(energetic guitar music) 2 2
-: Let's use power point to create text on images 3 3
and also do advance manipulation 4 4
of images on the thumbnail here. 5 5
So what we're gonna do is, 6 6
we're gonna insert a couple of images. 7 7
And the images are gonna be a picture of me 8 8
and then we're gonna also insert 9 9
a person interviewing. 10 10
And we're gonna call this thumbnail 11 11
Three Amazing Interview Tips. 12 12
Okay and so as always I'll include all the images, 13 13
so you can just download them 14 14
and use them if you want to. 15 15
So let me just insert the pictures, 16 16
and we'll grab it from file. 17 17
And we'll put myself in first. 18 18
That's me with my Joshua Tree T-shirt. 19 19
(chuckles) 20 20
And then what we'll do is 21 21
we'll insert the dude interviewing. 22 22
Okay, great! 23 23
And what I want to do is I'm gonna flip them around 24 24
so that I have these three chairs on this side here. 25 25
So the way to do that is, you select the item, 26 26
and then what you can do is you can just go here 27 27
and you can, say, flip horizontal or flip vertical. 28 28
Okay, good. 29 29
All right. 30 30
And this one's gonna be a little bit complicated, 31 31
and we'll see if we can get this done in PowerPoint. 32 32
It's easier to do this in Photoshop. 33 33
You can watch the Photoshop lecture 34 34
in this course to see how I did this in Photoshop, 35 35
but we're gonna challenge ourselves here. 36 36
So let's insert the text and the text 37 37
for this thumbnail will be 38 38
Three Amazing Interview Tips. 39 39
So we'll go here to insert 40 40
and then we'll select text box, 41 41
and I'll just go here. 42 42
Three, all caps, 43 43
amazing interview tips. 44 44
Okay, and I think we'll leave it left justified. 45 45
And we'll select all. 46 46
We'll go back home here, 47 47
and we'll select Helvetica 48 48
which is my favorite font. 49 49
I think it was Steve Jobs' favorite font too. 50 50
All right, and then we go down here 51 51
to 96 to see if that's good enough size. 52 52
It's good, it works! 53 53
Okay. 54 54
And I can make that bold 55 55
and we can also play around with this image. 56 56
I think I want to make it a white one 57 57
with red outline. 58 58
Okay, so I'll go here to white, 59 59
you won't be able to see it that well 60 60
for a second, all right. 61 61
And then what we can do is, 62 62
we can then go and put an outline 63 63
around that. 64 64
So if you can't see it up here in the menu, 65 65
you can always right click, 66 66
and then you can go to format shape. 67 67
Okay. 68 68
And we'll go to text options, 69 69
and then text outline, solid line. 70 70
And the color I wanna use is red. 71 71
Sense of urgency. 72 72
We can make the width a lot more. 73 73
Good. 74 74
A lot more. 75 75
And we can even try adding a bit 76 76
of a shadow. 77 77
Let's see if that works. 78 78
Shadow. 79 79
And we'll make the color of the shadow, 80 80
actually we'll just select it right here automatically. 81 81
The color should be a black. 82 82
Okay, good. 83 83
Great. 84 84
And you can even make the size of it 85 85
a lot bigger if you wanted to. 86 86
Very tough to get it perfect. 87 87
That's fine, we'll leave it like that for now. 88 88
Okay, great. 89 89
And what I wanna do, actually, 90 90
is I wanna add a bit of a glow as well. 91 91
Just to, so we can get more of a 3-D pop 92 92
out of this. 93 93
So let me see if I can go to automatic presets here 94 94
and let's see, we can do green, 95 95
'cause I know that red and green are opposites 96 96
on the color wheel. 97 97
That's fine, it's not perfect. 98 98
It's the best we can do probably for PowerPoint. 99 99
Okay. 100 100
Let's go back here now 101 101
and let's just assume we're done 102 102
with the font for now. 103 103
So what we're gonna do is, 104 104
we're actually going to... 105 105
I'm going to bring this to the front. 106 106
Okay. 107 107
I like that overlap there. 108 108
I'm gonna make this guy a bit bigger 109 109
because I wanna crop out his head. 110 110
Not me, this guy here. 111 111
I wanna crop out his head and just make him 112 112
a little bit more pronounced. 113 113
And I wanna get rid of that ugly floor color. 114 114
Okay. 115 115
And you're not even gonna see what's 116 116
below this rectangle here, this white rectangle. 117 117
And so, just to make it a little bit more simplistic 118 118
for us, from a visual perspective, 119 119
I'll crop out what we're not gonna see anyway 120 120
when we render the image. 121 121
Or save the image, I should say. 122 122
Okay, good. 123 123
Yeah, good. 124 124
Okay great! 125 125
Now I wanna make the entire background color this. 126 126
I wanna get rid of that and that, 127 127
just to be consistent. 128 128
So what I'll do is, 129 129
I'm gonna go here to this guy, 130 130
and I'm gonna crop out this color, okay, 131 131
right to there. 132 132
Okay. 133 133
And then what I'm gonna do is, 134 134
I'm gonna actually add a background layer 135 135
behind all this, and I'm gonna make it this shade here. 136 136
So let's go to insert, shapes, box. 137 137
And it doesn't matter where I put it 138 138
as long it's behind both of us, 139 139
both these images here. 140 140
And what I'll do is, 141 141
I'll say I don't want an outline. 142 142
Try that again, no outline. 143 143
Good, okay. 144 144
And the shape fill, I wanna just pick it from here. 145 145
And let's grab this color here, okay? 146 146
And let's see if that bleeds properly. 147 147
Eh, it's not perfect actually. 148 148
Let me try that again. 149 149
This time we'll try picking a color 150 150
that's right beside here. 151 151
Right there, okay. 152 152
Still not perfect. 153 153
All right. 154 154
Control + Z. 155 155
Let me try this color right here. 156 156
Shape fill. 157 157
That's good! 158 158
Okay great. 159 159
Excellent. 160 160
Now I'm gonna right-click on this 161 161
and I'm going to send it to the back. 162 162
Great! 163 163
It works out great. 164 164
Okay cool. 165 165
Make this smaller just so I don't confuse myself. 166 166
That's fine. 167 167
Okay, yeah yeah yeah. 168 168
It's okay. 169 169
And we're not gonna see the outline here anyway 170 170
when we create the image, but just for simplicity 171 171
I wanna drag that over there. 172 172
Okay good! 173 173
All right, we're done with the background. 174 174
Now what I wanna do is, 175 175
I actually wanna make this guy a lot bigger, 176 176
just so I can have his head pop on top. 177 177
Oops! 178 178
Not me. 179 179
(laughs) 180 180
Yeah, this guy here. 181 181
Yeah, it might look kind of nice 182 182
if I can actually get his head 183 183
to pop up there, on top of the word interview. 184 184
And I'll make this a bit bigger. 185 185
All right, and I've gotta change the color again, 186 186
I'm so sorry about this! 187 187
I just wanna make it perfect. 188 188
Shape fill. 189 189
More fill colors. 190 190
Right there. 191 191
Good! 192 192
Okay great. 193 193
And what I'm gonna do is, 194 194
I can actually go over here and crop this, 195 195
just a bit, 196 196
so we know what we're playing with here. 197 197
Okay, good! 198 198
And, and this side here won't appear anyway, 199 199
but I'll crop it anyway 200 200
just so I personally don't get confused. 201 201
So I go over here, drag it over here, 202 202
right to the edge. 203 203
Okay good. 204 204
And I will actually grab this font, 205 205
hello font, please be grabbed! 206 206
Try it again. 207 207
And I'm gonna grab this just over here. 208 208
Okay good! 209 209
Now what we're gonna try to do 210 210
is we're actually going to, um, 211 211
now what we're gonna try to do is, 212 212
we're gonna try to see if we can bring 213 213
this guy's head on top. 214 214
And this is a little bit tricky but 215 215
we're gonna figure out a way to do this. 216 216
So I'm gonna make two versions of this image, okay? 217 217
Copy, paste. 218 218
Okay good. 219 219
And I wanna make sure that they're perfectly laid 220 220
on top of each other. 221 221
And the way to do that is, 222 222
you can actually go and change the opacity, 223 223
or as Microsoft calls it here, transparency. 224 224
Let's make sure it's directly on top. 225 225
Use the arrows. 226 226
Good. 227 227
Okay great. 228 228
And we'll put the transparency back 229 229
to full transparency. 230 230
Then I'm going to crop this. 231 231
And this is gonna be tricky, 232 232
but I'm gonna try and crop to shape. 233 233
And his head looks roundish, so I'll crop it 234 234
to his head, okay? 235 235
The we'll select crop again, 236 236
and we'll change the size of this. 237 237
Won't be absolutely perfect, this is PowerPoint, 238 238
but I think we'll get a good enough result 239 239
we'll be happy with it. 240 240
Let's see if that works. 241 241
Okay, not bad, not bad! 242 242
It's not perfect but it's actually pretty good. 243 243
Pretty good! 244 244
And you can even zoom in much, much more. 245 245
And what we can do is, 246 246
you see those white areas? 247 247
What we can do is we can actually remove 248 248
the background. 249 249
So I'll select remove background. 250 250
And PowerPoint can be a bit of a memory hog sometimes. 251 251
And I will mark areas to remove, after that wheel 252 252
is done wheeling. 253 253
Okay. 254 254
And I'll go into (chuckles), 255 255
I'll go into high-speed mode so I don't waste your time. 256 256
All right, that looks good enough. 257 257
I got a little bit of a Vincent van Gogh effect 258 258
there on the ear, unfortunately. 259 259
All right. 260 260
It's not perfect, but it's good enough for PowerPoint. 261 261
And you can play around with what I just showed you, 262 262
in high-speed mode there, for hours 263 263
until you get it right. 264 264
But just for the sake of simplicity 265 265
in the example here, I think we understand 266 266
the process. 267 267
Okay, that actually looks decent. 268 268
It looks decent. 269 269
And if we wanted to, we could actually even work 270 270
on the font a little bit, 271 271
just to make it a little bit more pronounced. 272 272
Or we can actually even increase the size 273 273
if we want to. 274 274
So let me first of all go like this 275 275
and then I'll increase the font size 276 276
in a second. 277 277
And let's go here. 278 278
(laughs) 279 279
All right. 280 280
I don't like the way his head looks there, 281 281
so I'll make it just a touch smaller. 282 282
So maybe let's try 110. 283 283
That's fine. 284 284
Okay you get the 3-D pop there anyway, 285 285
which is kind of nice. 286 286
And then we know that this little part here 287 287
is not gonna show up when we export, anyway. 288 288
So the final product will look something like this. 289 289
Now we've got a couple of images in here 290 290
so the size of the file might be slightly bigger, 291 291
but that's okay. 292 292
Okay. 293 293
So let me just click save. 294 294
And now we're gonna export. 295 295
So we go up here, file. 296 296
Export. 297 297
And we'll call it Text On Images, JPG. 298 298
Okay, j-peg. 299 299
And I do this because (mumbles) 300 300
you'll download these files and you won't be able 301 301
to see the extension, but I want you to know 302 302
that it's actually a j-peg. 303 303
And let's select export. 304 304
And after we export it, we're gonna go back 305 305
and check to see if the size of this image here 306 306
is less than two megs, 307 307
which is what we need to upload to YouTubes. 308 308
So let me go over to here, 309 309
text on images. 310 310
The size is 200 kilo -- 311 311
Oh we're laughing, we're fine. 312 312
And we could've made it bigger, even, 313 313
if we wanted to. 314 314
Okay, there we go! 315 315
That's great! 316 316
So, and I could've moved this over slightly as well 317 317
so I have a little more space in this side, 318 318
but I just want to show you how do this. 319 319
If you have additional questions about this 320 320
please let me know. 321 321
And as always, all these images are attached 322 322
to this current lecture. 323 323
Thanks.