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