(Rock Music) 2 2
Instructor: Let's create a Pixelmator Pro image 3 3
with a celebrity or a well known brand on the image 4 4
and for this example, the well known brand or celebrity 5 5
I'm going to use is Oscar the Grouch. 6 6
And I'm also going to use a template I used to use 7 7
for my images. 8 8
So let me copy these, bring them into Pixelmator Pro, 9 9
and then what I'll do is I'm going to shrink all the stuff 10 10
so I'm holding the shift button as I select this, 11 11
and I shrink it. 12 12
Okay, that's fine. 13 13
So what I'll do, is let me put this in the back 14 14
and I'll call this Chris old vlog template, 15 15
and I'll call this guy Oscar, and I'll drag him to the top. 16 16
All right, cool. 17 17
So this was the template I used 18 18
when I launched my vlog a while back. 19 19
And it worked for a while, and I decided to change it. 20 20
I did it at first just with me for branding whatever, 21 21
and then once the vlog took off a bit, 22 22
then I got rid of this. 23 23
And I used to have an intro and an outro part to this video, 24 24
and if you want, what you can do is you can check out 25 25
this vlog that we're making the image for. 26 26
It's attached to this lecture. 27 27
But I had an intro and an outro, 28 28
which lasted 3 seconds or so, and I found that it was 29 29
just a little bit too long, so I got rid of it. 30 30
And I promise you your branding, 31 31
your style will change over time. 32 32
Okay, and what I used to do is I used to put the title here 33 33
in the black part here for the title of the vlog, 34 34
and then the episode number down here. 35 35
So let's recreate it with Oscar here. 36 36
Okay so the first thing I want to do though 37 37
before I create the text is I want to get rid 38 38
of the outside here, of Oscar, 39 39
and this is not the highest resolution image. 40 40
If it was a higher resolution image, 41 41
meaning if it was a higher file size, 42 42
it'd be easier to manipulate it. 43 43
But let's do the best we can. 44 44
Select that, Oscar, we'll go over here 45 45
and we'll click this item here 46 46
and hold the mouse button down 47 47
and select quick selection. 48 48
Okay. 49 49
And let's select this. Oops. 50 50
It's not perfect there. 51 51
So let me start that again, hold on. 52 52
I'm going to make the brush size smaller, okay. 53 53
And I'm going to hit command D to deselect. 54 54
Let's try again. 55 55
Okay, good. 56 56
Command D to deselect, let's try this here. 57 57
Maybe I'll make the brush size a little bit smaller. 58 58
Cut, good. 59 59
Okay, looks all right. 60 60
Actually I don't like that. 61 61
Command Z. 62 62
(Laughs) 63 63
And let me just see if I can decrease that a bit. 64 64
Cut. 65 65
And then up here, 66 66
cut, and here cut. 67 67
That's actually not that bad. 68 68
And keep in mind, people are going to look at it 69 69
from this angle here, or this distance 70 70
on mobile devices and on desktops like that, 71 71
so you're not going to notice 72 72
the little imperfections there. 73 73
Okay, cool. 74 74
So what I'm going to do now is drag this over here, 75 75
and I'm going to add a green outline. 76 76
So I'll go over here and I'll select stroke 77 77
and we'll fix that in a second. 78 78
And I want it to be green here, 79 79
good, okay cool. 80 80
And then what we'll do is you can make it bigger, 81 81
so it stands out, it pops more. 82 82
And then you can actually decrease the opacity, 83 83
a little bit if you wanted to. 84 84
Okay cool. 85 85
Then you'll notice that there's these imperfections here, 86 86
so what we can do is go over here 87 87
and make sure that you've got this layer selected. 88 88
Select this dude here, highlight. 89 89
Cut. 90 90
Highlight here, cut. 91 91
Okay good, that's great. All right we're done. 92 92
Now hit command D and deselect. 93 93
And I can make him a little bit bigger if I wanted to. 94 94
Okay, zoom out, okay great. 95 95
Now let's add the text. 96 96
And I think the text for this vlog was 97 97
cut these people off, get them out of your life. 98 98
I like to use helvetica, let me make sure I'm on helvetica, 99 99
I'll click T down here, helvetica, good. 100 100
And I'll make it all caps, 101 101
and I'll adjust the size in a second. 102 102
Cut these people off, and then in brackets, 103 103
get them out of your life. 104 104
Okay. 105 105
Then what I'll do, 106 106
and watch this vlog if you get a chance please, 107 107
again it's attached to this lecture. 108 108
I poured my heart into it, 109 109
I think it's got a cool message. 110 110
All right, and I'm going to make the size 111 111
a bit smaller. 112 112
And let's try 96. 113 113
It's got to be a bit smaller even. 114 114
Let's go to 72. 115 115
Make you, let's try 80. 116 116
80. 117 117
Okay that's good. 118 118
And what I'll do, is let me just grab Oscar, 119 119
and make him just a touch smaller. 120 120
Whoops, grab the arrow here, Oscar. 121 121
Okay great. 122 122
And if we wanted to we can add 123 123
a bit of a shadow here as well. 124 124
Obviously a black shadow wouldn't work, 125 125
so what I'll do is we can add a shadow 126 126
that's maybe green. 127 127
Let's see, shadow and 128 128
let's grab the same color that Oscar uses. 129 129
Okay. 130 130
And let me see if I can make the distance farther away, 131 131
a bit blurred. 132 132
Make the opacity much bigger. 133 133
Change the distance. 134 134
Blur it a bit more. 135 135
It has a nice very subtle, touch to it. 136 136
Okay, now I'm going to add episode number 56 down here, 137 137
which is, I'm just recreating 138 138
what the vlog thumbnail looked like. 139 139
I'm going to copy, copy whoops. 140 140
So I'm going to go up here and duplicate. 141 141
And then what I'll do is I will drag this layer down here. 142 142
Select all, and call it episode number 56. 143 143
And I got to go grab that guy. Okay. 144 144
And I think I'll get rid of the shadow down here. 145 145
Okay, it looks good. 146 146
Looks good. 147 147
And if we wanted to we could 148 148
space out these lines a bit more 149 149
and we'll go down here to text or type, 150 150
and line height. 151 151
Okay. 152 152
Looks good, looks good. 153 153
Okay. 154 154
And now we're going to export that. 155 155
So we'll go up here, file, export. 156 156
And the size is well under 2 megabytes, we're fine. 157 157
And I'll call it celebrities or brands jpeg. 158 158
Save it. 159 159
And let's go check out the final product. 160 160
Great, looks good. 161 161
Cool. 162 162
If you have any questions please let me know, thanks.