-: Let's now use Powerpoint to create the thumbnail image 2 2
with our face on it. 3 3
And I used Powerpoint for about a decade for all of my 4 4
graphics stuff and then I moved onto Photoshop. 5 5
Now Powerpoint is limited but there's a heck of a lot 6 6
you can do if you tweak it 7 7
and I'm gonna show you exactly how. 8 8
Before we open up Powerpoint, 9 9
please know that with YouTube thumbnails, 10 10
the rule is that the dimensions have to be 1280 by 720, 11 11
okay and that basically means sixteen by nine 12 12
like a widescreen movie. 13 13
Let me show you the math behind that 14 14
and this will make a lot more sense in a second. 15 15
So if I do 1280 divided by 720, that's 1.7 repeated. 16 16
If I do sixteen divided by nine, that's 1.8 repeated, 17 17
1.7 repeated, same thing. 18 18
What happens is usually when you start a new presentation, 19 19
it'll default for you into sixteen by nine, 20 20
if it doesn't, then please go here to design 21 21
and then here select slide size, 22 22
make sure it's widescreen sixteen by nine. 23 23
Okay great. 24 24
Then what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna click this, 25 25
then hit shift, click that, and hit delete. 26 26
So we have a blank palette to paint on so to speak. 27 27
So let's insert the image of the screen print. 28 28
So I'm gonna go to insert, picture from file 29 29
and I'm gonna select this one here 30 30
when I was pointing left. 31 31
Now what we have do is 32 32
we have to remove this background here. 33 33
Let me just close this out so we can focus. 34 34
Okay so what you do is you select picture format, 35 35
make sure the picture is selected, 36 36
then select picture format here on the ribbon. 37 37
Then you're gonna go and select remove background. 38 38
And Powerpoint does the best job it can 39 39
but you really have to tweak it so as you can see 40 40
if I were to hit enter, 41 41
or actually sorry if I were to click keep changes 42 42
the top of my head is cut off, let me hit command+z 43 43
or control+z to undo that if you're using windows, control z 44 44
and let me go here to remove picture again, 45 45
remove background again 46 46
and I'm gonna zoom in and I'm gonna select areas to keep 47 47
and the purple areas is what's going to be deleted. 48 48
So I select here mark areas to keep, I draw here on my head, 49 49
I don't wanna lose my head here. 50 50
Right down here you can't see under my ear 51 51
but there's a shadow and I want to keep that shadow. 52 52
That's not perfect. 53 53
Is that good? 54 54
There we go, good. 55 55
And then my finger here, 56 56
I'm gonna zoom in and select my finger 57 57
and I think we're almost there. 58 58
My hair. 59 59
All right. 60 60
Let's go here, select the chair little bit more. 61 61
Little bit more and I think we're good to go. 62 62
That looks good. 63 63
I'm gonna select keep changes now. 64 64
Oh one more thing I noticed the top of my head. 65 65
Sometimes when you do this, 66 66
when you remove a certain area, 67 67
it then goes and messes up what you already removed, 68 68
it is what it is. 69 69
So let me click here and again 70 70
and if you use a very high resolution image 71 71
you won't have as many issues as we have here 72 72
as this is just a screen print. 73 73
And if you want to get really advanced 74 74
you can use what's called a vector graphic 75 75
in Photoshop which means there's different layers in it. 76 76
Little bit outside the scope of this conversation though. 77 77
And let me get rid of this green here. 78 78
Actually we're just gonna keep that green. 79 79
Actually no, I'll remove it. 80 80
So let me click here, okay that's good enough, great. 81 81
All right I think we're ready now. 82 82
I'm gonna click keep changes. 83 83
We're now gonna zoom out and it looks good. 84 84
Now you'll notice that there's jagged edges a little bit. 85 85
Don't worry because we are gonna fix that. 86 86
And because it's gonna be a thumbnail you won't even notice 87 87
because it's not like this is gonna be a massive billboard 88 88
outdoors where you can see all the imperfections. 89 89
And there's lots of imperfections with me, let me tell you. 90 90
Okay so, let's click here and what I'm gonna do is 91 91
I'm actually going to create 92 92
a couple versions of this right. 93 93
Let me just start off by making two versions. 94 94
Copy paste and I'll move that aside. 95 95
This will make more sense to you in a second. 96 96
So now what we're gonna do is 97 97
we're gonna add a shadow to the image. 98 98
So select the image, go to picture format, 99 99
select picture effects and then select shadow. 100 100
And I wanna add a shadow so that the image pops. 101 101
So I'm gonna select this shadow first okay, 102 102
and also what this does is it kind of hides 103 103
the imperfections, the jagged edges. 104 104
Then I'm gonna go to this one here I'm gonna add a shadow 105 105
as well but I'm gonna add a shadow on the opposite side 106 106
so instead of choosing I think it was this one, 107 107
I'm gonna select this one, okay. 108 108
So you can see imperfections here, but less so here. 109 109
It's kind of hidden. 110 110
Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag this on top of me 111 111
and that's looking good. 112 112
It's not perfect but when we're finished with this 113 113
this will look great. 114 114
Okay now what we're gonna do is we're gonna insert 115 115
a green background. 116 116
We use the color green, it's very bright. 117 117
And I like the color green because you're competing 118 118
against a lot of other thumbnails when people search 119 119
in YouTube and we want to be the best thumbnail out there, 120 120
we want people to click on our image. 121 121
It's competitive. 122 122
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to insert 123 123
and we're gonna insert a rectangle. 124 124
Shapes, rectangle and just make sure that it's slightly 125 125
larger than the outside of this screen here 126 126
and don't worry because when we create the image 127 127
you won't even see the outsides here. 128 128
Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna select a color 129 129
and then I'm gonna show you how 130 130
to move this layer to the back. 131 131
So let's go to shape fill 132 132
and I want to select more fill colors. 133 133
And I usually select this one in the middle 134 134
and then I select green or whatever color I want to use. 135 135
Now what we have to do is we have to send it to the back. 136 136
Now I used to be a programmer and I programmed a lot 137 137
for about five or six years full-time 138 138
on Microsoft applications and what Microsoft does 139 139
a really good job at is whenever you right click on anything 140 140
Microsoft tries to anticipate what you're trying to do. 141 141
So let's right click on this image 142 142
and let's send it to the very very back. 143 143
Okay so we sent it to the back. 144 144
And what we can also do is there's another cool way 145 145
to do it which is kinda graphics intensive, 146 146
I don't know how graphics intensive your computer is 147 147
but you can select here reorder objects 148 148
and this is really cool. 149 149
So what you can do is you can just drag these around 150 150
if you wanted to. 151 151
I'm gonna hit cancel though. 152 152
Okay now I wanna just make sure that I'm okay on the bottom 153 153
there with this image of me. 154 154
That's good. 155 155
I actually wanna bring this down a little bit 156 156
so I'm gonna highlight those two images 157 157
and then choose the down arrow a touch, 158 158
just give the bottom it's fine, 159 159
doesn't matter if it spills over a bit. 160 160
Okay great and let's make it a bit bigger too. 161 161
Okay and when you're playing around with these images 162 162
for your thumbnails, make sure that you don't 163 163
have anything important in the bottom right hand side 164 164
right here because that's the time code where YouTube 165 165
will actually put the little time of the video in 166 166
so you don't want to cover up anything important. 167 167
I usually keep the important stuff on this side 168 168
or down over here if I need to. 169 169
Okay now let's insert some letters, text. 170 170
So go to insert and we'll select text 171 171
and I'll just do it here right now. 172 172
And we'll call this best business book ever. 173 173
All in caps. 174 174
Best business. 175 175
Okay and I'll just keep it on separate lines. 176 176
Great. 177 177
And then what I'll do is I'm actually gonna make this 178 178
obviously a lot bigger so I'm gonna go home, 179 179
and I don't know I'll make this 150. 180 180
That's a little too big. 181 181
Let's go 120 and I don't like that font. 182 182
It's not clear enough for me. 183 183
But what we can also do is we can change the spaces 184 184
between the words, I'll get there in a second. 185 185
I just wanna change the font. 186 186
I personally like helvetica. 187 187
If I can spell, so sorry. 188 188
There we go. 189 189
Helvetica and I like to make it bold. 190 190
Now what I want to do is, 191 191
I want to change the distance between the lines here. 192 192
So I'm gonna go here and there's always multiple ways 193 193
to do things in Microsoft products. 194 194
So I'm gonna go line spacing options 195 195
and then I'm gonna go down here and select exactly. 196 196
It's right now at 144 points. 197 197
Let me just change that to 120, see how that looks. 198 198
Okay hold on. 199 199
It wants me to select 120 pt, 200 200
so I'll just go here one two zero. 201 201
Okay that's better. 202 202
That's good enough. 203 203
Okay great. 204 204
Best business book, okay, okay, that's fine, that's fine. 205 205
Okay, and now what we're gonna do is we're actually 206 206
gonna change the color of this put an outline as well. 207 207
So let's right click on the word. 208 208
Make sure I have the word selected. 209 209
Right click and let's go format shape. 210 210
Now on the right side you'll see here a box appears 211 211
where I can actually change the parameters. 212 212
Let's go to text options and then let's go here to, 213 213
that looks cool. 214 214
All right let's go ahead and text fill 215 215
and I'll do shadows in a second. 216 216
All right so we want the fill here to be black 217 217
and I usually like the outline to be yellow 218 218
or something that pops. 219 219
Okay so let's select yellow, 220 220
so we can select this color here and there it is 221 221
and it's a little counter intuitive with Microsoft. 222 222
If I were go to transparency all the way up 223 223
you wouldn't see it. 224 224
It would say 100%, it's the opposite in other programs, 225 225
just keep that in mind. 226 226
Little side note there. 227 227
Okay let's change the width as well. 228 228
Let me make this bigger. 229 229
There we go, it's getting bigger. 230 230
Okay it looks good. 231 231
Looks good, it's not perfect yet, 232 232
I want to make it pop a bit more. 233 233
So what we can do is we can add a shadow here. 234 234
So let's click here. 235 235
And you can play around with this a lot, 236 236
you can make gradient lines as well. 237 237
It's a lot of fun. 238 238
Control+z or command+z to undo that. 239 239
Let's click here now and let's select shadow. 240 240
And let's select this shadow right here, subtle. 241 241
Okay it's nice. 242 242
It pops a bit more. 243 243
Okay great, and if you want to put a shadow 244 244
all the way around it what you could do is 245 245
you could copy and paste that and you can make the shadow 246 246
on the layer on the top different from the one we just did 247 247
so we would click here and do it that way there 248 248
okay so it looks like it's all around it. 249 249
And I usually try to match whatever shadow I have on me 250 250
to the text as well, usually. 251 251
And what happens is if you have shadow only on one side, 252 252
and you make the image, or you make an image 253 253
or writing on the other side here, 254 254
make sure that the shadow is on the same side as well 255 255
just for consistency, it looks nice. 256 256
Okay we're done there and if I wanted to what I could do is 257 257
I could actually put myself 258 258
and I'm only selecting one layer here 259 259
but I could put myself on top of that or behind that. 260 260
And we know how to do that. 261 261
We can actually go here to and again, 262 262
Microsoft gives you a million ways to do stuff 263 263
or lots of ways I should say. 264 264
We can either highlight everything here 265 265
and then we can actually just send it back a layer 266 266
by right clicking and then you can go send backward 267 267
or what you could do is you could actually go here 268 268
to arrange like I showed you before 269 269
and you can reorder the objects. 270 270
So just for fun actually, here's what I'm gonna do. 271 271
I'm gonna put this back here and this as well 272 272
and we'll have my self on top of it a little bit 273 273
to give it kind of a 3D pop. 274 274
Okay and then what we could do is 275 275
we could select both of me. 276 276
Okay I have both of me selected there, 277 277
if I didn't I would go here and just highlight 278 278
all the way around 279 279
or I could select every single image by hitting command+A 280 280
or control+A if you're using windows, 281 281
and then hit shift and deselect the stuff 282 282
I don't want to select. 283 283
Now what we could do is we could make me a bit bigger. 284 284
So we have a bit of a 3D pop which is cool 285 285
and I like do that on top of letters sometimes 286 286
it just adds a kind of a cool visual effect. 287 287
Let me make it a bit smaller though 288 288
and I think we're done. 289 289
A bit bigger there, yeah. 290 290
All right and you can tweak this for ever. 291 291
It's a lot of fun, I love Powerpoint 292 292
and using software applications in general, 293 293
it's a blast for me. 294 294
All right, now what we can do is we can export this 295 295
a number of different ways. 296 296
So I'll first of all show you how to take a screen print. 297 297
Now earlier in the course, 298 298
we talked about taking screen prints. 299 299
And if you wanted to you can just go and watch that lecture 300 300
which is right here on how to take a screen print 301 301
in windows or in mac but if you take a screen print, 302 302
select the entire window. 303 303
(shutter sound) 304 304
And you'll see here that this little image 305 305
that's created for you is basically, it's sixteen by nine 306 306
and that'll work when you upload it directly to YouTube. 307 307
But there's also other ways to do it. 308 308
So if I hit escape, and by the way 309 309
if you do a screen print like that, make sure that 310 310
you don't have these little items here in the corner 311 311
and just kind of wait for it to disappear 312 312
then do your screen print, okay. 313 313
All right. 314 314
Now we can also export and we can export this image here 315 315
in a number of different formats. 316 316
So let's say we do jpeg or png, 317 317
we could do that if we wanted to, okay. 318 318
And just make sure it's the same parameters sixteen by nine, 319 319
so we could make this 1280 by 720, 320 320
see how it corrected automatically there. 321 321
Now when we do this, make sure that the image size 322 322
is less than two megabytes and I'll show you how to do this. 323 323
So let's just export it directly to here 324 324
and let's call it 325 325
faces 326 326
shot, it's fine. 327 327
Okay, export, okay good. 328 328
Now it told you that it actually exported it 329 329
where I told it to export it for me. 330 330
Thanks for telling me what I already know Microsoft. 331 331
So let's go there and see how big that is. 332 332
Open this up here, okay good. 333 333
It's actually 513 kilobytes. 334 334
Okay that's the image. 335 335
And if we go back here, it says here that it's 1280 by 720 336 336
which means it'll work perfectly for YouTube 337 337
when we upload it. 338 338
Now let's pretend that the size of that image 339 339
was a lot bigger. 340 340
So and you can rename the image here, 341 341
just right click and rename. 342 342
Same thing with windows. 343 343
Okay so let's say that it was over two megabytes, 344 344
how do we make it smaller. 345 345
Well the way to make it smaller is 346 346
we do what we just did, we export 347 347
and let's go here to png and you could play around 348 348
with different types of images because that 349 349
can also affect the size and YouTube accepts 350 350
a number of different types of image formats. 351 351
Okay so let's say for fun that it's way too big. 352 352
So let's say it's twice as big as it should be, 353 353
it's four megabytes. 354 354
So let's cut this in half. 355 355
Okay 640 is half of 720 or of 1280, 356 356
and the math is automatically done here 357 357
and what we'll do is we're gonna export this 358 358
and I'll call it just slide two. 359 359
Okay so that's done. 360 360
Let's go back here and you'll go to Windows explorer 361 361
if you're using Windows, 362 362
and so I have slide two has been exported for me 363 363
and it changes the names as well, 364 364
just change the name if you want here 365 365
by double clicking the image, slide two 366 366
and let me just put those in the directory, that's fine. 367 367
Okay good, so slide one if we look here 368 368
in the right hand side, I'm gonna make this a bit bigger, 369 369
slide number one, is 1280 by 720 370 370
and it's 513 kilobytes. 371 371
Slide two is, it looks the same, 372 372
but it's actually only 165 kilobytes, 373 373
it looks good but the smaller the size 374 374
obviously the more imperfect I should say 375 375
or less than ideal, the image will appear. 376 376
So as you can see it's smaller, 377 377
so that's slide one, slide two, 378 378
but if we were to drag and make it bigger here 379 379
you see how you can't really see how clear my face is. 380 380
But you can see it here, 381 381
it's much more clear on the larger version. 382 382
Now just for fun, what you can do is 383 383
you can make it even bigger. 384 384
Okay so let's see what happens if we make this even bigger 385 385
when we export it. 386 386
And it just has to be in that sixteen by nine 387 387
export format diameter and width wise for it to work 388 388
perfectly on YouTube, just keep it under two megabytes. 389 389
So let's export it now and let's time this time, 390 390
what I'll do is, I'll do png and I'm gonna just create 391 391
a number that's very big. 392 392
So let's call it three thousand 393 393
and three thousand divided by 1688 is 1.8 repeated 394 394
or 1.7 repeated and that's the same thing 395 395
as sixteen divided by nine. 396 396
Okay so let's click on export here, okay. 397 397
And it saved it there. 398 398
Now let's go compare all three. 399 399
Okay and I'm just gonna close this out completely 400 400
and we're gonna compare all three. 401 401
So let's go back here to finder, 402 402
you can go to your windows explorer if you're using windows 403 403
and this is the one we just created just for simplicity 404 404
let me call it slide number three 405 405
and let me just put it out here. 406 406
Okay now if we look at all three of them, 407 407
slide one is 500 kilobytes 408 408
and it's actually 1280 by 720. 409 409
Slide two we know is smaller, 410 410
it looks the same to us from here but it's actually not 411 411
the image resolution on my face is not that great, 165. 412 412
Slide three is exactly two megabytes 413 413
so that should probably work, be careful though 414 414
because sometimes when it say two megabyte, 415 415
that's actually two point zero two and you can't upload it 416 416
cause it's over the two megabyte size 417 417
so just keep it slightly under two mbs if you want to. 418 418
Okay now let's open all three of them. 419 419
Okay that's slide one, 420 420
we know slide two resolution is smaller, there it is. 421 421
And if we were to make slide two bigger, 422 422
you see how my face doesn't look as great as it does here. 423 423
Let's open number three now. 424 424
Okay. 425 425
That looks pretty good and that's a lot bigger obviously. 426 426
So if you were to compare this and it might be hard 427 427
for us to tell but there should be a bit of a difference. 428 428
There is, okay, so I'm gonna make all three 429 429
now the same size. 430 430
This is the worst one, the middle one, the best one. 431 431
So almost the same size, let me see if I can do this. 432 432
Not much real estate to play with here. 433 433
Okay that's close enough. 434 434
So this is the smallest one, resolution's not that great. 435 435
This one, resolution's a bit better 436 436
and this one if you look really closely at the resolution 437 437
is much, much better and you can always zoom in 438 438
right to the eye to see if it's perfect or not. 439 439
And so that's basically how you do it. 440 440
And all three of these we can upload directly to YouTube. 441 441
Now just for fun, what I want to do, 442 442
is I want to actually insert an image now.