(Electronic guitars strumming) 2 2
-: Hello everyone! 3 3
Were back again, 4 4
to do another thumbnail tutorial 5 5
using Gimp, 6 6
which is my favorite free software 7 7
for editing images, 8 8
because we have a whole bunch of tools 9 9
and we can create pretty much anything without restriction. 10 10
So! 11 11
Were gonna make an arrow in our thumbnail, 12 12
and I have a little confession to make, 13 13
were gonna recreate this 14 14
thumbnail that I did 15 15
a while ago and 16 16
it did well for my channel, 17 17
but my confession is 18 18
that I did not make this in Photoshop, or Gimp. 19 19
(Laughs) 20 20
This was just an image that I screen shotted from my video, 21 21
this was something that was actually in my video. 22 22
And I thought hey, 23 23
if I can save time, 24 24
I will save time. 25 25
And ill just screen shot it and, thumbnail done. 26 26
But lets say, 27 27
you didn't have something this fabulous in your video, 28 28
and you need to make your own arrow in post production, 29 29
not post production, 30 30
in your software editing program, 31 31
and that's what this course is about. 32 32
You know, I'm gonna teach you how to do this in Gimp, okay! 33 33
So, I'm gonna close this, 34 34
and I went 35 35
into YouTube and I found 36 36
this shot here. 37 37
I'm gonna open this in Gimp, 38 38
I click twice with my fingers, 39 39
like a little crab, or a vampire (Hisses) 40 40
Open with Gimp. 41 41
And 42 42
it looks like 43 43
this. 44 44
This was like one second before 45 45
the red arrow popped up in my video. 46 46
I know you're like; 47 47
"Why do you have leggings in your video thumbnail?" 48 48
Well in Indonesia where I live, 49 49
and most of my subscribers are Indonesian, 50 50
they usually just call them legging, or lejing. 51 51
(laughs) 52 52
So, I'm teaching everybody that there's an S at the end, 53 53
that's why I need that red arrow! 54 54
That's unimportant. 55 55
So I got this. 56 56
It might not be the right size for me, 57 57
So I'm gonna resize this. 58 58
You could do it a number of ways, okay? 59 59
Let me just, 60 60
let my just create a new, a new 61 61
file. 62 62
Okay file, new, template, YouTube thumbnail. 63 63
That's 1280, 720, okay? 64 64
If you don't have a template already made, go make one. 65 65
Its pretty easy, 66 66
I think you just go to file, create template. 67 67
(Laughs) 68 68
But I already have mine done. 69 69
And if you don't, just type in 1280, 720, okay! 70 70
And now I have a file here, 71 71
its just a white background, 72 72
and its exactly the size I want it. 73 73
It doesn't have to be 1280 720 74 74
it just has to be 16 by 9. 75 75
And this is 16 by 9, after the fact. 76 76
So I'm gonna now go to my legging, 77 77
my leggings girl. 78 78
And I'm gonna copy her, 79 79
and I'm going to go to my new white background file 80 80
and I'm going to paste her. 81 81
On my computer that's command C for copy 82 82
and command V for paste. 83 83
On a Mac it might be a bit different. 84 84
And I'm just going to 85 85
pull this out a little bit, 86 86
click and drag, and let go. 87 87
Just to have a little bit more room here, okay. 88 88
And you can see on the 89 89
layers, brushes, tab thing, 90 90
it says floating selection. 91 91
I have to go to Layer up here and to new layer, 92 92
'cause I do not like a floating selection. 93 93
And now I've got her here but its all zoomed in, okay. 94 94
Because my screenshot was a little bit bigger than 1280 720. 95 95
So, later girl, okay. 96 96
So, I'm going to have to, 97 97
Layer, 98 98
up here, scale Layer. 99 99
And I just click on these little arrows, 100 100
to go up to make it bigger 101 101
and to go down to make it smaller. 102 102
And, 103 103
lets see. 104 104
I'm gonna make it, 105 105
I don't know. 106 106
The width, I think, 107 107
'cause its supposed to be 1280 right, 108 108
but I'm gonna go a little bit bigger than that, 109 109
maybe like 12, 110 110
12 111 111
1295, 112 112
okay! 113 113
Just so I have a little tiny bit of wiggle room. 114 114
Scale. 115 115
And, 116 116
that looks good. 117 117
Actually, I'm gonna zoom 118 118
you can zoom in here at the bottom. 119 119
Now its 66%, 120 120
I can go to 100% 121 121
You can kinda scroll up or down 122 122
to see if there's anything like extra. 123 123
Like I anything is showing up like 124 124
when you do your screenshot 125 125
sometimes you go a little bit over 126 126
and some of your desktop sows up in your picture, 127 127
so check that. 128 128
It looks okay, 129 129
to me. 130 130
Yeah I think it looks okay to me. 131 131
I'm gonna go back down 132 132
to 66% 133 133
if it still doesn't look okay 134 134
and there's something else showing up in the corners there, 135 135
Then you could go to layer, scale layer 136 136
and make it just a little tiny bit bigger. 137 137
Scale 138 138
and 139 139
go to the move tool 140 140
and then you can kind of adjust it, right or left. 141 141
Okay. 142 142
Just to make sure there's nothing going on 143 143
that's a little bit funky 144 144
up here or on the sides or down here, okay. 145 145
And your file is still gonna be the same size, 146 146
its gonna be, you can see up here 1280 720 okay, 147 147
so you're gonna be real good. 148 148
Now, I just need to add a little arrow, 149 149
and its gonna super simple guys, 150 150
this I gonna be the easiest tutorial that we do. 151 151
Go the the 152 152
tool here, 153 153
paths tool on the left. 154 154
And were gonna go, 155 155
you can do this on a new layer 156 156
if you want to have more options later on, 157 157
like if you make a mistake. 158 158
Its nice to do things on a new layer, 159 159
and it will just give you whatever size you already had. 160 160
So its still the same size. 161 161
You could do your arrow right here, 162 162
on your pasted layer. 163 163
That would be fine too. 164 164
But, you could do it on a new layer as well, 165 165
its a little bit safer, 166 166
and if you made a mistake you don't have to undo, 167 167
you can just erase this layer later on. 168 168
We're gonna do it on new layer though, 169 169
and I'm gonna go to my paths tool. 170 170
I have this new layer selected, 171 171
and I'm gonna click away here, 172 172
to make an arrow. 173 173
And there is my arrow. 174 174
Actually, 175 175
you wanna close the circuit okay. 176 176
You wanna click 177 177
and a little ball will drop, 178 178
and you just keep clicking away, making 179 179
a random arrow, 180 180
and now that 181 181
we have that all done, 182 182
you can move these little balls 183 183
just by clicking on them and pulling them, 184 184
and they will move to wherever you wan them to go. 185 185
My reference here, 186 186
where was my reference? 187 187
Sorry, this file is no longer needed, 188 188
we have it in our new file, 189 189
so just get rid of that. 190 190
Okay, this was the 191 191
This was the reference, 192 192
so yeah I had quite a big, 193 193
quite a big arrow here. 194 194
All right. 195 195
So I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger. 196 196
Pull, 197 197
pull these balls, 198 198
out a little bit. 199 199
I'm gonna pull that out a little bit. 200 200
Pull this on out a little bit. 201 201
What do you think guys? 202 202
Do you like my 203 203
Do you like my new arrow? 204 204
Its a matter of taste really. 205 205
Uh oh! 206 206
Undo. 207 207
You can curve the lines here guys, 208 208
like if you pull on the lines, 209 209
like click anywhere on this line, 210 210
like just click and drag it, 211 211
you can get some curvature here. 212 212
There. 213 213
I don't want a curved arrow today, 214 214
so I'm gonna undo and undo! 215 215
I just want something like this today! 216 216
And, 217 217
Okay! 218 218
Uh oh. 219 219
They're going. 220 220
And, just get this to overlap this one as best you can. 221 221
There. 222 222
Okay. 223 223
So, 224 224
I like my arrow, 225 225
I'm done with my arrow. 226 226
And now 227 227
I'm going to 228 228
select path. 229 229
There. 230 230
And I'm gonna take my paint brush tool, 231 231
ad I'm going to choose the color that I want. 232 232
I'm gonna choose this red color here. 233 233
Paintbrush, I'm gonna change my brush 234 234
to a brush that's not feathered. 235 235
You know that's kind of ghosty looking 236 236
and I want something solid. 237 237
Increase the size a little bit 238 238
so I can paint more efficiently, 239 239
and 240 240
start painting. 241 241
And there is our arrow! 242 242
Super easy. 243 243
And if you wanna have 244 244
a little bit of an outline on your arrow, 245 245
what you can do is select, 246 246
again there are more than one ways to do this, 247 247
but 248 248
select and grow. 249 249
And grow it by, 250 250
I don't know 251 251
4, 6, 8! 252 252
10, I don't know. 253 253
Grow it by, 254 254
7! 255 255
Okay. 256 256
An now you can see the outline has gotten a lot bigger. 257 257
So what I can do now, is layer. 258 258
New layer. 259 259
Okay. 260 260
And I'm gonna take this new layer, 261 261
and put it below the layer with my arrow, 262 262
an I'm gonna take a new color, 263 263
which I a little bit darker. 264 264
You can chose any one of these colors, 265 265
just touch on it, 266 266
and it'll select it. 267 267
So I'm just gonna select a slightly darker red. 268 268
Okay! 269 269
And now I can paint right on here, 270 270
and it will not cover up my red arrow, 271 271
it'll paint a little bit below it. 272 272
There. 273 273
And now were done! 274 274
And that, to me looks just fine! 275 275
And that's how you can make any kinda arrow you want. 276 276
You don't need somebody else's arrow guys, 277 277
you can make your own arrow, 278 278
I bet you guys make delicious arrows! 279 279
Okay. 280 280
Now I'm goin to export as. 281 281
Its gotta be 282 282
JPG. 283 283
Okay, not PNG. 284 284
And you can call it 285 285
arrow something. 286 286
Call it whatever you want guys. 287 287
And I'm gonna save it on my desktop. 288 288
And, I'm gonna save the file for you guys 289 289
just in case you wanna have a look, 290 290
later. 291 291
If you wanna save the file you just go to save. 292 292
And type in whatever you want to call it 293 293
and it will wave it as an XCF. 294 294
Put that on my desktop. 295 295
If its not on my desktop, ill lose it guys. 296 296
(Laughs) 297 297
All right now I can quit Gimp. 298 298
And, 299 299
that was our reference. 300 300
And this is our recreated thumbnail. 301 301
I like this one even better. 302 302
I like our new arrow better. 303 303
What do you think guys? 304 304
I think you'll be ale to use this, 305 305
you can make arrows, 306 306
or maybe you want to put a circle around 307 307
a thing you want to draw attention to. 308 308
But whatever it is its very easy, 309 309
and I'm sure that you guys can do this. 310 310
Good luck!