-: I'm gonna get rid of this, okay. 2 2
So I'm gonna hit delete, there's a couple layers though. 3 3
So that's one layer gone. 4 4
Two layers gone. 5 5
And we're gonna insert an image now. 6 6
And so, what I do actually is, let me actually go here, 7 7
and grab the image, I go to Storyblocks, 8 8
and I pay for a subscription here. 9 9
Just, if you use it, 10 10
I don't wanna login so I'm gonna go here to Chrome, 11 11
but if you use Storyblocks or if you're putting images in, 12 12
just try to make sure that 13 13
you have the copyrights if possible. 14 14
YouTube doesn't really care right now 15 15
if you put an image up of a celebrity, that's cool. 16 16
But if you put products up, 17 17
we don't know yet if they're gonna really 18 18
care about that copyright wise, 19 19
and we wanna future-proof this as well. 20 20
And by the way, whenever you upload 21 21
a video to YouTube, and you also upload 22 22
a thumbnail image, you can always change 23 23
the thumbnail image, you can't change 24 24
the entire video, but you can change 25 25
the thumbnail image if you need to. 26 26
Okay, so what I'm gonna do is 27 27
I'm gonna go to Storyblocks where I have a subscription. 28 28
And Storyblocks is great and because 29 29
this is what I do full-time, I pay for a subscription. 30 30
Let's grab images, and I use 31 31
them for audio and video as well, 32 32
it's so much fun, I love it. 33 33
Let's select book 34 34
and we're gonna select a book to insert here. 35 35
This one here is, I don't know what book that is, 36 36
but we'll select that one and we'll download it. 37 37
Okay, so this is 12 and a half megs, 38 38
it's pretty big, pretty big. 39 39
And what we'll do once it's finished downloading, 40 40
we're gonna insert directly here in a PowerPoint. 41 41
And as with all Microsoft applications, 42 42
there's like a gazillion to insert stuff, 43 43
or to do different things. 44 44
I can either go and drag and drop it 45 45
from the Finder or Windows Explorer if you use Windows, 46 46
or I can insert an image. 47 47
So I go Insert, Pictures, Picture from File 48 48
And I'm gonna go to downloads, here, 49 49
because I just downloaded that, okay. 50 50
And there it is there, 51 51
and it's gonna be tough to get rid 52 52
of the background there, 53 53
but I'm gonna try my best. 54 54
If you use Photoshop, you can play around 55 55
with this and use what's called cloning, 56 56
to get rid of imperfections. 57 57
And if you use Photoshop, 58 58
you can even get rid of YouTube 59 59
written on my shirt in this image. 60 60
It's a bit harder to do that in PowerPoint. 61 61
A lot harder actually. 62 62
Okay, so what I'm gonna do now 63 63
is I'm gonna go and remove the background. 64 64
So we go to Picture Format, 65 65
and we go Remove Background, okay, 66 66
and, wow that's actually not bad. 67 67
Way to go Microsoft, okay. 68 68
So let's zoom in now. 69 69
And the way to zoom in is you can go to 70 70
View and you can select Zoom. 71 71
I just use one of these things, 72 72
so I just kinda zoom in and out that way. 73 73
Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go here 74 74
to the picture and I'm gonna Select Areas to Keep. 75 75
All right so select that, let go, 76 76
so I can Control Z it later if I want to. 77 77
That's pretty good, man, all right. 78 78
See there, great, all right. 79 79
You have to play around with that, 80 80
I went outside the lines there, 81 81
hopefully it doesn't screw it up. 82 82
Let's see, no, wow not bad. 83 83
All right, great, 84 84
and I'll draw here, just make sure 85 85
you draw in the area you wanna keep, 86 86
and Microsoft will try to think like you think. 87 87
I got a fly in here. 88 88
Okay, whoops, hit Control Z or Command Z 89 89
to undo that part. 90 90
Okay, and I gotta go back here 91 91
and select areas to keep again. 92 92
All right, I wish I could Photoshop 93 93
out that fly (laughs). 94 94
All right, so I'm gonna go to high-speed mode, 95 95
and you can watch me perfect this in high-speed, 96 96
so I save you time, thanks. 97 97
Okay, let me pause from high-speed for a second here. 98 98
If you make a mistake, you can always hit 99 99
Control Z or Command Z if you're using a Mac. 100 100
And I only bring this up because 101 101
I like to do short strokes, 102 102
meaning I like to click a lot, 103 103
so that I can always go back and hit Control Z. 104 104
If you do the entire thing in one go, 105 105
it's gonna drive you crazy 106 106
because you're gonna have to restart every time. 107 107
Now I'm gonna click on Mark Areas to Remove 108 108
to get rid as much of this image as I can. 109 109
I'm gonna try and get rid of all the floor as well. 110 110
Back to high-speed mode. 111 111
Okay, that looks decent, and if you look 112 112
at the top left-hand corner, 113 113
you can see that the silhouette of the woman 114 114
is no longer there. 115 115
So I'm gonna click on done for now. 116 116
I'm not finished yet, I wanna keep 117 117
working on this with you. 118 118
So what we can do is 119 119
we have to now find a way to 120 120
compensate for that gap there. 121 121
If you're using Photoshop or any other 122 122
higher-end application, it's easier to do. 123 123
But I'm gonna challenge myself 124 124
and try to get this done, 125 125
and I'm gonna do that by creating layers. 126 126
So first of all, let me select the size 127 127
I think I wanna have for this here. 128 128
And we'll add shadows in a minute 129 129
to the outside, so we can compensate 130 130
for the little imperfections 131 131
in the sides of this book here. 132 132
All right, so what I'll do is 133 133
I'll create another version, copy, paste. 134 134
And you'll see there's two versions, here. 135 135
Let me save it, okay. 136 136
Microsoft trying to cross-sell design ideas 137 137
in the side there to me. 138 138
Okay, great, they're the same size, 139 139
and what I'm gonna do actually is, 140 140
I wanna maybe, maybe what I'll do is 141 141
I'll actually create this 142 142
illusion that the page 143 143
still goes on and on and on, 144 144
and I'll show you what I mean here. 145 145
So I'm gonna crop this, okay. 146 146
So now we selected this image, 147 147
and we're gonna crop, and crop 148 148
is on the Picture Format page, here. 149 149
This will make more sense in a second. 150 150
All right, now I'm gonna crop down, 151 151
maybe I'll try it right to here, let see what happens here. 152 152
And then I'm gonna crop to here. 153 153
And I'm gonna crop here, 154 154
and then of course we'll wanna get rid of her, entirely. 155 155
You'll understand in just a second. 156 156
Hopefully I'll understand it too. 157 157
All right, now I'm gonna select this, 158 158
and I'm gonna rotate this, 159 159
okay so just select it and rotate it. 160 160
And I'm gonna put that up here 161 161
to see if I can mask that difference. 162 162
You having fun? 163 163
I'm having fun. 164 164
All right, so it's getting better, 165 165
it's not perfect yet, 166 166
but, I'm such a nerd, I know, but it's fun. 167 167
All right, so it's looking better, 168 168
let me move it over a touch. 169 169
Okay, that looks good, actually. 170 170
You can't really tell now. 171 171
This isn't perfect yet, 172 172
we can keep playing around with it until it is. 173 173
Okay, so what I can do is 174 174
I can actually get another layer. 175 175
Copy, paste. 176 176
Let's make sure it's on top. 177 177
Okay, so this is the third layer, now. 178 178
And then what I can do, 179 179
always hit save 'cause Microsoft crashes sometimes. 180 180
And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna keep cropping this, 181 181
I'll go to high-speed mode just to save you time on this. 182 182
Okay, now if you wanna make the book bigger, 183 183
you Select All, you can go up here to 184 184
Edit Select All or you can hit Control A 185 185
or Command A if you're using a Mac. 186 186
Then, you're gonna keep your finger down 187 187
on the Shift button while I do the following: 188 188
deselect me, twice 'cause there's two layers for me, 189 189
Deselect the, whoops, deselect the outline, okay. 190 190
And now if we wanted to, 191 191
we can move this book around or make it bigger. 192 192
Now, if I were to drag this bigger it's not gonna work. 193 193
I'll show you why. 194 194
It doesn't understand the logic of all these, 195 195
and you can try grouping if you want 196 196
to see if that makes a difference, okay. 197 197
So right click Group, and let's see if that works. 198 198
Okay, good, it does work, it does work, great. 199 199
All right, so now those are now grouped. 200 200
PowerPoint thinks this is one image now, 201 201
pretty cool, huh? 202 202
All right, so we can make this 203 203
bigger if we wanted to. 204 204
We can put the book behind my finger 205 205
if we wanted too as well, 206 206
we already know how to do that. 207 207
Let me actually just put it over here, and 208 208
now if we wanna put a border around this 209 209
or a shadow, it's hard to do because 210 210
if I do it, even if I ungroup all the layers, 211 211
it thinks that the border is there, 212 212
see on the outside of all of those. 213 213
Even if I have one layer selected, doesn't matter. 214 214
So there's a couple things you can do, 215 215
and I wanna show you coloring here. 216 216
You can color the image if you want just for fun. 217 217
That's a little side note there. 218 218
Color it, Microsoft's smart enough just 219 219
to color the image, not the entire square here. 220 220
But what we can do is, we can actually 221 221
take one of the layers, okay, 222 222
and let me just go group, 223 223
I wanna ungroup. 224 224
And I wanna take just one layer. 225 225
Good, copy, paste, okay. 226 226
So yeah, there's another layer there. 227 227
Close out that Microsoft annoying cross-selling. 228 228
And what I can do is 229 229
I can make this a bit bigger, okay. 230 230
So I can make this a bit bigger, 231 231
and what I can do is I can send it backwards. 232 232
What I usually do is send it to the back 233 233
and then I bring it forward one layer 234 234
if I want to, or I just keep hitting send backwards, okay. 235 235
So I can go, let me just do send to back, okay. 236 236
And it's all the way behind that green thing now. 237 237
So I'm gonna select the green thing, 238 238
the green rectangle, 239 239
right click and send that to back. 240 240
And you'll see that here my image appears, good. 241 241
So, let's make sure we're selecting the right one, 242 242
and it's tricky, 243 243
sometimes you have to kinda select everything 244 244
and then push Shift to deselect stuff. 245 245
Okay, good. 246 246
So, left and right, see how it's select there. 247 247
I'm just using the left and right buttons, okay. 248 248
Now, you can see that this image is bigger, 249 249
see how it's moving all around it. 250 250
So, what I could do is, 251 251
I can actually change the 252 252
opacity or transparency as Microsoft calls it. 253 253
Here, make it a little bit less, there we go. 254 254
And I can actually play around 255 255
with the colors if I wanted to, okay. 256 256
So I can make it gray, 257 257
and have that as a shadow. 258 258
It doesn't look perfect, I know, 259 259
but you can actually play around with it 260 260
so that you have a nice color outline 261 261
that is fully transparent if you want to. 262 262
Takes a while to play around with it 263 263
and get it perfect, okay. 264 264
There's so much you can do, isn't that fun? 265 265
Look at that, isn't that amazing? 266 266
Little sidetrack there, but this looks like that. 267 267
See there, underneath? 268 268
That's cool, all right. 269 269
So, let's make sure I have the 270 270
right layer selected, which I do, good. 271 271
And you can play around with 272 272
brightening it, coloring it completely, 273 273
and even making it different shades of gray for a shadow. 274 274
Okay, so it's not perfect, but you can play around with this 275 275
a lot until you do get it perfect. 276 276
We can go here to picture effects 277 277
and even add a glow, see if that helps. 278 278
Make it yellow here. 279 279
Helps a little bit, it's not perfect. 280 280
There are limitations in PowerPoint, 281 281
wasn't made for what we're doing right here. 282 282
Let's try to make it better and challenge myself. 283 283
Let's go to Glow Options. 284 284
Okay, it's down here, 285 285
make this size bigger if we want. 286 286
Oh, here we go. 287 287
Transparency, will that work? 288 288
There we go, okay good. 289 289
We can do it, we can do it. 290 290
We can add a glow to the outside if we wanted to. 291 291
And we can even, if we wanted to, 292 292
make that smaller, make it 293 293
the exact same size as the book, 294 294
or have different layers to make it 295 295
look like a bit of a shadow. 296 296
Again, it's not perfect. 297 297
It's decent enough, I think. 298 298
And when you scroll far away 299 299
and look at it, it looks a lot better as well. 300 300
Okay, great, great. 301 301
And you can play around with transparency here 302 302
and the different colors as well 303 303
if you want it to make it 304 304
red for some reason, you can do that. That looks kinda cool, 305 305
but I'll go back here to yellow just for now. 306 306
Sorry, I got a fly in here. 307 307
All right, so I think that's looking good, all right. 308 308
And I think when we export this, 309 309
it's gonna be a pretty big file. 310 310
Or a lot bigger than the one with text 311 311
'cause we have a lot of layers here. 312 312
But we'll make it perfect for us. 313 313
So, let's actually see 314 314
if I can brighten up my face a bit, just for fun. 315 315
So, how do I do that? 316 316
Well, I could select the picture of me, 317 317
doesn't have to be both layers, just the top layer, 318 318
and let's go here to Corrections 319 319
and let's see what happens 320 320
if I brighten up my face slightly. 321 321
I'll overdo it at first. 322 322
That's a little too much. 323 323
But we can go here to Corrections, 324 324
not bad, hey? 325 325
Not bad for PowerPoint, that looks pretty cool man. 326 326
All right, and I think we're ready now. 327 327
I think we're ready. 328 328
Okay, it's spilled over the edge here, 329 329
we don't care about that, though 330 330
because we're just exporting this. 331 331
And then sometimes I like to just 332 332
make sure this is big enough. 333 333
And I can get rid of the border if I want to. 334 334
Doesn't matter, we're not gonna see that. 335 335
Okay, good. 336 336
Save. 337 337
Then what we're gonna do is, 338 338
there's a couple ways to get the screen image of this. 339 339
We can go here to Slideshow, 340 340
and it's only gonna select the outside of me. 341 341
Oh, let me go back. 342 342
I want to move that in a touch, actually. 343 343
Just slightly. 344 344
Okay, so I'm gonna go select 345 345
all, except for the background 346 346
and except for me, deselect me. 347 347
Move this over a bit, okay. 348 348
Actually looks nice when my finger's there too, okay. 349 349
Let's look here. 350 350
Okay, that's decent actually. 351 351
That's pretty good, pretty good. 352 352
All right, all right. 353 353
And people won't be looking at this, 354 354
it'll be a lot smaller, as well. 355 355
We can actually change around 356 356
the shadow on the outside if we wanted to. 357 357
Okay, this should be enough. 358 358
So, wait until this disappears, 359 359
and then we can take a Screen Print. 360 360
And again if you wanna know how 361 361
to take a screen print 362 362
on a Mac or Windows, watch this lecture here, thanks. 363 363
Okay, so if I do that, I select Screen Print here. 364 364
Just select the outsides, okay. 365 365
And you see there? 366 366
The little numbers there, look really close in the corner. 367 367
It says 1600 by 900 which means 16 by nine 368 368
which 16 divided by nine 369 369
or 1600 divided 900 is 1.7777, 370 370
whatever, which is the resolution we need. 371 371
(camera clicks) 372 372
Let go, and it's made for us, 373 373
there's the image. 374 374
Now, what I'm gonna do is 375 375
I'm actually going to do it a different way. 376 376
I'm gonna go here to 377 377
File Export, and we're gonna export it 378 378
as a GIF or a JPEG, whatever you want to use, you can use. 379 379
And it's defaulting for some reason to that, 380 380
that's fine, whatever. 381 381
And let's now call this one, NEW1, NEW1. 382 382
Let's export, and let's go see how big that is. 383 383
Remember it's gotta be less than two megs. 384 384
All right, so it's in here in new, 1.8, good! 385 385
Okay, great. 386 386
Let's take a look at it, now. 387 387
Looks decent, looks decent. 388 388
If I wanted to, I could play around with my face 389 389
to make it look a little bit less cartoony. 390 390
And the way to do that would be 391 391
to remove that brightness change 392 392
I showed you just a second ago. 393 393
But, I don't think it's gonna matter very much 394 394
'cause people are gonna see the image 395 395
this size here, and all we want them to do 396 396
is to click on the image. 397 397
That's all we want. 398 398
It's not gonna be blown up to poster size. 399 399
Okay, but let's compare this, okay. 400 400
These are the other ones 401 401
we made earlier with just text. 402 402
Okay, okay. 403 403
And if we want to make 404 404
this image smaller when we export, 405 405
what we would do is we would go to 406 406
File Export and then we would change 407 407
the parameters, which I'll show you really quickly. 408 408
So, let's just make it 2500 409 409
and that's still 16 by nine format. 410 410
And I'll call it NEW2. 411 411
And the resolution won't be as good on this 412 412
'cause it's gonna be a bit smaller, okay. 413 413
So let's go here to NEW2. 414 414
Okay, that's the image. 415 415
Sorry, let me go back to my Finder. 416 416
There we go. 417 417
And this one now is, 418 418
wow, 3.71, that megs. 419 419
I got to make it a lot smaller, wow. 420 420
I don't know what happened there, huh, all right. 421 421
I'll go back here. 422 422
And I'm gonna go to File Export 423 423
and just for fun, let's change 424 424
it to a JPEG, let's see what happens. 425 425
And let's just make it 1280. 426 426
And I'll call this one NEW3. 427 427
And it's saved. Let's take a look now to see 428 428
how big that is and what the image quality is. 429 429
Okay, so this is now a heck of a lot smaller. 430 430
JPEG's can be a lot smaller than GIFs, 431 431
or pardon me than PNGs. 432 432
And people like to use PNGs because 433 433
you can set transparent backgrounds and stuff, 434 434
little bit outside of the scope of this. 435 435
So that's what it looks like. 436 436
Actually that's looks pretty darn good, man. 437 437
That looks amazing. 438 438
Not this guy, but the image in general, 439 439
for the size, for JPEG. 440 440
Okay, that's great. 441 441
Okay, good. 442 442
So that sums it up, 443 443
that's how you make images using PowerPoint 444 444
and putting yourself in the image. 445 445
If you have any follow-up questions 446 446
on this topic, please let me know, thanks.