1 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,417 (Rock Music) 2 2 00:00:05,070 --> 00:00:06,001 Let's create a Pixelmator Pro image 3 3 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:10,215 line:15% with a celebrity or a well known brand on the image 4 4 00:00:10,215 --> 00:00:13,500 line:15% and for this example, the well known brand or celebrity 5 5 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:16,133 line:15% I'm going to use is Oscar the Grouch. 6 6 00:00:17,060 --> 00:00:20,300 And I'm also going to use a template I used to use 7 7 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:21,870 for my images. 8 8 00:00:21,870 --> 00:00:25,313 So let me copy these, bring them into Pixelmator Pro, 9 9 00:00:26,250 --> 00:00:30,250 and then what I'll do is I'm going to shrink all the stuff 10 10 00:00:30,250 --> 00:00:33,170 so I'm holding the shift button as I select this, 11 11 00:00:33,170 --> 00:00:34,230 and I shrink it. 12 12 00:00:34,230 --> 00:00:35,570 Okay, that's fine. 13 13 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:38,870 So what I'll do, is let me put this in the back 14 14 00:00:38,870 --> 00:00:43,870 and I'll call this Chris old vlog template, 15 15 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:50,410 and I'll call this guy Oscar, and I'll drag him to the top. 16 16 00:00:50,410 --> 00:00:51,580 All right, cool. 17 17 00:00:51,580 --> 00:00:54,070 So this was the template I used 18 18 00:00:54,070 --> 00:00:56,621 when I launched my vlog a while back. 19 19 00:00:56,621 --> 00:01:00,460 And it worked for a while, and I decided to change it. 20 20 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:04,000 I did it at first just with me for branding whatever, 21 21 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,420 and then once the vlog took off a bit, 22 22 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:07,610 then I got rid of this. 23 23 00:01:07,610 --> 00:01:12,450 And I used to have an intro and an outro part to this video, 24 24 00:01:12,450 --> 00:01:14,820 and if you want, what you can do is you can check out 25 25 00:01:14,820 --> 00:01:17,230 this vlog that we're making the image for. 26 26 00:01:17,230 --> 00:01:18,970 It's attached to this lecture. 27 27 00:01:18,970 --> 00:01:21,560 But I had an intro and an outro, 28 28 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,340 which lasted 3 seconds or so, and I found that it was 29 29 00:01:24,340 --> 00:01:26,840 just a little bit too long, so I got rid of it. 30 30 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,510 And I promise you your branding, 31 31 00:01:28,510 --> 00:01:30,930 your style will change over time. 32 32 00:01:30,930 --> 00:01:34,990 Okay, and what I used to do is I used to put the title here 33 33 00:01:34,990 --> 00:01:38,510 in the black part here for the title of the vlog, 34 34 00:01:38,510 --> 00:01:40,070 and then the episode number down here. 35 35 00:01:40,070 --> 00:01:43,420 So let's recreate it with Oscar here. 36 36 00:01:43,420 --> 00:01:45,190 Okay so the first thing I want to do though 37 37 00:01:45,190 --> 00:01:47,130 before I create the text is I want to get rid 38 38 00:01:47,130 --> 00:01:48,630 of the outside here, of Oscar, 39 39 00:01:48,630 --> 00:01:50,488 and this is not the highest resolution image. 40 40 00:01:50,488 --> 00:01:53,180 If it was a higher resolution image, 41 41 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:56,178 meaning if it was a higher file size, 42 42 00:01:56,178 --> 00:01:58,300 it'd be easier to manipulate it. 43 43 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:00,170 But let's do the best we can. 44 44 00:02:00,170 --> 00:02:03,410 Select that, Oscar, we'll go over here 45 45 00:02:03,410 --> 00:02:04,740 and we'll click this item here 46 46 00:02:04,740 --> 00:02:06,260 and hold the mouse button down 47 47 00:02:06,260 --> 00:02:08,000 and select quick selection. 48 48 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,310 Okay. 49 49 00:02:09,310 --> 00:02:12,410 And let's select this. Oops. 50 50 00:02:12,410 --> 00:02:13,300 It's not perfect there. 51 51 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:15,850 So let me start that again, hold on. 52 52 00:02:15,850 --> 00:02:19,010 I'm going to make the brush size smaller, okay. 53 53 00:02:19,010 --> 00:02:22,840 And I'm going to hit command D to deselect. 54 54 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:23,753 Let's try again. 55 55 00:02:24,790 --> 00:02:25,773 Okay, good. 56 56 00:02:27,570 --> 00:02:31,030 Command D to deselect, let's try this here. 57 57 00:02:31,030 --> 00:02:33,630 Maybe I'll make the brush size a little bit smaller. 58 58 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,393 Cut, good. 59 59 00:02:40,490 --> 00:02:41,770 Okay, looks all right. 60 60 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:43,010 Actually I don't like that. 61 61 00:02:43,010 --> 00:02:44,022 Command Z. 62 62 00:02:44,022 --> 00:02:45,290 (Laughs) 63 63 00:02:45,290 --> 00:02:48,873 And let me just see if I can decrease that a bit. 64 64 00:02:51,410 --> 00:02:52,243 Cut. 65 65 00:02:53,290 --> 00:02:54,623 And then up here, 66 66 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,780 cut, and here cut. 67 67 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:00,530 That's actually not that bad. 68 68 00:03:00,530 --> 00:03:02,150 And keep in mind, people are going to look at it 69 69 00:03:02,150 --> 00:03:05,320 from this angle here, or this distance 70 70 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,490 on mobile devices and on desktops like that, 71 71 00:03:07,490 --> 00:03:08,323 so you're not going to notice 72 72 00:03:08,323 --> 00:03:09,550 the little imperfections there. 73 73 00:03:09,550 --> 00:03:10,510 Okay, cool. 74 74 00:03:10,510 --> 00:03:13,450 So what I'm going to do now is drag this over here, 75 75 00:03:13,450 --> 00:03:17,050 and I'm going to add a green outline. 76 76 00:03:17,050 --> 00:03:21,130 So I'll go over here and I'll select stroke 77 77 00:03:21,130 --> 00:03:23,280 and we'll fix that in a second. 78 78 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,700 And I want it to be green here, 79 79 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:30,190 good, okay cool. 80 80 00:03:30,190 --> 00:03:33,640 And then what we'll do is you can make it bigger, 81 81 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:35,653 so it stands out, it pops more. 82 82 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,280 And then you can actually decrease the opacity, 83 83 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,380 a little bit if you wanted to. 84 84 00:03:41,380 --> 00:03:42,720 Okay cool. 85 85 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,290 Then you'll notice that there's these imperfections here, 86 86 00:03:45,290 --> 00:03:47,470 so what we can do is go over here 87 87 00:03:47,470 --> 00:03:50,330 and make sure that you've got this layer selected. 88 88 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:52,763 Select this dude here, highlight. 89 89 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:54,513 Cut. 90 90 00:03:56,370 --> 00:03:58,360 Highlight here, cut. 91 91 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,250 Okay good, that's great. All right we're done. 92 92 00:04:01,250 --> 00:04:04,220 Now hit command D and deselect. 93 93 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:08,170 And I can make him a little bit bigger if I wanted to. 94 94 00:04:08,170 --> 00:04:10,120 Okay, zoom out, okay great. 95 95 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,410 Now let's add the text. 96 96 00:04:12,410 --> 00:04:17,380 And I think the text for this vlog was 97 97 00:04:17,380 --> 00:04:20,392 cut these people off, get them out of your life. 98 98 00:04:20,392 --> 00:04:23,370 I like to use helvetica, let me make sure I'm on helvetica, 99 99 00:04:23,370 --> 00:04:27,173 I'll click T down here, helvetica, good. 100 100 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:30,620 And I'll make it all caps, 101 101 00:04:30,620 --> 00:04:33,180 and I'll adjust the size in a second. 102 102 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:38,180 Cut these people off, and then in brackets, 103 103 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,883 get them out of your life. 104 104 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:46,133 Okay. 105 105 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:48,450 Then what I'll do, 106 106 00:04:48,450 --> 00:04:50,210 and watch this vlog if you get a chance please, 107 107 00:04:50,210 --> 00:04:52,290 again it's attached to this lecture. 108 108 00:04:52,290 --> 00:04:53,600 I poured my heart into it, 109 109 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,640 I think it's got a cool message. 110 110 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,140 All right, and I'm going to make the size 111 111 00:04:57,140 --> 00:04:58,333 a bit smaller. 112 112 00:05:00,510 --> 00:05:03,113 And let's try 96. 113 113 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:06,980 It's got to be a bit smaller even. 114 114 00:05:08,650 --> 00:05:10,743 Let's go to 72. 115 115 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:14,123 Make you, let's try 80. 116 116 00:05:15,830 --> 00:05:16,770 80. 117 117 00:05:16,770 --> 00:05:18,040 Okay that's good. 118 118 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,230 And what I'll do, is let me just grab Oscar, 119 119 00:05:21,230 --> 00:05:22,780 and make him just a touch smaller. 120 120 00:05:22,780 --> 00:05:25,253 Whoops, grab the arrow here, Oscar. 121 121 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:28,713 Okay great. 122 122 00:05:28,713 --> 00:05:29,760 And if we wanted to we can add 123 123 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,900 a bit of a shadow here as well. 124 124 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,200 Obviously a black shadow wouldn't work, 125 125 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,060 so what I'll do is we can add a shadow 126 126 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:39,890 that's maybe green. 127 127 00:05:39,890 --> 00:05:42,790 Let's see, shadow and 128 128 00:05:42,790 --> 00:05:46,193 let's grab the same color that Oscar uses. 129 129 00:05:47,060 --> 00:05:48,560 Okay. 130 130 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,400 And let me see if I can make the distance farther away, 131 131 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:53,723 a bit blurred. 132 132 00:05:55,230 --> 00:05:57,640 Make the opacity much bigger. 133 133 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:58,993 Change the distance. 134 134 00:06:01,220 --> 00:06:02,980 Blur it a bit more. 135 135 00:06:02,980 --> 00:06:06,250 It has a nice very subtle, touch to it. 136 136 00:06:06,250 --> 00:06:10,903 Okay, now I'm going to add episode number 56 down here, 137 137 00:06:10,903 --> 00:06:13,300 which is, I'm just recreating 138 138 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:15,474 what the vlog thumbnail looked like. 139 139 00:06:15,474 --> 00:06:17,703 I'm going to copy, copy whoops. 140 140 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,793 So I'm going to go up here and duplicate. 141 141 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,163 And then what I'll do is I will drag this layer down here. 142 142 00:06:28,270 --> 00:06:33,270 Select all, and call it episode number 56. 143 143 00:06:34,690 --> 00:06:38,560 And I got to go grab that guy. Okay. 144 144 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,563 And I think I'll get rid of the shadow down here. 145 145 00:06:43,650 --> 00:06:45,280 Okay, it looks good. 146 146 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:46,113 Looks good. 147 147 00:06:46,113 --> 00:06:47,080 And if we wanted to we could 148 148 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,550 space out these lines a bit more 149 149 00:06:49,550 --> 00:06:52,123 and we'll go down here to text or type, 150 150 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,383 and line height. 151 151 00:06:56,110 --> 00:06:56,943 Okay. 152 152 00:06:57,910 --> 00:06:59,610 Looks good, looks good. 153 153 00:06:59,610 --> 00:07:00,640 Okay. 154 154 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,560 And now we're going to export that. 155 155 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,653 So we'll go up here, file, export. 156 156 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:11,240 And the size is well under 2 megabytes, we're fine. 157 157 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,690 And I'll call it celebrities or brands jpeg. 158 158 00:07:14,690 --> 00:07:15,720 Save it. 159 159 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,453 And let's go check out the final product. 160 160 00:07:22,650 --> 00:07:24,320 Great, looks good. 161 161 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,153 Cool. 162 162 00:07:25,153 --> 00:07:27,750 If you have any questions please let me know, thanks.