1 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,583 (upbeat music) 2 2 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:06,440 Let's talk about how to put arrows 3 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,350 or circles on your PowerPoint-based YouTube thumbnail. 4 4 00:00:10,350 --> 00:00:14,170 So first thing we do is we select both of these boxes 5 5 00:00:14,170 --> 00:00:15,810 if they appear on the version of PowerPoint 6 6 00:00:15,810 --> 00:00:17,870 you're using, then we delete them. 7 7 00:00:17,870 --> 00:00:21,130 Then we're gonna insert an image, and I'm gonna use 8 8 00:00:21,130 --> 00:00:24,093 the image of one of my favorite candies growing up, 9 9 00:00:25,070 --> 00:00:27,724 which is Nerds, which probably explains 10 10 00:00:27,724 --> 00:00:29,883 why I am the way I am today. 11 11 00:00:31,070 --> 00:00:33,490 And another reason why I wanted to include this 12 12 00:00:33,490 --> 00:00:37,100 is also just to remind you that whenever you go shopping 13 13 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:40,990 for groceries or candies, take a look at the packaging. 14 14 00:00:40,990 --> 00:00:43,410 And so this packaging is fascinating here, 15 15 00:00:43,410 --> 00:00:47,995 because they use the opposites on the color wheel 16 16 00:00:47,995 --> 00:00:51,510 process here, so the opposites on the color wheel 17 17 00:00:51,510 --> 00:00:55,140 for green is red, so I'll just keep this 18 18 00:00:55,140 --> 00:00:57,010 over here and we'll insert an arrow. 19 19 00:00:57,010 --> 00:00:59,210 Now there's a couple ways to insert arrows 20 20 00:00:59,210 --> 00:01:00,780 when you're using PowerPoint. 21 21 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:03,000 You can insert an image that's an arrow 22 22 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,780 or actually draw an arrow. 23 23 00:01:04,780 --> 00:01:08,400 So let me, first of all, insert an image. 24 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,110 So I'll select Insert, and as always, 25 25 00:01:11,110 --> 00:01:13,700 all of the images that I discuss 26 26 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:15,740 are attached to the lecture. 27 27 00:01:15,740 --> 00:01:20,260 So let's grab this one here, pointing arrows. 28 28 00:01:20,260 --> 00:01:22,820 And what we'll do is we'll crop this 29 29 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:25,010 so we just have one arrow. 30 30 00:01:25,010 --> 00:01:27,850 So you select Picture Format here, 31 31 00:01:27,850 --> 00:01:30,920 then what you're gonna do is you're gonna select Crop. 32 32 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,710 And you can crop this and then we're done with that. 33 33 00:01:35,710 --> 00:01:37,890 And what you can do if you want 34 34 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:40,720 is you can add a background color, as well. 35 35 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,610 I'll just make it a light shade of green. 36 36 00:01:44,610 --> 00:01:49,200 So we go Insert, and then we're gonna go Shapes, 37 37 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,520 and then again it doesn't matter if it's bigger 38 38 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,296 than the white box because when we export this image 39 39 00:01:54,296 --> 00:01:58,300 into a YouTube thumbnail format, it's only gonna export 40 40 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:00,260 what's inside that white box there. 41 41 00:02:00,260 --> 00:02:02,180 All right so what we'll do, is we'll select 42 42 00:02:02,180 --> 00:02:06,220 a very light color of green here, before I do that 43 43 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:10,840 I want to send this to the back so that I can select 44 44 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,503 a color for this Nerd box here. 45 45 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,373 So for the Shape Fill, I'm gonna select More Fill Color. 46 46 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,713 And I will grab that light shade of green there. 47 47 00:02:25,350 --> 00:02:27,230 Now that looks awful, so what I'm gonna do 48 48 00:02:27,230 --> 00:02:28,990 is I'm gonna change to a darker shade of green 49 49 00:02:28,990 --> 00:02:31,780 just to be somewhat consistent if I can. 50 50 00:02:31,780 --> 00:02:36,780 So I'll select Shape Format again, and Shape Fill, 51 51 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,680 More Colors, and then I will grab a darker shade of green, 52 52 00:02:42,790 --> 00:02:45,160 see if that looks a bit better. 53 53 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:46,540 That looks better, it's not perfect 54 54 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:48,741 I just wanna' kinda show you how it's all done here 55 55 00:02:48,741 --> 00:02:51,250 using PowerPoint so let's get rid 56 56 00:02:51,250 --> 00:02:53,111 of this white background here, we've done this before 57 57 00:02:53,111 --> 00:02:54,850 but I'll show you again really quickly. 58 58 00:02:54,850 --> 00:02:56,423 So we'll go to Picture Format, 59 59 00:02:57,630 --> 00:03:00,120 and then we're gonna select Remove Background 60 60 00:03:02,530 --> 00:03:07,530 and then we're going to mark areas that we want to keep. 61 61 00:03:09,610 --> 00:03:14,610 So this image here is not the highest resolution, 62 62 00:03:15,260 --> 00:03:17,980 but if you get really high resolution images 63 63 00:03:17,980 --> 00:03:20,030 then it's easier to do what I'm try'na show you 64 64 00:03:20,030 --> 00:03:21,670 to do right here. 65 65 00:03:21,670 --> 00:03:24,370 So I'm gonna go into high speed mode to save you time. 66 66 00:03:32,130 --> 00:03:34,920 All right, that looks decent, that looks decent. 67 67 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,020 Not a big fan of this background color here, 68 68 00:03:37,020 --> 00:03:39,100 I'm gonna keep it real and I'm not gonna edit 69 69 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:40,770 this but I'm gonna show you in real time 70 70 00:03:40,770 --> 00:03:43,510 how I'd try to improve this image. 71 71 00:03:43,510 --> 00:03:47,070 So what I can do is make this a bit bigger, 72 72 00:03:47,070 --> 00:03:49,410 then you can actually add a bit of a shadow 73 73 00:03:49,410 --> 00:03:50,850 if you wanted to. 74 74 00:03:50,850 --> 00:03:53,993 So we right click, and we select Format Picture. 75 75 00:03:55,100 --> 00:03:57,347 And we'll make this size 100%, 76 76 00:03:57,347 --> 00:03:58,200 it's not gonna look that great 77 77 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,640 until we play around with it quite a bit. 78 78 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,380 Change the transparency, distance as well 79 79 00:04:04,380 --> 00:04:07,470 we'll make it slight farther away, 80 80 00:04:07,470 --> 00:04:08,830 don't worry I'll change the color 81 81 00:04:08,830 --> 00:04:11,220 and make that look a little bit more gray in a second. 82 82 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:14,883 The angle I'll slightly alter it to there, 83 83 00:04:15,817 --> 00:04:19,640 and then we can play around with the transparency here 84 84 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,000 to make it look a little bit like a better shadow. 85 85 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,760 Still doesn't look that great, to be honest. 86 86 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,803 So what I'll do is maybe I'll change the angle here. 87 87 00:04:29,490 --> 00:04:32,490 All right, that's okay, that's fine, that's fine. 88 88 00:04:32,490 --> 00:04:35,820 But whatever we do, this item here shadows-wise 89 89 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:39,950 we have to also apply to the arrow just to be consistent. 90 90 00:04:39,950 --> 00:04:44,120 Okay, it's tough to get this perfect in PowerPoint. 91 91 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:45,730 That might actually be okay, we could actually 92 92 00:04:45,730 --> 00:04:50,240 even play around if we wanted to with a glow 93 93 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:51,823 on the outside as well. 94 94 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:56,030 And that might actually look better 95 95 00:04:56,030 --> 00:04:57,890 than the shadow, to be honest. 96 96 00:04:57,890 --> 00:05:00,010 Let me see, and I'm gonna change this 97 97 00:05:00,010 --> 00:05:05,010 to maybe a yellow-ish glow, that might look okay. 98 98 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:07,080 Yeah, that's fine. 99 99 00:05:07,970 --> 00:05:10,973 Actually I'm gonna get rid of the shadow entirely. 100 100 00:05:12,190 --> 00:05:14,030 PowerPoint wasn't meant to do this stuff 101 101 00:05:14,030 --> 00:05:15,620 but you can kinda hack away at it 102 102 00:05:15,620 --> 00:05:18,343 and get a decent final product. 103 103 00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:22,900 That's fine, that's fine, okay. 104 104 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,430 All right, that's probably good enough 105 105 00:05:26,430 --> 00:05:30,740 just for this example here, I prefer to use Photoshop 106 106 00:05:30,740 --> 00:05:33,160 for images like this but you can still play around with it 107 107 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,270 and get half decent images if you want to. 108 108 00:05:36,270 --> 00:05:39,110 And then here what you could do is if you wanted to, 109 109 00:05:39,110 --> 00:05:43,610 you can actually add a similar outline if you wanted to 110 110 00:05:43,610 --> 00:05:46,972 but what I'll do actually is let my just put this down here 111 111 00:05:46,972 --> 00:05:49,300 I'm gonna show you how to insert an arrow 112 112 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:50,700 instead of just using an image. 113 113 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:55,700 So let's go here to Shapes, and then you can get 114 114 00:05:56,230 --> 00:06:01,230 this arrow here, and then you can play around with this 115 115 00:06:02,670 --> 00:06:05,680 as well if you wanted to change the colors. 116 116 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,070 So let's select here Shape Fill 117 117 00:06:09,070 --> 00:06:12,270 and let's just grab red from over here 118 118 00:06:12,270 --> 00:06:14,123 just to be somewhat consistent. 119 119 00:06:17,150 --> 00:06:18,050 Okay, that's fine. 120 120 00:06:18,050 --> 00:06:20,990 Doesn't look beautiful but we're gonna play around with this 121 121 00:06:20,990 --> 00:06:23,650 as well by going over here 122 122 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:29,557 to Shape Options, 3D format 123 123 00:06:32,860 --> 00:06:35,700 and we'll select Top Bevel here, 124 124 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:36,950 looks a little bit nicer. 125 125 00:06:37,810 --> 00:06:42,810 Let's try this one here, looks good, looks good. 126 126 00:06:43,041 --> 00:06:47,030 And you can play around with it for hours. 127 127 00:06:47,030 --> 00:06:48,930 PowerPoint is pretty powerful, 128 128 00:06:48,930 --> 00:06:51,210 it's a lot of fun to use, as well. 129 129 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:53,240 And if you wanted to, again, you could put a shadow 130 130 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,560 on this one or an outline like this here. 131 131 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,020 I actually like this image down here better 132 132 00:06:58,020 --> 00:07:00,170 so I'm gonna delete this, I just wanted to show you 133 133 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:01,770 how to insert an arrow that way. 134 134 00:07:05,554 --> 00:07:07,820 I think that looks good, 135 135 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:10,070 that looks good enough just for this example. 136 136 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,010 Yeah, okay great. 137 137 00:07:13,010 --> 00:07:17,570 So the next step is we're actually going to export this 138 138 00:07:19,890 --> 00:07:22,490 and we're gonna export it as, we'll call it 139 139 00:07:22,490 --> 00:07:25,920 Arrows and Circles JPG, and make sure 140 140 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,833 I select JPG down here, okay. 141 141 00:07:30,830 --> 00:07:33,473 And we're going to save it, 142 142 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:39,530 click Okay, and I'm gonna go make sure 143 143 00:07:39,530 --> 00:07:44,030 that the file size is less than two megabytes 144 144 00:07:44,030 --> 00:07:45,580 so we can upload it to YouTube. 145 145 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,610 Way under two megabytes, we're good to go. 146 146 00:07:55,610 --> 00:07:58,350 Okay, great so as always, I'll attach all the files 147 147 00:07:58,350 --> 00:08:01,710 I discuss to the lecture, meaning this lecture here, 148 148 00:08:01,710 --> 00:08:02,870 and if you have additional questions 149 149 00:08:02,870 --> 00:08:04,570 please let me know, and thank you!