(upbeat music) 2 2
-: All right, welcome back once again 3 3
with your beautiful host. 4 4
And we are going to make another YouTube 5 5
thumbnail and this time we are talking 6 6
about using contrasting colors. 7 7
We want to use colors on the opposite sides 8 8
of the color wheel or, you know, 9 9
give or take an inch and I'm sorry 10 10
my air conditioner I swear 11 11
(air conditioner beeping) 12 12
it's out to get me it wants me shiny. 13 13
I have my tissues ready just in case it breaks 14 14
(air conditioner beeping) 15 15
but it's not getting the best of me, 16 16
the show must go on. 17 17
We need to know how to use 18 18
opposite colors okay? 19 19
I don't do this enough maybe 20 20
and I'm not a hypocrite it's just, yeah, I don't know 21 21
(laughs) but here we are I have a thumbnail here 22 22
this is our reference I made this a while ago 23 23
and it just so happens to use colors that are the exact 24 24
opposite on the color wheel 25 25
because we have a little like, I don't know. 26 26
I don't have the names of colors people get really fancy 27 27
when they're designing their homes 28 28
and think oh this is like dark rose opaque 29 29
or I don't know they have weird names 30 30
for colors, I don't know. 31 31
His shirt is this color and I chose this color 32 32
for the background and I think we can recreate 33 33
this now in Gimp. 34 34
So, I have my screenshot ready. 35 35
Let's see where I managed to get for the screenshot. 36 36
What does it look like? 37 37
Ahh, see I was missing the original file 38 38
so, (sighs) because I use subtitles a lot in my 39 39
videos we have this here, this text we're gonna 40 40
have to get rid of that and we do not want to have 41 41
this red line here. 42 42
All fixable, okay. 43 43
Ideally you won't have this problem 44 44
because you are going to get your screenshots 45 45
when you're editing and you'll still have access 46 46
to your original, high-definition footage, whatever. 47 47
I don't today though but it's okay 48 48
we are problem solvers here and we are going 49 49
to fix this and we're gonna click 50 50
with the two fingers on our Mac at the same time 51 51
(presenter beeping) 52 52
and Open it with Gimp. 53 53
And if you are not on a Mac I think 54 54
it's a right-click or something? 55 55
I don't know, ask Chris in the lower thirds 56 56
he's the smart one, I am the artist. 57 57
Okay (laughs) we have this open in Gimp now 58 58
and we are going to wanna make sure 59 59
that it's the correct size 60 60
and when you are taking screenshots 61 61
sometimes you go like a little bit over. 62 62
Let me zoom in and show you. 63 63
Let me zoom in to 200%. 64 64
Let's go up to the very, very top. 65 65
I'm just scrolling here. 66 66
Ahh, see at the very, very bottom 67 67
there might be like a little black line 68 68
or, what happens at the top? 69 69
Yeah, maybe, yeah see this stuff up here 70 70
'cause I did a screen, anyway. 71 71
I did a screenshot and it's not perfect 72 72
so we can fix it, okay? 73 73
Zoom back out, you don't have to worry 74 74
about this at the moment. 75 75
I'm just trying to show you that we need 76 76
to cut this and we need to make sure 77 77
it's 16 by nine. 78 78
Let me just start a new file here. 79 79
File, New, we want it to be 80 80
youtube thumbnail size (laughs). 81 81
I made this template 1280 by 720. 82 82
Okay, this is a completely different file now 83 83
so we have two files open on Gimp. 84 84
I'm gonna go back to our previous one 85 85
and I'm going to copy. 86 86
Command + C on a Mac and then I'm gonna go to our new file 87 87
and I'm going to Command + V, paste, on a Mac anyway. 88 88
And, now I can resize this. 89 89
Layer, Scale Layer, I know it's about 1280. 90 90
Make sure that this link is still connected 91 91
at the moment okay? 92 92
Scale, all right, now I wanna make it 93 93
a little bit bigger. 94 94
I'm going to pull this out so I can see more stuff. 95 95
Right now we can only see our canvas 96 96
but I wanna pull this out so that there's a little bit 97 97
of gray, you know, drag and pull, so that there's a little 98 98
bit of gray over here so I can see more of what I'm doing. 99 99
Close that, okay. 100 100
Now I'm gonna go to Layer, To New Layer 101 101
because right now it says Floating Selection 102 102
and I don't like that. 103 103
To New Layer, okay. 104 104
And I'm going to go to Layer again, Scale Layer 105 105
and I'm going to increase the size a bit. 106 106
So, I'm just gonna go to this arrow 107 107
and increase it a little bit, Scale. 108 108
Hmm, I'm gonna have to increase it quite a bit more 109 109
because I have to make it so big 110 110
that I can pull and drag and that, 111 111
"Ok, just use Indonesian," thing disappears. 112 112
Sorry guys I'm such a weird YouTuber (laughs) 113 113
I got some weird titles and some weird stuff 114 114
going on in my videos. 115 115
Okay, Layer, Scale Layer. 116 116
Make her big, make her big. 117 117
Ahh, now I have some room to work with. 118 118
Go to the Move Tool here and now I can take this layer okay 119 119
and I can pull it so I can click 120 120
and pull to wherever I want. 121 121
I want my guy in the middle here 122 122
and let me just double check my reference. 123 123
Where was my reference I can erase this, 124 124
well not erase, I can close this file by the way. 125 125
Just close that we don't need it any more. 126 126
Oh yeah, so in my reference here you can see 127 127
that he's even bigger I didn't get the exact same screenshot 128 128
but you know what okay let's just make him bigger then. 129 129
(computer mouse clicking) 130 130
I just Layer, Scale Layer and click on this arrow 131 131
until he gets bigger. 132 132
Let's see what he looks like now. 133 133
That might look a little bit more like my reference 134 134
not exactly the same but pretty much the same. 135 135
Okay, now, actually I'm gonna pull it down 136 136
a little bit more. 137 137
(presenter sighing) 138 138
Now what we're gonna do is we are going to make 139 139
the background a contrasting color 140 140
to the color of this guy's shirt. 141 141
I'm saying this guy but like I live with him 142 142
I should be using a better name 143 143
than this guy but whatever. 144 144
I'm gonna use this tool, Paths, 145 145
and I'm just gonna click, click, click 146 146
and I'm just gonna keep clicking 147 147
around the outline of his body. 148 148
I'm not doing his ear at the moment (laughs). 149 149
Oh, I could add another one there okay. 150 150
I'm gonna fix all of that later. 151 151
(computer mouse clicking) 152 152
And there's a little piece here that's not part of him. 153 153
So, up and down and I usually put the last click here 154 154
and then I click and hold and pull it to close my circuit 155 155
and that looks pretty good. 156 156
Okay, now I'm going to zoom in a little bit. 157 157
So at the bottom here it gives you the option 158 158
to change the size so let's change it to 100%. 159 159
You don't have to be like super perfect 160 160
but you want it as close to the body as comfortable, 161 161
okay, (laughs) as you want. 162 162
So you just drag or you click on one of these balls 163 163
and drag them to wherever you want them. 164 164
This time I'm not going to do it like super perfect 165 165
I think you get the point. 166 166
But I'll just do a pretty good job of kind of pulling it, 167 167
you just click on these lines anyone one you want 168 168
and just click anywhere on the line. 169 169
Click in the middle, or go like that 170 170
which is not what we want. 171 171
Or, oh, that actually looked pretty good (laughs) 172 172
I usually click closer to the dot and pull it a little bit 173 173
and click here, pull it a little bit. 174 174
You can experiment. 175 175
Pull this up and then pull this one down. 176 176
It's, it's a pretty good tool for accuracy, you know, 177 177
when you wanna get a really close outline of the body. 178 178
Okay, scroll up a little bit. 179 179
Oh, that's not good. 180 180
Move the ball in a little bit (coughs). 181 181
Now make sure you don't touch another tool 182 182
while you're doing this okay 183 183
because if you do then you're gonna lose 184 184
all of your work I have done that many times. 185 185
By accident of course. 186 186
Is it just me or do people say on accident now 187 187
instead of by accident? 188 188
I grew up saying by accident 189 189
and now every single time I watch a YouTube video 190 190
and somebody says accident they say on accident. 191 191
It sounds so weird to me. 192 192
Anyway, maybe I should stop saying by accident. 193 193
Do you think it makes me sound old? 194 194
That's besides the point though. 195 195
Okay, we are going to zoom out again. 196 196
Go to the bottom and zoom out. 197 197
66.7%, whatever percent you want. 198 198
And now I'm gonna go to select, 199 199
Selection from Path, sorry. 200 200
And now we're gonna, actually there are two ways 201 201
to do this but I'm gonna do it this way. 202 202
I like this way the best. 203 203
I'm gonna copy and I'm not even going to do anything else, 204 204
I'm just gonna paste and then I'm gonna go Layer, 205 205
to New Layer and then that's it. 206 206
That is my favorite way to do this. 207 207
There's another way to do it 208 208
but let's do it this way today, okay. 209 209
And here we have a new layer on the right 210 210
you can call it Billy Bob if you want. 211 211
You can call it anything you want. 212 212
We can call it skin, we can call it joke, we, anything okay. 213 213
You can call it Zimbabwe and then whatever, 214 214
or you don't have to call anything at all. 215 215
And then now we can color the background 216 216
which is well either one of these could be the background. 217 217
It could be the white background but I'm actually hoping 218 218
that some of my bricks show through 219 219
so I'm gonna use this one as my background. 220 220
Yeah, I think I'm good to go. 221 221
Sometimes what I do is I increase the size of my character 222 222
by going to Layer, Scale Layer 223 223
and then I just make it a little tiny bit bigger 224 224
just in case I have some room at the bottom here. 225 225
Like let me just show you, zoom in 100%. 226 226
Yeah, I might have some room, yeah at the bottom 227 227
there where it didn't close. 228 228
Anyway, don't worry about it (laughs). 229 229
Sometimes I do do that though I increase the size just a tad 230 230
so that it covers up any error like that 231 231
like any room at the top that's not closed. 232 232
Okay, now I go to Pasted Layer at the bottom, 233 233
not at the bottom in the middle sorry, 234 234
and I choose the Paintbrush Tool 235 235
and I turn the Opacity down. 236 236
And you can play here. 237 237
So, it could be 30, it could be 40, it could be 25. 238 238
I'm gonna go with 44 today see what that looks like. 239 239
And my Paintbrush, Opacity, check. 240 240
The brush can be any brush but I like the hard brushes 241 241
'cause I'm gonna paint the whole thing. 242 242
And the color is all wrong. 243 243
I want, what kind of color did I have? 244 244
I think I had a blue like this. 245 245
I think I had a blue like that. 246 246
Let's see what that looks like. 247 247
Okay, increase the size of my brush, 248 248
you can go as big as you want because it'll just. 249 249
Ahh, it's a little green to me, it's a little green looking. 250 250
I'm gonna change the color. 251 251
Undo on my computer that's Command + Z 252 252
but maybe Chris can help me out in the lower thirds 253 253
if non-Mac users don't understand what I say (laughs). 254 254
All right, I'm gonna put it a little bit more blue, 255 255
little bit more blue. 256 256
Oh, let's try that. 257 257
What does that look like? 258 258
Ahh, that looks really good. 259 259
So, now I'm just going to paint all over this layer okay? 260 260
Not this layer, if you choose this layer 261 261
and paint it's going to paint your boy blue 262 262
you do not want that. 263 263
Oh no you distracted me ladies and gentlemen undo, undo. 264 264
You have to kind of do this all in one go 265 265
because if you stop and then, like I've stopped, 266 266
and then you go again you see how it painted over 267 267
what you painted earlier (sighs). 268 268
Yeah, so you have to go all in one go. 269 269
Don't let go of your clicker, just keep painting away. 270 270
If you make a mistake undo that's what undo is for. 271 271
All right, I'm liking this already. 272 272
We are almost done but I think I might 273 273
have upped the contrast on his face just a little bit. 274 274
So, go to his face, skin joke, we've called him today. 275 275
I don't know why but that was such a weird random title 276 276
and we're gonna go to colors, sorry. 277 277
Colors up top and let's just go, you can try any of these 278 278
and just experiment but we're going to use 279 279
Brightness-Contrast today. 280 280
And we're just going to up the Contrast 281 281
just a tad, not too much. 282 282
Is there a difference there? 283 283
Let's check the preview. 284 284
That's off, that's on. 285 285
You know what it didn't really make that much 286 286
of a difference, we'll keep it as it is. 287 287
And I think we had a little drop shadow on his body. 288 288
So, we're gonna go to, well, make sure 289 289
he is selected first okay. 290 290
Trust me you're gonna screw that up 291 291
once in a while but yeah. 292 292
Then go to Filters, Light and Shadow, Drop Shadow. 293 293
They have suggested that I do for four, four, 15, 60. 294 294
I like to pump this Opacity up to 100. 295 295
Again, this is all just a matter of taste 296 296
you experiment and find out what you like. 297 297
Oh, I guess I'll include (laughs) increase the Blur radius 298 298
a little bit. 299 299
(computer mouse clicking) 300 300
Um, 25 and I'll increase that a little bit and a little bit. 301 301
Let's try that, don't Allow resizing and OK. 302 302
Looks good to me. 303 303
And yeah mine, my shadow this time 304 304
seems a little bigger 'cause I put it to 25. 305 305
Maybe on the previous one I didn't. 306 306
And now I have to add some text and the text says, "Ahhh." 307 307
I don't know what was going on in this video guys. 308 308
I'll just click anywhere and start typing 309 309
and it says, "Ahhh." 310 310
And I know the text that I used was, 311 311
this is embarrassing, why do I always use the same text man? 312 312
Okay, over the course of like years 313 313
I'm still using this same text. 314 314
I think it was Impact and you can get it from here 315 315
or you can get it from here, you can type it in here too. 316 316
And now I have to, just select that sorry, 317 317
and increase the size I don't know what size I chose. 318 318
That's too big. 319 319
What does it look like here? 320 320
Oh, four Hs and they were uppercase, let me fix that. 321 321
And there and I need to make that bigger then. 322 322
Yeah, bigger, even bigger. 323 323
There I'm gonna leave it there 324 324
and then I can pull this up to move the text. 325 325
That looks good, change the color to white 326 326
and then I'm gonna put a drop shadow on it. 327 327
Filters, Light and Shadow, Drop Shadow, 328 328
just like we did with our man. 329 329
I'm just going to keep it all the same 330 330
and we are done with our beautiful thumbnail. 331 331
And you could even do that a little bit more blue, yeah? 332 332
This is very, very, very blue but I think this'll work 333 333
for today so yeah we're choosing this one 334 334
and now all I have to do is export it. 335 335
File, Export As, I'm gonna call it blue man 336 336
and make sure it's a JPEG okay so .png. 337 337
No good for YouTube okay we wanna JPEG okay. 338 338
Maybe I'll just put it on my Desktop. 339 339
Export and I'm gonna save the file for you guys 340 340
and if you guys wanna open this, you wanna change the color 341 341
of the background, you know you can go to that Pasted Layer 342 342
and you can change it you can re-do something, 343 343
add some more color or whatever, up to you. 344 344
File, Save, now I'm going to save the actual editing file 345 345
if I wanna go in and change anything and re-do anything 346 346
I can use this .xcf file. 347 347
Save that on my Desktop too and Save 348 348
and this is our final thumbnail.