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1. 1 introduction: Hello and welcome
to this course. Hey, my scribble sent you a lot that you
joined this course. And I really hope you learn a
little bit something today. This is a very quick course. Guide you a little bit
through the process, how I make my thumbnails. I use CorelDraw for this and we will drop
into the program. I hope you can do already a
little bit of basic of it, because that will
be very helpful. And I will go with you through the rough layout of how and
why I choose a picture, who I put contours
of on pictures, how I put shadows, put script in, how I play
a little bit with script. Who I make like different
kind of contour. So my script, different
kinds of feelings, different variations of
feelings, what we can do. And I give you a little bit some inside tips why I do
certain things on Tantalus. What kind of font
it's good to use. What kind of placement
for certain things, certain stuff who I
rework a little bit, pictures I use about contrast, saturation and so on. That's all the stuff we
dive in a little bit in this very small
workshop for today. So thank you Lord, for signing
up and let start directly
2. 2 basics: Let's start with the
basic of career. Just to show you a
little bit or interface, show you a little bit some
little hex and shortcuts and let you understand
the program a little bit. Because it is, it may
look a little bit frightening when you
are a first time working with something
like horrid row. These are real graphic
program with vectors. Because first of all, let me explain you a little bit what a
vector is for this. Let's take just
like a little word. Let's take love. And some of you may know that I love a lot to play
around with script. So let's take our classical
silence script here. What is Courier New? It's not a big
secret about that. So let's take a Courier New, and you see right
now we still work like in every other program. And right now we still
have trusted script. But what I can do no, no is that we convert the script into a vector and I
press on the right, and I'm a convert to course. And what we have
now is a vector. So we can go in the script anymore and change
the script, just typing. So it's not a script anymore, it's not a graphic,
a vector graphic. And a vector graphic is
lines and dots and two, you see already some
notes and stuff here. But to show you that
a little bit proper, you go to View and
you go to wireframe. Wireframe view is very
handy because it shows you, it shows you what
is your vector. And you can always switch between wireframe
and then Haynes. And let's say you
change the color, doesn't matter what
color you use. We will use some pink
because I love pink, reddish pink, so silent pink. So you'll see it
looks like a script, but also when I take it
and I move it around, you already can see the
lines of the vector lines. So let's jump back to wireframe and you don't see any color,
anything else anymore. And what No happen when
you like copy paste it. And you'll see you have
like two over each other. It looks very messy right now because you
only see the lines. So when you later, you create like a lot
of different elements. As example, just to
give you a rough idea. Then the wireframe always
shows you only the wire. And when you go back to View
and you go to enhanced, then you really actually
see what we have done. So it looks like a credit, but you have the vectors behind. And very beautiful things
about the vectors is, let's go back to our basic love. And I will just
play a little bit around right now because to just play around is a very important step when you
start on a vector program. And it doesn't matter if it's
called RAV is Illustrator. I personally, I've worked with cold Rob because when I was 14, I helped a little bit in a graphic office where he made prints for
cars and big stuff. And they used a lot
of watering and coral is more related
to plotter ring. And most of the graphic world
p-side of slaughtering. They work more with Illustrator. And when I would know, dive back into, and I
would really start again. I would probably start on illustrator because I anyway pay for all my Adobe programs
and I have illustrated, but I basically don't use it. I use this very, very old coral. But absolutely doesn't matter. I'm just rocking two
decades on the program. That's why I'm really like, I know all the shortcuts and I know where everything is and I'm very I'm very
stuck to death. So I don't want to change this. So let's show you some
very beautiful things. What's the different because
of apec and a vector? When I take this as
a JPEG and I like, let's say we export
it as a JPEG. Just to, to show you
quick what happen. And the export is love. And we export it as an trust
and normal apec and RGB, let's even go to 100 per cent. So like a no, no downsizing or
compromising of the quality. And we export is no. It's like it's why we
are in doesn't matter. We are intentional. I know why A4 in millimeter So we're like 15 centimeter
wide in our graphic. And I usually work in the
original size I want to print. Let's go quick and show
you the difference. Because it's very
important that you really, really understand
what's the difference between a shape egg
and the vector. You see this is like a very, very high-quality che, peg. And I don't know why not
can zoom consuming more. But you already see that the corners get
started blowing out. I don't know why I
cannot zoom in more. Doesn't matter because
what I can do is I can import the apex. So now we have on
the top the apec, and we have on the bottom
we have our vector. And you'll see what happens
when I really zooming in no way zoomed in like 31,000%. And you see it's very pixelated. You'll see what what does shape box-like almost every
format like this in, in pixels, the more
pixels you have, the better the
resolution, and so on. But right now we're in
the graphic program, so we are not
depending on pixels. So that means you
see what happened. I zoom in and I'm soon in
like 260,000 per cent. So like almost, let's
go a little bit higher. Like that's the maximum. So like we were almost ten
per cent more zoomed in, then we are in JPEG and there
is no Pixlr, no nothing. And it allows us to
really remove node J peg. We don't need it to. Like, let's say I
want to assume this. You'll see two to know
14 m size we have now. And we can export it as a JPEG. We don't, we'll do that, no. Because then we
have to wait a long time because that will
be a lot of data. And we can even export
this now in like 10 m and t phi like completely
unconscious compress tiff file. Also not want to do that and not every
computer can do that, but that's like you
really never used it. I never only for the
third dimension tattooed, have one tattoo I made
over ten peoples. But that was the
very first time I was printing out the pattern
on two-and-a-half meters. I'm actually designed
the pattern in original size here and a
printed out in original size. I have some tricks for this, but I will make maybe a
different workshop where I show more hold to use motives in
related for tattoos tensor, who I prepare titles and so on. But right now go back to gets, Let's go back to the basic. Let's go a little
bit smaller again. Let's zoom in. And I show, you know, like a very big
advantage of vectors. So first of all, you have to understand that
it is not phones anymore, it's not a letter. So I can take basically you see, I take all the notes and
I can move the notes up and I can play play with it. I can play with it when I
want to change my letter. I can change my letter and
it doesn't matter if it's a letter or if you
just paint something, you see the chest
pain something. I just take the line way to make it easiest for you all to understand and know I
can can wrap it around, you know, whatever
we want to do. And you have to think
it's like paper. You have to think it's
almost like paper. You can cut it, you
can not like paper. You can do a lot
less with paper. And you can say, I
want to have a circle. Don't get confused by the line. It does it by default. But let's say we want usually
I like to work a lot with different Carlos just to see my different levels to understand that's like
all different levels. And what we can do is we can
take both of them together. And now we can say, we can take this on
the sides to have you different examples what to do. And we can now trim it out. So it's like corrupts
it out like a scissor and novae have something
completely different. We also can say we want it molts it together,
it welded together. So n it welds it together. And there's a lot of
different options you can do. There's a lot of things
you can do with vectors. Also. You, anytime you can break
every single pod, right? Notice this one vector. But what we can do is you
can save the breakoffs apart I know you see it. It looks like a circle,
but when you go No, On few wireframe, you see
it's still all there. And what you can do
know is you could shift actually,
these two things. Let's make it a little
bit more easy for you. We can just change
the color of this. And so now we have two elements and we
can combine it again. And now we have, yeah, we just have to same, you know, I know I like a lot to play with the colors and
they are no rules, vesicles with the script. So let's say we
take it like this. We welded together. So now in that moment, I show you that the best
in wireframe for you I can recommend just make something like this
and just play around, just like go a little bit
wild and play around. And you will see, right now
it may look like it's one, but then you go in wireframe and you see it's two elements. And in a moment we welded, it becomes one element. This one element. I show you the, the big advantage of that. Because go one bag
and you have no, You see already I move this. And I move this. You'll see it looks different. And the advantage no, is in case we want to
have a line around, like a black line, speak. And we won't have the
same line around here. It's two elements. So that means it looks either this or you're
shifting to the front. This is also something very
important for you to know. You go here on range and then you have
stuff like order to back off pays two front
of pages basically where you have it because it's almost like layers like papers. So chest. Put it where you want it, you know, and also
align you have a lot. You can line it on the bottom, you align it on
the top for this, you have to put two to get
us or let's say I want them and I want them to be
on the bottom together. Then you go to arrange and you go to a line and
you go to Align Bottom B. And for everything is
like shortcuts, you know, because I know when I want them like in
a line, I go to E. When I want them on the top, I go to T and so on. When you want them like
in one lying you presses, see there's like a
lot of shortcuts. And that's also a
reason why stock so long to get over his career. So let's let's mold
them together like this and remove that
because we trying to build something
little silly today. And let's take this one. We combine that again. There's some difference
between combining and the welding and to crop and a lot of other
stuff you have. And I will not go
too much in depth. I would say put it on the bottom together and nobody
read it altogether. So now we have one
vector and you see, this was chest little
bit playing around, but we got already something
a little bit different, something a little
bit nice maybe. And keep keep going from there. We can keep going from
there as no limits. Let's show you quick. One thing I show a
lot peoples when I showed them the
very first time. Also, how crazy this program is. Let's make this behind. Let's take the outline away. And what you can do. One thing I love a lot
is the intersection. So we take the intersection, we make it in a different
color, pull it up. I know you have very fast
stuff and I know you can do stuff like this in
Photoshop as well. But it's different because we are not related
to pixels still. And we have that advantage. We can take every
thing is own elements. So we can say, we
want a line around this and we want seeker
line around this. And we want to seek a line
in a different color. It's no problem, you know, and we won't have
pseudoplastic line here. But put it behind. Oops. Maybe too sick, maybe too thick. And put it behind and put
it in a different color. You know, that's like we
can do a lot of things and show in case your love
graphic stuff like I do. There's endless opportunity
and I broke sometimes with the newer correlated has
a lot of advantages too. The old one, but it's
also very pricey. So usually when you're not a professional, it's not worth it. But yeah, as you
see it as like you can do a lot of things
with not much time. So let's go back to this or you see we take
the liner way. We take the liner way. You see you create very
fast simple things. And it's a vector. So you still let say, Oh, we like it like this. Let's, let's this one, crop out of it. So we actually have one vector and now we can already put another
line around it. You'll see it looks
completely driven again. That's the big
advantage we have. And for us, it doesn't matter if you make this
or we make a pattern. If we make whatever you know, that's doesn't
matter and we still, we can zoom in. Here, 25,000 presents, its
no pixel, it's nothing. Let's go a little more advanced to show you the endless
possibilities of this. Let's make a thicker line. Sure, right now, some of
the lines are not perfect, like here when I would
really make a logo, create something for print, for graphic related for tattoo. I would spend more effort to
make the connection dots. Like the I here. I would make the
connection gods nice. I would spend some time
with it, whatever, would figure out why
make it as endless ways. What we can do know is we
go to range and we can convert the outline in a
vector. So what are we done? No, you see I go back
once I show you a creek, what we do with the outline, because the outline, It's
only what we visually see, not what is vector and
the backend for this, you check the wireframe
and you see the wireframe. It's just one line. And this line we
see we can make in the outside appearance
the wide as we want. So let's go to enhance. So you see, the
line is very sick, but what we wanna do know we want the line as vector S value. So we can do that. We can do everything
was vectors. So let's go back into wireframe to show you what we've done and you'll
see what we've done. You don't. What we've done is that
this is our outline. Now you see that this is
our outline and this is our thing behind because we created two patterns
to vector graphics, no, two vector graphics. And this gives us another
opportunity because we can outline this again and you'll see it looks
completely different. I mean, you basically
can go on from this, you know, you can say Maine. I want converted to
outlines two curves. And sometimes like
because it wasn't perfect and a little
mistake happen. Like here. Sometimes
there's an easy fix. But I, you see here
somewhere it's broken. And this vectors
when you go very, very graphic, when
you go very crazy. Sometimes you need some
time to r here it's open to find the broken links. And the more perfect you are working in the
beginning this vectors, the less you will have problems. After all. That's like, I don't
know what happened here, but you'll see they're
not connected. That's like big, big
troublemaker here. You basically can move a
certain way and put it back. And they have to be connected. Two main to make
all of this happen. Yeah, that can happen. Sometimes you want
to show people, you see there's like one more. Still not fully gone
becoming somewhere. I don't know. I
think this is from the bottom under
no, I don't know. It's here. Look very tricky. Very tricky? But you see you just have
to find the mistakes. And the earlier, you correct
it better. Here it was. Here it was no. Must be somewhere. Come on. All connected now. I don't know I don't know
why it does this right now. But doesn't matter. Doesn't matter for the
purpose I want to show you. Because what I want
to show you is just how far you really can go to create an endless amount
of endless amount of things. And there are no
match limitations. I mean, the SEC No, we made somewhere
a little mistake. Somewhere still. One not with like not connected. I hope I could find
it to prove a point. But you remember
when I was saying the beginning that
it's good to make it as perfect as you can in the beginning.
That's what it is. Sometimes it's like very tricky. We set vector stuff. I don't even know
where it is somewhere. It can be somewhere here. Okay. You gotta point. The program is provoking me. Here we go. But nobody like kind of
ruined our, our thing. Let's also not a problem. You can always like, you can like straight
everything up. Like let's say we make
one straight line. Here. We take the line and you see over here are like a
lot of not seeing. The good thing is when
you make mistakes, that is how you learn the best. And now we want to bend it. So which has gone
bending and want to bend that baby and
bended where it belongs. Almost perfect. I would say that's alright
for our sake of showing. But as you can see it as
like a lot of ways or like, let's say I don't like this. I can just like take it
out, erase it fully. Take it out. And it looks
all very much cleaner. There's a lot of
adventures advantage as we have when we're
working with vectors. Let's kill all of this and a lot of things It's
also good to understand. The same is with every else
you have here. Right now. It's just a square. When you press here on convert
to cause it gets a vector. So you basically can
form it like a vector. You can form everything. And before you make a vector, you have a lot of, it's the
same as with the typing. You know, you have a lot
of things you can say, I wanted like round. So you can make it
round or you can play with it and you can change certain things of two elements. And then you transform it into a vector and know it's
frozen as a vector. So you know, you basically can work with it as
you've seen before. And a lot of things
what I use are helping lines like I just
go to this side. Then I grab this, the left. And then you can grab as much as helping lines
out as you want. Especially let's say you create some stuff and you want
it all on the same thing. You can basically,
you see snapper The edge and snip it here. So you notice both on the same
or you want snippet here. And that's a very
important thing. What we later we'll need for
when we make our patrons, because even you can put
the center to the center. It's very easy workflow. And this you go to I
think it's in you. Yes. You go in and you make
snap snap to grid, snap to guidelines,
snap two objects. Snap to. Guide line is the line here. Snap to everything. Sometimes you don't want a snip, sometimes you're
working, you know, when you have to snip and you
see it's like it it snaps. So there's nothing in-between
this like it snaps. And sometimes you don't
want that it snaps, then it's good to snip it out. So I would say that's
pretty much a lot of the very basic you like the guidelines you can
trust, like erase them. And I really recommend you for the basic start with
really little things, make them in color. So you understand and learn
a little bit of shortcuts, especially the one for
shift in Toronto and bake. The ones for aligning on
the bottom, on the top, on the right, on
the left they are like on the one I want
to center something. I press P and C and
I have it centered, so it goes very fast. You have a very fast workflow
and play a little bit with the trim tool resistive
well, tours intersection. As I mentioned
before, intersection, I like a lot because you
can make very fast sings, play a little bit
with, with script. Whatever you wanna do, transform the script
to something else. And I mean, just play a
little bit around with it because you will like it. It's very nice. It's it helps you to
understand the process. It helps you to
understand the program. Because when you want to go
a little bit more deeper in it will be very important. A debt you a little bit
understand the program. Also. Some of you may want to use it to make
some nice designs. And I show you like
little things I like a lot to do making
like color shifts. And I always do the
Nautilus transparencies. I do that always with intersections and start playing a little bit around with it. And sure, later on, you will have a lot of things like transparency, drop shadows. You have so much possibilities. If you want the
transparency on something. Oh, you want the
transparency hole. Basically, you have a lot
of Photoshop tools on top. But even that you are like No into Photoshop related things, you still work in vectors. Are you still able to
like whatever change, whatever you want with it? And you see what I can
do easy, I can do it. Like let's say we sell lines. I like a lot and then you
have two lines but you want the transparency
only off the inside. We put a transparency
only on the field. We won't put a transparency
only on the outline. It's endless possibilities. You have recess program. But this is already a more advanced than what
we wanna do today. But I think it was still
necessary to dive into the very basic of color that
what we've done
3. 3 format template: First thing what we do is
to set the right format. So we kind of building
ourselves a little template. I like to work in millimeters, so I switched to a four. So I have everything in
millimeter here on the top. So I take the rectangle
tool and scale a little bit odd and just put
somewhere square inside. So now we go and
we put that square 260.90 because we have 16 to nine. It's a normal thumbnail format. It's like everywhere. And sometimes it deepens. Sometimes I like to
make a tamponade. I like to make on the same side, a template for Instagram
square as example. And depends on what kind
of format you want. Yeah, convenient to sometimes bring them a little
bit together, but we're focusing
on thumbnails today. So we work with this. What I'm liked to do a lot is using a pink color and
drop this on my outline. And I show you very
fast why I do this. Let's just take any picture
quick to just show you. And I take the picture behind. No. As you see, I can use
the lines and see exactly where do I
do my thumbnail. And let's say, I want
my thumbnail here. I use the cursor to go
little bit up and down. And I see directly where
this thumbnail is hitting. So that's the first step what we do and doesn't meet on
how much thumbnails I do. I keep usually copy paste this over and just
keep a few of them. And don't worry about
the pink outline yet, because later on we will
erase this field anyway. Just make sure you
have them not to seek. Maybe on the High
Line is even enough. Depends on what kind
of templates you use, but usually I keep
them on the hairline. I export this and File Save As go to the workshop. New nails. And I will put your 169 plus Korea in. I will put that also up to
toe load for you all squared. Zone top. I just open my social
media templates and you see they are all like already prepared for
the different formats, different platforms use. And I will also drop that in for you guys just in
case you need it. But as you see here, very easy. I put some in, as you can see, I put some script over it
so I find exactly what I need when I needed and I don't have to every
time sought out. The right thing
4. 4 picture choice and rework: X4. The first very important
thing is we're choosing a picture and you can choose
pretty much everything. I just drop in a
few pictures I will find here in the UK IV. Let's go. Okay, we just dropping
in a few pictures and then we see what
we will do out of it. I put a few pictures from me
and maybe we drop in a few more and a few screenshots because sometimes you don't have very nice pictures like this. That's the the best-case. Sometimes you just have to work with the pictures
you get into frame. So what I do is I go into Premier Pro and I export a
few pictures, a few stills. And let's just choose a few of them random
pictures. I have. Some are betas, AMA bores. Usually they are not the best. Depends on the camera you have. Okay. Let's let it drop in a few more. And as you see, we have a few more here, no. So they all pretty big. So let's kind of sun
them a little bit down that we have roughly
the size what we need. So that's pretty
much how I start. That's now a random
why it makes, but let's say you have
one should and let's say maybe we kill this
one, doesn't matter. Let's say that's all
the pictures from one flock and I want to make the thumbnail for
this one flock. So let's assume that's the
thumbnails for the flock. So I would like to
choose one of them. And I mean, choosing the right pictures
can be very tricky, right? So let's go quick
into the picture because when you're
making a thumbnail, this looks pretty are
right now for I mean, for a screenshot you see
I'm a little bit too dark. But something that
really helps is like always zooming
in very small. So you see no, I have roughly roughly the
size of a thumbnail. So because a lot of time you attempt to work like
this on a big picture. Big pictures always
look much better, much clearer that when
you go very small. And that's not the best to show, but this would be
a good to show. I show you on all of them. So what you want to
do is you want to boost the contrast and push
the saturation a little bit. It sounds maybe a little
bit weird right now, but it will do the job. You will see we go to effect. Maybe. I put two of them next
to each other so you can see the difference
of what we do know. And novae go to Effect, adjust, and then we go first
to brightness and contrast. What I do know is usually I
push the contrast up a little bit, maybe even more. It can be little bit
extreme and then I push, make it a little bit lighter. Also. Be like the thing I do. Make the same on this
picture that you can see the different brightness contrast intensity per review. And, or right. And you can see when we go no, a little bit smaller. You already can see how much
clear that picture look. It's so much easier to read
from the small tamponade, but you have to think
about thumbnail is something it is always small. Usually people watched it on their smartphones
and smart phones. I don't know how big
smartphones. I like this. So template looks
like this size. It's roughly like what we have. Yes. Hold it there. And it's
like it's like this. So that's what we see. It really helps to get
yourself an idea to take your phone and hold
it next to it so you actually can see the difference. Also, what I dont know, it helps a lot to have a real comparison to
what the original looks. In comparison to WHO The new one looks so
let's make one more. You go in and you see
on the bigger one, this one looks much
nicer than this one. This looks way too
overset way, way to over. We make the same here. You see it looks like not
nice or the color slope, but then you go smaller. And here you see how much
more clear that looks. A lot of time. I even go that far and push even the saturation
a little bit. So let's adjust the iteration and push even the saturation. You see that? And we make that on all of them. A range effect, adjust
saturation and just push the saturation
a little bit. And here the same effect adjust. And you'll see noted
colors come out much more clean and
you see already the, what the trick does, you know, and that is something It's so easy and it
makes it thumbnails so better because no one will ever see your thumbnails
in that size, shoe and dead size you
see from the oversight aerating the picture
Not looks nice anymore. Likes terrible. I would say it looks
very terrible. But in the moment V goes small, it's looks a lot better. Let's skip to the next step. Or maybe go quick and
make this here the same. Wait, wait, we don't
skip it, don't skip. We make it just brightness. Okay, we make the same here. And a rand make
the same one more. This is a little bit more
tricky, tricky picture. But also here a range transform. Range main effect. Again. We can, we make one more
with this one here? Take it affects, adjust,
brightness, contrast, review. This needs to be a
little bit lighter even that we know it
blow out the whites. But it's okay because they are blown out there on value
can have a nice effect. A lot of contrast. Chest saturation. Put a little bit
saturation in OER. And you see this looks
like in your face. That's what we want. And you'll see it looks horrible when we look at it in a big, but no one ever
will see that big. So don't worry about that. So that's pretty much
the pictures I prepared. We cannot delete these ones. We don't need them anymore. The also delayed this one's
you don't need so much. And let's go to the next step.
5. 5 rough layout and try outs: So the next step is to choose the extra frame and I will work knows side-by-side
with for thumbnails. So we will make task companies. I'm any anyone I'm any
way someone I like to make batches I broke usually on multiple
thumbnails besides, I will show you that at the end. Very first for the layout, we will take our layout
frame and then you have to think about what happens
when you open YouTube. I show you that quick. Because this is what
happens. What YouTube does. It have this little the value C, the time of a video, you know, you see that on the bottom
and on the browser, the time is pretty small, but on the smartphones, I don't have a
smartphone to show you. On the iPad, it is
even even bigger. So usually you have to
estimate something like this. This would be like
roughly my estimated. Let me think. Google Google video. This would be roughly would
be good to see because we planning to make this from
the worst-case there. I don't see it doesn't matter. Better. You plan it
a little bit bigger. Because this will be
the field where you don't want have any debt
hides in your picture. So you see like this, this would be a
hormone replacement because it would not look nice. In a case like this. I would just like switch
this to the other side. I know I have to time here and I have a nice framing over here. And just keep that in your mind. Let's maybe clear it and also make this with a line so you just
don't forget this. Don't forget this.
This is the field where we don't want stuff. So when I would lay out this, the very first thing is
to make my decision. How I want this, you know, how I want my thumbnail. And do I want a one-piece tamponade Y1 scripting it to I want
look in the frame. Do I would look
out of the frame. Let's just play a
little bit around and make like two or
three different versions. And you can maybe learn something from
the different versions. So I would roughly take this and copied over and would make like two or
three next to it, because it's very
good for you to have a few different
ones next to each other. So you have a real comparison. Who they actually
look different. I like it like this. I not so sure. This may be I would go around half me very
in the center here, maybe a little bit bigger, even, maybe even bigger. I still want a camera not
too close to the button. I wonder a little bit from
my weird toolbar and maybe, and I don't like, whoa, that is like this
little bit of three in. So either related three in or we can take the
tree fully out. I would say that's
a big center one. And I don't mind because I think the camera is what is important
and where look, I would take it like this. Then I go very simple. I select first my frame, then I select a picture, and then I make the insect
tool intersect tool. And what it does, it intersect me and I have like a perfect cut
of my thumbnail. I do this same here. Here we make this
maybe even smaller. That's maybe too small. It's maybe not to bid. So Let's go down. Okay. That was the wrong one. This one and this one
intersection and cut it off. And we make killed it. And I will make only one
version from this side. For your candidate. And novae will make a decision. I think already. I don't like that. I'm here
looking so much on the site. I think I like the middle
one more this one. So I will just
directly kill this. I have these two
next to each other, so I will remove that now here. So keep that in mind that we don't want
to have something here. I think you've got a point. So let's take this into white. Maybe we can take
this into white. For this, I take the
transparency tool. It's here, hidden. Here. You find the
transparency tool and we can, oops, wrong one. We just have to
take this behind. Okay, and mark the
right fonts so we can use the transparency
tool as an example. And kind of like, oops, fade this in here. You want to fade it directly
here for it even start. Okay? So that would be
one simple option to have a lot of
white stuff here. Yeah, that's what
you already alright. To me. Let's make I keep
here to both of them. So you have something to
choose and from the others. You take this, we make
some more intersection. I liked that my face
is here very big. So that will be a different
kind of thumbnails. So I just go with you through the few different
toughness I would do. I liked it. I look here on the side. Let's cut it out. Intersection. Cut that out, and
make the same. Here. I will show you later
a few more tricks. What we can do. Right now. We go through the different lectures and they are all very
similar thumbnails, I would say so we don't
bother too much with them. Maybe we bought
already too much. Maybe we'd take one away. It's enough to show you better. I show you some more
tricks at the end, brings you a lot more. So why did layout, I think already a
little bit about, I maybe want have
some script in it. So when I want to have
some script on it, it's nice to keep the
object or like in that case me somewhere on
the side of the pictures. So we have like some space
for writing something. Like on this one, I would
probably already mirror it. So I know I have just found
here at a time stamp or here also I would
have to timestamp here because here is not
really something happened. And then I would have
this side all clear. Forward ever found
is coming on later. The same we can
do with this one. You could also just
mirror it over. We have here on
the bottom under, but depends on how
much found we will do when I have only one or
two sentence states change. But that's, we don't
have to worry too much about at that
point right now. So that's our rough layout in. Let's skip to the next point.
6. 6 fonts and playing with it: So let's hit to some fonts. Which one you want to start. Let's start with the
most simple one. And don't worry if this
field is can or not because you anytime you can
take the note and drop it on, just make sure that you
aren't few snap two objects. You have this on. And then you anytime can just take the North
and snap it back on. Doesn't matter. So let's take this one. We have a few
different options now. We can make the
background in color. But you'll see not looks
nice, we keep it white. Or otherwise we will need omega lot more fate or
we will cut out the, the picture, but we
come to that very soon. What we do when we
cut out a picture. So let's first take
a phoned, right? Some seeing the cold night news feeling the cold night. Oh, yeah. No. It's up to you. What you like for
fond with phones. I show you a quick one. I use, I use this one. But I can only recommend
you with cell phones. Use something, but
it's very simple. What is very easy to read? Because also here, fried something and make
it very small. And you see my font. You can read while
it's very small. This is something you really want keep in your mind because
some pupils tend to make, I don't know, like they
use crazy fonts and you'll see how difficult
this one is to read. It's very difficult to read. So really better
go with something, better go with aria. Go with something very simple. Normally I like to Korea newest, one of my favorite scared, but it's so tiny, so small. It's so difficult to write
something with it and write novae on black font
on a white background. So it's the most easiest we
can do to Fried something. So just make sure use
something more simple and not something with All
the way all crazy. Some people like, Oh, that looks cool because
they add like this big and they like this big. I can read it, but
in the moment, this is like very small. You can read like
nothing anymore. You know, you can
read nothing anymore. So you see the difference
on how good you can read this and hope
horrible you can read this. We don't want that. No, I go through how I do it and I'm not sure if that is the best way to write
this way or whatever, but this is my way. First of all, I write
it like I wanted, then I convert it to cough. So we have vectors. You will remember vectors. Yes, you do. And no, I go and I
make break-offs apart. And then I mark the
different verts and I combine diverts again. So I'm actually having freedom. Every single separate. So I know we have
separate vectors. Then nobody can fry dark
cold night as example, in whatever we want. And know it's like be
still in the layout, in the playing a
little bit around. I want it bigger, but
this is like a decoder. Let's make the cold night. And no keep in mind, here's our our senior
down or timestamp. So I would go and would
be like this, left hopes. And we go to the right,
center to the right. So I need to make
this anyway here. A range or in the
air is to wait. A line and distribution and
go to the Align, Right? So now we have it nice
tight on the right. No, we can think also, you know, sometimes you're not sure
which side you want it, because in this case, the cold night, it
looks so impressive. Is the black very simple. I would I don't know. The timestamp would
like border me, so I would take this one Take to get this led, mirror it. And then we go with
this one to that side. We go with this phone
to the other side. We run it on the left side. And we go over here and you see, know that TB can go
a little bit down. You can go here a little bit up. That would be roughly my layout. And in that case, I have to say I like
this side more, even that I have to sacrifice a little bit that I have
the timestamp in me, but as it's not on front
of the camera and it's not in somewhere on
my face on something. Who made us more. I like this more because
it keeps this site clean and we will
have a tamponade who is very easy directly
to read like Pam. And in that case, I liked as a simple phoned, I would not do too much. I can just show you next to it what I do a lot for the
more important thumbnails, I compare them next
to each other. And I would know, say, I like hold the phone is or do I like odor
found this maybe I want it shifted a little bit because the camera is
a little bit shifted. So I want also this shifted, but I still want it
on the left aligned. So I have to say I like
with a little bit shifted, so I would go with
the shifted and SUSE having the thumbnail is
directly next to each other. It helps already
a lot to directly see the comparison because
sometimes you change it. You go backwards, you
change, you go backwards. It's very hard to
remember what you like more so I go away. No, I copied it again, put it over and we make one
simple and one not so simple. We take this, we
read this together. So it's actually von vector. We can swallow light hairline around and
let's say we make the hotline in one of the pink I always use and have a little
harder line around. You see something like this. Or let's say V make the
hard line in a black. Ops, make the hairline
and the black. And we make the filling
in something Puppy, green maybe, Oops. Cold night. And you see it would look
completely different. It would be like a little
bit more in your face. That is sometimes it's like it's about trying
around what you like. It's good to have a branding. So you're kind of in the same
kind of color directions. I always tried to be
in the same direction. I kind of try to use not a pink or a red because we have the
pink and the red here. I would probably
go with something, a combination of these. So as another great
tool is when you go on the filling and you
go to the fountain fill, and then you can play a little bit around
and if something like this. So I pretty much like that. No, I'm not so sure. Maybe I want to lift
that leg a little bit more like this. Yes, I like that. And there'll be just
trying a little bit around trying a little bit around what I do when I want
to have a second, a second contour that has a contour tool here,
but it's somewhere. It takes very long to set it right and experiment with it. So what I do is I
usually take this one. I put it on copy, and now I put the
line much sicker. And let's say I make a read around here and then I
just copy my one over it. And then I have
something like this. And here maybe we just take, I can take this here. Normally the SSP pet. So I can see what color I use. Not going here. Sorry for that. Yeah, you could try out
a little bit sometimes, even to make it a little bit. Something that
looks already good. It's like this little hint, maybe even a little
bit too much. So let's say I want
to keep it like this Again, the cold night, I would say that would
be my thumbnail. And as you see, they look completely different. That looks much more
clean, much more fancy. But this one, it looks
much more like my brain. But when you go smaller, you can already see this one
is so much better to read. But that's like the thing is I'm not going so much
crazy for a thumbnails. I liked it. The
tumblers have like my brain and a
little bit cooler. So I put pretty much go
for this one. Why not? So let's take let's take
the cold night over here. And let's play a little bit
more around with the script. Let's say, won't have cold
night here, chest cold night. I liked this year in the in the framing of often
picture a year. I liked it. But let's save. It. Won't be a little
bit more crazy. We want make a little change
just in the script itself. Sometimes it can be nice. I just showed you a little bit. I can break the courts apart. What means now I have all of
them as separate vectors, but be careful
because the hole and these are separate vectors. So first, I would like
combine these ones again. Soda, one, I know, let's say I want to have the cold night and one
test is a lot bigger. I made these a lot in
my bed and thumbnails, especially in the beginning because it's like a
little bit my style. So let's see, and
let's say we want to have This one higher. You see, that's why we
playing with vectors. Because we can know we
weld everything together, we went everything together. We have everything
welded together. We have a custom script,
easy-peasy custom script. And then I show
you another thing, especially when you
have more thin lines. And the main problem with the, with the line around this, when you go more sick, it's not the best color
for showing that. Go with the red. As you see, it's also
the security gate because the line goes
in both directions. And let's say I won't
have only a contour, but as I told you before, ready the contour tool
I don't like here. So I'm very simple. I just take the same phone. I know this is why
I wanted I copy it. I put it over on the
top one I remove. I just remove it. And so I have two of
them over each other. And now I can just click on
the bottom one and I can make it as big as I want and I have no trusted
contrary to the outside. And it doesn't matter. Oh my gosh, I want, Even when I say I want
one more contour, I copy the top one. Then I take the hard line on it. Let's say I take
the hairline on it, I make the hotline and white. As you see know, the inside gets much smaller. This looks very weird, so I don't like this and I like to have two
original size. And I'm easy-peasy
playing around with my font and
with the contours. Sometimes it's nice to
make different contours. Sometimes it's nice to
make very big contours. So big contours. And sometimes I put even a
transparency on the contours. Let's say I put a
transparency here. I make it as uniform. And you can hear
just the trends, the opacity of the font. But as you see, sometimes
this can also look very nice. And do the top. It's very nice to the color
scheme of this picture. And you'll see we made
another nice thumbnail. It's just playing
with the script. Yeah, there's like a lot of things you can do with
this script actually, you know, but that's all up to your tastes there,
like pattern fills. You can make like
weird pattern fills. And that looks not too good. But you get the point. Sometimes what I like to do
is I use the texture fill. I like the texture feel. Sometimes the texture
field allows you To play around with
different structures. And it's a great tool
because the textures, you can even arrange the
colors of the texture. You say like, I like that it's
a little bit more greens. Just like green and
yellow for review. Okay, and you see you can just
like make nuclear colors, will make nuclear colors. Pop it out for just in gray. And oh, we haven't completely different kind of
tamponade. Very important. Cold night and you see it looks completely different
than the first time. And sometimes it's good to have two different companies
next to each other. Be very small to make
the real final decision of a thumbnail you want to know if you like
it more simply, if you like it, a
lot more crazy. And so on. Sometimes simpler
one can also do the job. I like probably the most here. Trustees, tinny little
bit white line around to like make the black a
little bit pop out more. Another option is when
you don't like the lines. Take the liner way, but some people's do they make the drop shadows and you
have drop shadows here. And ops. Some people make
the drop shadows. I actually don't like
the drop shadows. I have to say that the drop shadows here I
make to the outside and I make it normal and I make it little more harsh that
you see what I mean. Some people is make
the drop shadows, make it in a color. And what to say? I just I just don't like it. Cestodes like drop shadows. But what I what I do more
when I really wanted a drop shadow is I take
the drop shadow truly, truly tool and I put
it that is behind. So that's like a
shadow all around. And I don't know, I'm I doing the
line seeing a lot, but that's just another option to go with the drop shadow. Sometimes, especially when I do more serious graphic
work and I don't want, I want a simple look. Let's say we want you to simply look without being distracted. Oops. We have to go to
the drop shadow again, drop the white in. You also can set the color here. And now we would have a
much more natural look. Then we have, when we take
the white line around, show you the difference quick. Because you see the white
line looks very harsh. And what you also
can do with no, sometimes I like to make the shadow really
like very gentle. And I have to show you the difference between this and how it would look with
having no shadow behind? Because having no shadow
behind would look like this. And you see this, trust makes the script pop
out a little bit more, especially on the TI.
You see that a lot? Awesome. The D here we have a good spot of the
color of the picture. There's already a lot of white, but yeah, there's a lot of ways to play a little bit
around with phones. Just be aware that you want to keep the phone
simple and neat. You don't wanna go too crazy, too wide because it will
only distract peoples
7. 7 picture crop cut out: So let's go to the next one, this one or all, and I show you the next trick. The next trick, what I use. So let's say we want have we still go
with the cold night? Why not give you the
cold night here? Copied it over here. No, I show you something
a little bit different. Let's say we want
have to script. I'd like to do that a lot. That it's a little
bit behind me. You see, I like that is
a little bit behind me. And to achieve this, I have a very simple trick. What I do, I take, firstly take this away, I take my picture
and I copy paste it. So I have it two times
over each other. Words and no, I take the free hand tool and I pretty
much do nothing else than roughly paint around
where I wanted. You seen that? No. Go. Just like this. Doesn't meet actually
how big it is because we just need
to overlapping. And also here sometimes it really helps put a
color on the line. Then I would double-click on it. So we are on the shape
tool, it's called. And then we can like depends on how much time you want
to spend in a thumbnail. You can like make this
very good because you can zoom in and you can like really, really cutting that out on the actual thumbnail
where you want it. And I would say we just
make it a little bit rough, know, little bit rough. And just pretend you create a new vector
because that's what we do. We just creating
a new vector, K. And as I say, dont have
to be too perfect because it thumbnail will be very small. So you see Hoda picture
looks here from our over saturating from before. It doesn't matter because it
will be very small later on. The other side of the picture, we do not worry at all because we will not have
script over here anyway. So that's what I do. And no, I use the same. I use the intersect tool
because it makes this. You see this on the
side quick now, and take this to the very back. And you see what
happened. No, no. Our script here. However color we
will choose later. It's no behind. It is no behind. Cold. Let's make here I would
go with a cold night. Just cold night. I mean, we still want that
is readable, you know, sometimes it's like events. What you want deepens
what you want to solve. So I would probably
keep it like this. I would arrange them together. And let's say we want
have a little bit, a line around, a
little bit more line, little bit more line like this. So it's very easy to read. And that's pretty much how it looks that we have it a
little bit behind us. So maybe that's a good example of what we can do with stet. Maybe we go back to to this one. And we put that frame, one frame back, whoops. Just see something and snip it. Where we was like
here, yes and no. Let's just take this side. We could have made
that also before, but I I just make this now because I wanted
to show you guys a little bit more what we can do when we once
have it in vector, because then things get
like a very interesting So let's just make
the same as before. Put this in vectors. And sometimes then you have
made a nice cut around. It gives you a lot
of options later on. Lot of options what to do? Take one here. So again, maybe we just intersect
of forcing again. So take this away. But now we've made this
intersection, okay? That would be my second step. So let's start again. We take the big one, take
this one, intersect. And no, I would go also take this one first and
this one and intersect. It depends on which which
one you click first. If you click the back
first or the front first, it happens something different. So what we done, No, we made the one intersection of this and then one
intersection of this. And we've put them both back and we take them and put
them over the top, over the cold night. And this one we can
delete know because sometimes it's very nice with
having this thin line here. I show you a few
different options. And we're at the cut and
you see no wisdom outline. It's really nice to make some
time the bigger outline. And now we have to go
a Ranjit ones behind. So our cyc light, like
what we've done this, the font is a little
bit behind it. No. The cold night. We put that a little
bit on the site for no. And you see I have
this little outline. What you can do know
you when you export it, you can put it into
Photoshop and crop it. You also can drop it
in Coraline crop it. I show you that later on, this one picture, crop picture. And wait, I write it here
down at I don't forget it. Okay. And I'm very simply with what I do because I
don't like the debris. Work with crop it outside, go in the in the back and I just dropped the Nazis down a little bit from
our, you see that? Our line here. And I just take the full
line here and I just move a little bit in till it's
like even make the same here. You see sometimes
this change lag in a weird way but no problem. This is just a thumbnail. It's not like a print
out grafic work and nobody would have a line. This would be also be already
like a pretty thumbnail. And what we can do know is
we take this one behind. And let's say we
want have little bit more green behind so we
can fill that green. Let's see where
it's put it behind. And this would be
weird thumbnail, let's say like it is, you can make no like the texture fill and
make something lier like very psychedelic
behind Wu psychedelic. Who very psychedelic, who very psychedelic go one more behind to
have the green line. Very psychedelic, but that's
not what I wanted. Show you. Well, actually we can take the psychedelic and now we
put a little bit of transparency on Linear
B can also like, put it a little bit like this. Phi naught, woo, woo, woo. Yeah, you get a point. You can like go all crazy with. Sometimes. When you have a picture, like you would have this frame, the Beck is very distracting. But I mean, on that thumbnail I have this very blurred
out background. So it's like it don't
matter so much, but no, you could go. And you can take as example You can just like make it black. And you can put the
linear uniform on it. So we can just like
darken the background up. Another way is we can now take the background
picture and we go on. Let me see effects, no bitmaps. And then we have
here this torsion. You can like, I don't know, whatever you want
to make pixelate. And you see we can like
pixelate a big round. We can bluer the background. Because sometimes
it's nice to just bluer the background. Sorry. This here. So fa, a bitmaps. And I mean, he also here Blur. Gaussian Blur is what I
usually like a lot. Preview. Whoops. Wait, why it makes this? Where is it? Makes a picture bigger than
you have to crop it again? Yeah, some effect
does this dairy. But as you can see, you can just like blew it out, crop it new way to end. And you would have like, again, sorry for confusing. You're all here. And crop it is to intersect two. Yes, it worked. And now you see we have a really
blurred out background. I mean, I hit a blurred out
background before, but yeah. Then you still can assume that
the background and I mean, that's a lot of
options you have. Doesn't mean you have to do it. Just means you can
give me that all back. In my mayhem of confusion
and put it over here. Just show you a few
different options you have. Because thats it easy to, even when you like. You don't want the
contour seeing going on. You can also just
remove the controversy. I mean, you already see, whoa, whoa, the
picture separate. How crazy that is separate. Like you have a
cinematic cameras or you can really cheat. You can really cheat
it. Very simple. I liked the pixelated. I would probably, I would
already be all in for this. But to say and then I would go make one like very weird, crazy. I don't know. Like this. See, go with the white here. Goal is to think no. Just to creatinine. No, no, no, no. Orange maybe. I don't know. It doesn't matter. Here. I will do the same. I just take the knots. I just like Weber let down, doesn't matter if it's
not looks perfect here. I mean, the alternative is when you really want to
make it better, just export it like this. And then later on, you trust crop it again in the easiest in
Photoshop and 69. And today, I get a
leak, will pixelate it. And same with the font you want to know the
found in the back. You do the same. Let's take the fund here. You actually would put
probably the found over just because it would be otherwise a little
bit too distracting. This all up to you
all what you want. You cannot put a phone behind, then your chest in the layers. Trying around, oops. Trying around what you want. Let's see, like
kind of readable. You also can put it one here. One behind is not really rewards
for something like this. And I don't want
to make the rules. So you can pretty much
make whatever you want. Task playing a
little bit around. Because in one moment you have, you have this picture, cut it. You can do pretty much
everything. Also. Oops, you have to
censor with it. I go back. Not by Twitter open. Also in the case you have
a horrible background. I have pretty much Susan here, frames with like nice
backgrounds already. And I shoot on a good
camera is a good lens. So let's say you want to
have own backgrounds, so you just go to Google and
you get big round images. You can pretty much, you use pretty much
everything what you want. We can save a few of them. We can dont loads safe. Grass, look nice grass. Or this one you looked
at psychedelic. But let's let's go here. This one. Let's take this one. Oh
yeah, I want this one. Bits, save, save. This one is a good one. Just show you a few, a few things, what you can do. And important two things
we just downloaded. Here we go. And
let's start here. And pretty much go here and take this over everything around to
the front of the page. Because we want see what we do. You want the line. We won't make this bigger. And you want to take
this to the back. So oh, yeah. This looks pretty nice. But we need some bouquet. We need like a
little bit bitmaps, we need a little bit of a blue. Let's make it they
have a motion red, yellow, blue, or smooth camera. What slope value is? Low pairs. Review. Makes leg nothing. No VM little bit of blue. Maybe a little bit too much. Okay. No, we have a little
bit of a bluer and then we can crop it out
like we done before. And you see we have a completely
different thumbnails. And I mean, we are
here in CorelDraw, we can do everything, you know. That's why I pretty much using a profile proper
critic program. They have programs like Canvas is called
the app for free. There are a little apps
and there are, right? But they are not good. Not to extend of what
we do here right now. It's looks completely
different from sorry, intersect. Here we go. Then this would be
like very cold night. Who, who a cold night. Recall nine. Who and who. You ignore it. And you'll see it. What I don't know. Oops, a little bit playing around what
you can do with crops. Also, we still have
this one we see can take this one over here. And my trick is I never scale. Because in there one
moment you scale. You have to take
and not somewhere. There'll be having not and take them not to the naught here. Then we have to go one bag Okay, Here we go.
Shifting it and not two, not okay, Here we go. And then we can take
this white as well. And then we could make
this white a little bit wider and behind, like what we've done before. Let's say we take
this to the eight, we take this forward,
take this off. And that would be my thumbnail
or this or this or this. Nor no laws, no rules. The same year, let's say
you want just right. Let's make one
more break course, a part. Break-offs apart. And we want only combine them. Wait, that was not good. I wanted Friedan in
big, big letters. I want big letters. I want big letters. I want big, let us call it. So convert to cos, break-offs apart and combine. So we write code here, code cold, it's too big. Just assume that
there's freaking cold. So you remember what we do
which has copied on the top. And no, I know the code is
written only like here, so I don't have to
go all the way down. And I don't do
this. No, perfect. Because it just
takes too much time. And you guys don't want me waste too much time
though for this workshop. Just make it all roughly. David. Usually when you try to
hurry up with something, it will take forever. You see, it's like that is
when the mistakes happen. But as clean as you make
this a nice at a thumbnail, we look and more, you will be happy
because thumbnails is as important as the fins are. Costs. You spend a lot of
time for editing a film. Maybe you want also, spend some time we're
making the Thumbnail. Okay. Just show you take
this, take it away. Take this away. And you see we made
a mistake here. Here. Go eight is here and say, Okay, and you see coal. Coal. It's not the best to read. No. You get a point. Sometimes it's enough to to only cut your picture where
you actually wanted. And transparency uniform. It's just one example. One example of manys. You could also take
the time and cut every single around
and make it like nice highlight around,
shining around. Stuff what we've done there, but I think we done
already quite some stuff. Let's go to the export
8. 8 full export: He probably multiple
ways to export this, but let's start very simple. Let's take this picture. I want to export this. So usually what I do, I am already like
ungroup it. Okay. I'm trying to take the
outline of the hairline. I make non nine marked a full sync to
together I group it, trusts I can can move it around. And usually it is like
two days or let's say this is my chosen thumbnail. And this is, this is
my chosen thumbnail. So I take the final thumbnails here and make the line away. I make the group it. And I have just
two thumbnails and know to make one more
to just show you that, cut out what I told you before. We take this. We make one more,
even more extreme, will make it much more extreme, like
really extreme. Ok, and make dislike peak key. And then we make this yellow. Make this also
little bit bigger. K like this. Then we just also take this hotlines still of
non me don't need it. And I task group it together. So that will be my
three tamponade. So I'm very simple
with what I do. I put it here on the side. I mark all this, I create, remove it. I go to expert and I
save it in a J peg. And I really workshops TM 11. Go to expert and know I try to have everything under
to Megabyte. Megabyte. Because a lot of platforms, sweater lines,
especially on YouTube. Youtube don't accept over 2 mb. So usually when I'm on the 16 to 960 to 90 millimeter and I'm on the quantity on, at on RGB, Carlos. I'm fine. You see
VR like way under. So we are way under. So we can save it like this. Then I just go backwards one step and I
take the next one. I make the same time to export. Same here and you
see what it does. No, no, we have worry
about that very soon. And backward and wait, which one we had made
before lily workshop is to make this one only little tricky
to talk to you guys. Explain, end, make this
term three, export. Okay? And safe is what have we done? Save. Sometimes my computer takes quite some time
to save stuff here. I will give you
all of this stuff. So just you can see
we opened a thumbnail and you see the the
size, what we have. More than good enough, even that you on 200 kb, like nothing, you
don't have to worry, it's more than good
enough to quality. It's a very big
resolution still. Because you see here
this is the A4. This is like it's
still very big and it's not so much compromised. And I'm noticing is you have two different option with
this thumbnail. To cut it. You first you can
go in Photoshop, you open the 69 scale and
you carried out like this. But I don't know. I just drop it in here because we in the
right size anyway, I take somewhere
my my senior here, I put that over and I trust make
the intersection. And I pretty much
my tamponade cut and then I just export it again. And remember, the equality
is more than good enough. And TM to point to keep both files that
you can see that later on. We pretty much in
the same resolution, you see the quality we have. This looks already good and this is never even can
use it that big. Nevertheless know, thumbnail
in the world ever debt big
9. 9 special tips: Please special tips
with thumbnails. I'm dance lot of things but
you can do miss thumbnails. And I tried to keep it clean. I don't like this
click BD stuff, but some who you
have to be aware. The thumbnail is the
first thing people see. And I try to sink what will be the title of my video before I start making
the thumbnail? Because when I do know that
the let's say this will be speaking about this thumbnail and I know I want to make
the title of the cold night. Then I would not put a cold night in the
thumbnail because you see always the tamponade
and the title together. So I would keep
it in either way. And when I would know I made
behind the scene short film, I would probably
fried in the title. Behind the scene short film. Even when the short film
is called the cold night. I would put that in a thumbnail. Because for the search
engine optimization, for YouTube, for Google, for everything,
what people search. The cold night is the
brainstem nursing. I would keep the stuff with less relevant for the algorithm. For the search engines. I would put that into
thumbnail and I would put them more relevant stuff in the tight even that when my film would
be called the cold night. And I would Friday I made
a cinematic short film. I would frightened
tight like this. But you can imagine I made a cinematic short film
and then I have to cold night and me
with the camera. It's like you can
positive together. That's a very big tip, you know, to try to work together
with this certain things, you know, to just work together. Title, company, and so on. And I mean, extra tips I
shown you already a lot of good extra tips I showed you already the feeling tool here. I showed you the
fountain, I use a lot. And when you go to custom AI, seeing here is where you can put three
colors in as example, you can go all crazy
with three colors. I like pretty much
never do that. And I add a texture I showed
you I really liked it takes, sometimes you want to just
play little bit around. The nice thing is with the texture is that you
really can change the color. So you can pretty much just give your color
a little bit texture, texture, texture, years texture. You see it looks
like it look nice. You know, it can tokenize
what you also can do. You can make the line and then you can make
the transparency. Make the transparency
on uniform. And here, you can make only the transparency
on the outline or you can make only the
transparency on the field. So you would actually
like keep that, you know, this can be very nice
when I don't know, I actually don't know what
caused this could be nice. No, actually, that's I use a
lot the transparency tool. So you could say, Oh, we make the transparency here, make it a little bit
more transparency. And then make the white lines or go heel so to the color of the
hairline change, the color of the
hairline is just it has play around with it as
not much rules and sings. What you can do an, even here, you know, we are in vector. You still, we can
go into the vector, we can still form
around do staffs. We still, anytime we can go, we can make break-offs apart. We can take single sings and
combine them together again, we're still in
vector U, so V, F, everything what we wanna do, we actually can do And yet at some of
the special stuff, I don't know, they're pretty much everything you
can do with a thumbnail. Sometimes I like to do
the split up Thumbnails. You also maybe show you that quick what it would be to
make a split up thumbnail. Let's say we want to combine. We won't have this picture, but we won't have give me whatever picture that is. Save. Dont lows. Gives me that picture. To the back. It was this one. So here we hit the
transparency only take note of transparency off first because you don't want the
transparency here. But let's say v1 test. This guys needed here. Put it over and take
here to shaping tool. And we can like no, just take this on the ground,
on the corners. And today we have like this shaping in E or we could make something
a little bit cooler. Just take our background, make the song where
you'd put it before. Cut it, cut it, you lose a white light might
not be go all crazy. No. Take the hotline, sorry. Not known, we need
the hard line. Okay. And just take these
a little bit here. Cannot just make it like before you cut it
nice and tight. Pull it over. Cut it out. Take the one that is the liner
way and you see, we would have like easy, nice thumbnail directly
like tuck, tuck. Whenever. Want to make a separate line. I show you also
this little trick. What I do, I just
take go from here. And I want the line like this. Why it makes this nose doesn't mean we make the color
from that like this. No, also the square
I come by in course. And when you know,
in coughs and you go to the shape tool
and you grab it. And then you can just
move it over here. And this we put to the top again and nobody would
have a separator line. Whatever we need to
separate a line or not. But yeah, very easy. Also. Make it wider. We can just grab them. Make it wider. And very simple. Very, very, very simple. I think you get the point. Take this one away. Obs, hotline, non group. And here we go. With another
thumbnail, easy-peasy, easy-peasy separating,
and so on. You can just go
crazy, play around. You can make collages, you can do whatever you want and incorporate as a
lot of possibilities. But just keep in mind, keep your thumbnail small. Always make when you're
not sure about the color, you know, it's very simple. Copy it, put it next to it, change the color
and make it small. And see what you like. And see which one you like more. I don't like the greens or goal is to read or
I go with the Blake. Yeah, I would probably
go with the red. And it helps to go small. Sometimes it helps to
see what makes sense, what makes less sense. And let's actually very nice. Something there,
maybe a different picture there that makes
absolutely no sense. But I think that's a sentence. If just playing a
little bit around. So
10. 10 thumbnails together: It's time to take
you on a journey with me for making a few
minutes for my channel. I have, I think two or four
more thumbnails to do two for two flocks and two for the big episodes
I made with my wife, the Q&A, which I'm already
made like 22 companies. I will show you all
of this very soon. As you can see there. I'm already like
made a lot of them. That's actually not even all, but the ones I have here, space, some missing. I dropped them in here quick, that we have them
all here together. Okay. So that's all the toughness
I've done today already. That's why even had the idea. We said Tom Naylor
workshop because sometimes there was
there still a few from the last series I've done. But on this Siri, you see I made a
lot of time snails. And you'll see some
the outlining here. I made just a fade between. He made some scripts I'm
outlining and I here put a, put a little bit
of a transparency behind just some pictures here. Cut, put an extra
picture in here, put the extra picture in. Here is like the nice example of having the picture ran a
little bit over the script. All the survivor show
you right before here. The same here may fade here,
made something interesting. Here. I make the
outlines and then I've faded the outline just
from nothing to here. So it just come over here. Yeah, it was a silly one. Some fading, some stuff. This one I like some cards here. So one about eating. You see just like I
take one picture of me, a background picture than this picture of
the blade and then the picture of my
wife or cut it out. Put behind here. You see that? All just
rough cut it out. But when it's small, it
looks very nice here with the herd so hardest
behind hertz as before. Here I put this little
texture in the script. And this one I
keep more simpler. We will finish some of them. But first, let's make one of
the flock because there we, we start off just scratch. So first of all, you
need to get a coffee. No, we are here
back in business. First of all, I have
absolutely vista flux. I have no pictures. I have no pictures. So I have to get some
pictures out of this. And for this, I'm not sure. You get the flock. There's some sized squid
scripting going on. It could be maybe interesting. Sometimes they don't need to be. A phase always goes
with frame-by-frame. Sometimes one frame
makes a big difference. Omega few screenshots. As before, I better have a few more screenshots
than to less. We'll see what we lie. We just scroll
through the video. Either I look for like
a nice picture from me. Know, we go frame by frame. Like to unsharp so you won't get a picture with like see me sharp,
sharper the beta. Not the best. We will see sometimes
you can take not-so-good companies and you can make something
pretty good out of it. That's it. From Premiere. We
got screenshots. All what we do know is I
kind of opened my template. I have somewhere I should have some
way of template. With all my old we
are here it is. So that's like kind
of deaths hole looks like my mayhem thumbnails. So that's my flock thumbnails. I have like cows, cows flock, flock
and some stuff. So I have some flux
already prepared it because I like to throw
the hashtag flux in. People's know directly. We take the pictures no, we just made, before. We take the onetime two
pictures for the first flock. Let's start here.
Like this I like, but I like also
the ones that car. I think I like that
more than this. Okay. This one. It's neat. So I know I could make a
good one with the car. I showed you that quick. I have directly, I
have a good one, but I like to show the
film festival seeing, you know, I do like to show
the film festival thing. But we try this first to make
it a cost thing going on. This would be bad, bad, bad it is. But it's maybe AS
to come over here. I don't want to. Okay. Yeah. That would be like
some who already like like a good thumbnail already. Sometimes. Those books, he said, put it a little higher
because remember, we have here the the timestamp and know it's
a little tricky because I made already the
transparency before, but you have to first crop it before you make
the transparency. You have to crop it first. No, don't mix it like
what is going on here? Sometimes. Transparency.
Coming in. Coming in here. Remember, adjust
brightness, contrast. Okay. Figs, just saturation. Okay. And you see that
would be another bay. Is rho a flock inside? And we would already
like v all settled here. Keep the workflow rolling
but I'm not so sure no. Because no. I still have this one. We can have only one
thumbnail, you know. So this is also very good. What do you guys think? I mean, he also here
to learn something. I think the film festival
thing is probably more interesting for the
papers. Honestly. Effect Adjust, brightness,
contrast, preview. But it's a horrible picture because it was very
red light there. It's not much I can
get out of debt. Okay. Maybe we have to mix it up, just, you know, Take
it back in here again. Let's see if we can mix it somewhere together here. Maybe we take this one. And we take this one. Sometimes tricky when you have
a lot of different layers, you have to kind of work visit. Maybe we take the flock no way. And maybe we have to wait. Maybe we have to switch to sites that the
timestamp is here. So we have to the other side
a little bit more clean. This guy standing here, don't need the benches. We need only the guy and
we need us probably. Okay. I think that looks
looks not too bad. Take him fool on the side. I would say that
looks pretty good. We cropped it. And then we'll see if we can
even put a car in there. I simply can maybe async we
can because of the cut here. We go already know. I'm shifted a little
bit to the side and no. I think the easiest way is
to take first cut this. Katia. And I just make this
bigger than we need it. And then we take this
thing separately. Don't worry so much about
how it exactly looks because we will like
come to that very soon. Take this and this and molded
together, make the hotline. And novae take both of
them, weld them together. So we have one chap loan. No, it's time. Make it nice. Oh, I see a
good time native coming here. And I know most of my subscribers and
follow the really liked this weird flock things
by this weird other flux, the weird other term news. Normally I would not
make it so nice. But no, I feel like
you guys watching me. I need to make it a little bit nicer is I normally would do it because it normally no one sees that
picture that close, but no, you guys see
that picture they close? I hope that will look good. Sometimes you make some time
for like what I do know. Then you don't even like it. That is then really horrible. That's all part of the game. Now we take this, remove this, and remove this. We keep a little bit
on the side for now. And I think I liked
this already. Maybe we take this a little
bit bigger for that over. So we handed over
the full frame. That could look nice. I liked it. So let's make this not to bet we kept keep
that also 12th like this. Nice outline, then. I'm not so sure anymore if we need if I need myself
in the background, maybe when we make myself
a little bit smaller, you see, and then we
still have to cheap. So now we can switch to
cheap from this side. Put it here, make
it a lot smaller. Make this smaller. That looks pretty silly. It looks like a solid flock. This maybe we need to make
it a little bit more sick, know, and we'd need to
go one behind like this. I'm not so sure about
the about the media. Maybe years to see if take
a camera and take me away, put the camera there. Because then it looks
more like film-making. Liked it already more. Now, I'm confused. If I switch this camera
here in the middle. What you guys think
camera in the middle. Camera more underside, maybe
more on the side here. Make the camera here. So first we cut the picture
is so I would say slowly, slowly becoming somewhere. This also away. And take the transparency
of this first and make it like this. I could also cut there, then crop it, but I like it. Visit transparency. It looks like a screen
almost, you know. Oh yeah. It'll be liquid one. So we take this one effect, adjust brightness,
contrast, preview. A little too much
contrast, preview. Okay, because the
background doesn't matter, it's okay to have them
like this separated. Do not let me see. What do you do with this? This one, because that's definitely better than
the first version. I like this. I would say the separator
from the light. This one has to be better. Cope is pink maybe for now. Just to see it better. You guys remember, is we
have the line all around. Yeah, that's the size you
have to like remove it here. I go crazy trying to make a really good
idea for you guys. Key and notice color separation. I would say. We'll be good to make this
in Lego wide also like this. I like Yes, I think
I like it like this. I think that's our thumbnail. That's like a real
mayhem company, but I like it. And
kill, dispose. And we export it. Log 27. 27. 27, export. So that was number one. And I think that's what's the
most complicated we done, LGB export and so on. And pick, we make this group, put it down here for no, I don't keep them all the time, but I tried to keep
always a few of them. So let me see the next hump
Neil is a little bit more tricky or it's not. You will see about that. I like this one in the snow, but I'm not really good. But you have seen
the also can cheat because this one before,
I was pretty good. This is not good. This is not good. Then we have two
old stuff on this. I also like this would be probably a
good one and teasing, That's the one from the wife. This is snow is this
difficult decision. So I think it's too
much good stuff to have our phases on it. That's like emergency. I think that tattoo because on my tenant people like
to see the title stuff. Maybe I'm making a split. Now. Have this one, this one and the snow one or something like this split. I mean, the snow one. I really like, but
it's not what I like. What you guys like to click on. Maybe we take this loan, all of this over and
take the cropping thing. Crop like very much out of it. Me make this a
little bit bigger. Okay, Let's see what
we can do here. With our transparency tool. Fade it in in the snow. I was thinking that
maybe a nice idea. This could be nice. We have to just try it out. Which has saved to try
it out. Take this. And you see the quality of this screenshot is like
horror there because that was from really old
footage of mine. But we try our best. It's probably good that you see also how it would
look when you have like not like a really
nice screenshot like what I had before. Then you will have to work with like really horrible pictures. But also then you have
to make a tub nail and even every tamponade you'll
probably make is better than. But maybe we have to keep the flock a little
bit more simpler. To say. Sometimes silly
winds, just silly wins. Sometimes it's hanging. So it's good to us
from time-to-time, make a saving in-between. Because it can happen
that you spend a lot of time for making something on coral and
then the program shut down and you can do
nothing against it. I still hope you enjoyed
watching me a little bit, but when I started learning
like programs like this, I always enjoyed a lot to just watch people's
because you just learn so much from,
from watching someone. You see also, this is double-layered and
then here it's me just cut out that it's like
over this very simple that actually the video come
out today, sends all this. Yeah, that's really good. I like it. That's so silly that
I like it. Okay. That is flock, save
as, save as export. Flock 28. Export. The almost done. I'm also very happy when I
have to tamp nursing over. So it'd be safe
this one more time. And then we go back to the
ones from me and my wife. You've gotta, gotta
do what you gotta do. 8-note change that. Saves wherever we waiting. In the meantime, you
already checking out K. K. Okay. Kids know. And as you see is a
lot stuff prepared. Last time was our
kinky overbroad segue. So we have three more to go. Who is the boss advantage
of being self employed, Maya, being a boss
in silent, the boss. So I think we take
a picture of Maya, Friday, boss under it. And that's it. What else we have? Baidu you Travis so much
to Thailand. White ramp. What traveling gifts to you, how it changed a few on home, mole K. And then we have a bonus inference the
importance of music, favorite bands,
festivals, and so on. So I need a few seconds to search for nice
picture from Maya. I have already one here. Trust take directly this
because she liked the picture. She loves him, she liked it. We take that. Make
it very simple. Break the curves apart. You see all the stuff
we made before. This one we keep very
simple because I like the idea directly to
keep it a little bit simpler. This is day number 24. Okay. The next question
was traveling to Thailand. Terrorism much I know exactly what I want for
traveling to Thailand. I know exactly what I want. We want You want some
clickbait stuff going on? Yeah. Yeah. This looks good. You have a helicopter. I like this one. Like this one. You go with this one. Now what I do a lot
in a case like this, I just go here and I just like mirror it because
it like it looks. All right. I would say it looks alright. We even make the fountain fear. We make the good old fountain Make to Google Fonts and thin. And because we use Thailand, we go with some colors. Because Thailand always
goes with Carlos. Why Thailand? Okay. That's what we do. Know. We
basically have only one left. I know you can imagine how
much time this all of, all of this took me
quite a little bit. Music. Music. Music, music. I know what I want. I want music. I want. No problem. I know there are ways in, in Photoshop who
are more simply, but I just, I just love
vectors, what to say? I love vectors. Because then you won't
have it in vectors. You can do so much. Can do pretty much everything. I guess it's me
like two decades. Playing with vectors. Something you not get that
easy out of your system. No, it's hanging or
no, it's happened. What I told you before was case or we can know, just hope. Just don't touch anything. Cross your fingers. In hope that all of this was for Nazi kid. It was, it hangs completely. But I think you got the point. I will have to finish that. Know, the full program
is collapsing. I didn't made a real safe, so I think that's it. That's it. That's it. I will show you the last
time for the ultra. So that was the term
NetTutor by the way here. That's the last time
that I made when the coral draw crest. So make sure that you
always save in-between. Otherwise you can lose
a couple of hours, but same as Premier Pro. This stuff just happened. So yeah, thank you a lot
for buying this workshop. Thank you Lord, for listings so many powers to the
weirdness of myself. I hope you at least learned a little bit something When years and you
kind of liked it. I have a couple of
other workshops. And yeah, I hope we see us
again when I am your teacher. Okay. That's it. Bye bye. And thank you all for watching.
Lily Lu, Full Time Artist
