Become an Expert in New Adobe Express

1. Welcome to this Course!: Hi, my name is Tim Wilson. I'm a senior trainer at Red Rocket Studio. I would love to help you to create beautiful professional work in new Adobe Express. Not only if I trained for some of the world's leading companies including Disney, Nissen, BBC, NHS, the times. But I've also spent many years as a lecturer in graphic design at the university. We'll start at the very beginning and I'll take you through everything step by step. You're not left on your own. I'll be there all the time to answer your questions. I've crafted this course as a series of projects by the end of it. Not only will you be an Adobe Express master, but you also have nearly 20 separate projects that you will have created. These are some of the real world projects that we'll be working through in the three levels of this course. Social media documents, flyers documents, print and screen slow animated posts, video posts, multimedia documents, infographics, and so more. I'll be showing you tons of pro tips and tricks as well as some basic graphic design principles to help you create really beautiful, professional work. Start right now, I can't wait to help you to learn new Adobe Express. 2. Introduction to Photobook Brochure: We're going to make a multi page brochure, but we're going to use a lot of things that we've done before, you can go over them. We're going to take a letter and we're going to make this neon looking letter. You can see on the side that's using the AI. We're going to use multiple images in the various pages and I'll show you how you can put them in really quickly. And then color overlays. Then finally, we'll do as we did before and we'll take it out using flow paper to get that animated effect. I'm going to take you further into flow paper this time, so you can see a lot more of the details in there. 3. Describe the Text Style: Let's get on with this photo book. I'm going to click on photo. I'm going to go to Photo book and create from scratch. I like the size that I've got over this. I'm going to keep that, but you can resize it if you wish. Now, for the cover of this document, this is going to be called the M Studio Dogs brochure. It's about the band's final tour. I want to do an M in here now. The band is very much about neon colors, bright colors in a dark background. That's what I want to reflect on this cover page. So I'm going to go to my text and I'm going to put in the, add some text in here. I'm going to put in the letter M in here. I'm going to make it bigger. It's going to be quite large on the cover. And I'm also going to select it and change the typeface and find something which could work. Just something large but fairly plain over here. I think that will do nicely. Now, I want to go and do a neon effect on there. Now. At the moment, if I just deselect it, if you just go down to text effects in here, you have some pre made text effects, But to be honest, they're not exactly what I want. I'm just going to go back again and select my letter M to make my own effect. I'm going to go down here to the text effects. Click on that, and then in here, I can actually describe what I want to the software. I want this to be high contrast Neon. Let's try and spell Neon correctly. Let's try high tech contrast. You can always change this later on and experiment with different things. Dark Neon, I'm now going to just generate that and see what it actually gives me. It takes a moment sometimes for it to come up and it will give me some variations in here. I don't really like, not that happy with that one there. Those are not quite right. I'm going to change the text slightly. As you change this around, you'll get different results. I'm going to say high tech, neon dark. And let's try that again and see what we can get that way. That's probably more the type of thing that I'm after. It's slightly different, but let's load some more and see what we get. Ah, that's looking more like what I'm ready after now. If I change my background color to black, it'll probably pop up a lot better in there anyway. Have a bit of a go with that put in your character first then once you've done that, once you've got your character in, you just go. Let's do another bit of text here. Just go down to the bottom to text effects and describe what you want for your particular text effect to go, try different variations. Keep generating different ones and describing it in different ways until you get what you're after. I'm going to do mine again with once again some Neon and see if I can get something a little bit more interesting. 4. Add a Photo Grid: Now as you can see, I finally found what I wanted in there. I've also put in some other text. I just sample the colors from the little graphic, the way that I've shown you so many times. Now, I'm going to go and add a second page in there. I'm just going to do a same size page on this page. I want to have five different pictures of the band, but I'm going to put them into a grid. So we're going to go down to grids down here. I'll click on Grids and I'm going to go down, I can find, there we go, five of those, then I can have one picture in each of those areas. But of course we want to make it full page, so I'm going to pull that right out like, so move it across a bit. Now if you want to change the distances between these pictures, you can change the spacing in there. So I could actually get them right up against each other. The background at the moment is transparent, but I could go in there and say, well actually I want it to be black like, so I'm going to go and put the pictures in here. Now normally this is where I'd find the pictures on my hard drive that the band had given me. But in this case, I'm going to be using pictures from the media. I'm just going to click on this one here to select it. I'm going to go over to Media and I'm going to search for band in there and just find some images. I think I'll take that one in there. Remember you can always double click it and move it around if you need to change it. So let's just have the guitar fingers coming in there. I'm going to double click on this one once again, do the same thing, go to media. It's still remembered that I'm actually on the band. Put that one in, we have that across in the right position, I think. Let's have a few slightly different ones now. So once again, double click, et cetera. Something else for this. Maybe that one, the drummer, let's move that across. There's no drummer in there, it's just a set of drums in that case. I'll leave it right there. The last one over here, I'm going to click on Choose the Picture. Let's go and get something else, like a singer in there. Now I want to tie all these pictures together, so I'm going to go along to elements. I'm going to go to my shapes, and we've looked at this before. I'm going to put a shape over the top. I'm just going to pull that shape up over here and I'm going to make it the color, the red color that I've got on my first page. I'm just going to fit it with the red. I'll go and sample it in a moment, but for now I'm just going to choose a dark red like that. I'm going to change the blend mode to multiply so we can see the pictures coming through. That's a lot brighter red in there. I'm going to just brighten it up over here into custom and choose a brighter, more vivid red from there. Don't forget, you can always go back to here, change the spacings. I can move those closer together if it looked better or further apart. I like the little black lines around them. If you want something from the edge going inwards, use your padding and that will pull it in from the side like so I like them going right to the end of the page for what I'm doing here. But do have a bit of a go with that, make a second page, put some pictures in using a grid. 5. Add a 3 Photo Grid: As you can see, I've just put in a little bit of text in there and the straightforward. Let's go and add another page in here, same size. Once again, I'm going to go into my grid. I'm going to choose a slightly different grid, this time I'm going to pick this one over here so I can show you some other options with the grid. Let me move it right up to the top over there, so it's going to be full page size. Then I want to have three of the band members in here. Let's just make sure that I can get that in the position there. It's strange because sometimes the little windows don't always appear when you try and drag them. But I can then start to move these around into any position that I like. Depending on the picture that I've got, I can just change those sections once again. I'm going to go to the background to keep the same theme. I'm just going to pick black as the lines between them and the rest is the same. Going in, finding the pictures, let's find some singers over there. That one he'll do very nicely in there. Let's click on this one. Same again, different singer and I'm going to have to move him across, Ali. So one last one to go in here and then the page is done. Very, very simple. This little one we want, I think she'll work very well in there as well. All right. Have a bit of a go get some pictures going on on your third page in that. 6. Flow Paper Settings: Now I've added some more pages in here. As you can see, I'm going to go over to this page here, which is just a full picture, full screen with a little bit of text in there. And I've just used the same text that I did on this page in here. And then I did another page here using that same grid. And I've just gone and put a color picture in the middle. Well, in fact, they're all color ones. And then I just went to the individual pictures, went down to effects and chose gray scale to make them more black and white. I've then got the color one in the middle. Now let's go on to the last page. I'm just going to click on the ad over here. When I'm adding a page, I've been adding the same size pages, but maybe you want something a whole lot bigger. And you can quite happily do that by going to custom size over here. When you choose custom size, you could have a different size page. I'm actually going to just keep it as the same size page, but if you want, you could have a custom size page as well. Now in here I'm going to bring in a picture. I'm going to go and find the picture for the final page. And that's going to be one of the band members in here. And let's go with, I want to crop it off, so we've just got her with a guitar in there. But to make this a bit more interesting, I'm actually going to copy her the bottom version, I'm actually going to make size, so we get a really large version of her in the background. I'm also going to go to the background version and go into my image options. I'm going to go along to adjustments and write at the bottom, I'm going to blur the background picture out so you can still see the effect that is actually is her, but with the sharp one in the foreground. It's an effect that's used quite a lot. I need a little bit more text to finish this off, so I'm going to go and add some text in here. Paste my last bit of text into there, and I'm going to change my text to white. Let me just select all the text and adjust the color to make it white or something that I can read on the background. I just got to pop that right down over there. Now, I'm having trouble reading the first a little bit because of the guitar. I could of course, just go in, double click on that, maybe make the whole thing a little bit bigger. Move it around until I can see the area or the text that I wanted. Or of course I can click on there and I can go down to my effects and I can add a shadow. So I'm going to put a shadow and I'll just put a shadow behind the text to help lift it away from the background so you can read it on some of the darker areas. I'm going to move that just in that position over there. Now that we've done that, we can then share this. I'm going to go to do. I can either download the whole document and I'm going to go to all pages here as Jpegs, PNGs, or a PDF. Or we can do what we did earlier on. We can go along to the add ons. I'm going to go into the flow paper, wait for it to load itself. I'm going to export to flow paper as we did before. Now we're in flow paper. Let's have a look at some of the settings. We've got settings on the right hand side which are really to do with the interface on the left hand side appear. This is the one that I'm actually interested in. These ones allow you to change the look of your final result. If I click at the top, you'll see I've got these style templates. Now let's have a look at this one first. We're actually on realistic three D. If I click on that, you can see we've got a dark background, these little buttons over here, and it looks realistic when the pages are turning. If I go down to the bottom, I've got hard edges. This time when I click, it's like those are cardboard and they don't bend at all when they change. You got some other options in here, for example, if I go to this one here, we get a slightly different look to it. Look at the way those pages bend when they change. Have fun with it, play around with it. It really is brilliant. Don't forget, publish and publish to the cloud to get your link. 7. Introduction to Invoice Translate: This is not going to be a very long project, but it's such a useful one. We're going to take a template and then I want to show you how you can change the language on that template, and it's surprisingly easy. We'll take this invoice and change it to French, but you can do it with any text into, I won't say any language, but there's a lot of languages there to convert into. 8. 1-Page Translate: Let's have a look at invoices. I'm going to go over to the document option. There's a little invoice over here and I'm going to say Browse Templates because there's a lot of different invoice pre templates that you can choose from. I'm just going to go and find something fairly simple. Click on it and it brings it in and you can see the whole thing is made up of different parts in here. We've got the background of there, which is that one you can change to anything you like. We've got rectangles like that. That's just a rectangle which I can change the size of. We've got text in there individually, we've got lines. All the things that we've done so far. So why am I showing you this? Well, one of the things I'd like to be able to do is to change the language. So I'm going to change the language on my invoice because the company is in France, so I'm going to translate that into French. And you can do this really easily. In Express, along the top is a little translate button. If I click on that over here it says, well, it's going from English, which it's detected to which language. And I'm going to go down and translate that into French. Click Duplicate and Translate. It will make a second page for me, and there it is, translated into French. So easy, really quick to use as well. Try it out. 9. Multi-Page Translate: Let's have a look at this using a multi page document. I've gone back to my Cyprus brochure. Now the thing is with translate, it only works on a page by page basis. If I went to this page here, I would click on Translate. Once again I'm going from English because Cyrus, the South part of Cyprus, they talk Greek. The top part is Turkish. I'm going to go down and find Greek in there. Duplicate and translate. You can see it's just made a seventh page in there. Let's put it next to it. There we are. It's translated that into Greek. For me to be honest, I would get somebody who is fluent in Greek to actually read that and double check it. But it gives it, it's a good starting point. Have a go with that. Whichever page you're on, it will just translate that accordingly. Click on Translate, Choose a Language, and let's try this one as Turkish. Duplicate and translate. There's my Turkish page. Have a go with that one. 10. Introduction to YouTube Animated Video: In this project, we're going to create an animated video. We're going to be using drawings. You can use photos if you like. I'm going to choose to do something about photography because I like photography, but you can choose any subject that you like. We're going to animate all the different parts to get a really fun feel for the whole thing. There's a bit of a surprise later on when we start to put the voice over in, because it's not going to be my voice. But I'll leave that as a surprise Anyway, let's jump in and get started. 11. Add in the First Video: Now for this project, we're going to go along and make a Youtube video. It'll be animation, so I'm going to click on videos. I'm going to go to Youtube and say Create from scratch. This gives me a certain size and I want to check that it's the right size. I want HD size. And if I click on Re Size, you'll see it's 1920 by 1080, which is HD size. That's fine for what I'm trying to do. Now, I want to start off at the beginning of the video with a video of somebody waving. I'm at the camera now, this would normally, if I was doing this video for myself, it would be me explaining something about photography or somebody else explaining something. But I'm just going to use something from the videos here and I'm going to find a person waving. I'm going to search the videos and it's waving. That one looks a bit too cheesy. I'm just going to go down because I saw one earlier, it was somebody with a hat. There we are. That one there looks very natural, the wave. So I'm going to click on that and bring it in. Now it's there. I'm just going to play it. She waves and then she starts chatting. Now, we don't want any of the chatting in here. All I want is the bit at the beginning with her waving. So she comes in and waves like that and that's really all that I want. So I'm going up to about 2.2, to 3 seconds and I'm going to pull this video right back in. Now remember if you don't see this video area here, I'll just click to hide it. Just click on Edit Timeline at the bottom. So she's going to come in and wave. It's quite sudden that she's come in there. So maybe if I click on that video, I could actually go in and try out some of these animation settings down here. And I'm going to say in, I'm going to get it to fade in. So it'll just fade in from white or my background color. If I change the background color to black, let's fade that in again and you'll see it'll just fade from black into the video like. So. 12. Backgrounds in Scenes: I'm going to go along to my elements in backgrounds. I'm going to search for film. This orange ones come up, which is rather nice. If I click on that, you can see it makes a background. But if I want to make it a little bit more interesting, what I'm actually going to do is detach it from the page and then just scale it out so I can scale it slightly bigger then maybe move it over so I don't get much of that brown. I just want the orange in there for something quite fun. Because this whole thing is about sun. Then for each of my different scenes, I'm going to have the background changing ever so slightly. I'm going to move that in a little bit, like I think I'm going to do about 3 seconds for all of these areas. Add my scene in over there and I can then just go back to this scene here and we can just copy it and paste. You can quite happily copy and paste between scenes very quickly. I'm going to spin this around so it's around the other way this time as well. Let me do another scene over here. I'll paste that in. And just move it a little bit brown coming into that one over there. Let's do another scene over here. Paste that in over there. I'm going to keep it like that. Maybe add another scene in here and do this slightly different. I'm not sure whether this will scale up large enough. Let's find out. I think that'll work quite nicely. And another one P, that I'm going to make that smaller. But I do want to because I want to show the whole piece of film there, but I want it on a white background. I'll also change my background color to white for that one, so we get something like that. Remember, I can always add in new scenes along here as I go along. Now, for most of these scenes, I want them to be about 3 seconds long. I'm just going to go to each of them in turn and make them roughly 3 seconds over there. That's probably just enough for people to read a quick sentence but not get bored. We'll have 3 seconds there, 3 seconds here, another one over there. The end one is going to be longer because that'll be the final piece. And that I'm going to stop there so you can try this out, have a bit of a go get some scenes in, get a background in there, and then we'll start building the text and popping the text bits into our project. 13. Add Some Text: Let's start the beginning and bring some text in. I'm going to go along to the text tool and I'm going to go and find it over there. I'm going to add my text in. This is going to be better film photography. Now the pictures that I've got, there's lots of little cameras, sort of drawings of cameras that I've got from splash if you prefer birds. I've got a lot of pictures of birds. I've got a lot of pictures of cupcakes as well. So if you want to do something else, you don't have to do film photography anyway, I'm going to select this text and I'm going to go in and find a different type face. Now, I've saw one recently that I rather like the look of, and that was permanent marker. So you might not have it, you might have different ones in there that you like the look of. But I'm going to go and find permanent marker over there. There we go. I thought that would actually work really well for this. I'm going to do dynamic text in here and just pull it in so we get better film photography like that. I'm going to move it down to the bottom and just out of her face over there, color wise, Well, it's white at the moment. I think I'm probably going to keep it as white. Then we're going to move on over here. That will come up and be in there. I'm going to leave that on, so she fades up, but the text stays on. Then just before she goes, I want to fade the text out. I'm going to go down here. I'm on the text to Animation. Choose out and then click fade. What I'll have is the text is in there. She fades up waves at the camera and the text fades out. The background comes in. Now on the next bit, I'm going to have my first bit of text in here, which is going to be five tips about film photography. I'm going to put that in, but for speed, I'm just going to go back over there, Copy this bit of text, move into here, and I'm going to paste that bit of text in as well. I want it to be the default text, not the dynamic text. This is going to be five tips on film photography. I'm not the world's fastest typist and I do apologize for that. I think this five tips, I'm going to try and make that just a little bit larger over there. Five tips. Then this bit here, I'm going to just do a return and make that on film photography. There's my main bit of text in there now. I'm going to just get it up a little bit like that, but I don't want to come in straight away. What I'd like to do is at the beginning here, I would like to have a camera, a picture of a camera in there. So I'm going to take this whole scene and just pull it out a little bit so I can have a camera coming in. And then the five tips on film photography coming in after that going back to the scene in the scene, if I click on the text, I'm going to show my layer timing. That's the little button at the bottom. I can pull that in over there. So the five tips on photography won't come in until that point over there. Then once again it just fades out at the end. I might want it to fade in as well. I'm going to go once again down to my animation in, faded in. I want to be a quick fade. Just half a second or so, we can get that to come in. Let's play that to see what the timing is like. Quick fade up and then fade out. In fact, that fade out is a little bit too slow for this, so I'm going to go back again. Go down to my animation, my fade out. I'm going to take that down to half a second. Ish, just over half a second as well. To check the timing. Do keep checking your timing all the time to make sure that it actually works for people. And they're not sort of sitting, twiddling their thumbs while you've got this amazing fade going out. Fade in enough time for them to read it. Fade out. Now, the beginning, I like to have a little camera coming in here, so I'm going to go and find a camera. I'm going to media and I'm going to upload from device. I've got a folder here with camera graphics in it. And as I said, there's also one with birds and there's one with cupcakes. If you prefer those, let me go to the icons and have a look at some of these and find one which looks really cool. I'm going to start off with this teal colored one green or whatever it is over here, going to make that a little bit larger. This is going to be the first image in there. I'm going to shorten it over there. It'll just come in. The text will come in after that as well. I might even expand this a little bit if you've actually got about 5 seconds of this first bit, because there's actually two things going on. There's the camera coming in and then there's the text coming in. After that, I'm going to go to the camera, go down to my animation. I'm going to fade it in very quickly, less than half a second. I'm going to fade it out very quickly, less than half a second. Then, while it's actually in there, I'm going to go to looping. What I want to do is I wanted to jitter. I wanted to move around to give it a bit of light. This is in the looping option. I'm going to go and find jitter, and I can change or adjust the jitter in here. You can see how that moves around ever so slightly just gives it a really cool animated feel. Let's have a quick look at that. Comes in jitters around and then fades out. If I wanted the camera to be underneath the text, I could actually move the camera in the layers over here below the text. Now when that happens, the text fades in and the camera fades out behind us. And that just gives us enough time to read the rest of that text on there. Let's have a look. Comes in now with the text, I'd also like to change the background so I've got a bit of a shadow going on. I'm going to click on my text. I'm going to go once again into the text options and I'm going to go to a shadow. Now what you'll see is with a shadow, it looks really nasty over there. It's far too hard. If I do the hazy one, once again, that's too hard. All of these just look really bad because the shadows themselves are actually dark. Well, they're black virtually if I click on custom over here. First of all, I can do things alike. I can change at the distance of the shadow. I can change the angle of the shadow to move it around. I can change the amount of blur on the shadow. I'm just going to change the distance a little bit on there, but this is what I want to show you. I'm going to click on Color. I'm going to sample a color from the darker area of the picture. Now my shadow actually becomes that color there. Now that looks more like a glow. Let's try that again. Going to go as an orange, but I'm going to click on Custom and just darken it down a little bit. That gives us really nice gentle shadow in there. Once again, if I move that blow out, you can see it's kind of at the wrong angle, ready. So I will just change that a little bit, just something like that. I want to keep it as subtle as possible so it just lifts it slightly off the page. I'm not going to do it on every single one of these scenes, just on the first one, because this is a main piece. So let's play this so far so we have better film coming in. We then cut straight to the animation. The camera jitters around a little bit and the text is sitting there. Now if we wanted to jitter the text as well, we could do that by going down to our animation, putting on some looping, choosing jitter. But I don't want too much jitter, so I'm going to go slow and not too much intensity. So we'll just be very gently moving on the background. Let's play that one more time. She comes in, she waves, the camera comes in, and the text is jittering ever so slightly. Have to go with that so far. 14. Animate: Let's go back to the beginning again for a second. I noticed when we were playing this that the black didn't look quite so good. And especially over here, I faded her out. And then it jumped into that. What I'm actually going to do is I'm going to go along to the second scene. Copy the orange background. I'm using command C or control C on a PC command on a Mac. Go back in here and I'm going to paste it in. But you can see it pasted in front of the video. All I've got to do is drag it below the text and her video in there. Now what will happen? He is right at the beginning, we'll have the orange. She will fade in and then she'll fade out to the orange. And it'll look seamless like So we've got our next scene to deal with now. Once again we fade out over here onto our next scene, the background changes. If you didn't want the background to change, of course you could just copy that in again, exactly the same. So I could get rid of that and just paste it in. Paste it in, and that'll give us the same scene in there. Either way, it doesn't really matter if you're going to change it. Change it. If not, just undo it like I've done over here. I'm going to bring in some text now. So I'm going to say add in your text. And you can see it's remembered my last font that I was dealing with. This little bit of text is going to say the first tip is going to be shooting manual with a manual lens. Move that in a little bit like, so move that across over here. That's going to come in at the beginning, I'm going down to animation. I'm going to fade it in. No, I'm not going to fade it in. Let's do something else over here. Instead of fading it in, let's try something else. Let's try a drift in or a slide in, one of these ones here. Whichever works for you to drop in, I'm going to try drop in over there. So it'll just drop in from the top very gently, like that, into the right position. I'm happy with that, but I do want to fade out as well. Let's just go down to animation and out. I'm going to choose to fade it out, maybe slightly faster than the normal. Let's try that out. From here we go. Five tips on photography. Shoot them menu. My goodness, I need to sort my text out. I can't even read it properly in there. But I'm also going to bring in one of the little cameras at the top again, as before, go over to my media upload from device, find the camera that I want to use in there. I think I like that big red camera. I'm going to place it over there. And then I want to animate it. Animation. I'm going to go to, in this time I'm going to use grow, so it'll actually grow into the picture there and then out. I'm just going to fade it out quickly at the end. Now I would like to have the text coming in first and then the camera. So I've clicked on the camera and in the timeline, I can just shorten that a little bit. Like, so what will happen now is when we play this, the text will drop in and then the camera comes up As always, I'm going to go to the camera, I'm going to go to animation and I'm going to put a little bit of movement on it. You can see we've got different movements in here blinking or I think I'll probably do a little bit of Jess or a little bit of wiggle. Wiggle is quite good. I'm going to do it quite fast but not too much, so it'll just shake a little bit like that anyway. Do you have to go with that? And I'm going to sort out my text because all my text is a total mess. Try it out. 15. More Animation: For the next little animations, I'm going to use the same text. I'm just going to copy the text from here. Command or control C, go to this scene, paste it in, and change it. This is going to be going to say use an exposure notebook. As before, I'm going to bring in a little camera into the media upload from device, find a different one. Let's use that orange one over here and animate it down Over to animation. I want to animate it in. I'll use a fast fade. I'm going to animate it out also with a fast fade. Let's cut it there. Animates in with a fast fade and then the looping, a little bit of jitter on that as well. Not too intense. There we go, Just to give it a little bit of movement. Now, the same for the next page as well, to be honest. Let's have a look at that and see how that works. Shooting manual comes in, then that moves in as well. Now the manual, an exposure exposure notebook is still using the same animation that we had before because it just copies the whole thing. I am going to go down here to the animation and I'm going to change the drop in and just do it to a quick fade. So onto the next one over here, which is going to be that I'm going to select this, copy it, move across to the third scene, paste it in and change this. This is going to be one camera of course. Bring in another camera over here. Plot from device. And what one hasn't I used yet? I don't think I've actually used that black one. I'm going to bring that one in. Let's just make that a little bit larger and do the same things as before. You can just experiment with these different animations. I'm going to bunge that in. I'm bunge it out, it'll disappear off in the middle. I'm going to choose wiggle. It'll just wiggle around. Let's have a look at, or how these two work. I'll play those that moves around, that comes in. We can just offset them slightly as well. The text maybe comes in just a little bit later than the camera, or vice versa. Shall I'll bring the camera in just a bit, a little bit later. The text comes in first, and this one over here, camera needs to come down. And maybe also just a little bit later. Now you'll find that this jumps around quite a bit. If we zoom into it, there's a little zoom button there. You can be a bit more accurate about exactly where you want that to be. Over here, I'm just going to click on the camera. Move it in a little bit. Let's have a look at our timing now. So using exposure, text comes in, The camera bounces in and then disappears out again. Have a go with those two scenes, and then we'll move on. 16. More Scenes: Now as you can see, I've just done another little scene here, but I want another scene to come in between that and before the end, I'm going to click on the little plus over there. And I can then add a scene to this. But I've added the scene in, so I can just go back to the scene here and copy the bits that I want. I'm going to select all those bits and copy, go over to this scene and paste them all in over there. Obviously, I don't want that camera. And then I'm just going to change the text over here. I'm going to take that back also to about 3 seconds and change this a little bit of text to the next one that I want. The next one is going to just say, take a class. Same again, you got used to this. Now let's try this one over there. I'm running out of different animations to show you here, I'm going to bring that in and then go down animation. Let's use a looping. Yeah, yeah, but the intensity is a bit too strong over there. I just wanted to move tiny little bit over there. And I'm going to increase the speed, so it'll just bounce around like, so we've got down just a little bit over there. And then of course I'm going to fade it in. And I'm going to fade it out. I think I've now got five different tips in here. So I'm going to zoom out a little bit on my timeline And try this from the beginning just to see how it's looking. And if I need to change anything. Playing through there, she waves. We go into the first five tips. The first tip comes up, camera moves around, that one changes another camera in another bit, I need to move that bit of text down. That's my last one over there. 123455 of them in there. So if you'd like to do another two, remember you can click between them to add them in. 17. Check Your Timing: I've set up my last scene with a little bit of text in here and two cameras. I want to drift the cameras in so they come in from the side. I'm going to go down to my animation in the Inn. I'm going to say drift over here. I can choose how long that drift is going to be as well as the type of drift, soft, smooth, energetic. I'm going to bring it in fairly strong. Then the same with this one over here. I'm going to go to that one animation. And I'm going to also use a drift on that, but I'm going to drift it in the opposite direction. Now that's taking far too long. Let's just speed it up. I just want to come in very quickly. Once it's in there, we want to jitter it around so it'll just move around a little bit in the background. Same with this one. I'm going to go to jitter or looping, should I say? I'm going to add some jittering on there. If you don't like the jittering, try the wiggle. And you can just get it to wiggle around as well. Don't forget, you can also do it on things like the background. So if you wanted to, you could go down to animation and just put a bit of an interesting background on there. I could pulse it, I could flicker it, or I could just to the background as well. We could wiggle it if we wanted to. The change between this one and that one is quite sudden because the background just goes out. So I'm going to go back to the last scene. Click on the background and I'm going to put an animation on the background, on the out, which is going to be a fade. So I'm going to fade the background out from here. It just fades out to there. And while I'm on that, this background, because you can see it's fading to black. I'm actually going to change the background on that scene to white. Let's try that last little bit again over there, take a class, it all fades out. And that one comes in and we've got a bit of movement on those cameras. In fact, I like this one the way it's moving rather than that one over there. So I'm going to take off the jitter and I'm going to add the wiggle. Let's take the intensity down a bit, but increase the speed on that one quite a lot. When you're done, just play it again. We've still got to put some sound in, but just play through the whole thing and have a look at the timing and see if it actually works for the timing. Get somebody else to watch it as well. Can they read it? You know what it says, but is there enough time for somebody else to read it? Check your spelling. And I'm talking to myself here because I tend to. I can see that read is a bit too high. I'm going to go back to the read one and just pull that down a little bit over there. Then once again, just go back and watch it again. I force you to watch mine. You've got your own to watch, so have a bit of a go finish that last bit off and then we'll put in some sound and we'll talk about different sound things that we can do in here. 18. Record a Voiceover: Now when it comes to sound, I'm going to go over to the audio. We've got some music, which I'll bring in in a moment, but I'm going to choose Record Voice Over. Try that out. I can click on Record Voice Over over here. It just shows me the level of my voice. And I'm going to click on Start Recording. If I choose start recording, 321. Five tips on film photography. Tip number one, Shooting manual mode with a manual lens. Use an exposure notebook tip 21, Camera one lens one film stock tip three, read your camera manual. Four. Finally, take a class or join an online community and keep shooting. I just played it through. I talked while watching the animation over there. Let's see how it works. I've got a lapel mic on that, you're hearing me through. So I'm going to move myself closer to my computer so that you can hear it through my computer. Five tips on film photography. Tip number one, shooting manual mode with a manual lens. Use an exposure notebook tip 21, Camera one lens one film stock tip three, read your camera manual. Four, finally, take a class or join online community and keep, there we go. Now let's go back to our media. I'm going to go to audio and I'm going to go and find some music as well. If you don't want to record yourself, that's absolutely fine, Just do the music. So I'm going to look for something which is fun and bouncy. I like that one actually. So if I click on it, you can see it's addited in with my voice and I can take the volume down. So I'm going to get both my voice and the music. Let's have a listen to that. Five tips on filled photography. Tip number one, shooting manual. Right, I'll stop there. And even that could probably go down a little bit more. Let's just take that down to maybe about 5% or so. One last bit, right at the beginning, five tips on film photography. You can do your voice over and then add some sound to it. But if you don't like your own voice, not many people like their own voices. There are some who do. But most people go, oh, I don't like having my voice recorded. If that's you, there's another thing that we can do as well, but try this out first. Even if you don't like recording yourself, just have a bit of a go so you know how it works. And then I'll show you how else we can do this with a voice. 19. AI Voice: Now I've removed all of my voice over and sound and everything. I'm going to get an AI. To read the text for me, I have to actually type it in. I'm going to click on Add Ons. I'm using something in here called the AI Zoos Text to Speech. Now I've installed my already, but when it comes to using it for the first time, you click on it, here, it'll ask you if you want to install it. Then here will be a button to register. Now you have to register and then go to the website and verify the e mail. After you've done that, you can log in over here, so you'll be logged in. And then you can choose the type of voice that you want to use. And use this. I'm using English, UK accent because I'm near London, in the UK. The voice I've chosen, you can see there are so many of them because I'm on the premium version of Express. I've got all these premium voices. There are some standard ones there and some ultras as well. Now, I'm using Sonia and we can listen to her voice by Duke by doing this. Hi, I can read any text you type here. Let's try different voice, Ryan. Hi. I can read any text you type here. I'm going to go with Sonia. I'm going to type in this better film photography now, rather than actually having to type in you watching me type it all in there. I'm actually just going to go in here, select Copy It. I'm using commands or control to copy it. Click out of it, so nothing is selected. And then I can go back there and paste it right in there. I've got my cursor right at the very beginning. I'm going to generate the audio. It's now created the audio. I'm going to move it across a little bit so it doesn't come in too soon. Let's play that. I'll move my cursor back to the beginning that a film photography, there's the first bit. Let me move along a little bit over here and I'm going to do this next bit. Five tips for film photography. I'm going to select it all. Copy it, make sure nothing is selected. I'll just deselect it all. Go over to my Enter text, paste the text in. Just make sure it's all on one line. I'm just also looking very carefully at the type here to make sure that it will read correctly. Place my cursor where I want this to be, so when the text comes in, generate the audio, here it is. I'm going to move it back just a little bit like that. Sometimes you might actually have to pull the time line out a bit to get the text to work. Let's listen to that. Five tips for film photography perfect. Then I can work my way all the way through the rest of this document and add in the little bits of text in there. I'll do one more over here. Put my cursor in there, select the text, copy it, deselect all the text. Go back in here, paste the text in, make sure my cursor is where I want the sound to start, generate the audio, and away we go. Now this one, it's gone on a little bit. I might have to pull this up if you find that you need to move these around and you can't because it sort of jumps if you like, just zoom in or out a little bit. Let's listen to that one. Cheat in manual mode with a manual ends perfect. Now, once you've done that, I've cheated a little bit here. Because if I zoom out, you'll see I've actually done all the rest of them as well. Just so you don't have to watch me go through every single one. Once you've done that, I'm going to go to, I'm going to use an MP four for video. I'm also working with 108 P, that's the HD size that I started with. That's perfect for Youtube. I'm going to click download over there. And then just sit and wait while it renders the video. Now let's go and have a look at this video. I'm going to click on it. Find it over here. Double click it. Let's play it out here. That's a film photography five tips for film photography. Shooting manual mode with a manual lens. Use an exposure notebook on camera, one lens, one film stock. Read your camera manual, take a class, join an online community. But whatever you do, just keep shooting. It's done just like that. Now, obviously the voice is slightly AI. You can still tell that it's non human. But these are only going to get better and better very, very quickly. Have fun with that. 20. Introduction to Professional Techniques: In this section, I'd like to show you how to get more professional results from your work. We're going to start off by looking at your branding and bringing in all your brand items, whether it is logos, fonts, colors, so that you can use them directly in Express. I also want to go through a number of graphic design principles. I won't call them rules because you can obviously break them if you wish. But I'd like to show you a number of, I've just called them rules that you can use to make your work look really professional. Let's get started with this. 21. Branding: Let's have a look at what we can do about getting our branding into express. What I'm going to start with is rather than going into a document, I'm going to go to your stuff. Now when I click on your stuff, we've got a few options along the top. First of all, it says files. You might recognize some of these files over here. You won't recognize all of them because we actually use this professionally to put out a lot of work on the web. But we've got a few more over here. One is Brands over here, and one is libraries. If you work with Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop or in Design, you might have come across CC libraries. And these are libraries where you can actually store things that you're working on and you want to use in the other bits of software. For example, you might have a logo that you've created in Illustrator and you want to be able to pick it up in in design or Photoshop, so you'd put it into a library. The libraries here are places that you can store things. And you can also get your libraries from Photoshop and Illustrator or any of the other Adobe software. Now, of course, you do have to have an Adobe account for that. But if we have a quick look over here, you can see I've got different Adobe CC libraries in here. For example, this one here that was created in Illustrator and it's popped up here, and I can use it in Express. You can also create your own library in here of things that you use all the time. They could be a particular photograph that you use or even a client's logo that you'll be working on. Now I'm going to go across to brands is where I can bring in all of the things to do with my particular brand or a client's brand. It could be things like color, fonts, the logos, anything you're using all the time. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new brand here. Now the company that I work with or am part of is a company called Red Rocket Studio. So I'm going to just put in Red Rocket and I'm going to click on Creating there. And now you can see it will allow me to just upload my logos, colors, any particular fonts. I work with graphics templates in here as well. Don't worry, I'm not going to do all of them. But let's go to Logos. And I'm going to say, Upload your Logos over here. So I can just click on that. I've got them already over here, and I can just bring them in very, very quickly. Let's open all those up and I'm going to add in another one over here, PNG file as well. Now you can see that some of them got white backgrounds, like that one there and that one there, this one and that one have got slight gray backgrounds. And that's because those are actually transparent PNG files, so the backgrounds are transparent. Then for color, I'm going to add some of my own colors. Now going in here, I want to create a new color. I'm going to be adding a color in. I'm going to go to custom in here. I can type in the hex number. I'm going to put in the X number for one of my main colors. The hex number that I want to use is, it's weird, 16d 0b1d in there. That should now be a nice darkish red. I'm just going to click on Save over there. I've then added that as a color, but let me do another color. For example, it could be that instead of having a hex color, you've been given an RGB color. Once again, in here, I can then put in my next color, 22330. What's the last color here? 38, over there, that's that light red. And I'll just save that out over there. I'm not going to bring in any fonts, but you can bring in fonts in there. Graphics templates, it just shows you your colors. In here, you can see where it's actually used one of my logos which doesn't have a transparent background in them. Not all of them do, as I said, some of them do and some don't. Once you've done that, it's always in your stuff. If I open up a different file, let's go and find something else that we worked on earlier. I want to bring in my logo in there so I can go to your stuff and I can then find it in here as well. I'm just going to go to my brands and libraries and there's my Red Rocket. And I can just bring in one of those logos and you can see it's on a transparent background. 22. Design Principles: Now Adobe Express gives you these incredible tools. There's so many text options, so many picture options, shapes. But it's up to you to put them together so they look really professional. And I'd like to go through a few, well, let's call them rules for want of a better word, that will help you with your design. Let's start off with one of my favorites. This is repetition. By repeating items, you can get a very pleasing look. For example, these might all be pictures repeated along there. And then we might have some text repeated. And as long as the boxes are the same size or the same color, the repetition works beautifully. The other thing that we can do is emphasize certain things, especially if you have repetition. We can do that by changing the color of an item. Making it lighter or darker. Possibly making it bigger. Smaller will not emphasize it, it'll make it less important. Balance is another really useful tool that you can use. I've got two shapes over here. I've got this big shape here, and I've got this little shape there. Let me just take this little shape and move it down to there. Can you see how the document itself looks unbalanced? Because the big one is over there and the little one, bright one, is over there. And, well, it seems to be all on this side. Now, even if I put it over there, it will kind of balance it out. But if I put it up here, we've got this one which is sitting up here sort of pushing itself downwards with a bright color balanced by a big one. You can kind of think of it almost like a scale where you've got the big item there, you've got a small one there, but it's got to be a bit more dense so it can balance that one out on it there. There's no right or wrong with balance. Just look at your document. When you're placing things, move them around until you feel there's some form of balance in the document. It doesn't have to be up and down, left or right, as long as there's balance in it. It could just be the colors that are balanced. Now, when it comes to negative space, negative space means areas which are left blank. If I go over to this document here, there's a lot of things going on. But if I were to remove this one and this one, now we've got these two spaces over here. And it helps the document to breathe. By having these negative spaces, we can then concentrate on the other areas. Negative space is used by a lot of companies to give a feeling of opulence, a feeling of importance to their products. The first one that comes to mind is Apple. When you look on their website, they are masters of negative space. There's negative space all over the show. It makes the thing that's left on the page seem far more important. If you add in lots and lots of things, nothing seems important. It all just seems like a collection of items. Now, contrast is another really important design principle. Contrast works really well either with color, or size, or shape. Over here I've got two contrasting colors. We've got yellow and blue. Those are opposite each other on the color spectrum. Or we've got black and white. Very obvious contrast, but I've also got big and small in there. There are so many things that you can think of as contrasting. It could be that you've got a very modern design with a bit of traditional text in there. Those are contrasting items alignment. So looking at this document here, it looks okay. But you can start to see that things are not quite aligned as they should be. If I take this item here, I can then align it up and the little guides show me this one here. I'm going to just align it in there. That one I'm going to take. And I'm going to align it, not just left and right, but I'm also looking at the guides to make sure that the distances are the same there and there. Once again, this one here, if I move it along a little bit, it's aligned to, this one's aligned to that. And I think that one is aligned to that one there. Although to be honest, I think with this bottom one, I might try and actually change it so to lines maybe to the bottom of that rather than the top of this one. Or if I made this box a little bit bigger so it lines up to there. And it's so much more pleasing, especially if I can align that one there and then pull this one down to that. Moving on to hierarchy. Hierarchy is the importance of items on your page. Now, looking at this example here, it's all aligned, It's absolutely fine. There's some interesting colors in there, nothing special. But if I took those same shapes and did them like this, now straightway, we know this is the important part. Then we go to that one there, and then we go to these bits over here as well. The hierarchy is so important, and this could be photos that are hierarchical or it could be text. You could have a title there and less text in there. Now, did I use this when I designed the document? Certainly, I did. Let's go back to this page. Over here, I used a blue picture in the background. Therefore, I used a contrasting color, which is this orange over here on the lines, just contrasted as you can see, I've got my text which is in hierarchy form. So I've got the bigger text over there and the smaller text in there. They're lined up perfectly in there. Likewise, these lines are lined up with a space there and a space there. And that space is the same as that space there. They are also opposite each other. So I've got symmetry going on, because this one is on this side, and that's on that side. I've got balance going on. There's a lot of blue over here to counteract it. I've got some blue text going on at the top there. Don't get too hung up on having to have all those principles in every single document. Just try and incorporate as many of them as you can. And when you're looking at your document, if you think something doesn't look right, it doesn't feel right, just go back to those principles again and think. Maybe it's the balance. Check your alignment. Always check your alignment. Maybe I can do something else with repetition. Have fun with it. 23. Introduction to Infographic Video: One of the things that you'll find people ask for quite a lot are infographics. Now the problem of using a template really infographic is it doesn't always match up to what you need the data to show. I'm going to show you how to make a custom infographic. We're going to animate some things in. I also want to show you how to use one of the add ins to do charts, so we can do charts and graphs directly in Express. You can even import your data from something like Excel if you wish. We're going to animate the whole thing and it's going to look amazing when we're finished. 24. Add a Background: Let's do our infographic for an Instagram reel now on this main page. I'm just going to use one of these. Get started. There's an Instagram reel right there or obviously you can find it in the social media. You know that stuff by now, I'm sure backwards, We're going to create this from scratch. This should give me 1920 by 1080 pixels. It's also known as ten TP. You can check it as you know in your res, there we go, 1080 by 1920. Now the first thing I'm going to do is to find a background for this. And I'm going to do that by going to the media into photos. And I just want to steal background. If you want to do something which is moving, that's absolutely fine. Looks quite cool. But I'd suggest using a stationary thing first and steal image first. That way, once you've got all your animation in and you can then do a video for the background and you might find, oh my goodness, there's just too much movement. Anyway, I'm going to go over here and you can see I've been searching already for something interesting and green. I'm going to use some green and yellow paper or just green paper in the background. It doesn't really matter what you find. I'm just looking for something exciting or interesting like this. Not too detailed, but we do want some sort of texture in there. That one looks quite nice. I rather like the look of that, but I can just keep going. There we go. That one's probably the one I'm going to choose and I now want to just scale it up and rotate it around like so. Or we can actually just go in and use the Make background button that you'll see down there. So I'm happy with that as my background. Now my video itself is going to be the full 15 seconds. Ideally, a Instagram reel should be up to about 15 seconds. Obviously, you can do them longer, but that's ideal. I'm actually going to pull this out, so I'm going to get my 15 seconds. Let's just zoom that out a little bit like so. And keep going. So I can see the whole timing of this video. See that is 17 seconds. That's too much. I'll just go back to 15 in here. So the first thing that's going to be there pretty much all the time, is going to be the bit of text on the top. So I'm going to put that in once again over to my text. I'm going to go and add the text in here. And put in whatever text you want. I'm going to do this as a green planet or pure travel, something along that line. That's why I'm using the green background. I'm going to go with pure travel, obviously to show up really well, that's got to go on white. I'll just click in my text, Go down here, that the fill is going to be white in there. I'm going to also go, I'm going to use the dynamic text over there so we can just get two bits of text. Like so I might change the typeface and let's just have a look. We want this to be a little bit thicker. You can choose from anyone of these that you like. I'm just looking for something fairly chunky or delicate. It's entirely up to you. That's quite an interesting one. It's got that earthy feel to it. I'm just going to pop that right over there. So that will be the first bit in there that's going to be there all the time throughout my whole video. There's not going to be any movement on that. But I do want to fade in, so I'm going to click on it. I'm going to go down to my animation in here. In then going to choose Fade. And I'll just get that to fade in maybe over a half a second over there. Reasonably quick. So it just starts up, comes right in, so if you'd like to get that far. And then we will take it on and we'll start with the actual bars that are going to animate into the picture. 25. Animate the Bars In: As you can see, I found another background because I thought the other one was a little bit too light. You can always change the background as you go along. Let's start by bringing in the little bars for the infographic, and there's going to be three of them. I want the tops to be rounded off. I'm going to go along to the elements and I'm going to go over to the shapes. I'm going to just use one of these rectangles in here. Now the rectangle doesn't matter what color it comes in with, I'm going to pull that down and put it in until we get the nice rounded top to it. You can make them as wide or as narrow as you like, so I'm going to pull that down a little bit. I think that's going to be okay for size wise. I quite like that, but I'm going to get rid of the border. So I don't want to border, oops, don't want a border on there. And now I need to change the color. But first of all, before I even change the color, I think I want three of them. So I'm going to just make sure that these are actually the right width. I'll just zoom in a little bit like that and pull it out there, because I want that width over there. There's going to be three of them, So one, I'm going to hold down the Altal, the option key, and drag that to make a second hold down the Alt, the option key, and drag a third time to make the third one in there. You can see as I move them along, it shows me that they're all lined up with that little smart guides in there. And then just move them so that they're right in the middle, like so now it's a matter of recoloring them and changing the height. Let's do the color first. This one's quite a dark green. That's fine. It sort of matches that green there. This one, I'm going to change the green. I'm using a sample tool to sample colors off of the background, so I think I'll take quite a light green for that one there. And this one here, let's get a different green for that. Once again, I'm just going to go into my fill and pick another green. Now they just need to be moved into the right position. This one I'm going to move downwards. That one's going to be way up high, or you can see now that it's not high enough. I'll just move this one down a little bit. I'm going to zoom in. I'm just going to use my command or control to zoom in. You can see now if I grab the bottom, I can just pull that out over there. Lastly, we want these to come in and then we want them to animate in one at a time. This one's going to come in first, then one, then that one. Let's start with this one. Going down to the scene, I'm going to make sure I show the layer timing. This one here is that object. If I get that, I'll move it in just a little bit over there. Once again, zoom in. If you can't get hold of these bits, the animation is going to start off over there. I then want to move this in. This one comes in quite soon. Maybe just after that, I'll bring this one in. So I'm going to click on this one. And once again in move that up to there. The last one is going to come in over here. So I'm going to click it and move it back to there. The timing is going to be, let's zoom out a little bit over here so you can see the W, the whole thing that comes in fairly quickly. You can move them further apart. If you want more drama, I'm going to select them. What I want to do now is to change the animation in here. If I selected all three of them, I can go to my animation down there and I can go to In. And then I can choose now I want them to actually drift in or slide in, it's either or of those two, I'm going to go with slide. I want them to slide upwards. If we do that, they'll just come in one after the other. Very quickly like so. Let's have a look at that again. First 1, second one, third one in. Once we get to this point here, we then want to get the text to fade in on those three little bars, but have a bit of a go with that. I think I've actually, by mistake, moved one of these across. I'm just going to pull it in. There we go, so it's properly lined up. Do check. It's easy to move things by mistake. Have a go get those 3 bars, animating one at a time. And that's going to be over, about 12, 3 seconds in, so. 26. Animated Text: Now one of the things that you need to be careful of when you're doing things for social media overlays, especially with videos because very often Instagram and Tektok will have overlays on top of the video. And I'm a bit concerned that my pure appear is going to be cut off with some sort of overlay on top. And I've got to be careful that I don't put anything too close to the bottom as well. And sometimes we have some things on the right hand side. So what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to take pure down a little bit. Now if I take it down and it's touching the top of this one over here, that causes visually a little bit of tension in the picture. You can see it just doesn't work very well. So I'm actually going to take this and move it up on top of that. This one's going to be a little bit taller like, so I could keep going if I want to further, but I think just over there so we can just about tell that says travel. And that's fine because people have read that at the beginning, immediately it's coming in there were in pure travel and then that one goes over there. Do watch that. Nothing too near the top. Nothing too near the bottom. I'm going to bring in my text. Once again, back to the text tool, I want some simple white text which I'm going to put on the side. So I'm going to say add text in here. I'm going to have three things in here. Scooters, cycling and walking. I'll have scoot, I'm going to say scoot in there. I'm going to get this one correct. So I'm going to zoom right in with my short cut over here. Command control there, select the text. I'm going to go into my options here. I'm looking for something white, so I'm going to choose a white fill over there and maybe something which is easily readable but will look quite cool on the site. I like that one there. And I'm just going to rotate it, so I'm using upper case so well it fits really nicely into that area. Let's zoom out a little bit. There we go. Not too close to the bottom or people won't be able to read your text. Once again, I'm going to hold down the old key or the option key and make a copy. Same again, let's have a third one over there. I'm going to zoom in a bit. This one's going to go right to the very top, this and this is going to be walking because that's the most environmentally friendly one. We'll have to move that down just a little fraction over there. And this one is going to be cycling that goes to the top in there. Now, although it's in the middle, it doesn't look quite like the middle. So I'm just using the arrows on my keyboard to move it around visually. So it looks okay. I think it's because of the angle of the W there. Now we need to decide when to bring this in. We want the bars to come up, and once they've come up, we then want to bring in those bits of text. Let's go to this bit of text here and drag that to there. We're going to go to this bit of text and drag it to here, and that bit of text and drag it to the same position. Once again, playing this. And they all come in at the same time. Sometimes it depends on what tool you're in and what you're doing, but you can actually use the Spacebar to get things to play. I'm just using the Spacebar on to play and press it again to stop, make sure you're not in the type tool because otherwise you'll just be typing spaces obviously. I'm going to select those three items. I'm just holding down the shift key to select all three of them. I'm going to go down here to my animation, and I'm going to animate them in using a fade, it's going to be quite a fast fade in here. You can change the possonality of your fades. So I'm just going to keep it as soft, but fairly quick coming in. Let's test that out again. 27. Animate Out: Let's have a look at the timing. I want people to have enough time to read those 3 bars starting. They come in, people go all cycle walking, scoot and stop. Now I want them to disappear. I'm going to once again, as before, just start to fade things out. So walk cycle will be fading out at one time now. Oops, let me bring them in again. Let's start off with Scot and I'm going to pull it up from the bottom. Go to walking, pull that one up, and lastly cycle and pull that up. That's the end. So that's where they will disappear. Let's try that now, play. Is there enough time to read them? Yes. Now the other thing that I'd like to do is I'd like them to fade out quickly. So I'm going to select them. 12.3 I'm holding down the shift key to select them. Go to my options here. Go to Animation, Fade out. And let's choose fade with a very quick fade. Those should work now let's try that out. And they come and fade in and fade out. At this stage then while they're probably starting to fade, I want to then get the little bars to move down as well. Let's start with that. This one I want to go first. I'm going to click on this one. What I'm going to do is I'm going to pull this across to where I want it to go. Let's see where that is. So those fade out there. I'll pull this up to that point. This one, the bar, if I go down here, that's going to actually slide out again. So I'll choose slide and it's going to go downwards over. There may be a half a second. Let's check that out. First of all, make sure it works before we do. The other ones comes in. I think this could start a little bit, just a fraction later. So I'll just pull it on a little bit. So actually the text will just disappear. And then that can start to move. While that one's moving, then I want the next one to start to go. I'm going to drag that up to there. And once again do exactly the same thing with the animating out, slide out, going downwards over half a second. That one goes, I think I've got that one going too quickly, so I might have to elongate it in a bit in there. That one slides out, then that one starts to go, and then we've got the last one over here. So let's pull this up a little bit. Like I might have to pull it across a bit more. We'll check it out and see how it works. I'm going to be sliding out downwards, and I think it goes too quickly. So I'll just move it on a little bit. I'm having problems moving it. You can see it pull it, and then it suddenly jumps. Zoom in that way. You've got a bit more control, let's have a look at that. And then that finally, I might have to shorten that one just a little bit like that. Check this out from the beginning. Always keep going back to the beginning and think about your timing. Can people read what you've got? Is it working? Does it make sense? There we are, that's perfect. So do have a little bit of a go with that and get those things to disappear. And then we're going to be bringing some text and a sunshine type of thing in the background as well. 28. Add Dynamic Text: Now let's bring in a bit of text in here. I'm going to go to my text tool, add some text. I'm going to make this text a lot smaller. Before I paste in the text, I've got some texts that I've copied just about pollution and polluting cars and buses, et cetera. I'm going to make it smaller first, otherwise the text will just go all over the place. I'm going to paste my text in over there, there's my text and I'm going to pull it in a little bit and it's going to go over there. But I want to be a little bit more interesting As always, I'm going to try the dynamics, which actually looks really good because you can see some of those words. If you look really closely, say things like pollution and diesel, et cetera. I'm going to change the text color to white. Zoom in a bit so you can see this over here. I've got this really Corbitt in there with some of the words being bigger than others. That just makes a lot of sense what I'm doing in here. I like that I might move it up a little bit more over there. And then I want to start, I want to bring it in when the rest of the things have finished animating. I'm just going to pull it across to here. Let's have a little bit of a look. Those will come in. They disappeared down. As they're disappearing down, I want this to appear. I'm going to go over to my animation. I'm, I'm going to fade it in. Let's have a look and see how that works. This a bit of a gap where there's nothing going on in the background, so I might even move it up. I'm going to zoom in and just pull this forward a little bit over there. So it's kind of just about starting. I want to start about there. Let's see how that works. Great, so there's no sort of dead screen if you like. There's always something going on to keep people's interest. 29. Charts and Graphs: Let's make a chart here. I want to do a pie chart. I'm going to go down to the add ons. In add ons, there's something called a simple chart. I think it is all simple graph. There are simple chart, that's the one that I want. You just have to click to install it. Then over here we can then start to bring in the details for our graph. We can choose different types of graphs. In here, I'm going to choose the doughnut graph, I think, rather than the pie chart. The doughnut graphs look very, very cool down here. I can then add a particular label for something and a value. Let's start over here. This will be the Scooter. I'm going to give it a value of 50, then let's add that in, And you can see immediately, it's made the chart in there. And then I'm going to have the cycling. I'm going to give that a value of 140. Once again, we'll add that in. Let's do, the last one will be walking. I'll give that value of 250. Once again, just to add that in as well. That is our graph in there. Now the color, they leave a lot to be desired. To be honest, what I'm going to do is click on the color here for the different parts. The most important one, I suppose, is actually going to be the walking. Let me click on the walking, and I'm going to go and change the color. In here, you can say, I can click on the color to open up this little bar. I can then change it to a different color. I'm going to go with something a little bit more yellow green over there. I think that'll, it'll work quite well. There's also a transparency. I'm going to make it slightly less transparent. You'll see what happens when I put this over my background. This transparency means that some of the background will show through and the texture will show through as well. So I'm going up to about there. Let me do the next one. This one here, once again I'm going to go with a green, but maybe a slightly darker, more bluey green color. And once again, change the transparency. You can just experiment with them to see how they work. This last one over here, let's go with more of a yellow, very yellow green in there. And I'll pull that across to there as well. I like those three colors. They're very similar to the background colors that I've got in here. Now, all I've got to do is generate it and it will make that graph for me. It should have come in, there it is. Right at the top, you can see the transparency is showing through. I'm going to pull that in and I'm going to make it a little bit larger over there. Do have a bit of a go with that. Go along to your simple chart and just put in the values in here and the label, you don't have to have a label if you don't want one. And then you can just change the color of the individual parts, whether it's something more modern like this, like a donut graph or a traditional pyograph or any of the other graphs in there as well. Vertical bars, I can do something along that line. I'll just generate that, there it is over there. If I wanted something a little bit more traditional that really are as easy to do as that, have a bit of a go with those and create an interesting graph. 30. UnDraw Plug in: Now, just before we leave this, a few other bits to notice, there is a hide label option in there, so we can hide the little labels that pop up. If you see numbers on your pie, you can hide them. You've also got the option yet to drag in a file, for example an Excel file or a CSV file into there to pick up the data. Now what I'd like to do though, is I'd like to actually put in some images on there. One of a scooter, one of somebody walking, and of a bicycle. I'm actually going to also in the add ons, go along and find another add on in here. This one is called undraw're, going to click on that. I'm going to search for cycle, find a cycle. There we go. That one looks quite good. Then I want to change the color. Now you can see over here, that's brought in the black one because I clicked on it already. Let me get rid of that. I'm going to change the color and I'm going to make it white. Then when I click on it, you can see it'll bring in a white little cycle over there. We want three of them. We want to cycle. They've given a scooter already. Let's have a little scooter in there. Get a bit on large site for the moment. Let's have a walking, a walking, one running. That's power walking. That will do very nice. I'll just click on on that, to bring it in. There are my little icons. All I'm going to do now is to move them into the appropriate areas. Now remember, with all these things, they come in right from the beginning of the video. We want to start them about this stage here where this comes in. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go in and I'm going to start off with the graph. I'll click on the graph of the chart. I'm going to drag that up to there. I'm going to go to the options. I'm going to get that to animate in, and it's going to fade in as per usual. I'll do that about a second. Maybe a fade in there. Same over here with these, we've got that one that'll start there as well. This will start there too. That'll start there as well. But these three, I'm going to also fade in. So I'm going to get to animation in, fade in, but I'm going to give them much more of a fade. So let's try 2 seconds in there. Let's see how it works. So we'll just go back to here. Play that. Those fade in and the pictures fade in slowly as well. They do need to be moved around because you can barely see what, what some of them are. Do. Try that out. Have a bit of a go once again, bring those, those in. Remember not too much detail down the bottom or you'll lose it on with the social media overlays. 31. The Final Timing and Animations: Now, I'm going to give people enough time to read what's going on there and absorb it. Then towards the end, I want this to fade out. And I want to have a piece of text in there that says, love the planet. I always want to bring in a sun. The whole idea behind here is the sun's coming out at the end and everything is going to be okay. Maybe about four fifths of the way across here. I want to get all these things to fade out. I'm going to then go in and look at them individually. So it's going to be about here. Let's start with these ones here. And they are going to be disappearing. Now I want to make sure that they do fade, so I'll go to animation. Fade out and they're going to fade out over half a second. I'm going to make sure that this one will also fade out. Will change its position in a moment. That's going to fade out. This one's going to fade out as well. We're putting some fade out there now. I need to move them across as well. Let's start with this one here. I'm going to move that up there. I'm going to go to the people, or bicycles, shall I say, That's going to fade out at the same time. This one's going to fade out at the same time, and that one's going to fade out at the same time. Then the text, I'll get there to fade a little bit later. Just a fraction later, the ending is going to look like that, They fade out, and that one disappears as well. In fact, maybe the text will fade out. Oh, I didn't fade the text out, I thought I had. But it's going to fade out slightly longer, maybe over 2 seconds for the text to disappear. Let's see what that looks like, can go on for a little while longer. Then I'm going to bring in some text over here. I'm just going to the same type face that I was using for the other things, plain type face. I'm going to go to my add some text over here. This is going to say love the planet. I will zoom in so I can see what's going on. With that, I'm going to go down to the usual dynamics and I'm going to pull this down. So it goes over a few lines like that, let's change to your, make it more personal that's better love your planet like so then obviously we're going to select that as usual. Fill that with white and maybe change the typeface to something a little bit thicker. If I could find the same type faces that, I'll probably do that quickly as well. Otherwise, I could just use bold in that we move that into the right position. That's going to start towards the end over here. So let's play that out. So that fades out. And we have love your planet coming in fairly large. Just scaled up a bit down there. And I'm centered it as well. I think with love your planet, we will fade that in again. So we get the sort of soft fade between all of these items. This whole fading thing is a personal preference. If you want to bring them in harsh or if you want to bounce them in or drop them in, it's entirely up to you. That will then fade in over there. And in fact, I'm going to get it to start fading in a little bit further up. I'll just pull it up to about there. That one's going out and the lovely planets coming straight in. Lastly, I want to bring in a sunshine, which is going to sit behind the pure travel as well. Let's go and find the sun. I'm going to go to the elements and I'm going to type in in the design assets. Sun, there's all sorts of different sunshines in here. Pick anything that appeals to you. I quite like that once I'm going to choose that, make it a bit bigger, make sure it's selected, make it a little bit bigger like that. I'm going to move it up over there. And I'm going to move it below all the other text. I'm just scrolling down to get it to go all the way down to the bottom but not below the background, so it'll sit back over there. Now, maybe I only want to come in towards the end after people have read all of that stuff and then the sun will come out over here. So I'm going to pull it over to there and I want to drop it in. The animation I'm going to use is to bring it in from the top or the side. Let's get to animation animate in. And that's going to be coming in from the side, so I can drift it in from the side or the top. Let's try drifting it in from the top. It's going to come in from the top there. We'll have something which looks like that as the sun comes in, might be better to get the sun to come up. It's more usual thing rather than the sun going down. Let's try that. And the sun comes up over that when it's in there, I might want to move as well, to just give a little bit of life to it so I can go to looping. And there's all other options from blinking to pulsing. That pulsing is quite nice. It's tri pulsing, but I don't want to be too intense. The pulsing, let's look just enough, let's try that out. Some comes out little pulses like. So now there's only one more thing that I want to do with that. And that's right at the very beginning where these little bars have come up. I wanted to look like, it's almost like a graph and it's going up to a specific number. But to do that I need some grid in there and I'm going to actually create my own grid. It's not going to be a grid, it's going to be a hole of lines. Let me go and do that. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my elements. I'm going to go to shapes and I'm going to find the lines I store sun up. That's why I'm going to go to shapes and I'm going to find the lines down here, spew them all. There's a straight line there. I'm going to then make some copies of this. I don't want to go across the whole thing just delicately up one side. But before I go any further, I'm going to change the color to something that I want. I'm going to use white. I'm going to hide this so I can see what I'm doing. And maybe zoom in a little bit like that. Now I've got the one there. What I'm going to do is I'm going to hold down the option or the old key and drag it up to make a copy. I'm going to do another one over here. And you can see as it gets to the position, it knows how far it is away from the other one. You can actually just get them aligned up fairly easily that way. Now, once you've done two or three, then you can select those. So I can select that one. Hold down the shift key, that one and that one, I can do the same again, so I'll just hold down the alter the option key and op. I've done it with my background, this is where it does get a little bit tricky. So I'm going to select that one, that one and that one. Make sure I'm on one of them, at least. Let's go to the middle one here, hold down the altar, the option key, and drag them up. Once again, you can see, there we go, I've got the same distance over there. I'll do the same again, just redrag it like. So watching my distances and one last one. Oh, now it's so easy to pick up that background by mistake, which I've done. This one. This one and this one. And I'll make a copy of that up to there, didn't quite get there. Let's try that again. That one, I think that's right because I keep going off the edge. Let's try that one. And this one here, hold down the old key on the right one. And drag that up. There we are, right? I've got all of these shapes. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all of those shapes. Let's see if we can select them this way now. Won't let us select them that way. I have to just do them by selecting them manually here. It's so easy to click on the wrong thing. Sometimes it's actually easier to just go into the layers and then try and select items from there. But I'm going to hold down the shift key and just work my way through all of these to select them. Once I've done them, by the way, I'm going to group them in case you're wondering why I'm doing this. All right. We, I want to group them together in the options here, there's an option to group things. I can group them together. And you can see there's 11 objects now inside there. And then I'm going to hold down the old key and make a copy of that group, and just drag it in a little bit like that. We've got that one and that one, and I can group them together as well. So we've got two groups in one. The great thing now is that I can move this group around if I need to put it wherever I want. I'm just going to have it just on the side there and I'm going to reduce the capacity. So it's a little bit more, well, a little bit less in your face. Let's have a look at the time line over here, because we don't want to be there all the time. Firstly, if I just click on it, I might have to go right the way to the top and find it. Click on it. I'm going to go to my animation. I'm going to animate it in over there. Over 1 second, that's fine. And then it's going to be there with all these things until they disappear. Of course it's going to disappear if we pull it in a bit from the right hand side over there. And I'll animate that out as well. And she'll be getting really used to all of this animating out business. The last thing I want to do is I want to move that below the other objects. So I'm going to take those groups and pull them down until they go underneath everything else except that background picture. So they're all behind the change the capacity ever so slightly, right? Let's play this from the beginning and see if there's anything else we need to do. It starts off here, they all come in. It's all. Absolutely. There's no big blank areas in there. I can read the text. I've got enough time to go through the text. Sun comes up at the end and that's it. Finished. If you wanted to. At the very end, you could take, say for example, the text. And just fade it out once again. We'll go to the fade. Fade that out. We'll fade that one out as well. Just leave the sunshine on the screen. So we'll fade that out there. Let's just look at that last little bit over there. Play. That sun comes up. Those fade out. I thought my pure travel was fading out. I must have done something wrong. Fade out. That's done, yes. Let's see, last little bit, they fade out and just leave the sun. Once you've done that, you can then just download it. So I go to download up here, P 4108. Click on download to save that. Have a go with that. 32. Create a Mockup: Now as a little bonus, I want to show you how you can put your screen into a mock up. We're going to go to the add ons over here, and I'm going to choose an add on called mock up or mock up as it seems to be called. If you look at the spelling, I'll click on that. And you can see straight away what it's done is it's shown my screen, my video screen in different areas. I could choose one of those very quickly and have my screen in the device, but as you can see, it's not ideal over there. It's to one side because it's showing me this at the moment with an iphone 13. That's because that's what she's holding. If you go to the other images, you might find it's on different devices. We click over there, we've got on an ipad Air. The issue is that as you're choosing these, it might not fit onto the device. Let me go back again over here and I want to fit this onto that phone that the person's holding on the bicycle, like that one there, but I need to move it over. What I'm going to do is I'm going to say Change screenshot. And I'm going to click on Crop. And then in here I can just move this over into the right position. I'll move the crop across to the middle, apply the crop. And you can see it's absolutely fixed in there. And then I can just export that mark up in here. You get five free ones, otherwise you have to pay for them, but you still have to register for the free ones as well. Let's change this to something else. So I'll just go in and say, well what about if it was like that one there? We can just change the screenshot, reload the current page, and you can see that's what I've got now on there. And once again, I can just export that out anyway. Do have fun with that and create some really cool mock ups of your work. 33. Well Done & Thank You!: Well done. You've finished the whole course. I bet you're creating incredible work and you're an absolute master at express. Now please remember to leave us a review. It really does help us to make better content for you. Go out there and create incredible work with your new skills. Don't forget to share them. We love seeing what you're doing. Most of all have lots and lots of fun with it.