(upbeat rock music) 2 2
Instructor: Let's use PowerPoint now to create 3 3
a thumbnail image using the opposites colors 4 4
from the color wheel. 5 5
So the first thing we do is open up PowerPoint, 6 6
make a new file obviously, 7 7
and then what you do is make sure it's in 16x9 format, 8 8
which is the same thing as saying 1280x720, 9 9
and the way to do that is just go to design, 10 10
and then here go to slide size, 16x9. 11 11
And then let's select this, hold down shift, select this 12 12
and delete it so you have an empty palette here to use. 13 13
So, what we're gonna do now is, 14 14
I want to insert the color wheel. 15 15
And we're not gonna show the color wheel 16 16
in the final product, 17 17
but I still want it to be there 18 18
because I want us to be able to pick colors from it. 19 19
So let's grab this here, I call it, our color wheel. 20 20
Great. 21 21
And I'll move it here, just a little bit out of the way. 22 22
And what we're gonna do is, 23 23
we're gonna make a background that's yellow. 24 24
So let me zoom out a little bit here. 25 25
I'm gonna go, insert 26 26
and I'm actually gonna insert just a shape. 27 27
And I'll make it bigger than the background, 28 28
just slightly bigger. 29 29
It doesn't matter though because when we export this image, 30 30
so we can upload to PowerPoint, 31 31
it's actually only gonna take the white area you see there, 32 32
not the outside. 33 33
Okay. 34 34
So, I'm gonna right-click and I'm gonna send it to back. 35 35
And I want the color of this to actually be yellow. 36 36
So what I'll do is I'll go up here to shape fill, 37 37
then I'll select more fill colors, 38 38
I could select that if I wanted to, 39 39
but I wanna grab it from my color wheel. 40 40
Then I'm gonna use the teardrop here, pick it, okay. 41 41
Great. 42 42
Now I wanna create text that's purple, 43 43
because it's an opposite color from yellow, 44 44
and has a nice pop effect to it. 45 45
So what I'll do is I'll go here to text box, 46 46
and I'll insert text here. 47 47
And I'll call this, and I'll put it all in caps as always, 48 48
Five Reasons Why You Must Vlog Today. 49 49
Select all, 50 50
and then what I'll do is I'll actually go over here to home, 51 51
and I'm actually going to center it. 52 52
Then I'm gonna make it a lot bigger. 53 53
And, the way you do that is you select all the items here, 54 54
select all, and then you just make it bigger. 55 55
Let's see what happens at 96. 56 56
That's a little bit, 57 57
I haven't spread the words out properly. 58 58
Lemme just drag this over a touch. 59 59
Okay, good. 60 60
And I'll make it bigger than that. 61 61
I wanna go as big as I can. 62 62
Okay, and let's actually drag this over here. 63 63
That's good. 64 64
Okay, great. 65 65
And I'm gonna make the color of this purple, 66 66
and then we'll get rid of this little wheel here. 67 67
But what I'll do is I'm gonna provide you with the file, 68 68
all files actually, whenever I create these lessons, 69 69
and I'll just keep this outside here, 70 70
so that when we create this screen print here, 71 71
or this thumbnail image, this won't be shown. 72 72
Now, I'm gonna select the color purple here. 73 73
And so for the color here, 74 74
I'm gonna go here to more colors, 75 75
and I'm gonna use this and grab it from here. 76 76
Okay, good. 77 77
Now, I don't like that font, I love Helvetica. 78 78
So lemme select Helvetica. 79 79
Okay, good. 80 80
And I'll have to make it a little bit smaller. 81 81
Okay good, I like that, I like that. 82 82
All right, let's jazz this up a bit more. 83 83
So, lemme make it bold. 84 84
It looks a bit stale, I wanna add more dimensions to it. 85 85
So, I'm gonna right-click, 86 86
and I'm gonna select format shape. 87 87
Then what I can do is select text options here. 88 88
Then here, 3-D and 3-D Format. 89 89
And I'll select here, top bevel 90 90
and I'll just play around with it until it pops slightly. 91 91
And that's a very very slight pop to it 92 92
but I like that, it looks actually much more professional. 93 93
And then what you can do if you want to is 94 94
you can add a shadow. 95 95
And you can make the size of the shadow 96 96
very big or very small if you want to. 97 97
It's actually a little tricky to get it perfect 98 98
here in PowerPoint. 99 99
I find it easier to add shadows in Photoshop. 100 100
But if you wanted to, you could make 101 101
the shadow bigger, like that, 102 102
and then you can have it slightly over to one side 103 103
if you want to, okay. 104 104
I like to make it a little bit less transparent 105 105
and then you can actually have it at a slight distance away, 106 106
very slightly though. 107 107
And then the angle, you can change it as well, 108 108
very very slightly. 109 109
Don't overuse shadows though. 110 110
I prefer to use 3-D pop instead of shadow, 111 111
it just looks more clean. 112 112
Okay. 113 113
I'm gonna make this a little bit less transparent. 114 114
That's good. 115 115
Okay, great. 116 116
Now what we're gonna do is 117 117
we're gonna create an image out of this 118 118
so we can upload that image directly to YouTube. 119 119
So you go here to File, Export. 120 120
And then you wanna select JPEG, or you can even select PNG. 121 121
I like JPEG, it's smaller than PNG. 122 122
And then it's gonna ask you, 123 123
"what do you want the parameters to be?" 124 124
Well, we know that 1280x720 is what we want, 125 125
which is the same ratio as this. 126 126
Watch this when I change to 1280. 127 127
720. 128 128
Okay, so we made it even bigger. 129 129
And you usually want to make it as big as you can, 130 130
so that it stays just under two megabytes. 131 131
Okay, so now I'm gonna export this as color wheel JPG. 132 132
And I'm gonna go now and check out the size of that file 133 133
to see if it's less than two megabytes, 134 134
which it definitely will be, 135 135
because this is just text, there's no images. 136 136
All right. 137 137
And we just created this file here, called Slide 1, 138 138
and the size is 124 kilobytes. 139 139
Let's open it up and check it out. 140 140
And that looks great, that looks great. 141 141
Okay, and as always, 142 142
I attach all the individual files I discuss to the lecture 143 143
in the lecture that I'm discussing. 144 144
So, all these files are attached. 145 145
If you have any additional questions, please let me know. 146 146
Thanks.