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Instructor: Let's talk about how to insert arrows. 3 3
It's pretty simplistic, and there's many ways to do this, 4 4
but what you can do is, go down here, 5 5
and it might look like this rectangle, ellipse, 6 6
whatever, the image here is based on how you used it last. 7 7
So what you can do is go to Custom Shape. 8 8
I'm gonna show you a couple ways to do this. 9 9
And then you can just draw this, and that's the arrow, 10 10
and of course you can change the color 11 11
by selecting here if you want to. 12 12
Now, just to keep it fun, what I'm gonna do 13 13
is I'm gonna grab this image here of my favorite candy. 14 14
I am a nerd, I get it. 15 15
And I'm gonna paste that in here, 16 16
and just 'cause it's fun to look at 17 17
'cause it uses the color wheel nicely, 18 18
which we talked about earlier. 19 19
And so, here you have green and red on the same image. 20 20
Let's say that we wanted to point to the color green 21 21
and kinda emphasize that. 22 22
So what we can do is, 23 23
let me just send this to the back here, 'kay, 24 24
and I'm gonna rename this here, arrows, 25 25
just so we know what it is, our arrow. 26 26
And I'll call this, actually, nerds. 27 27
Okay, drag that up there. 28 28
It's on top, it's fine, okay, good. 29 29
And then what you can do is, 30 30
if you wanted to you can even, 31 31
and we've talked about this before, 32 32
get rid of the color around this. 33 33
You can't really tell there's a color there 34 34
but it's actually white. 35 35
So if I were to change this background here 36 36
to a different color, all right, 37 37
so we'll grab that kinda different shade of green. 38 38
And then if we go over here to the paint brush, 39 39
and then we can just paint that in the background there. 40 40
But you see here, and that color's awful, 41 41
we'll change it in a second, but you see here 42 42
how there's still white around the side of that? 43 43
And we know from earlier in the course, 44 44
we talked about you select the layer, 45 45
and then you can come up here 46 46
and just select what you want to remove. 47 47
Okay, cut. 48 48
Whoops, that works, it's fine. 49 49
And those little lines we'll get rid of in a second. 50 50
Many ways to do things in Photoshop always. 51 51
All right, that's good enough, yeah. 52 52
And then we can just come over here and grab the eraser 53 53
and then just erase any imperfections if we want to. 54 54
And you don't have to be absolutely perfect 55 55
because, I mean, these are gonna be shown on a mobile phone 56 56
or smaller form factor screens, 57 57
and not a big bulletin board outside. 58 58
Okay, great, so that's how you do an arrow, 59 59
and what I'll do actually is I'll make the color 60 60
of the arrow the same color red here just to be consistent. 61 61
So let me just select it here, okay, good. 62 62
And I can also hit Command or Control + T 63 63
after I've selected it. 64 64
And then I'm gonna show you a different way 65 65
to change colors now. 66 66
Double click here. 67 67
There we go, good. 68 68
And then you can select Color Overlay. 69 69
And we will select the color. 70 70
Right now, kind of a gray shade is selected, 71 71
but we'll select our own color here. 72 72
And we'll click, get that out of the way, 73 73
this red here, just to keep it somewhat consistent. 74 74
There you go, okay. 75 75
And you can also add drop shadows, 76 76
which we've talked about before. 77 77
I'll just leave the default one on there. 78 78
You can also, if you wanted to, add a slight stroke to it, 79 79
meaning another line on the outside, right? 80 80
I always like to have outside selected, not inside. 81 81
And the color, we can change that if we wanted to, 82 82
to maybe it's a darker shade of green. 83 83
There we go, it's a little bit consistent, that's fine. 84 84
Play around, but have fun with it if you want to. 85 85
And what I wanna do quickly is 86 86
I'm gonna show you how to grab an image from the web 87 87
and put it in here for an arrow. 88 88
Before I do that though, 89 89
let me just kinda change this background a little bit here. 90 90
I'll just change the color, 91 91
make it a little bit lighter. 92 92
Yeah, I like that better. 93 93
And then we're gonna go and select our paint brush here. 94 94
And paint, there we go. 95 95
That's fine, whatever, it's just an example. 96 96
And let's go to the web now, and let's go and grab an arrow. 97 97
And so I subscribe to this service here called, Storyblocks. 98 98
And so I'll just select arrow. 99 99
And let's just select this one here, I'll download it. 100 100
And we'll use just one of these arrows, not both of them. 101 101
And it's asking what format do you want? 102 102
EPS is a vector graphic, meaning if you want to separate 103 103
different parts of the image using Adobe Illustrator. 104 104
JPG is just the image as is, including the white background. 105 105
And PNG is transparent, meaning there's no white background. 106 106
So let's select PNG. 107 107
Download, open this up here. 108 108
See how there's no white background here. 109 109
And I'll come over here, and I will paste. 110 110
There it is. 111 111
I will select the item here, hit Control or Command + T. 112 112
And I'll make it smaller. 113 113
And I will crop out the blue part of it as well, 114 114
which is pretty easy to do, I'll show ya. 115 115
And of course, the Nerds box is on top of this 116 116
because nerds is a higher level up here, 117 117
if we wanted to, you can drag it behind for fun. 118 118
And then, let's go back here 119 119
and let's just get rid of the blue arrow. 120 120
Select this, there, Control, cut, and we're done. 121 121
As always, all files are attached 122 122
to this lecture you're currently watching, 123 123
including the PSD or Photoshop document. 124 124
One more thing we have to do though is we have to export 125 125
this document into a format 126 126
that's small enough to work with YouTube. 127 127
So we'll select Export, Export As, 128 128
and you'll notice the image size 129 129
will be a bit bigger this time 130 130
because we have two images here. 131 131
We'll do it in JPG format, 132 132
and we just have to stay under two megabytes 133 133
for the YouTube threshold. 134 134
And then we can export this, and I'll export it 135 135
and I'll call it Arrow Strategy JPG. 136 136
If you have additional questions, 137 137
please let me know, and thank you.