1 1 00:00:00,301 --> 00:00:03,301 (upbeat rock music) 2 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:09,690 Okay, let's practice making some thumbnails in Gimp. 3 3 00:00:09,690 --> 00:00:11,110 I have 4 4 00:00:11,990 --> 00:00:13,000 a picture here 5 5 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:18,110 that I took out of a video. 6 6 00:00:18,110 --> 00:00:19,980 I think it's called "Zee Eats Durian", 7 7 00:00:19,980 --> 00:00:23,160 or "Baby Eats Durian" or something, I don't know. 8 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,890 It went viral, so this is what I did. 9 9 00:00:26,890 --> 00:00:28,853 Here's the screenshot I used. 10 10 00:00:30,070 --> 00:00:33,140 There she is, so adorable, that's my daughter. 11 11 00:00:33,140 --> 00:00:35,150 She doesn't look like this anymore, 12 12 00:00:35,150 --> 00:00:38,150 this is an old video, but. 13 13 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:40,490 This is the shot I used. 14 14 00:00:40,490 --> 00:00:43,103 So, we are going to bring that into Gimp. 15 15 00:00:45,882 --> 00:00:48,227 So, "open with Gimp." 16 16 00:00:49,570 --> 00:00:51,810 or you could open Gimp first and then 17 17 00:00:53,130 --> 00:00:57,260 look for the shot from inside Gimp. 18 18 00:00:57,260 --> 00:00:59,740 There are more than one ways to skin a cat 19 19 00:00:59,740 --> 00:01:01,823 as they say in English. 20 20 00:01:03,215 --> 00:01:05,440 I have her in here now. 21 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,333 It's a screenshot, so it's not the exact size. 22 22 00:01:10,247 --> 00:01:12,640 It's just more or less the right size. 23 23 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,640 If I want to I can change the size by going to image 24 24 00:01:23,232 --> 00:01:24,660 and canvas size 25 25 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:26,423 or I'll just scale image. 26 26 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,430 And then I can put the exact dimensions. 27 27 00:01:31,430 --> 00:01:36,430 What is it, 1280, 720. 28 28 00:01:36,910 --> 00:01:40,973 You can see it's a little bit off so I'm going to unlock it. 29 29 00:01:43,482 --> 00:01:47,100 I am unlocking that now, so now I can put it at 1280, 720. 30 30 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:50,209 Okay, and that should be good. 31 31 00:01:50,209 --> 00:01:51,042 Scale. 32 32 00:01:52,202 --> 00:01:53,246 Wonderful. 33 33 00:01:53,246 --> 00:01:55,363 Can't even tell a difference. 34 34 00:01:57,894 --> 00:02:00,600 With this, it was a very simple thumbnail 35 35 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,790 but I did wanna have something a little extra, 36 36 00:02:03,790 --> 00:02:06,870 a little bit spicy to put in the corner. 37 37 00:02:06,870 --> 00:02:10,960 So that it has some color and I decided I would put 38 38 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,850 a durian in the corner, a little comic. 39 39 00:02:14,850 --> 00:02:16,580 Because I can't really tell 40 40 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:18,590 that she's eating durian right now. 41 41 00:02:18,590 --> 00:02:20,213 I need a cartoon. 42 42 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:23,760 So I used Gimp for that too. 43 43 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,823 I'm going to go to file, new. 44 44 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,263 And for these little cartoons that I like to do, 45 45 00:02:34,236 --> 00:02:36,773 I do it at 800. 46 46 00:02:38,020 --> 00:02:41,210 I watched a tutorial one time and they told me to do that, 47 47 00:02:41,210 --> 00:02:44,099 so that's what I do, (laughs) I don't know. 48 48 00:02:44,099 --> 00:02:48,190 It probably doesn't matter, it could be 600, 600 49 49 00:02:48,190 --> 00:02:52,550 or 1000, 1000, but if it ain't broke don't fix it. 50 50 00:02:52,550 --> 00:02:53,853 800 works for me. 51 51 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,040 You want the background to be transparent later, 52 52 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,770 but I can work on a white background for now. 53 53 00:03:02,770 --> 00:03:04,910 I'm gonna start a new layer, though. 54 54 00:03:04,910 --> 00:03:08,273 New layer, and it's gonna be same as last time? 55 55 00:03:09,936 --> 00:03:12,357 And I'm gonna be like, "yes, okay." 56 56 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:16,930 Now I have a new layer here, okay? 57 57 00:03:16,930 --> 00:03:18,460 So I've got the background, 58 58 00:03:18,460 --> 00:03:20,440 which is not important for me now 59 59 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:21,760 and the new layer. 60 60 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,400 And I'm going to start drawing on this new layer. 61 61 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,390 This new layer is selected, 62 62 00:03:27,390 --> 00:03:29,630 and I'm going to go to the pencil, 63 63 00:03:29,630 --> 00:03:31,173 oh the paintbrush tool. 64 64 00:03:34,550 --> 00:03:36,630 There are different ways to do this, again, 65 65 00:03:36,630 --> 00:03:39,950 but this is just a really simple, quick way. 66 66 00:03:39,950 --> 00:03:43,463 I'm gonna go to the brush, 'cause this brush here, look. 67 67 00:03:45,833 --> 00:03:48,900 It's feathered, I don't like that. 68 68 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:51,293 I'm gonna go, undo. 69 69 00:03:52,330 --> 00:03:54,833 I'm gonna change the brush to something more hard. 70 70 00:03:55,890 --> 00:03:58,300 There we go, that's better. 71 71 00:03:58,300 --> 00:04:01,760 It's way too big, but that's the brush I want. 72 72 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,490 And now I can adjust the size. 73 73 00:04:04,490 --> 00:04:09,453 And I'll go a little bit smaller than that. 74 74 00:04:11,810 --> 00:04:13,180 Actually, that's not a bad size, 75 75 00:04:13,180 --> 00:04:15,023 I can go a little bit smaller again. 76 76 00:04:19,363 --> 00:04:20,550 10, okay. 77 77 00:04:20,550 --> 00:04:23,850 Now I'm going to draw a durian. 78 78 00:04:23,850 --> 00:04:28,420 It's not gonna be exactly the same as I did back in the day, 79 79 00:04:28,420 --> 00:04:32,120 but it's gonna be somewhat similar. 80 80 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,050 And if you don't know, 81 81 00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:37,040 a durian is a tropical fruit in Indonesia 82 82 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,503 and it's very, very conroversial. 83 83 00:04:41,410 --> 00:04:44,893 So Indonesians love to watch people eating durian. 84 84 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:48,610 I'm just holding it down, dragging it. 85 85 00:04:48,610 --> 00:04:51,313 So I'm just drawing it freehand here. 86 86 00:04:52,735 --> 00:04:55,283 And durians have a stem, so I'll put the stem in. 87 87 00:04:57,905 --> 00:04:59,430 And there we go. 88 88 00:04:59,430 --> 00:05:01,570 And it's got spikes all over it, 89 89 00:05:01,570 --> 00:05:04,273 so I'll draw in some more spikes. 90 90 00:05:08,270 --> 00:05:13,070 Wow, she looking good, she is looking like a durian. 91 91 00:05:13,070 --> 00:05:18,070 Oh, and the inside of the durian kinda looks gross, 92 92 00:05:19,140 --> 00:05:21,513 like a big turd. 93 93 00:05:23,529 --> 00:05:27,970 I'm just gonna put some of that right in the back here. 94 94 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:32,713 I think my original thumbnail did have it. 95 95 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,850 Looks something like that. 96 96 00:05:36,850 --> 00:05:41,640 And that's outside of durian, and the inside of durian. 97 97 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,930 And now I paint it. 98 98 00:05:42,930 --> 00:05:47,250 So I take my paint bucket tool, paint fill tool, 99 99 00:05:47,250 --> 00:05:50,802 bucket, fill tool, names are not important. 100 100 00:05:50,802 --> 00:05:52,560 This one. 101 101 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,380 And I'm gonna change the color, 102 102 00:05:54,380 --> 00:05:57,760 so I click on the box here. 103 103 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:58,730 Right now it's black, 104 104 00:05:58,730 --> 00:05:59,893 I wanna change it to, 105 105 00:06:00,924 --> 00:06:05,050 well the inside of durian is kind of a yellowy color. 106 106 00:06:05,050 --> 00:06:09,030 You can adjust the color here just by sliding these things. 107 107 00:06:09,030 --> 00:06:11,390 It's got every color in the world. 108 108 00:06:11,390 --> 00:06:16,390 I'm gonna choose a nice yellowy, whitey, orangey color. 109 109 00:06:19,567 --> 00:06:22,970 "F4E77A", sounds good to me. 110 110 00:06:22,970 --> 00:06:25,340 And I'm gonna click okay. 111 111 00:06:25,340 --> 00:06:28,340 And then just point your arrow to the place you wanna color, 112 112 00:06:29,390 --> 00:06:30,590 there you go. 113 113 00:06:30,590 --> 00:06:33,180 Actually, that could be even more yellow I think. 114 114 00:06:33,180 --> 00:06:35,320 Let me go back, click again, 115 115 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,593 change it to a more brighter yellow. 116 116 00:06:38,823 --> 00:06:41,030 I'm just gonna pull this over here maybe, 117 117 00:06:41,030 --> 00:06:42,030 pull this over here. 118 118 00:06:43,020 --> 00:06:45,320 Just so it's a little bit brighter, 119 119 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,640 little bit more colorful. 120 120 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:47,513 There we go. 121 121 00:06:48,410 --> 00:06:50,308 It's not true to life, 122 122 00:06:50,308 --> 00:06:53,197 but I think it'll work for my thumbnail. 123 123 00:06:53,197 --> 00:06:56,770 And now, I have to find another color for the outside 124 124 00:06:56,770 --> 00:06:58,210 of the durian. 125 125 00:06:58,210 --> 00:07:01,460 They're a greeny-browny color. 126 126 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:03,760 Actually that color works okay. 127 127 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,960 And just click, and it fills it right in for me. 128 128 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,464 And the stem, I guess I'll make it, I don't know, 129 129 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:14,253 I can't even remember what the stem looks like. 130 130 00:07:15,630 --> 00:07:17,043 A little bit brownier. 131 131 00:07:18,010 --> 00:07:20,560 That's not a word, but, whatever. 132 132 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,740 There, beautiful! 133 133 00:07:22,740 --> 00:07:24,290 And now that I'm finished, 134 134 00:07:24,290 --> 00:07:27,460 I wanna get rid of that white background 135 135 00:07:27,460 --> 00:07:30,880 and I just click on this little eyeball 136 136 00:07:31,780 --> 00:07:34,260 and it'll erase the background for you, 137 137 00:07:34,260 --> 00:07:36,850 or whatever layer you do that to. 138 138 00:07:36,850 --> 00:07:40,010 'Cause I can do it here and then my durian disappears. 139 139 00:07:40,010 --> 00:07:41,490 That's not good. 140 140 00:07:41,490 --> 00:07:42,400 There we go. 141 141 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,130 So now I'm going to go file, export as 142 142 00:07:49,526 --> 00:07:51,993 and you want to save this file as a PNG. 143 143 00:07:54,001 --> 00:07:56,647 and I'm gonna call it, "durian". 144 144 00:08:01,334 --> 00:08:04,167 And I just say "okay, okay, okay." 145 145 00:08:05,270 --> 00:08:07,463 and then we're finished with that. 146 146 00:08:09,110 --> 00:08:11,520 I do that because I like to save my cartoons 147 147 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,410 because maybe I can use the same cartoon 148 148 00:08:14,410 --> 00:08:15,773 again in the future. 149 149 00:08:18,140 --> 00:08:21,000 Or, I could just click on the layer without exporting 150 150 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,470 and just copy and then go back 151 151 00:08:24,470 --> 00:08:28,070 to my original thumbnail that I'm editing 152 152 00:08:28,070 --> 00:08:32,340 and paste and there she is, folks. 153 153 00:08:32,340 --> 00:08:35,130 And up here it says floating selection, pasted layer 154 154 00:08:35,130 --> 00:08:37,950 so you wanna say, go up here to layer 155 155 00:08:37,950 --> 00:08:39,503 and then say to new layer. 156 156 00:08:40,490 --> 00:08:42,860 Ah, that's more comfortable. 157 157 00:08:42,860 --> 00:08:46,100 And now that layer can be scaled, 158 158 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:49,140 'cause it's too big, it's covering my girl's face. 159 159 00:08:49,140 --> 00:08:52,640 So, I'm going to just shrink it a little bit. 160 160 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,053 I just go to this arrow, 161 161 00:08:55,036 --> 00:08:58,690 and pull it down for a couple seconds there. 162 162 00:08:58,690 --> 00:09:00,100 See what happens. 163 163 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:03,323 Hmm, I like that size, good. 164 164 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,730 I don't like the position of it, though. 165 165 00:09:06,730 --> 00:09:09,380 So now I'm going to go back over here. 166 166 00:09:09,380 --> 00:09:13,310 I'm going to choose the move tool, click. 167 167 00:09:13,310 --> 00:09:15,600 And now I can just click on this 168 168 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,140 and move it anywhere I want. 169 169 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:19,290 And I think it was down here in the corner. 170 170 00:09:20,450 --> 00:09:23,610 Which I now suggest you don't do, 171 171 00:09:23,610 --> 00:09:27,740 because the little time code ends up in this corner. 172 172 00:09:27,740 --> 00:09:31,020 But, I'm just re-creating what I did back in the day. 173 173 00:09:31,020 --> 00:09:36,020 Okay, and I think I had the words "durian" on there, 174 174 00:09:36,790 --> 00:09:38,983 so we're gonna add some text now. 175 175 00:09:40,949 --> 00:09:43,960 I'm gonna keep the position like this, and yeah, 176 176 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:44,793 add some text. 177 177 00:09:44,793 --> 00:09:48,430 So go back over here to your tool box. 178 178 00:09:48,430 --> 00:09:50,653 And then click on the text tool. 179 179 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,990 And then click where you want the text to be, 180 180 00:09:54,990 --> 00:09:56,423 I think it was around here. 181 181 00:09:57,971 --> 00:10:00,507 And it says "durian". 182 182 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,280 Now it's really small and nobody can see it. 183 183 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,780 It's not even the right color. 184 184 00:10:07,686 --> 00:10:09,960 Don't worry though, let's just select it all 185 185 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,960 and increase the size so we can see it. 186 186 00:10:15,810 --> 00:10:17,220 Then we can move it. 187 187 00:10:17,220 --> 00:10:18,373 All right, excellent. 188 188 00:10:19,432 --> 00:10:23,197 And I'm a big fan of "impact", 189 189 00:10:24,531 --> 00:10:26,810 but you'll find your own favorite font later, man. 190 190 00:10:26,810 --> 00:10:30,350 You will find it and it'll be true love. 191 191 00:10:30,350 --> 00:10:32,457 I love, what is it called? 192 192 00:10:32,457 --> 00:10:34,350 "Impact", sorry not import. 193 193 00:10:34,350 --> 00:10:36,600 Ah, I can't spell. 194 194 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,923 I've been overseas too long, obviously. 195 195 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,060 Maybe I just need to, ah here we go, impact condensed. 196 196 00:10:45,060 --> 00:10:47,450 Now I'm gonna change the color. 197 197 00:10:47,450 --> 00:10:49,730 I do not want it to be that poopy brown color, 198 198 00:10:49,730 --> 00:10:51,673 I want it to be white. 199 199 00:10:54,750 --> 00:10:59,499 Good, and I think I want it a little bit bigger, okay. 200 200 00:10:59,499 --> 00:11:02,730 That's good, but it's kind of cutting off there 201 201 00:11:02,730 --> 00:11:04,010 and when that happens, 202 202 00:11:04,010 --> 00:11:06,150 you just go to one of these corners 203 203 00:11:06,150 --> 00:11:08,033 and drag it out a little bit. 204 204 00:11:09,290 --> 00:11:13,900 Make sure the box is a little larger so it has room. 205 205 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,170 Then I wanna move it over here. 206 206 00:11:16,170 --> 00:11:17,770 So that's kinda how you do that. 207 207 00:11:19,290 --> 00:11:22,160 Then I think it was kind of overlapping, wasn't it? 208 208 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,310 Yeah, okay, let's see what that looks like. 209 209 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:27,230 Mmm, hmm. 210 210 00:11:30,610 --> 00:11:32,660 Maybe I'll put this up a little bit more. 211 211 00:11:37,354 --> 00:11:38,200 There, yeah. 212 212 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:42,203 And the durian, there's text here, 213 213 00:11:43,410 --> 00:11:45,870 I want it to pop a little bit more. 214 214 00:11:45,870 --> 00:11:49,750 Actually I'm gonna make it a little, tiny bit bigger. 215 215 00:11:49,750 --> 00:11:53,340 And I want it to have a drop shadow on it. 216 216 00:11:53,340 --> 00:11:56,383 So I go to, is it tools? 217 217 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,890 Filters? 218 218 00:11:58,890 --> 00:11:59,830 Filters. 219 219 00:11:59,830 --> 00:12:01,944 It's filters up here, and then I go down 220 220 00:12:01,944 --> 00:12:05,140 and I go to light and shadow 221 221 00:12:06,728 --> 00:12:09,163 and here I can give it a drop shadow. 222 222 00:12:11,210 --> 00:12:15,193 I always click this off nowadays. 223 223 00:12:17,392 --> 00:12:21,030 The off set, this is how big your shadow is. 224 224 00:12:21,030 --> 00:12:23,520 So it's up to you. 225 225 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,910 If I just went with what they're offering me, 226 226 00:12:25,910 --> 00:12:27,163 it would look like this. 227 227 00:12:29,750 --> 00:12:33,420 I want it to be a little more intense, 228 228 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:34,813 so I'm gonna undo. 229 229 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:39,493 Here, I can increase the size for you guys. 230 230 00:12:40,590 --> 00:12:41,750 Where are my manners? 231 231 00:12:41,750 --> 00:12:44,630 I'm gonna, yeah, I'll put that to 50% here 232 232 00:12:44,630 --> 00:12:46,747 so you can see it a little bit better. 233 233 00:12:48,420 --> 00:12:51,160 I've undid that. 234 234 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,223 Filters, light and shadow, drop shadow. 235 235 00:12:56,070 --> 00:13:00,840 I liked the size but it wasn't hard enough 236 236 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:05,693 so I'm going to increase the opacity to 100%, okay. 237 237 00:13:07,744 --> 00:13:08,577 Now what does it look like? 238 238 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:12,200 That looks all right, I kinda like that. 239 239 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,190 I'm gonna undo and show you one more time, 240 240 00:13:16,190 --> 00:13:18,293 light and shadow, drop shadow, 241 241 00:13:21,260 --> 00:13:22,880 let's increase this 242 242 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,100 and the blur radius a little bit maybe. 243 243 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:26,343 Something like that. 244 244 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,343 Just play around with it, and see what you like. 245 245 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:38,180 And I think we are done, ladies and gentlemen. 246 246 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:43,180 This is a thumbnail, and it really worked for my daughter. 247 247 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,570 This was on our vlog channel a while ago. 248 248 00:13:47,570 --> 00:13:51,820 And she only had 30,000 subscribers at that time 249 249 00:13:51,820 --> 00:13:54,923 and this video surpassed a million. 250 250 00:13:55,956 --> 00:13:59,583 So simple thumbnails work well too. 251 251 00:14:00,810 --> 00:14:01,643 Enjoy! 252 252 00:14:05,030 --> 00:14:05,863 Yay. 253 253 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:12,500 Oh, so I'm gonna leave you the files 254 254 00:14:13,540 --> 00:14:15,420 so that you can practice. 255 255 00:14:15,420 --> 00:14:18,820 Maybe you wanna re-create this while you're learning how 256 256 00:14:19,743 --> 00:14:21,137 to edit photos. 257 257 00:14:21,137 --> 00:14:25,683 I think you'll be able to do it, this is super simple. 258 258 00:14:31,740 --> 00:14:36,150 And now, oh we're gonna do one more, hold on. 259 259 00:14:36,150 --> 00:14:37,723 I'm gonna cut first. 260 260 00:14:42,180 --> 00:14:44,313 I'm gonna cut first, and do the other one. 261 261 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,530 Oh, did I export it yet? 262 262 00:14:47,530 --> 00:14:49,023 Oh I forgot to export. 263 263 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:54,483 Damn, YouTuber, definitely needs some jump cuts. 264 264 00:14:55,930 --> 00:15:00,530 Now that we're done, I'm going to go to file, 265 265 00:15:00,530 --> 00:15:04,590 export as, same as last time, 266 266 00:15:04,590 --> 00:15:09,463 only this time we are going to make this a JPEG. 267 267 00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:14,536 YouTube doesn't really like the PNGs. 268 268 00:15:14,536 --> 00:15:17,083 Whatever you wanna title it, JPEG. 269 269 00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:19,823 And export. 270 270 00:15:23,727 --> 00:15:25,173 And there she is. 271 271 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:29,353 There is our finished product.