(upbeat rock music) 2 2
-: Okay, let's practice making some thumbnails in Gimp. 3 3
I have 4 4
a picture here 5 5
that I took out of a video. 6 6
I think it's called "Zee Eats Durian", 7 7
or "Baby Eats Durian" or something, I don't know. 8 8
It went viral, so this is what I did. 9 9
Here's the screenshot I used. 10 10
There she is, so adorable, that's my daughter. 11 11
She doesn't look like this anymore, 12 12
this is an old video, but. 13 13
This is the shot I used. 14 14
So, we are going to bring that into Gimp. 15 15
So, "open with Gimp." 16 16
or you could open Gimp first and then 17 17
look for the shot from inside Gimp. 18 18
There are more than one ways to skin a cat 19 19
as they say in English. 20 20
I have her in here now. 21 21
It's a screenshot, so it's not the exact size. 22 22
It's just more or less the right size. 23 23
If I want to I can change the size by going to image 24 24
and canvas size 25 25
or I'll just scale image. 26 26
And then I can put the exact dimensions. 27 27
What is it, 1280, 720. 28 28
You can see it's a little bit off so I'm going to unlock it. 29 29
I am unlocking that now, so now I can put it at 1280, 720. 30 30
Okay, and that should be good. 31 31
Scale. 32 32
Wonderful. 33 33
Can't even tell a difference. 34 34
With this, it was a very simple thumbnail 35 35
but I did wanna have something a little extra, 36 36
a little bit spicy to put in the corner. 37 37
So that it has some color and I decided I would put 38 38
a durian in the corner, a little comic. 39 39
Because I can't really tell 40 40
that she's eating durian right now. 41 41
I need a cartoon. 42 42
So I used Gimp for that too. 43 43
I'm going to go to file, new. 44 44
And for these little cartoons that I like to do, 45 45
I do it at 800. 46 46
I watched a tutorial one time and they told me to do that, 47 47
so that's what I do, (laughs) I don't know. 48 48
It probably doesn't matter, it could be 600, 600 49 49
or 1000, 1000, but if it ain't broke don't fix it. 50 50
800 works for me. 51 51
You want the background to be transparent later, 52 52
but I can work on a white background for now. 53 53
I'm gonna start a new layer, though. 54 54
New layer, and it's gonna be same as last time? 55 55
And I'm gonna be like, "yes, okay." 56 56
Now I have a new layer here, okay? 57 57
So I've got the background, 58 58
which is not important for me now 59 59
and the new layer. 60 60
And I'm going to start drawing on this new layer. 61 61
This new layer is selected, 62 62
and I'm going to go to the pencil, 63 63
oh the paintbrush tool. 64 64
There are different ways to do this, again, 65 65
but this is just a really simple, quick way. 66 66
I'm gonna go to the brush, 'cause this brush here, look. 67 67
It's feathered, I don't like that. 68 68
I'm gonna go, undo. 69 69
I'm gonna change the brush to something more hard. 70 70
There we go, that's better. 71 71
It's way too big, but that's the brush I want. 72 72
And now I can adjust the size. 73 73
And I'll go a little bit smaller than that. 74 74
Actually, that's not a bad size, 75 75
I can go a little bit smaller again. 76 76
10, okay. 77 77
Now I'm going to draw a durian. 78 78
It's not gonna be exactly the same as I did back in the day, 79 79
but it's gonna be somewhat similar. 80 80
And if you don't know, 81 81
a durian is a tropical fruit in Indonesia 82 82
and it's very, very conroversial. 83 83
So Indonesians love to watch people eating durian. 84 84
I'm just holding it down, dragging it. 85 85
So I'm just drawing it freehand here. 86 86
And durians have a stem, so I'll put the stem in. 87 87
And there we go. 88 88
And it's got spikes all over it, 89 89
so I'll draw in some more spikes. 90 90
Wow, she looking good, she is looking like a durian. 91 91
Oh, and the inside of the durian kinda looks gross, 92 92
like a big turd. 93 93
I'm just gonna put some of that right in the back here. 94 94
I think my original thumbnail did have it. 95 95
Looks something like that. 96 96
And that's outside of durian, and the inside of durian. 97 97
And now I paint it. 98 98
So I take my paint bucket tool, paint fill tool, 99 99
bucket, fill tool, names are not important. 100 100
This one. 101 101
And I'm gonna change the color, 102 102
so I click on the box here. 103 103
Right now it's black, 104 104
I wanna change it to, 105 105
well the inside of durian is kind of a yellowy color. 106 106
You can adjust the color here just by sliding these things. 107 107
It's got every color in the world. 108 108
I'm gonna choose a nice yellowy, whitey, orangey color. 109 109
"F4E77A", sounds good to me. 110 110
And I'm gonna click okay. 111 111
And then just point your arrow to the place you wanna color, 112 112
there you go. 113 113
Actually, that could be even more yellow I think. 114 114
Let me go back, click again, 115 115
change it to a more brighter yellow. 116 116
I'm just gonna pull this over here maybe, 117 117
pull this over here. 118 118
Just so it's a little bit brighter, 119 119
little bit more colorful. 120 120
There we go. 121 121
It's not true to life, 122 122
but I think it'll work for my thumbnail. 123 123
And now, I have to find another color for the outside 124 124
of the durian. 125 125
They're a greeny-browny color. 126 126
Actually that color works okay. 127 127
And just click, and it fills it right in for me. 128 128
And the stem, I guess I'll make it, I don't know, 129 129
I can't even remember what the stem looks like. 130 130
A little bit brownier. 131 131
That's not a word, but, whatever. 132 132
There, beautiful! 133 133
And now that I'm finished, 134 134
I wanna get rid of that white background 135 135
and I just click on this little eyeball 136 136
and it'll erase the background for you, 137 137
or whatever layer you do that to. 138 138
'Cause I can do it here and then my durian disappears. 139 139
That's not good. 140 140
There we go. 141 141
So now I'm going to go file, export as 142 142
and you want to save this file as a PNG. 143 143
and I'm gonna call it, "durian". 144 144
And I just say "okay, okay, okay." 145 145
and then we're finished with that. 146 146
I do that because I like to save my cartoons 147 147
because maybe I can use the same cartoon 148 148
again in the future. 149 149
Or, I could just click on the layer without exporting 150 150
and just copy and then go back 151 151
to my original thumbnail that I'm editing 152 152
and paste and there she is, folks. 153 153
And up here it says floating selection, pasted layer 154 154
so you wanna say, go up here to layer 155 155
and then say to new layer. 156 156
Ah, that's more comfortable. 157 157
And now that layer can be scaled, 158 158
'cause it's too big, it's covering my girl's face. 159 159
So, I'm going to just shrink it a little bit. 160 160
I just go to this arrow, 161 161
and pull it down for a couple seconds there. 162 162
See what happens. 163 163
Hmm, I like that size, good. 164 164
I don't like the position of it, though. 165 165
So now I'm going to go back over here. 166 166
I'm going to choose the move tool, click. 167 167
And now I can just click on this 168 168
and move it anywhere I want. 169 169
And I think it was down here in the corner. 170 170
Which I now suggest you don't do, 171 171
because the little time code ends up in this corner. 172 172
But, I'm just re-creating what I did back in the day. 173 173
Okay, and I think I had the words "durian" on there, 174 174
so we're gonna add some text now. 175 175
I'm gonna keep the position like this, and yeah, 176 176
add some text. 177 177
So go back over here to your tool box. 178 178
And then click on the text tool. 179 179
And then click where you want the text to be, 180 180
I think it was around here. 181 181
And it says "durian". 182 182
Now it's really small and nobody can see it. 183 183
It's not even the right color. 184 184
Don't worry though, let's just select it all 185 185
and increase the size so we can see it. 186 186
Then we can move it. 187 187
All right, excellent. 188 188
And I'm a big fan of "impact", 189 189
but you'll find your own favorite font later, man. 190 190
You will find it and it'll be true love. 191 191
I love, what is it called? 192 192
"Impact", sorry not import. 193 193
Ah, I can't spell. 194 194
I've been overseas too long, obviously. 195 195
Maybe I just need to, ah here we go, impact condensed. 196 196
Now I'm gonna change the color. 197 197
I do not want it to be that poopy brown color, 198 198
I want it to be white. 199 199
Good, and I think I want it a little bit bigger, okay. 200 200
That's good, but it's kind of cutting off there 201 201
and when that happens, 202 202
you just go to one of these corners 203 203
and drag it out a little bit. 204 204
Make sure the box is a little larger so it has room. 205 205
Then I wanna move it over here. 206 206
So that's kinda how you do that. 207 207
Then I think it was kind of overlapping, wasn't it? 208 208
Yeah, okay, let's see what that looks like. 209 209
Mmm, hmm. 210 210
Maybe I'll put this up a little bit more. 211 211
There, yeah. 212 212
And the durian, there's text here, 213 213
I want it to pop a little bit more. 214 214
Actually I'm gonna make it a little, tiny bit bigger. 215 215
And I want it to have a drop shadow on it. 216 216
So I go to, is it tools? 217 217
Filters? 218 218
Filters. 219 219
It's filters up here, and then I go down 220 220
and I go to light and shadow 221 221
and here I can give it a drop shadow. 222 222
I always click this off nowadays. 223 223
The off set, this is how big your shadow is. 224 224
So it's up to you. 225 225
If I just went with what they're offering me, 226 226
it would look like this. 227 227
I want it to be a little more intense, 228 228
so I'm gonna undo. 229 229
Here, I can increase the size for you guys. 230 230
Where are my manners? 231 231
I'm gonna, yeah, I'll put that to 50% here 232 232
so you can see it a little bit better. 233 233
I've undid that. 234 234
Filters, light and shadow, drop shadow. 235 235
I liked the size but it wasn't hard enough 236 236
so I'm going to increase the opacity to 100%, okay. 237 237
Now what does it look like? 238 238
That looks all right, I kinda like that. 239 239
I'm gonna undo and show you one more time, 240 240
light and shadow, drop shadow, 241 241
let's increase this 242 242
and the blur radius a little bit maybe. 243 243
Something like that. 244 244
Just play around with it, and see what you like. 245 245
And I think we are done, ladies and gentlemen. 246 246
This is a thumbnail, and it really worked for my daughter. 247 247
This was on our vlog channel a while ago. 248 248
And she only had 30,000 subscribers at that time 249 249
and this video surpassed a million. 250 250
So simple thumbnails work well too. 251 251
Enjoy! 252 252
Yay. 253 253
Oh, so I'm gonna leave you the files 254 254
so that you can practice. 255 255
Maybe you wanna re-create this while you're learning how 256 256
to edit photos. 257 257
I think you'll be able to do it, this is super simple. 258 258
And now, oh we're gonna do one more, hold on. 259 259
I'm gonna cut first. 260 260
I'm gonna cut first, and do the other one. 261 261
Oh, did I export it yet? 262 262
Oh I forgot to export. 263 263
Damn, YouTuber, definitely needs some jump cuts. 264 264
Now that we're done, I'm going to go to file, 265 265
export as, same as last time, 266 266
only this time we are going to make this a JPEG. 267 267
YouTube doesn't really like the PNGs. 268 268
Whatever you wanna title it, JPEG. 269 269
And export. 270 270
And there she is. 271 271
There is our finished product.