1 1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,450 My favorite application to use on a Mac is Pixelmator Pro. 2 2 00:00:04,450 --> 00:00:07,660 It's kinda like a low-rent version of Photoshop 3 3 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:11,160 that's a lot easier to use but a lot more limited, too, 4 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,370 and you can create images really quickly. 5 5 00:00:13,370 --> 00:00:16,540 And so, as with all YouTube images, 6 6 00:00:16,540 --> 00:00:18,260 the resolution has to be, 7 7 00:00:18,260 --> 00:00:22,310 or the diameters have to be 1280x720. 8 8 00:00:22,310 --> 00:00:24,520 And all that means mathematically speaking 9 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,510 is 1280 divided by 720 10 10 00:00:29,510 --> 00:00:30,670 is 1.77777. 11 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,940 And that just means 16:9 format, 12 12 00:00:34,940 --> 00:00:37,750 meaning the wide screen when you go to see a movie, okay? 13 13 00:00:37,750 --> 00:00:40,900 So what that means is if I go 16 divided by nine, 14 14 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:42,920 it's the exact same ratio. 15 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,200 Okay, now, let's start one of our, 16 16 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,150 let's make an image here from scratch in Pixelmator Pro, 17 17 00:00:49,150 --> 00:00:51,200 and this is a lot of fun for me. 18 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,880 So we're gonna make a brand new one, new file here. 19 19 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,133 Select New, and it's gonna ask us, 20 20 00:00:58,204 --> 00:00:59,580 and just ignore these, that's from before, 21 21 00:00:59,580 --> 00:01:03,120 but it's gonna ask me what the width and height should be. 22 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,133 And like I mentioned, we're gonna select 1280 by 720. 23 23 00:01:08,220 --> 00:01:10,220 line:15% And then in terms of resolution, 24 24 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:13,390 line:15% I usually don't like to default at 72 25 25 00:01:13,390 --> 00:01:16,710 line:15% only because you'll see that the image that we import, 26 26 00:01:16,710 --> 00:01:18,490 line:15% meaning the picture of me pointing, 27 27 00:01:18,490 --> 00:01:20,510 line:15% will be really pixelated. 28 28 00:01:20,510 --> 00:01:23,630 So I'm gonna crank this up to about 200, 29 29 00:01:23,630 --> 00:01:25,750 and you can play around with this, as well. 30 30 00:01:25,750 --> 00:01:29,330 And this will impact the size of your image when you export, 31 31 00:01:29,330 --> 00:01:31,840 but for our purposes, we're still gonna be well 32 32 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,573 under two megabytes for this file when we export it, 33 33 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:38,990 so that we can upload it directly to YouTube. 34 34 00:01:38,990 --> 00:01:41,370 And you have to keep the image file size 35 35 00:01:41,370 --> 00:01:42,880 under two megabytes. 36 36 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,623 Okay, let's get going here. 37 37 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,353 All right. 38 38 00:01:46,353 --> 00:01:49,710 Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna insert the image, 39 39 00:01:49,710 --> 00:01:53,570 so I'll click here, and I'll choose the image 40 40 00:01:53,570 --> 00:01:55,190 that we created earlier. 41 41 00:01:55,190 --> 00:01:56,870 And what I'll do is I'll select 42 42 00:01:56,870 --> 00:01:59,210 the one where I was pointing left. 43 43 00:01:59,210 --> 00:02:01,920 Right, left, I always get confused on camera. 44 44 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,000 Okay, let's insert here. 45 45 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,450 Now what we do is make sure you have 46 46 00:02:06,450 --> 00:02:08,353 this arrow selected here. 47 47 00:02:09,670 --> 00:02:11,130 And I'm gonna zoom out. 48 48 00:02:11,130 --> 00:02:14,670 Now, I have one of these cool mouses, mice, whatever it is, 49 49 00:02:14,670 --> 00:02:16,680 and I can zoom out this way. 50 50 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,420 But if you don't have a mouse like this, 51 51 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:19,980 you can always go up here to View 52 52 00:02:19,980 --> 00:02:22,590 and then Zoom In and Out right here, okay. 53 53 00:02:22,590 --> 00:02:25,070 Now, I wanna make sure that I've selected 54 54 00:02:25,070 --> 00:02:26,820 the right layer here. 55 55 00:02:26,820 --> 00:02:28,510 And there's two layers we have right now, 56 56 00:02:28,510 --> 00:02:30,150 the first one is the background layer, 57 57 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:32,450 and then we have this image of me. 58 58 00:02:32,450 --> 00:02:34,240 And I can turn off the image of me, 59 59 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,250 and I can turn off the background, as well, if I wanted to. 60 60 00:02:37,250 --> 00:02:39,573 Let's turn both on and select the image of me. 61 61 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,443 Then again, make sure you have the arrow selected here. 62 62 00:02:44,340 --> 00:02:47,940 And then what you do is we're then gonna make this smaller, 63 63 00:02:47,940 --> 00:02:51,110 so we'll make this smaller here. 64 64 00:02:51,110 --> 00:02:54,960 And I'll increase the entire size of this in a second. 65 65 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,470 Okay, good. 66 66 00:02:56,470 --> 00:02:58,510 Okay, now what I'm gonna do 67 67 00:02:58,510 --> 00:03:00,650 is I'm gonna remove the background. 68 68 00:03:00,650 --> 00:03:02,320 And the way to remove the background 69 69 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,080 is you make sure you have the image selected here, 70 70 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,130 and then on this side here, 71 71 00:03:08,130 --> 00:03:10,580 all you do is you select this here, 72 72 00:03:10,580 --> 00:03:12,740 and it looks like a highlighter. 73 73 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:14,490 You hold down the mouse button, 74 74 00:03:14,490 --> 00:03:16,403 and then you select Quick Selection. 75 75 00:03:17,380 --> 00:03:19,930 And you can make your brush size bigger or smaller 76 76 00:03:19,930 --> 00:03:20,863 if you want to. 77 77 00:03:22,470 --> 00:03:25,010 Then what you're gonna do is you're just gonna draw 78 78 00:03:25,010 --> 00:03:27,250 around the image, and this application 79 79 00:03:27,250 --> 00:03:29,083 is so easy to use, it's amazing. 80 80 00:03:30,140 --> 00:03:34,000 Okay, and take my hand off 81 81 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,330 and cut. 82 82 00:03:36,330 --> 00:03:38,850 Okay, and the reason I didn't go all the way around 83 83 00:03:38,850 --> 00:03:42,520 and then hit cut is because if I make a mistake, 84 84 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,330 I can only Control + Z, or I should say Command + Z 85 85 00:03:45,330 --> 00:03:50,330 and undo the most recent click that I had. 86 86 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:53,120 Or we can go up here and go Undo Quick Selection. 87 87 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,223 Okay, so let's keep adding to this. 88 88 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,293 More, Command + X to cut. 89 89 00:04:00,130 --> 00:04:03,273 And then more here, Command + X to cut. 90 90 00:04:04,810 --> 00:04:06,950 And then what I'll do is right inside here, 91 91 00:04:06,950 --> 00:04:08,210 I'll get rid of that. 92 92 00:04:08,210 --> 00:04:10,850 Okay, and there's a bunch of dancing ants around here, 93 93 00:04:10,850 --> 00:04:12,560 meaning those lines that are moving. 94 94 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,560 To deselect them, you hit, Command + D, and they're gone. 95 95 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,100 Then I like to click one more time and then cut again, 96 96 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:24,610 and the reason is sometimes you have these fine hairlines 97 97 00:04:24,610 --> 00:04:28,940 in between what you cut before and you wanna eliminate them. 98 98 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:32,020 So I hit Command + X to cut. 99 99 00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:35,060 Okay, great, we're looking good. 100 100 00:04:35,060 --> 00:04:37,850 Then I'm gonna hit Command + D to deselect, 101 101 00:04:37,850 --> 00:04:40,800 and I wanna cut the bottom off there, 102 102 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,960 so I'm gonna go over here and select this square. 103 103 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,280 And then I'm gonna highlight here, 104 104 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:52,280 say up to this point, and then select cut. 105 105 00:04:52,373 --> 00:04:54,130 And I can cut a little bit more 106 106 00:04:54,130 --> 00:04:57,300 or I can just drag the image directly off of the palette, 107 107 00:04:57,300 --> 00:04:59,720 meaning the thumbnail, doesn't really matter. 108 108 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,220 So I'm gonna hit Command + D to deselect, 109 109 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:05,660 then I'm gonna click on the arrow. 110 110 00:05:05,660 --> 00:05:07,623 And now I'm gonna make this bigger. 111 111 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:12,363 Okay, and I'll just have that bleed off the bottom there. 112 112 00:05:13,410 --> 00:05:14,703 Okay, one second. 113 113 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:16,990 Okay, we're getting there. 114 114 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:19,530 All right, that looks good, that looks good. 115 115 00:05:19,530 --> 00:05:22,360 And you never wanna have any important information 116 116 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,170 in your YouTube thumbnails in this corner here 117 117 00:05:25,170 --> 00:05:28,610 because sometimes YouTube throws the time over top of that. 118 118 00:05:28,610 --> 00:05:30,170 You wanna have your important information 119 119 00:05:30,170 --> 00:05:33,500 on the left side if applicable. 120 120 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:35,400 Okay, so now what I'm going to do 121 121 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,940 is I'm gonna make the background layer green. 122 122 00:05:38,940 --> 00:05:42,270 And the reason is because I want this to pop, 123 123 00:05:42,270 --> 00:05:43,620 and it's really competitive 124 124 00:05:43,620 --> 00:05:45,130 to have people clicking on your image, 125 125 00:05:45,130 --> 00:05:48,960 and so having a nice bright background color can help us. 126 126 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,760 So I'll select here Background Layer, 127 127 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,500 and there's always many ways to do things 128 128 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:56,160 in software products, I select what's easiest for me. 129 129 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,140 So what I'm gonna do now is I'm actually going to get 130 130 00:05:59,140 --> 00:06:02,660 a bucket of paint and throw it on the background, 131 131 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:03,520 and so I'm gonna go over here 132 132 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,570 and grab that bucket of paints. 133 133 00:06:05,570 --> 00:06:08,730 Okay, and I already selected green before, 134 134 00:06:08,730 --> 00:06:11,670 but if I hadn't, I would just click here, 135 135 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:13,840 and then I like to click the one in the middle here, 136 136 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:15,650 and I select green here. 137 137 00:06:15,650 --> 00:06:17,700 Okay, that's the color, good. 138 138 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:21,000 Close, and I'm gonna fill this up, 139 139 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,050 and I have to fill in one more little area here 140 140 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:25,510 under my arm, and we're done. 141 141 00:06:25,510 --> 00:06:28,670 Okay, that looks good, okay, great. 142 142 00:06:28,670 --> 00:06:30,560 And now what we're gonna do next 143 143 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,360 is I wanna add a shadow behind me 144 144 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,340 because there are slight imperfections on the side. 145 145 00:06:36,340 --> 00:06:39,840 That's not perfect, right, doesn't look perfect. 146 146 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:41,780 So here's what I'll do. 147 147 00:06:41,780 --> 00:06:44,060 What I'll do is I'll select me, 148 148 00:06:44,060 --> 00:06:46,240 make sure I've got that layer selected, 149 149 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,670 and then I'll go here to Shadow. 150 150 00:06:48,670 --> 00:06:52,023 I'll click on Paint, then I'll select Style Add. 151 151 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:56,940 I'll then add a shadow, and then what I can do 152 152 00:06:56,940 --> 00:06:59,863 is make the shadow far away or close to me. 153 153 00:07:01,030 --> 00:07:02,640 And I usually like to blur it, 154 154 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,670 so I like it to be kinda close to me 155 155 00:07:04,670 --> 00:07:06,810 and then kinda blurred as well, 156 156 00:07:06,810 --> 00:07:10,800 so it kinda gives a 3D pop look to it. 157 157 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,290 Okay, and if you're gonna have shadows 158 158 00:07:12,290 --> 00:07:17,040 on only one side of you and they're easy to see, 159 159 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,030 then make sure that the other objects 160 160 00:07:19,030 --> 00:07:21,370 like the text or images, et cetera, 161 161 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:24,060 on this thumbnail follow the same pattern, 162 162 00:07:24,060 --> 00:07:25,860 meaning the shadow on the same side. 163 163 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,100 Okay, and let me see if I can change 164 164 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:30,790 the opacity a bit, there we go. 165 165 00:07:30,790 --> 00:07:32,300 Yeah, I like that a bit better 166 166 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:33,740 because what happens is it kinda 167 167 00:07:33,740 --> 00:07:35,210 gets rid of some the imperfections. 168 168 00:07:35,210 --> 00:07:39,200 Now, if you were making this a very, very large image, 169 169 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,360 meaning to be on a billboard by the highway, 170 170 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,960 then obviously you'd have to make the resolution perfect. 171 171 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,290 But because it's gonna be for YouTube, 172 172 00:07:49,290 --> 00:07:51,390 and people usually look at YouTube images 173 173 00:07:51,390 --> 00:07:54,230 on smaller form factors or computers, 174 174 00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:57,330 you don't have to worry as much about the resolution. 175 175 00:07:57,330 --> 00:08:00,980 Okay, so what we can do next is if you wanted to, 176 176 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:04,767 you can even throw an outline around this. 177 177 00:08:04,767 --> 00:08:07,920 And the way to do that is you go here to Stroke 178 178 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,563 or you go up here to Add, Stroke. 179 179 00:08:11,610 --> 00:08:14,810 And then what you can do is you can create the color 180 180 00:08:14,810 --> 00:08:17,100 of the stroke here, and lotta people like to do this 181 181 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:19,450 in YouTube to to make the image pop. 182 182 00:08:19,450 --> 00:08:22,010 'Kay, so for example, and I'm gonna remove this, 183 183 00:08:22,010 --> 00:08:24,133 but if you want, you can make it red. 184 184 00:08:25,368 --> 00:08:28,160 Okay, let's see here, color, whoops, 185 185 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:29,520 I should be selecting up here actually, 186 186 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,103 excuse me, okay there, red. 187 187 00:08:32,986 --> 00:08:35,430 And that pops nicely, 188 188 00:08:35,430 --> 00:08:37,050 it's not the look I'm looking for, though, 189 189 00:08:37,050 --> 00:08:39,620 so I'm gonna hit Command + Z 190 190 00:08:39,620 --> 00:08:42,550 and undo those past couple little changes there. 191 191 00:08:42,550 --> 00:08:43,800 Okay, that's good enough. 192 192 00:08:44,660 --> 00:08:48,470 All right, next step is before I add the letters, 193 193 00:08:48,470 --> 00:08:50,860 I wanna get rid of YouTube, 194 194 00:08:50,860 --> 00:08:54,250 just the image there on my chest. 195 195 00:08:54,250 --> 00:08:56,815 And so I'm gonna zoom in here, 196 196 00:08:56,815 --> 00:09:01,530 and I'm gonna go here to Clone. 197 197 00:09:01,530 --> 00:09:03,950 And the clone image looks a little bit different 198 198 00:09:03,950 --> 00:09:05,880 in different applications. 199 199 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,840 In Photoshop it looks like a stamp. 200 200 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,960 For some reason they have it 201 201 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,200 as a circle here within Pixelmator Pro. 202 202 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,580 All right, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna clone, 203 203 00:09:17,580 --> 00:09:20,420 meaning copy a certain part of my shirts 204 204 00:09:20,420 --> 00:09:23,113 over top of YouTube, the image here. 205 205 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,770 You have to tell Pixelmator Pro, though, 206 206 00:09:26,770 --> 00:09:28,410 where to get the image from, 207 207 00:09:28,410 --> 00:09:30,370 meaning what do you wanna clone. 208 208 00:09:30,370 --> 00:09:32,180 Okay, oh, I guess that's why it's circular 209 209 00:09:32,180 --> 00:09:34,220 for them and not a stamp, okay, cool. 210 210 00:09:34,220 --> 00:09:37,900 So what you do is you're gonna hold down the Option button 211 211 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:42,550 on your keyboard, hold it down and then click there. 212 212 00:09:42,550 --> 00:09:44,090 And you could make your brush size bigger 213 213 00:09:44,090 --> 00:09:48,070 if you wanted to as well, depends how precise you wanna be. 214 214 00:09:48,070 --> 00:09:51,920 So I'm holding down Option, click. 215 215 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,610 Now when I take this over top 216 216 00:09:54,610 --> 00:09:57,960 of the YouTube logo, you can see 217 217 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,540 what it's gonna look like if I hit click. 218 218 00:09:59,540 --> 00:10:03,350 So if I were to hit click right here, there we go, 219 219 00:10:03,350 --> 00:10:05,640 it's starting to take it out, and I can hold my finger down, 220 220 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,610 just paint if I wanted to. 221 221 00:10:07,610 --> 00:10:10,250 I can even make the brush size bigger, 222 222 00:10:10,250 --> 00:10:15,250 and make the brush harder on the outside, so like that. 223 223 00:10:15,430 --> 00:10:19,330 If you do softer, it's gonna kinda blur it in the corners, 224 224 00:10:19,330 --> 00:10:22,470 you see that dotted line there in the circle? 225 225 00:10:22,470 --> 00:10:27,150 Okay, but let me go back actually to a harder size here 226 226 00:10:27,150 --> 00:10:30,180 with softness, no softness, softness is zero. 227 227 00:10:30,180 --> 00:10:32,170 Okay, and I'm drawing this, 228 228 00:10:32,170 --> 00:10:35,273 and I may have to grab another clone, 229 229 00:10:36,460 --> 00:10:38,400 so I'll do it from here. 230 230 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,500 Okay, it's looking good, it's not perfect. 231 231 00:10:43,650 --> 00:10:45,030 And you want the imperfections 232 232 00:10:45,030 --> 00:10:46,560 in the shirt to kinda show up, 233 233 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:49,030 and I'm not doing the best job of this right now, 234 234 00:10:49,030 --> 00:10:50,710 but if you wanted to make it look 235 235 00:10:50,710 --> 00:10:53,080 a little bit more precise, and it doesn't really matter 236 236 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,250 because this is gonna be an image you look at from far away, 237 237 00:10:56,250 --> 00:10:57,780 but if you wanted to be more precise, 238 238 00:10:57,780 --> 00:10:59,830 you would take a smaller brush 239 239 00:10:59,830 --> 00:11:02,240 and you'd use a lot more softness. 240 240 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,320 I just wanna get this done, though, quickly for this demo. 241 241 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,320 So I'm gonna hit Option, select that, 242 242 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,330 and then I'll click here, whoops, good. 243 243 00:11:11,330 --> 00:11:15,040 Right here as well, here, and then we can go 244 244 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,989 over here as well, and I gotta be careful here. 245 245 00:11:18,989 --> 00:11:22,100 And the reason I like having many clicks instead of one drag 246 246 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:24,730 and drop all over the place is if I do that by accident, 247 247 00:11:24,730 --> 00:11:26,580 I can always hit Command + Z to undo. 248 248 00:11:27,450 --> 00:11:31,720 Okay, zoom in a bit to see if I can get rid of that. 249 249 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,500 Click, click, click, good, that's good enough, 250 250 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:36,150 and you're not even gonna see that redness 251 251 00:11:36,150 --> 00:11:38,350 from far away, that's fine. 252 252 00:11:38,350 --> 00:11:40,380 Okay, good, all right, 253 253 00:11:40,380 --> 00:11:42,390 we're now done with that, the cloning. 254 254 00:11:42,390 --> 00:11:45,100 And we could even go and clone my hair, you know, 255 255 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:47,200 if it's a little bit imperfect 256 256 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,470 from a coloring perspective, 257 257 00:11:48,470 --> 00:11:50,070 which to be intellectually honest it is, 258 258 00:11:50,070 --> 00:11:52,540 but the older I get, the better I was, I don't care. 259 259 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:54,900 And the difference between a model and a supermodel, 260 260 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:57,480 for what it's worth, whatever, is one millimeter. 261 261 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,250 And so people that do this professionally, 262 262 00:11:59,250 --> 00:12:01,510 for what it's worth, they tend to zoom in a lot 263 263 00:12:01,510 --> 00:12:03,480 and make little changes there. 264 264 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,390 I can change this little finger bump there, 265 265 00:12:05,390 --> 00:12:08,360 but we'll just leave it as is for now, it's fine. 266 266 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,420 Okay, all right, we got rid of the YouTube there, 267 267 00:12:11,420 --> 00:12:14,040 and that's important because eventually, 268 268 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,460 there could be copyright issues with images, 269 269 00:12:16,460 --> 00:12:18,940 there's not really right now, more so with videos, 270 270 00:12:18,940 --> 00:12:22,960 so if you insert a video of something that's copyrighted, 271 271 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,040 the YouTube community or the YouTube company, 272 272 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,740 I should say, Google, the parent company being Google, 273 273 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:30,960 will come after you, and just say, 274 274 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,810 hey, please take down this video, sometimes. 275 275 00:12:33,810 --> 00:12:37,710 With images though, right now, if you were to put an image 276 276 00:12:37,710 --> 00:12:41,220 of a celebrity, people are pretty cool with that right now. 277 277 00:12:41,220 --> 00:12:44,330 If you put an image of a product, you might wanna change it, 278 278 00:12:44,330 --> 00:12:45,590 but it's kind of a fine line, 279 279 00:12:45,590 --> 00:12:47,050 we don't know yet at this point. 280 280 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:50,860 But the beauty of creating thumbnails for your videos 281 281 00:12:50,860 --> 00:12:53,190 is you can always change the thumbnail 282 282 00:12:53,190 --> 00:12:54,910 after you upload a video, 283 283 00:12:54,910 --> 00:12:57,650 but you cannot change the entire video 284 284 00:12:57,650 --> 00:12:59,000 after you upload the video. 285 285 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:02,500 Great, all right, so next step 286 286 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:04,550 is we're gonna insert letters, 287 287 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:07,300 and we'll call this thumbnail here, 288 288 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:11,830 pretend it's a vlog for Best Business Book Ever. 289 289 00:13:11,830 --> 00:13:16,450 And so let's now go and insert a layer or just text. 290 290 00:13:16,450 --> 00:13:20,750 Okay, text is here, I'm gonna go here and double click 291 291 00:13:20,750 --> 00:13:23,590 and we'll call this, I'll put it in all caps, 292 292 00:13:23,590 --> 00:13:27,650 Best Business Book Ever. 293 293 00:13:30,781 --> 00:13:32,370 And then in order to move that, 294 294 00:13:32,370 --> 00:13:34,840 it's frustrating, you can't, how do I move it again? 295 295 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,490 If you can't select it, like sometimes it's just like that, 296 296 00:13:38,490 --> 00:13:40,400 go over here to the arrow, 297 297 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,420 then you can select and move this. 298 298 00:13:42,420 --> 00:13:46,860 Okay, and you can make the font size bigger as well, 299 299 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:49,840 so I can go here, and then what I can do 300 300 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,810 is I can go and change the font. 301 301 00:13:52,810 --> 00:13:54,440 There's always a million ways to do things, 302 302 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,010 here I can go to Font, I can change the style here, 303 303 00:13:58,010 --> 00:14:00,480 as well as making it bold or not bold, et cetera. 304 304 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,760 In order to be able to change this 305 305 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,410 in terms of size, et cetera, you can go here, 306 306 00:14:06,410 --> 00:14:10,100 click on Type, right, looks like text to me, 307 307 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,400 and then here you can change the size. 308 308 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,680 Okay, so let's make it 150, 309 309 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:16,540 that's probably gonna be too big, it is, 310 310 00:14:16,540 --> 00:14:20,753 let's make it 100, let's make it 125. 311 311 00:14:21,730 --> 00:14:24,380 Just right like Goldilocks and the three bears. 312 312 00:14:24,380 --> 00:14:27,870 Okay, and let's change around the line height as well, 313 313 00:14:27,870 --> 00:14:31,340 so we can squish those words closer together. 314 314 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:34,910 Okay, that's good, and God, this program's outstanding. 315 315 00:14:34,910 --> 00:14:37,180 I love it, it's fun to use. 316 316 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:39,680 Okay, that's decent, that looks great. 317 317 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,350 And you can actually change the font. 318 318 00:14:42,350 --> 00:14:45,683 I usually like to use Helvetica. 319 319 00:14:46,850 --> 00:14:48,330 It's just a personal preference, 320 320 00:14:48,330 --> 00:14:51,043 so let me go down here to Helvetica. 321 321 00:14:52,130 --> 00:14:53,220 And actually I gotta make it 322 322 00:14:53,220 --> 00:14:55,220 a little bit bigger now, let me try 150. 323 323 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,740 That's nice, I like that. 324 324 00:14:57,740 --> 00:15:00,770 And you see how it's on top of my shirt? 325 325 00:15:00,770 --> 00:15:03,510 What you can do is if you drag this down here, 326 326 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:07,300 it's now behind my shirt, which has a nice pop to it as well 327 327 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:09,470 when when you publish this on YouTube. 328 328 00:15:09,470 --> 00:15:11,200 I like the 3D image part of it. 329 329 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,200 So let's actually make this black. 330 330 00:15:16,270 --> 00:15:17,910 And then I know it matches my shirt, 331 331 00:15:17,910 --> 00:15:20,350 but let's make this black for now. 332 332 00:15:20,350 --> 00:15:23,980 Okay, now let's add an outside to that, meaning a stroke, 333 333 00:15:23,980 --> 00:15:26,150 so we click here on Paint brush, make sure 334 334 00:15:26,150 --> 00:15:28,820 you have the right layer selected here, 'kay, 335 335 00:15:28,820 --> 00:15:31,870 so I select here the text. 336 336 00:15:31,870 --> 00:15:36,870 Then we go here to Style, and then we add Stroke, 337 337 00:15:36,890 --> 00:15:40,573 and I'm gonna change the stroke here from black to yellow. 338 338 00:15:42,350 --> 00:15:46,210 Yellow, there we go, it's too big, I gotta make it smaller. 339 339 00:15:46,210 --> 00:15:49,240 So I'll make the stroke width a lot smaller. 340 340 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,200 That looks decent there, that looks decent there. 341 341 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,930 It's not popping enough for me though, hmm. 342 342 00:15:54,930 --> 00:15:58,330 So I'm gonna actually add a shadow. 343 343 00:15:58,330 --> 00:16:01,530 So I'm gonna go up here, and I'm gonna select Add, 344 344 00:16:01,530 --> 00:16:03,850 and we're gonna add a shadow. 345 345 00:16:03,850 --> 00:16:05,640 Okay, that looks nice, huh? 346 346 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,500 All right, we can blur the shadow more 347 347 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:09,710 to make it pop a bit more. 348 348 00:16:09,710 --> 00:16:12,370 The distance, you could change it around if you want to, 349 349 00:16:12,370 --> 00:16:13,930 I usually like to keep it pretty close 350 350 00:16:13,930 --> 00:16:17,040 to keep it consistent with the image of me. 351 351 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,890 And you can make the opacity higher or lower. 352 352 00:16:20,890 --> 00:16:22,860 And we all have our own style. 353 353 00:16:22,860 --> 00:16:24,930 And as you can see, it's right behind my shirt. 354 354 00:16:24,930 --> 00:16:26,340 And if you wanted to play around with this 355 355 00:16:26,340 --> 00:16:29,270 and make it a slightly different color from the shirt 356 356 00:16:29,270 --> 00:16:32,280 so that this pops more so, you can do that as well. 357 357 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:33,790 I'll just keep it at black for now, 358 358 00:16:33,790 --> 00:16:35,420 keep it quite simplistic. 359 359 00:16:35,420 --> 00:16:37,560 So it looks good, and if we wanted to, 360 360 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,390 we can sharpen up my face a bit. 361 361 00:16:39,390 --> 00:16:42,450 I usually don't do this, but if you wanted to, you can. 362 362 00:16:42,450 --> 00:16:45,470 So what you do is you make sure that you're selecting 363 363 00:16:45,470 --> 00:16:48,033 the image, so here's the image, it's selected. 364 364 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,450 Then what you can do is you can actually go down here, 365 365 00:16:52,450 --> 00:16:56,710 you see this, and you can select Sharpen. 366 366 00:16:56,710 --> 00:16:59,030 Okay, and let's zoom in a bit. 367 367 00:16:59,030 --> 00:17:02,540 It might be hard to kinda tell if it's gonna sharpen it. 368 368 00:17:02,540 --> 00:17:04,780 You could select Shadows, Midtones, 369 369 00:17:04,780 --> 00:17:06,610 or Highlights, if you want to. 370 370 00:17:06,610 --> 00:17:09,490 I usually just select All, and then watch this, 371 371 00:17:09,490 --> 00:17:11,600 it actually sharpens it a bit. 372 372 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,330 Okay, that's obviously overkill, 373 373 00:17:13,330 --> 00:17:14,973 but it looks kinda sharp there. 374 374 00:17:14,973 --> 00:17:16,750 That was too much contrast, I don't like that, 375 375 00:17:16,750 --> 00:17:19,780 but you can play around with that if you want to. 376 376 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:22,310 You can also go down here, 377 377 00:17:22,310 --> 00:17:24,800 and this looks identical, but it's not. 378 378 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,070 What's changed here is that title, okay, 379 379 00:17:27,070 --> 00:17:30,530 so it goes from Sharpen over here to Darken. 380 380 00:17:30,530 --> 00:17:33,280 And if it's overexposed your face, 381 381 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,860 you can kinda fix that here as well. 382 382 00:17:35,860 --> 00:17:39,850 And so let's just select All, and I'll show you there. 383 383 00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:41,320 See, I can make it a little bit darker. 384 384 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,220 It's not perfect, I can change this if I want to 385 385 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:47,670 just to kinda add a little bit darker shade there 386 386 00:17:47,670 --> 00:17:49,970 if I wanted to, if I wanted to. 387 387 00:17:49,970 --> 00:17:53,260 I don't really do this, but if you wanted to, 388 388 00:17:53,260 --> 00:17:55,850 you can kinda play around with that, whatever. 389 389 00:17:55,850 --> 00:17:58,490 There we go, I look more healthy that way. 390 390 00:17:58,490 --> 00:18:01,563 Oh, I gotta do this here, make sure my arm's not pale. 391 391 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:04,420 All right, whatever, you get the idea. 392 392 00:18:04,420 --> 00:18:07,090 I'll Control + Z that a lot to get rid of that. 393 393 00:18:07,090 --> 00:18:11,250 And then also, right here you can change 394 394 00:18:11,250 --> 00:18:13,710 the saturation as well. 395 395 00:18:13,710 --> 00:18:15,570 Okay, and so All is selected, 396 396 00:18:15,570 --> 00:18:19,550 and what you can do is just go here and play around with it. 397 397 00:18:19,550 --> 00:18:21,510 And obviously that's way too much, 398 398 00:18:21,510 --> 00:18:24,110 so it looks like I have a sunburn, 399 399 00:18:24,110 --> 00:18:26,710 so you pull the strength way down, 400 400 00:18:26,710 --> 00:18:29,390 and you can change the saturation in your face as well, 401 401 00:18:29,390 --> 00:18:31,410 look a little bit healthier. 402 402 00:18:31,410 --> 00:18:33,080 It takes awhile to get it perfect, 403 403 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,170 usually I go way, way lower if and when I play with this. 404 404 00:18:36,170 --> 00:18:39,990 And then you can actually change around the color 405 405 00:18:39,990 --> 00:18:41,940 in your face, if you want to. 406 406 00:18:41,940 --> 00:18:44,330 Just make sure it matches the rest your body as well, 407 407 00:18:44,330 --> 00:18:47,900 and that's way overkill, but I think you get the idea 408 408 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:49,240 you can play around with that. 409 409 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,740 And if you go overboard, which I clearly have here, 410 410 00:18:52,740 --> 00:18:56,300 look at me, I'm blushing now, I can go here to Reset 411 411 00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:57,707 at the bottom, and it resets it. 412 412 00:18:57,707 --> 00:19:00,590 And you can do that for all of these as well 413 413 00:19:00,590 --> 00:19:02,260 if you make a lot of changes. 414 414 00:19:02,260 --> 00:19:04,950 What you can also do is go down here, 415 415 00:19:04,950 --> 00:19:07,930 and you can select color adjustments here, 416 416 00:19:07,930 --> 00:19:11,140 and you can play around with the color a bit more so. 417 417 00:19:11,140 --> 00:19:13,270 I sometimes have to ask my wife, Christine, for help 418 418 00:19:13,270 --> 00:19:16,053 because I don't see color as well as I used to. 419 419 00:19:17,010 --> 00:19:17,950 I don't think I do. 420 420 00:19:17,950 --> 00:19:19,210 I know that's too yellow there, 421 421 00:19:19,210 --> 00:19:20,270 but you can play around 422 422 00:19:20,270 --> 00:19:23,650 with the temperature and the tint, as well. 423 423 00:19:23,650 --> 00:19:26,420 And it all depends on the type of lights you have as well. 424 424 00:19:26,420 --> 00:19:30,475 Boy, I just look at the lights, now I can't see. (chuckles) 425 425 00:19:30,475 --> 00:19:33,530 And it comes down to a science called Kelvins, 426 426 00:19:33,530 --> 00:19:36,280 which you can ask me questions about that if you want to. 427 427 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,900 And if you're curious, I'm actually recording 428 428 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:40,110 this at 5,700 Kelvins. 429 429 00:19:40,110 --> 00:19:42,950 If you go to lower Kelvins, it's warmer. 430 430 00:19:42,950 --> 00:19:44,370 If you go to higher Kelvins, 431 431 00:19:44,370 --> 00:19:48,093 it's actually a little bit bluer and colder, 432 432 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,620 and outdoor light is a little bit lower sometimes. 433 433 00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:53,540 Okay, so let's go here to Highlights. 434 434 00:19:53,540 --> 00:19:55,050 Depends where you are in the world, though. 435 435 00:19:55,050 --> 00:19:56,750 You could change the highlights here, 436 436 00:19:56,750 --> 00:20:00,080 you can change the shadows on your face as well. 437 437 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,270 You can play around with this a lot, 438 438 00:20:01,270 --> 00:20:02,970 it's actually really powerful. 439 439 00:20:02,970 --> 00:20:05,720 And I recommend that if you've never played around 440 440 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,760 with Photoshop, I would start with this 441 441 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:11,420 and then graduate to Photoshop 442 442 00:20:11,420 --> 00:20:13,910 'cause Photoshop gets really complicated with layers 443 443 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:17,230 and stuff, and this is a lot of fun to use here. 444 444 00:20:17,230 --> 00:20:19,090 All right, so what I'm gonna do next 445 445 00:20:19,090 --> 00:20:22,140 is I'm actually gonna export this, 446 446 00:20:22,140 --> 00:20:25,590 and we're gonna see what the size of this image is. 447 447 00:20:25,590 --> 00:20:27,740 It's gonna be under two megabytes. 448 448 00:20:27,740 --> 00:20:30,800 And so recall that when you export, 449 449 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,380 you have to actually make sure it's 1280x720 or that ratio, 450 450 00:20:35,380 --> 00:20:38,130 meaning 16 divided by 9, that's the same mathematics 451 451 00:20:38,130 --> 00:20:40,730 like we talked about in this video earlier. 452 452 00:20:40,730 --> 00:20:43,433 All right, so right here, if we export it, 453 453 00:20:45,550 --> 00:20:48,950 it's gonna be 669 kilobits max. 454 454 00:20:48,950 --> 00:20:50,490 So let me just call this 455 455 00:20:51,780 --> 00:20:56,300 Face with Words, just keep it simple. 456 456 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,610 And let's take a look to see what that looks like. 457 457 00:20:59,610 --> 00:21:02,190 Okay, so let's go Face with Words. 458 458 00:21:02,190 --> 00:21:04,580 There it is there, it's 669 kilobits, 459 459 00:21:04,580 --> 00:21:07,470 I did another export earlier, I was playing around with it, 460 460 00:21:07,470 --> 00:21:10,610 and you can actually see, if you look closely at my face, 461 461 00:21:10,610 --> 00:21:12,970 you can see how this one's warmer, the one we just did, 462 462 00:21:12,970 --> 00:21:14,910 versus the one I did a couple minutes ago. 463 463 00:21:14,910 --> 00:21:17,300 I had to rerecord 'cause I made a mistake. 464 464 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:19,170 Okay, great, all right, now let's go 465 465 00:21:19,170 --> 00:21:22,563 and let's get rid of these words and let's put an image in.