144 144
And oh, what is that on my shirt? 145 145
That might be, is that a little bit of chocolate? 146 146
I don't know what that is. 147 147
I might have been eating something and spilled it. 148 148
I don't know what that is so I gotta get rid of that. 149 149
So I'll go back over here, make sure I select the layer, 150 150
which is me, and I'll go here back to the clone stamp tool. 151 151
And I wanna get rid of that and just click that there. 152 152
Okay, that's fine, that should work out. 153 153
All right that's good enough, good enough. 154 154
All right so we got rid of YouTube. 155 155
We made the image a little bit easier to see if you want. 156 156
Oh, here's a mistake. 157 157
I only have half a chair there. 158 158
Okay half my Herman Miller used chair. 159 159
So I gotta get rid of that. 160 160
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select 161 161
the quick selection tool. 162 162
And I'm gonna zoom in and get rid of that part of the chair. 163 163
See if it works. 164 164
No, that's not what I want. 165 165
Okay, let me deselect that by going up here to minus. 166 166
Hopefully that will work, let's see. 167 167
All right, let me start over. 168 168
Control or command D, to deselect. 169 169
Let me reselect it again. 170 170
And let me make the brush a lot smaller, really small. 171 171
Let's see if that helps, okay. 172 172
And you're gonna make a lot of mistakes 173 173
when you're using Photoshop. 174 174
Just know that do multiple steps. 175 175
Like click, then you select, click, then deselect. 176 176
That way you can control Z or command Z, 177 177
or control zeta or command zeta 178 178
if you're in Canada, each step. 179 179
So control Z, and then you can also hit deselect. 180 180
That's command D or control D. 181 181
Okay good, let's go here, okay getting better. 182 182
All right, clearly too much. 183 183
So you're gonna have to play around with it a lot. 184 184
So I'm gonna deselect this area here. 185 185
And sometimes you just might say screw it. 186 186
I'm just gonna erase it altogether. 187 187
Because this is not the highest resolution image, 188 188
I'm just gonna use the eraser tool. 189 189
So let me hit control D or command D to deselect that. 190 190
And then let me come here to the eraser tool. 191 191
Okay and play around with it. 192 192
Like what's this magic eraser tool? 193 193
What will happen if I do this here? 194 194
All right, that's too much erasing. 195 195
So we're gonna undo that. 196 196
And then I'm gonna go here to background eraser tool. 197 197
What happens there? 198 198
Oh, that's not bad, that works out all right. 199 199
All right let me just go and get the regular eraser tool. 200 200
All right, okay, that's good, that's making more sense here. 201 201
And you can even draw an outline if you want. 202 202
So I'm gonna do part of it this way 203 203
and part of it by drawing. 204 204
So if I went up here to this little lasso tool, 205 205
what I can do is I can actually draw 206 206
around something like this. 207 207
And then cut and it's gone. 208 208
But let's go back here to the eraser tool. 209 209
And you can zoom way in if you wanna make it perfect. 210 210
Don't get too carried away by zooming in too much though. 211 211
Because when you zoom out you won't even be able to tell. 212 212
All right so that's good there. 213 213
All right, it's fun too, eh? 214 214
All right and then I'll go here, drag in. 215 215
If I make a mistake, woops, I can just go and undo that. 216 216
And you can always go up here to undo. 217 217
Okay, I'm erasing a bunch of steps, 218 218
getting rid of just the outside of that chair. 219 219
You can even get rid of the entire chair 220 220
and just leave me in as well, if you wanted to. 221 221
But I wanna keep this pretty simplistic. 222 222
Okay, that's good there. 223 223
A little bit easier, okay good, great. 224 224
That's good enough. 225 225
Okay zooming out, that's fine. 226 226
And the further away you get from it, the less you can see. 227 227
But when people use Photoshop sometimes, they blow it up 228 228
to a gazillion times because these things go up 229 229
on these big billboards as well. 230 230
We're just doing it on YouTube. 231 231
So I think I'm happy with that. 232 232
That looks good to me. 233 233
Let's see, yeah that's good enough, okay great. 234 234
So let me save the file first 235 235
and it's saved in a format called PSD, Photoshop documents. 236 236
And so what I'm gonna do is, 237 237
I'm just gonna name it here sample faces. 238 238
Doesn't matter, it's fine. 239 239
Then I'm gonna export this. 240 240
And we're gonna export it 241 241
so that we can upload this to YouTube. 242 242
Now YouTube has limitations. 243 243
Try to keep it if you can under two megabytes. 244 244
So I'm gonna go here to export. 245 245
You can export as a png or as a jpeg. 246 246
There's lots of different formats that YouTube accepts. 247 247
Just make sure that this here is under two megabytes, it is. 248 248
Now if it was 2.1 megabytes or way over two, 249 249
what we would do is we just reduce the width and the height. 250 250
So for example, we can go to 800 and watch the height, 251 251
it will automatically be adjusted for us. 252 252
Down to 450, okay, it's just made it smaller. 253 253
And now the image size is 253 kilobytes. 254 254
Let's go back up now to 1280 though. 255 255
just the way it was, it's fine. 256 256
Now I'm gonna export this. 257 257
And I'm gonna export this in, 258 258
I usually have a naming convention I use. 259 259
You probably do as well. 260 260
So for my vlog I usually call it the day number, 261 261
so call it day, I don't know 354. 262 262
And then the date, let's say I'm making this up, 263 263
say December 23rd of 2021 whatever, and then whatever it is. 264 264
So I call it book. 265 265
And then what is do is, is I save it. 266 266
It's gonna save and then you just go to YouTube 267 267
and you upload that thumbnail. 268 268
Now I'm gonna show you one more quick thing 269 269
which is inserting an image. 270 270
And so I get my images online from a certain website. 271 271
Make sure that if you're gonna use images, 272 272
that you actually purchase them or have rights to them. 273 273
Meaning they're royalty-free. 274 274
Okay so if I were to upload the video, 275 275
I click here to upload. 276 276
But let me go now to Storyblocks, which is what I use. 277 277
So I use Storyblocks, and then images. 278 278
And let's search for, I don't know, the word book. 279 279
And say there's a certain book that we want to use here. 280 280
Okay let me look through, that looks pretty cool. 281 281
That looks pretty cool, 282 282
it might be a little bit complicated though, 283 283
because I'd have to actually crop out a lot of this stuff. 284 284
But you know what, I'm gonna challenge myself. 285 285
And we're gonna use this book here. 286 286
Okay, so just for fun. 287 287
I don't know what book that is, 288 288
but I'm gonna click download here. 289 289
And that's a 12 and a half megabyte file. 290 290
And there's many different ways to import it. 291 291
You can copy and paste or just import. 292 292
What I usually do is I drag and drop. 293 293
So you can actually go to your finder 294 294
or you can go to the Windows Explorer 295 295
if you're using Windows. 296 296
Then you can just drag and drop here. 297 297
Or you can just copy the image and paste it. 298 298
Okay so let's go here to downloads where that document was. 299 299
And I'm gonna drag this right here. 300 300
And it's gonna add it, and let's say we resize it 301 301
and we're happy with the size. 302 302
Let me make it a little bit smaller here. 303 303
And then I'm gonna hit enter, okay. 304 304
Now let's say I wanna put it at the very, very top. 305 305
So I will drag the layer here all the way to the front. 306 306
And let's say that we don't wanna 307 307
have any words on this image. 308 308
So you see here the eyeballs, I'm gonna get rid of that. 309 309
Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring this over here. 310 310
And I wanna, it's a pretty big file. 311 311
That's 12 and a half megs, that's a good thing. 312 312
Because basically there's lots of different logic 313 313
in that one image so I can get rid of that logic 314 314
by selecting this item here, which is magic wand. 315 315
And you can select it, 316 316
which will get rid of a lot of the background. 317 317
Or I can play around by using other items 318 318
like erasing the backgrounds, that sort of thing. 319 319
And I think it was eraser here, wasn't it? 320 320
Let me just select the item first, good, that's selected. 321 321
Let me go here and just play around with this in real time. 322 322
Background eraser tool, let's see what happens. 323 323
Ah, you see what just happened there? 324 324
It just said wait a second, I can't do that yet 325 325
because I have to reformat this image 326 326
into what's called rasterizing 327 327
so that Photoshop recognizes it. 328 328
So you select okay. 329 329
So quick selection tool, okay good, 330 330
yeah I want that part of the book. 331 331
Oh, that's too much, control Z. 332 332
Too much, hands off, select more. 333 333
Back here to plus, add more to it. 334 334
Good, hands off. 335 335
I say hands off in case you want to go control Z like that. 336 336
Okay, I just redid it, okay good. 337 337
Or hands off, hands off, we're getting there. 338 338
Zooming will make it a bit easier. 339 339
Here, here, almost there. 340 340
Okay, and I keep clicking in case I do that be accident. 341 341
Then I can just undo that. 342 342
All right let's get a little bit more. 343 343
I think I want the outside of the book as well. 344 344
That's a little too much, I'll clean that up in a second. 345 345
Okay, and I'm gonna go into high speed mode now. 346 346
So I can perfectly select this for you. 347 347
So I'll erase here, erase here. 348 348
I'm gonna get rid of her completely. 349 349
All right, so let's get rid of that. 350 350
Oh, a little bit too much, good. 351 351
All right and I'm gonna get rid of her entirely. 352 352
And you're like Chris, what are you doing to the image? 353 353
You're destroying it. 354 354
No, Photoshop is awesome. 355 355
Photoshop is gonna work magic for me. 356 356
All right and then you can slowly erase the outside there 357 357
like I showed you before. 358 358
With when we took the chair off, play around with it. 359 359
Take off as much as you want. 360 360
It's not perfect, but just keep playing 361 361
around with it until it looks perfect to you. 362 362
All right, all right, and there's something called vectors, 363 363
which is kind of beyond the scope of this lesson, 364 364
where there's multiple layers in an image. 365 365
And you can get rid of certain layers. 366 366
It's looking good, not perfect yet. 367 367
I kinda wanna put that back in, but without the lady. 368 368
So what are we gonna do? 369 369
We're gonna use the cloning tool again. 370 370
So I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna clone that part, okay? 371 371
All right hold on a second. 372 372
All right, good, it's pretty cool, huh? 373 373
I'm gonna clone that all the way down. 374 374
And I'm gonna take another selection of my clone here, good. 375 375
It's pretty cool, huh, oops. 376 376
And then I'm gonna select another portion of my clone. 377 377
And you can drag and drop, 378 378
or drag I should say to color if you want to. 379 379
It's not as perfect doing it that way 380 380
because I always like to hit the undo button just in case. 381 381
All right, woops, one or two more times. 382 382
All right great, and then I'm gonna zoom in here. 383 383
And I wanna take that down here. 384 384
So what I'll do is I'll make the size 385 385
of this tool a lot smaller. 386 386
And this here is gonna be the master hit option, or ALT. 387 387
If you're using Windows. 388 388
And then what you can do is just go down here. 389 389
Remember to keep taking your finger off every now and then 390 390
in case you want to undo something. 391 391
Okay, we're getting there, okay. 392 392
Good, good, all right. 393 393
And then I want that to kind of be on the bottom. 394 394
So what I can do is I can actually clone this part. 395 395
And let's see what happens there. 396 396
You see that, good, all right. 397 397
All right. 398 398
That's close, not perfect. 399 399
But once we zoom out it should be fine. 400 400
Now you see why a lot of fashion magazines, 401 401
whatever, tend to use Photoshop a lot. 402 402
It's not really natural though, I don't really like it. 403 403
But it is what it is. 404 404
All right, let's go here. 405 405
That should be good, that should be good. 406 406
And then what we can do is we can clean up 407 407
that bottom part if we want to as well. 408 408
By going back here and selecting the eraser tool again. 409 409
Erase, take your finger off, 410 410
in case you go like that by accident. 411 411
Then you can undo it. 412 412
Okay, that looks pretty good. 413 413
I think we're almost there. 414 414
And let's say we wanna leave it. 415 415
Actually that's good enough, you get the idea. 416 416
So if we zoom out now and we wanted 417 417
to add a shadow to this as well. 418 418
And you can actually put it behind me if you wanted to. 419 419
You can drag it down there. 420 420
Hold on a second, so if I dragged it all the way down here, 421 421
you'd see it's behind my finger, if you wanted to. 422 422
Let me just keep it in front, 423 423
just to keep it simplistic for now. 424 424
And we can add a shadow. 425 425
So there's always many ways to do things in Photoshop. 426 426
Double click and then what we can do 427 427
is we can add the drop shadow. 428 428
Watch what happens when I select this. 429 429
You can even make it different colors if you wanted to. 430 430
Usually I try to match the type of shadow that I have 431 431
if there's two images together. 432 432
So if I had the shadow on me on one side, 433 433
I would have the shadow of the book on one side 434 434
by changing the angle here. 435 435
But let's just leave it like that for now. 436 436
And we can make this a lot bigger if we wanted to. 437 437
We can even rotate it by going over the corner 438 438
and then changing it this way if we wanted to. 439 439
And again, if we wanted to make that behind my finger 440 440
we can drag this all the way down here, this layer. 441 441
And let go, there it is there. 442 442
See the finger's in front of me. 443 443
I'll control Z that or control zeta 444 444
or command zed that to undo it. 445 445
And that's it, that's it. 446 446
And then what we do here is, 447 447
you know you'd export this as well. 448 448
And you can put a nice little color around it. 449 449
A lot of YouTubers will do this, 450 450
just to add more effect to this. 451 451
I like to have it simplistic with a shadow behind it. 452 452
But you can double-click here and you can add stroke. 453 453
So let me double-click here and we'll add stroke. 454 454
See the outline there, it's kind of nice. 455 455
Ah we'll leave it there, what the heck, eh? 456 456
And you can make this a lot thicker if you want to as well. 457 457
Obviously that's way too much. 458 458
But to add effect, you can do that. 459 459
But it kind of overrides the shadow that I have there. 460 460
But let's just leave it there just for fun. 461 461
Okay and let's actually put it now behind my finger 462 462
because I have stroke around it. 463 463
So I'm gonna drag this down, 464 464
right below my finger, there we go. 465 465
That's fine, it's not perfect. 466 466
And then what I can do is I can export this as well. 467 467
So we go into export, just like we did earlier. 468 468
Export as, and the size can change a lot. 469 469
So the size here is 937 kilobits which is a lot bigger 470 470
than what we had before when we had writing, 471 471
because this image is quite large. 472 472
But it's still under the two megabyte threshold for YouTube, 473 473
so we're fine there. 474 474
So we don't have to adjust these parameters here. 475 475
But we'd export this as well. 476 476
And so I can have this as book version two. 477 477
So now we have two different formats. 478 478
We have one format that is in, it's with letters. 479 479
And then we have the other format that is with the image. 480 480
So here we have two different images. 481 481
So if you have any questions about this, 482 482
please let me know, thanks.