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