1 1 00:00:00,027 --> 00:00:02,610 (upbeat music) 2 2 00:00:04,510 --> 00:00:07,520 All right, now we're gonna put some text 3 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:08,770 on our thumbnail image 4 4 00:00:08,770 --> 00:00:12,550 and I'm going to recreate this thumbnail image 5 5 00:00:12,550 --> 00:00:15,310 that I did quite a while ago. 6 6 00:00:15,310 --> 00:00:18,270 And lets try to recreate it here. 7 7 00:00:18,270 --> 00:00:20,730 Okay, so now I'm in Gimp 8 8 00:00:20,730 --> 00:00:25,730 and I have imported just a screenshot 9 9 00:00:26,210 --> 00:00:28,470 of a moment in my video. 10 10 00:00:28,470 --> 00:00:30,280 I don't have the original files anymore 11 11 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,723 so I just took this from YouTube. 12 12 00:00:33,630 --> 00:00:36,900 It's not the exact expression I used last time 13 13 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:39,950 but I like it and it'll do. 14 14 00:00:39,950 --> 00:00:42,870 So now that I have that all ready, 15 15 00:00:42,870 --> 00:00:45,490 I'm going to go to File 16 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,180 and then I'm going to select New. 17 17 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:51,180 And I'm going to make this 18 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,193 12 80 720. 19 19 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,940 And then I'm gonna click OK. 20 20 00:01:00,940 --> 00:01:04,170 So now I have another project open here 21 21 00:01:04,170 --> 00:01:07,580 and it's the exact perfect size for YouTube thumbnails. 22 22 00:01:07,580 --> 00:01:12,580 So now I'm going to go back to this screenshot 23 23 00:01:13,030 --> 00:01:15,280 and I'm going to... 24 24 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,200 I'm going to take this tool here, 25 25 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,600 the Paths tool. 26 26 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,600 And I'm going to increase this from 33% to lets do 50, 27 27 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,120 you can even do a hundred. 28 28 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,923 And I'm just gonna cut myself out. 29 29 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:45,790 So we're done here, 30 30 00:01:45,790 --> 00:01:50,020 now we are going to click on 31 31 00:01:50,020 --> 00:01:52,653 Selection from path. 32 32 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:58,240 And now this is selected and I just copy. 33 33 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:00,573 Command C. 34 34 00:02:02,550 --> 00:02:05,063 And I go back to my new project, 35 35 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,830 that's for the YouTube thumbnail and I paste it. 36 36 00:02:08,830 --> 00:02:10,090 And as you can see, 37 37 00:02:10,090 --> 00:02:11,770 I'm a bit large here. 38 38 00:02:11,770 --> 00:02:14,120 So I have to resize that. 39 39 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,370 So this floated selection is 40 40 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:19,960 still selected so I'm gonna go to Layer, 41 41 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,860 Scale Layer and just click on this. 42 42 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:25,693 Okay? 43 43 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,163 And just keep pressing down. 44 44 00:02:31,220 --> 00:02:32,400 Lets scale that. 45 45 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,520 Okay I need to scale that down a lot more. 46 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,073 So I'll just do it again. 47 47 00:02:40,180 --> 00:02:41,320 Lets see how that looks. 48 48 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,153 Scale. 49 49 00:02:45,210 --> 00:02:48,573 Go back to this move icon over here if you wanna move it. 50 50 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,220 My move icon is still selected, 51 51 00:02:53,220 --> 00:02:54,680 I'm gonna move her around 52 52 00:02:56,070 --> 00:02:58,240 to there 53 53 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,380 in the corner. 54 54 00:02:59,380 --> 00:03:02,840 And I'm gonna put my text over here. 55 55 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,350 She's okay over here, 56 56 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:07,400 now this floating selecting I'm going 57 57 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:12,400 to go up to Layer and select To New Layer. 58 58 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:14,873 There we go, 59 59 00:03:14,873 --> 00:03:17,960 so now it's a pasted layer. 60 60 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,550 And it's separate from the background. 61 61 00:03:20,550 --> 00:03:23,820 So I can turn it on and off 62 62 00:03:23,820 --> 00:03:25,370 by clicking on this eye. 63 63 00:03:25,370 --> 00:03:27,660 All right, I also wanna change the color 64 64 00:03:27,660 --> 00:03:31,050 of the background 'cause I want... 65 65 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:34,350 I want it to pop a little bit more 66 66 00:03:34,350 --> 00:03:38,223 so I think I had it florescent green. 67 67 00:03:39,430 --> 00:03:41,930 So take the paint tool here 68 68 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:45,773 and choose a very very bright green. 69 69 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,593 There, it was something like that. 70 70 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:52,860 Okay. 71 71 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:54,780 And just paint the background. 72 72 00:03:54,780 --> 00:03:55,860 Okay. 73 73 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:56,693 (laughing) 74 74 00:03:56,693 --> 00:03:58,180 That looks about right. 75 75 00:03:58,180 --> 00:04:00,393 Now we're gonna go for the text. 76 76 00:04:02,803 --> 00:04:04,943 I can't remember what font I used. 77 77 00:04:06,410 --> 00:04:10,100 But lets change the color from green 78 78 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:13,100 to something else for now, okay? 79 79 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:16,630 Because if it's green it won't show up on our background. 80 80 00:04:16,630 --> 00:04:19,970 So I'm just gonna click here and... 81 81 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,640 Life as an expat. 82 82 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:36,483 How you arrange the words is obviously up to you. 83 83 00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:40,050 Maybe I want to 84 84 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:42,733 have it like that. 85 85 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:48,220 'Cause you can play around with this stuff too. 86 86 00:04:50,490 --> 00:04:53,700 Okay so I'm gonna go with that for now. 87 87 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:57,210 It's just some nice large text 88 88 00:04:57,210 --> 00:05:00,390 and I like it to be clear and easy to read 89 89 00:05:00,390 --> 00:05:01,460 which I think this is 90 90 00:05:01,460 --> 00:05:04,563 but you could totally change the font here. 91 91 00:05:08,620 --> 00:05:09,453 You know? 92 92 00:05:13,070 --> 00:05:14,166 There. 93 93 00:05:14,166 --> 00:05:14,999 (laughing) 94 94 00:05:14,999 --> 00:05:16,590 I don't really like that one 95 95 00:05:16,590 --> 00:05:18,853 but you get the idea. 96 96 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,290 And we need to make this pop a little bit more 97 97 00:05:24,290 --> 00:05:28,953 so I'm going to change the color. 98 98 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,423 And I think this was blue. 99 99 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,600 So I'll just play around with the blues here 100 100 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,150 until I get a blue that I like. 101 101 00:05:44,446 --> 00:05:45,890 Make it a deeper blue, okay. 102 102 00:05:45,890 --> 00:05:48,720 And now we're gonna have to do something 103 103 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,820 to make it pop even more. 104 104 00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:55,540 So we're gonna put a drop shadow on it. 105 105 00:05:55,540 --> 00:05:58,070 Again, you can put an outline around it 106 106 00:05:58,070 --> 00:06:00,200 or a drop shadow, 107 107 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,583 something to make it pop a little bit. 108 108 00:06:04,598 --> 00:06:05,703 Go to filters here. 109 109 00:06:06,550 --> 00:06:08,210 Light and Shadow, 110 110 00:06:08,210 --> 00:06:09,223 drop shadow. 111 111 00:06:10,530 --> 00:06:13,793 Here it's 20 20, 112 112 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,040 blur radius 10. 113 113 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,750 Lets just see what-- 114 114 00:06:18,750 --> 00:06:19,583 Oh here. 115 115 00:06:19,583 --> 00:06:20,660 Split view. 116 116 00:06:20,660 --> 00:06:22,360 This is what it's gonna look like. 117 117 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,483 Ah all right. 118 118 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:30,923 What happens if I change these? 119 119 00:06:31,950 --> 00:06:36,240 You can see the shadow is getting farther away. 120 120 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,170 So I want it a little bit closer actually. 121 121 00:06:40,170 --> 00:06:41,370 Maybe... 122 122 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,140 11? 123 123 00:06:44,140 --> 00:06:46,773 What happens when we increase the opacity? 124 124 00:06:49,385 --> 00:06:50,535 That's even more clear. 125 125 00:06:52,390 --> 00:06:55,320 All right, so you can definitely play around here 126 126 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,073 and I'll just click OK. 127 127 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,590 And now it's popping a little bit 128 128 00:07:01,590 --> 00:07:03,753 and you can make this pop even more. 129 129 00:07:05,190 --> 00:07:09,080 You could put a different color of shadow, 130 130 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,680 it could be any color you want. 131 131 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,313 Now you go to File, 132 132 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:16,813 Export as. 133 133 00:07:21,660 --> 00:07:24,590 And save it as a JPEG 134 134 00:07:24,590 --> 00:07:26,463 and call it whatever you like. 135 135 00:07:27,620 --> 00:07:29,143 I'll call this one Expat. 136 136 00:07:31,180 --> 00:07:32,263 Export. 137 137 00:07:35,550 --> 00:07:37,410 Export. 138 138 00:07:37,410 --> 00:07:39,460 And we're done. 139 139 00:07:39,460 --> 00:07:41,220 If you wanna save your editing file 140 140 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:44,260 because you may wanna make changes later, 141 141 00:07:44,260 --> 00:07:46,300 if you change your mind about something. 142 142 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:50,990 Then just save it and it'll save as an XCF file. 143 143 00:07:52,890 --> 00:07:54,003 Put it where you like. 144 144 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,210 All right guys, this is my finished product, 145 145 00:07:58,210 --> 00:08:01,280 it's got big bold easy-to-read font 146 146 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,770 on the left side of the screen 147 147 00:08:03,770 --> 00:08:06,500 and it's very easy-to-read. 148 148 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,480 So enjoy guys and play around with the fonts 149 149 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,010 and with outlining fonts and with drop shadows. 150 150 00:08:15,010 --> 00:08:18,380 Make sure your text pops 151 151 00:08:18,380 --> 00:08:20,550 and you could use this technique 152 152 00:08:20,550 --> 00:08:21,923 in your YouTube thumbnails.