1 1 00:00:00,186 --> 00:00:03,019 (energetic music) 2 2 00:00:05,230 --> 00:00:06,570 In this lecture, I'll show you how I 3 3 00:00:06,570 --> 00:00:08,700 add celebrities or well known brands 4 4 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:12,120 so to speak, to Photoshop. 5 5 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:15,250 And before I show you, I wanna show you my original strategy 6 6 00:00:15,250 --> 00:00:16,083 for vlogging. 7 7 00:00:16,083 --> 00:00:19,000 And so this is just some of my daily vlog highlights, 8 8 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,695 but what I used to have was an intro, 9 9 00:00:21,695 --> 00:00:22,630 (upbeat music) 10 10 00:00:22,630 --> 00:00:24,290 and an outro, you can hear the music 11 11 00:00:24,290 --> 00:00:26,220 in the background there. 12 12 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:27,371 And so the format. 13 13 00:00:27,371 --> 00:00:28,260 (laughs) 14 14 00:00:28,260 --> 00:00:33,260 The format I used was for a lot of the initial vlogs I had. 15 15 00:00:34,350 --> 00:00:36,570 I used this intro and outro. 16 16 00:00:36,570 --> 00:00:38,020 Okay, see Oscar the Grouch there. 17 17 00:00:38,020 --> 00:00:39,900 So, I'll show you how I created this. 18 18 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:41,100 I don't use this format anymore. 19 19 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:41,933 You'll find 20 20 00:00:41,933 --> 00:00:44,940 that your YouTube thumbnail image strategy changes 21 21 00:00:44,940 --> 00:00:45,930 every now and then as well. 22 22 00:00:45,930 --> 00:00:47,410 You tend to adapt with what works 23 23 00:00:47,410 --> 00:00:48,640 and what doesn't as well. 24 24 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,500 So let me show you how to create this type 25 25 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:51,900 of thumbnail right here. 26 26 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:53,500 It's pretty simplistic. 27 27 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:56,270 But what I'll do instead is, instead 28 28 00:00:56,270 --> 00:00:57,500 of just showing you how to put Oscar 29 29 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:59,360 in there, I'll show you my old template. 30 30 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,480 It might give you a couple of ideas 31 31 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,180 in terms of what you can do next, if you wanted 32 32 00:01:03,180 --> 00:01:05,130 to create your own branding. 33 33 00:01:05,130 --> 00:01:08,050 So, 1280, 720 as always. 34 34 00:01:08,050 --> 00:01:09,240 Okay. 35 35 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,320 Those are the YouTube metrics. 36 36 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:13,220 And then what I'll do is, I'm gonna throw 37 37 00:01:13,220 --> 00:01:14,930 in here my old template. 38 38 00:01:14,930 --> 00:01:16,350 So what I'll do is I'll just grab 39 39 00:01:16,350 --> 00:01:20,490 an image of it, which is right here. 40 40 00:01:20,490 --> 00:01:21,323 Chris template. 41 41 00:01:21,323 --> 00:01:22,156 Yeah this is it here. 42 42 00:01:22,156 --> 00:01:22,989 Okay good. 43 43 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:25,460 Okay. 44 44 00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:27,423 This is the old template I used to use. 45 45 00:01:28,420 --> 00:01:29,960 And I would just put my text in here 46 46 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:31,970 and I'd have an image here sometimes as well. 47 47 00:01:31,970 --> 00:01:35,060 So let's go grab an image of Oscar 48 48 00:01:35,060 --> 00:01:36,840 from the internet. 49 49 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,760 So, let's go here, just do a search. 50 50 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,203 Copy the image. 51 51 00:01:42,330 --> 00:01:43,872 Paste it. 52 52 00:01:43,872 --> 00:01:44,705 (laughs) 53 53 00:01:44,705 --> 00:01:45,790 And then we have to actually get rid 54 54 00:01:45,790 --> 00:01:46,950 of the background as well. 55 55 00:01:46,950 --> 00:01:49,100 So what I'll do just for simplicity, is I'll get rid 56 56 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:50,280 of all this stuff so we can just focus 57 57 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,630 on one thing at a time. 58 58 00:01:51,630 --> 00:01:52,770 I'll zoom in a bit. 59 59 00:01:52,770 --> 00:01:53,840 Okay. 60 60 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,560 And, let's go over here and let's select the stuff 61 61 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,200 to get rid of. 62 62 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:00,520 Okay? 63 63 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,523 Click. 64 64 00:02:02,590 --> 00:02:04,340 And I'll fix that part in a second. 65 65 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,720 All right, now I'm gonna zoom in. 66 66 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,380 I'm gonna make the brush a little bit smaller now. 67 67 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:16,220 And I'm gonna select some parts to deselect. 68 68 00:02:16,220 --> 00:02:18,880 And obviously this image is not the highest quality. 69 69 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,950 Otherwise we wouldn't have the issues. 70 70 00:02:20,950 --> 00:02:22,210 So the bigger the file usually, 71 71 00:02:22,210 --> 00:02:25,310 or the higher quality the image is as well, the easier it is 72 72 00:02:25,310 --> 00:02:26,580 to do what I'm showing you now. 73 73 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:28,330 And the reason I click many times is 74 74 00:02:28,330 --> 00:02:31,320 so if I screw up, like I just did, I can hit control Z. 75 75 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:32,883 Just to undo that. 76 76 00:02:33,850 --> 00:02:34,683 Okay. 77 77 00:02:34,683 --> 00:02:36,620 It's not gonna be a perfect image, 78 78 00:02:36,620 --> 00:02:38,360 but we'll do the best we can here. 79 79 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,600 And I'm gonna show you a way to kind 80 80 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,200 of fix the outside as well. 81 81 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,540 So that those imperfections aren't as noticeable. 82 82 00:02:43,540 --> 00:02:44,373 Okay. 83 83 00:02:44,373 --> 00:02:45,400 Cut. 84 84 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,710 All right, and I'll turn on this background here. 85 85 00:02:48,710 --> 00:02:49,543 Let me see. 86 86 00:02:49,543 --> 00:02:50,810 So actually, what I'm gonna do before 87 87 00:02:50,810 --> 00:02:55,810 that is, I'm just gonna delete the side here a bit. 88 88 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,000 And I'm gonna make the size of the delete brush smaller 89 89 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,314 and the hardness less, okay? 90 90 00:03:01,314 --> 00:03:03,780 So it won't just be a hard cut to it. 91 91 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:05,940 It'll look kind of feathered. 92 92 00:03:05,940 --> 00:03:07,570 Okay, so get rid of that. 93 93 00:03:07,570 --> 00:03:08,403 Okay. 94 94 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,393 All right. 95 95 00:03:12,810 --> 00:03:14,000 All right, looks good. 96 96 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:14,833 Looks good. 97 97 00:03:14,833 --> 00:03:18,530 And, let's just turn this on now. 98 98 00:03:18,530 --> 00:03:20,630 Whoop, I forgot something right here. 99 99 00:03:20,630 --> 00:03:23,070 Okay, so let's go back here to this layer here, 100 100 00:03:23,070 --> 00:03:24,870 which we've already selected. 101 101 00:03:24,870 --> 00:03:29,593 And let me go and select this guy here. 102 102 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:33,510 And let me zoom right in here to get rid 103 103 00:03:33,510 --> 00:03:36,960 of that pesky little white spot there on Oscar. 104 104 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,113 I'll make this size very small if I can. 105 105 00:03:40,790 --> 00:03:41,623 Cut. 106 106 00:03:42,690 --> 00:03:43,523 Cut. 107 107 00:03:46,020 --> 00:03:47,047 It won't be perfect, that's okay 108 108 00:03:47,047 --> 00:03:49,290 and I'll show you why in a second. 109 109 00:03:49,290 --> 00:03:50,123 Okay. 110 110 00:03:50,123 --> 00:03:52,620 So what we're gonna do is, we're actually gonna add 111 111 00:03:53,980 --> 00:03:55,720 a stroke around him. 112 112 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:56,553 Okay? 113 113 00:03:56,553 --> 00:03:58,000 And that will kind of mask some of the imperfections 114 114 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,650 which don't look that bad, because we are zoomed quite 115 115 00:04:00,650 --> 00:04:01,640 a way out. 116 116 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,390 Whoops, a little problem there, let me just erase this. 117 117 00:04:06,090 --> 00:04:06,923 Good. 118 118 00:04:06,923 --> 00:04:07,780 All right. 119 119 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:09,260 Select Oscar. 120 120 00:04:09,260 --> 00:04:10,563 Good, he is selected. 121 121 00:04:11,430 --> 00:04:13,940 And, I gotta name this guy. 122 122 00:04:13,940 --> 00:04:14,773 Oscar. 123 123 00:04:14,773 --> 00:04:15,800 I mean I don't, but it's easier 124 124 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,670 to keep track if you name your layers. 125 125 00:04:17,670 --> 00:04:19,060 Double click. 126 126 00:04:19,060 --> 00:04:21,740 And we'll add a stroke here. 127 127 00:04:21,740 --> 00:04:22,573 Okay. 128 128 00:04:23,473 --> 00:04:24,920 And I think the stroke color 129 129 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,633 that I had in my original image was nuclear green. 130 130 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,853 So I'll go here and I'll select green. 131 131 00:04:34,530 --> 00:04:36,480 A little bit brighter even. 132 132 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:37,313 That's good. 133 133 00:04:37,313 --> 00:04:38,460 That'll work. 134 134 00:04:38,460 --> 00:04:39,293 That's good enough. 135 135 00:04:39,293 --> 00:04:40,820 Okay, good. 136 136 00:04:40,820 --> 00:04:43,670 All right, and let's make Oscar bigger. 137 137 00:04:43,670 --> 00:04:46,220 Hit control or command T. 138 138 00:04:46,220 --> 00:04:47,570 I'm gonna zoom out as well. 139 139 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,161 He's saying go away. 140 140 00:04:51,161 --> 00:04:53,610 (laughs) 141 141 00:04:53,610 --> 00:04:55,030 All right. 142 142 00:04:55,030 --> 00:04:59,283 And let's go back to see if the image looks right. 143 143 00:05:00,370 --> 00:05:01,720 Right here, yeah it's close enough. 144 144 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,610 And then I wrote cut these people off, get them 145 145 00:05:04,610 --> 00:05:05,530 out of your life. 146 146 00:05:05,530 --> 00:05:08,170 And this is one of my earlier vlogs, episode 56 147 147 00:05:08,170 --> 00:05:09,960 of my first year of doing it, 148 148 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,430 and I probably put too much text on there. 149 149 00:05:11,430 --> 00:05:12,730 But I'll replicate it anyway. 150 150 00:05:12,730 --> 00:05:15,080 Cut these people off, get them out of your life. 151 151 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,980 Watch that vlog if you get a chance. 152 152 00:05:16,980 --> 00:05:18,510 Poured my heart into it. 153 153 00:05:18,510 --> 00:05:21,710 All right, so what I'll do is, I'll actually make Oscar 154 154 00:05:21,710 --> 00:05:24,590 a little bit smaller, that's my version 155 155 00:05:24,590 --> 00:05:26,940 of celebrity, Oscar the Grouch. 156 156 00:05:26,940 --> 00:05:28,340 Okay. 157 157 00:05:28,340 --> 00:05:33,290 I'll select text here, and I'll just type, all in caps. 158 158 00:05:33,290 --> 00:05:35,420 It's black, let me make it white so I can see it. 159 159 00:05:35,420 --> 00:05:36,550 We can always change that later. 160 160 00:05:36,550 --> 00:05:41,550 Cut these people off, get them out of your life. 161 161 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:50,993 Okay. 162 162 00:05:52,580 --> 00:05:56,810 Control T or command T to select it, 163 163 00:05:56,810 --> 00:06:00,400 and then I can drag this and make it a lot bigger. 164 164 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,170 We're using Helvetica, which I love. 165 165 00:06:03,170 --> 00:06:07,760 I can push Oscar over a little bit. 166 166 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,830 Let him bleed into me a bit there, that's fine 167 167 00:06:09,830 --> 00:06:13,220 The image size, that's fine. 168 168 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:15,300 And then what I used to do is I would put the episode number 169 169 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:17,010 down here, so just to be consistent, 170 170 00:06:17,010 --> 00:06:18,220 just to replicate what I had, 171 171 00:06:18,220 --> 00:06:21,180 which wasn't my best work but I wanted to show you 172 172 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:22,880 a template I used before. 173 173 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,510 I'm gonna put the episode number down 174 174 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:25,510 at the bottom as well. 175 175 00:06:25,510 --> 00:06:29,250 And I'll just duplicate this layer here, okay? 176 176 00:06:29,250 --> 00:06:32,713 And I'll rename this one episode number. 177 177 00:06:35,290 --> 00:06:36,930 There it is there. 178 178 00:06:36,930 --> 00:06:38,170 It's the same layer. 179 179 00:06:38,170 --> 00:06:39,473 Drag this down here. 180 180 00:06:40,570 --> 00:06:41,510 Select all. 181 181 00:06:41,510 --> 00:06:46,510 Episode number and that's basically it. 182 182 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,290 I mean what I could do is if I wanted to, I can add 183 183 00:06:50,290 --> 00:06:52,690 a slight three D effect to this here, it's kind 184 184 00:06:52,690 --> 00:06:54,590 of beyond the scope of what we're doing 185 185 00:06:54,590 --> 00:06:57,120 in this course but let me click this here. 186 186 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:57,953 Three D. 187 187 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,910 And this is a memory hog sometimes. 188 188 00:07:02,910 --> 00:07:03,860 Okay. 189 189 00:07:03,860 --> 00:07:07,080 So what you can do is, you can add depth 190 190 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:08,743 or subtract depth here. 191 191 00:07:10,123 --> 00:07:13,210 And again, it takes up a lot of memory at times. 192 192 00:07:13,210 --> 00:07:15,880 Don't use too much depth though, otherwise it's tougher 193 193 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,010 to read on mobile devices. 194 194 00:07:17,010 --> 00:07:21,070 You can use just a small amount if you want to. 195 195 00:07:21,070 --> 00:07:22,710 I'll leave it at that, but what you can do is 196 196 00:07:22,710 --> 00:07:24,690 just click three D up here and play around 197 197 00:07:24,690 --> 00:07:26,840 with that yourself if you'd like to. 198 198 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,610 All right that's good. 199 199 00:07:28,610 --> 00:07:31,452 And I'm just gonna get rid of three D here, 200 200 00:07:31,452 --> 00:07:32,550 cause it's a little bit confusing. 201 201 00:07:32,550 --> 00:07:34,700 Get it out of the way, and then you might get confused. 202 202 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:36,400 You're like, "Dude, where's all my stuff here?" 203 203 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,820 Well what you can do is you can always go here, turn on 204 204 00:07:39,820 --> 00:07:44,050 or turn off three D, get rid of clone source, 205 205 00:07:44,050 --> 00:07:46,850 all these menus you don't care about, 206 206 00:07:46,850 --> 00:07:48,950 and then just go and add the basics. 207 207 00:07:48,950 --> 00:07:51,980 And the basics I love to have are layers. 208 208 00:07:51,980 --> 00:07:54,120 Okay, I always like my layers to be here. 209 209 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,620 And sometimes you'll see Photoshop will mess 210 210 00:07:56,620 --> 00:08:00,350 up your original layout you had before. 211 211 00:08:00,350 --> 00:08:01,260 It happens sometimes. 212 212 00:08:01,260 --> 00:08:04,190 You just kind of drag things around again, it's fine. 213 213 00:08:04,190 --> 00:08:06,070 It looks a little bit confusing now, I get it. 214 214 00:08:06,070 --> 00:08:07,210 But just play around with it a bunch 215 215 00:08:07,210 --> 00:08:09,510 and before you know it this will all make 216 216 00:08:09,510 --> 00:08:11,150 a lot more sense to you. 217 217 00:08:11,150 --> 00:08:13,000 All right, so let's go back here. 218 218 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,160 Okay and that shows that it's three D now, we just added 219 219 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,040 another element, which is three D, okay. 220 220 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,690 And what we can do is we can actually even spin it. 221 221 00:08:20,690 --> 00:08:21,660 It's kinda neat, eh? 222 222 00:08:21,660 --> 00:08:23,750 It's pretty cool, it's pretty cool. 223 223 00:08:23,750 --> 00:08:26,580 Very powerful, a bit of a memory hog though. 224 224 00:08:26,580 --> 00:08:29,400 Again, don't make the depth too much, okay? 225 225 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,730 So, let's go back and change the depth then. 226 226 00:08:31,730 --> 00:08:32,980 Let's go to three D here. 227 227 00:08:34,010 --> 00:08:34,883 Current view. 228 228 00:08:36,860 --> 00:08:39,860 And the depth of field we can change here a bit. 229 229 00:08:39,860 --> 00:08:41,030 See there? 230 230 00:08:41,030 --> 00:08:43,681 You gotta play around with Photoshop a lot. 231 231 00:08:43,681 --> 00:08:46,253 There's so much complicated stuff in here. 232 232 00:08:47,326 --> 00:08:48,990 It's just fun to use, whatever. 233 233 00:08:48,990 --> 00:08:49,900 Depth here as well. 234 234 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:52,330 So, as you can tell I'm not an expert at three D, 235 235 00:08:52,330 --> 00:08:54,063 so I'll just leave it at that. 236 236 00:08:55,650 --> 00:08:59,363 Let me just get back out of here, say, I'll go here. 237 237 00:09:00,460 --> 00:09:02,023 Show me layers again. 238 238 00:09:03,710 --> 00:09:05,110 Okay, here they are. 239 239 00:09:05,110 --> 00:09:06,293 Okay, good. 240 240 00:09:07,810 --> 00:09:12,040 And that's good enough I think. 241 241 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,470 As you can tell, again I'm not an expert 242 242 00:09:13,470 --> 00:09:14,780 when it comes to layers, but I've kind 243 243 00:09:14,780 --> 00:09:17,040 of recreated what I had before 244 244 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,230 with that thumbnail image, which you can see far away 245 245 00:09:20,230 --> 00:09:21,760 on a mobile device just fine. 246 246 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,420 So that's my very simplistic version 247 247 00:09:25,420 --> 00:09:27,270 of throwing a celebrity on. 248 248 00:09:27,270 --> 00:09:29,360 And as always, if you have questions, let me know please, 249 249 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,070 and I'll include all the images attached 250 250 00:09:33,070 --> 00:09:34,100 to this lecture as well. 251 251 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:34,933 Thanks.