(upbeat music) 2 2
Host: All right, now we're gonna put some text 3 3
on our thumbnail image 4 4
and I'm going to recreate this thumbnail image 5 5
that I did quite a while ago. 6 6
And lets try to recreate it here. 7 7
Okay, so now I'm in Gimp 8 8
and I have imported just a screenshot 9 9
of a moment in my video. 10 10
I don't have the original files anymore 11 11
so I just took this from YouTube. 12 12
It's not the exact expression I used last time 13 13
but I like it and it'll do. 14 14
So now that I have that all ready, 15 15
I'm going to go to File 16 16
and then I'm going to select New. 17 17
And I'm going to make this 18 18
12 80 720. 19 19
And then I'm gonna click OK. 20 20
So now I have another project open here 21 21
and it's the exact perfect size for YouTube thumbnails. 22 22
So now I'm going to go back to this screenshot 23 23
and I'm going to... 24 24
I'm going to take this tool here, 25 25
the Paths tool. 26 26
And I'm going to increase this from 33% to lets do 50, 27 27
you can even do a hundred. 28 28
And I'm just gonna cut myself out. 29 29
So we're done here, 30 30
now we are going to click on 31 31
Selection from path. 32 32
And now this is selected and I just copy. 33 33
Command C. 34 34
And I go back to my new project, 35 35
that's for the YouTube thumbnail and I paste it. 36 36
And as you can see, 37 37
I'm a bit large here. 38 38
So I have to resize that. 39 39
So this floated selection is 40 40
still selected so I'm gonna go to Layer, 41 41
Scale Layer and just click on this. 42 42
Okay? 43 43
And just keep pressing down. 44 44
Lets scale that. 45 45
Okay I need to scale that down a lot more. 46 46
So I'll just do it again. 47 47
Lets see how that looks. 48 48
Scale. 49 49
Go back to this move icon over here if you wanna move it. 50 50
My move icon is still selected, 51 51
I'm gonna move her around 52 52
to there 53 53
in the corner. 54 54
And I'm gonna put my text over here. 55 55
She's okay over here, 56 56
now this floating selecting I'm going 57 57
to go up to Layer and select To New Layer. 58 58
There we go, 59 59
so now it's a pasted layer. 60 60
And it's separate from the background. 61 61
So I can turn it on and off 62 62
by clicking on this eye. 63 63
All right, I also wanna change the color 64 64
of the background 'cause I want... 65 65
I want it to pop a little bit more 66 66
so I think I had it florescent green. 67 67
So take the paint tool here 68 68
and choose a very very bright green. 69 69
There, it was something like that. 70 70
Okay. 71 71
And just paint the background. 72 72
Okay. 73 73
(laughing) 74 74
That looks about right. 75 75
Now we're gonna go for the text. 76 76
I can't remember what font I used. 77 77
But lets change the color from green 78 78
to something else for now, okay? 79 79
Because if it's green it won't show up on our background. 80 80
So I'm just gonna click here and... 81 81
Life as an expat. 82 82
How you arrange the words is obviously up to you. 83 83
Maybe I want to 84 84
have it like that. 85 85
'Cause you can play around with this stuff too. 86 86
Okay so I'm gonna go with that for now. 87 87
It's just some nice large text 88 88
and I like it to be clear and easy to read 89 89
which I think this is 90 90
but you could totally change the font here. 91 91
You know? 92 92
There. 93 93
(laughing) 94 94
I don't really like that one 95 95
but you get the idea. 96 96
And we need to make this pop a little bit more 97 97
so I'm going to change the color. 98 98
And I think this was blue. 99 99
So I'll just play around with the blues here 100 100
until I get a blue that I like. 101 101
Make it a deeper blue, okay. 102 102
And now we're gonna have to do something 103 103
to make it pop even more. 104 104
So we're gonna put a drop shadow on it. 105 105
Again, you can put an outline around it 106 106
or a drop shadow, 107 107
something to make it pop a little bit. 108 108
Go to filters here. 109 109
Light and Shadow, 110 110
drop shadow. 111 111
Here it's 20 20, 112 112
blur radius 10. 113 113
Lets just see what-- 114 114
Oh here. 115 115
Split view. 116 116
This is what it's gonna look like. 117 117
Ah all right. 118 118
What happens if I change these? 119 119
You can see the shadow is getting farther away. 120 120
So I want it a little bit closer actually. 121 121
Maybe... 122 122
11? 123 123
What happens when we increase the opacity? 124 124
That's even more clear. 125 125
All right, so you can definitely play around here 126 126
and I'll just click OK. 127 127
And now it's popping a little bit 128 128
and you can make this pop even more. 129 129
You could put a different color of shadow, 130 130
it could be any color you want. 131 131
Now you go to File, 132 132
Export as. 133 133
And save it as a JPEG 134 134
and call it whatever you like. 135 135
I'll call this one Expat. 136 136
Export. 137 137
Export. 138 138
And we're done. 139 139
If you wanna save your editing file 140 140
because you may wanna make changes later, 141 141
if you change your mind about something. 142 142
Then just save it and it'll save as an XCF file. 143 143
Put it where you like. 144 144
All right guys, this is my finished product, 145 145
it's got big bold easy-to-read font 146 146
on the left side of the screen 147 147
and it's very easy-to-read. 148 148
So enjoy guys and play around with the fonts 149 149
and with outlining fonts and with drop shadows. 150 150
Make sure your text pops 151 151
and you could use this technique 152 152
in your YouTube thumbnails.