WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:01.300 Ahhhhhh! 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:02.760 **EAR RAPE FOR YOUR EARS ENJOYMENT** 00:00:02.900 --> 00:00:04.800 It's the kind of video that you might think it's a joke, *laughs* 00:00:05.780 --> 00:00:06.520 IT'S NOT!! 00:00:07.140 --> 00:00:10.160 PHOTOSHOP! You suck at it, I've seen you guys' work. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:17.490 It's goddamn terrible, and it's time for you to learn. MY GOD! Before I did YouTube, I was very active on 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.520 "anime forums" (nothing wrong with anime xD) 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:20.360 *pewds cringes a little bit*` 00:00:20.360 --> 00:00:26.340 That's right. I would get really interested in making these anime icons or aa-avatars 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:32.160 and signatures, and I didn't really know how to make them, I just saw other people having them. And I'm like "That's really cool!" 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:34.760 I wish I could do those cool anime avata- 00:00:34.760 --> 00:00:35.940 *Pewds Cringes so hard the colour in the video dies ;3* 00:00:35.940 --> 00:00:38.760 So, I picked up Photoshop (def not cracked) and uhhh... 00:00:39.580 --> 00:00:41.160 It was a great thing. I really love 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:46.520 photoshop. It's one of my favorite tools. I think it it- brought me so much in life. 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:50.440 I don't think I would be as big on YouTube as- if I didn't know how to use Photoshop 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:58.020 So here I am hoping to spark a little bit of interest in case you're interested in Photoshop by showing you how to make a 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:00.860 decent looking YouTube thumbnail. 00:01:00.860 --> 00:01:01.640 *YESSSSSSSSSSSSS* 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:06.380 No joke. Okay. Look at this by the way. All of them are gone. This one 00:01:06.390 --> 00:01:08.970 I was so proud of, The Miku one. I won a competition, 00:01:09.670 --> 00:01:13.439 Because of that one you know how much time it took to animate those goddamn things 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.629 And when you don't know how to make a gif 00:01:17.140 --> 00:01:20.840 Look, I got the second place in this competition, how about that? 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:23.620 First of all, you want to get the aspect ratio right... okay? 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:26.760 Width: 1920 - Height: 1080 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.340 Put 300 (Resolution) if you're gonna print that bitch (you probably wont print a thumbnail xD) 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:30.600 That's all you need to know. 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:32.520 (Click) Create. There you go. 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:35.560 See, so many of you, Plebs, have the wrong god damn aspect ratio. 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.920 Now, I know this is a lot to take in, my man 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:41.640 Don't you worry, this is what you want to look at.. o-kay? 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.520 if you- if- iff 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:45.940 If It doesn't look the same as me just calm down, take a deep breath 00:01:45.990 --> 00:01:49.619 We're gonna go to "Window" and we're gonna make sure we have 00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:54.240 Layer, and.. tools, and 00:01:54.360 --> 00:02:00.680 History, I am by no means a Photoshop expert. Okay. I'm just... we're we- gonna try and keep this nice and simple 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.160 What kind of thumbnail should we make? How about a... 00:02:05.660 --> 00:02:06.760 Jacksepticeye? (sounds good) 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:13.640 Now, We need a good quality picture. Okay, all right. How about this? That's a good quality (picture), copy that bitch and 00:02:13.860 --> 00:02:19.420 Paste it into the Photoshop. Okay. Now. We have our first layer, Wow, incredible. 00:02:20.070 --> 00:02:23.329 First of all, we want to adjust the size hit CTRL+T 00:02:23.330 --> 00:02:27.320 Now, we can move that bitch around okay... Hold down SHIFT to keep the aspect ratio 00:02:27.630 --> 00:02:32.509 Hit one of the corners and drag that bitch if you don't hold SHIFT. You're gonna end up like this 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:37.729 Okay, what I what? I tell you about aspect ratio. Let's go. That's right. Don't... fck it up 00:02:37.730 --> 00:02:40.160 is this too fast for you hotcakes? Try to keep up. 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:45.050 what we're going to do next is crop that mother flippa 00:02:45.050 --> 00:02:48.199 That's right. There's many different ways to do this. This is the thing what Photoshop? 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:54.920 There's there's so many different ways to get through different things that you want to do a wel- I see a lot of people do this 00:02:55.320 --> 00:03:02.839 They use the lasso tool, and they just drag a bunch of plebs a bunch of goddamn plebs look at that that looks terrible, okay 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:07.130 What you want to do is you want to use the goddamn pen tool, okay? 00:03:07.130 --> 00:03:11.839 I know people are scared of the pen tool, but it's the best tool, and if you're good like me 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:17.780 And if you're a Photoshop God like me it works out pretty simple we're gonna start by putting down a dot 00:03:18.330 --> 00:03:22.219 Look at that if you want to get rid of that. You gotta hit delete okay 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:25.219 You can't just dot and then start doing other things, okay? 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:28.309 That will fuck you up you once you've dotted you can't un-dot 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:33.380 Unless you hit delete of course the pen tool that sort of curves the lines for you, and it makes it smooth 00:03:34.110 --> 00:03:38.720 It is a little weird once you start off, but basically we'll pick a point here that 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:45.739 Doesn't look good right, but if you hold down your mouse button and you can drag and look at that now 00:03:45.739 --> 00:03:47.480 I haven't just curved this line 00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:54.019 I've also already thought about where the next line is gonna be with this thing so if we hit here. It's gonna be nice and 00:03:54.640 --> 00:03:56.710 Easy to do another curve coming up 00:03:57.350 --> 00:04:02.439 By better pep easy it takes a little bit of practice. You really don't have to make it perfect 00:04:02.660 --> 00:04:04.330 It's gonna look nice anyway 00:04:04.330 --> 00:04:09.620 Just make sure here for example that you go inside of the hair rather than too much on the outside 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:15.300 If you do something you don't want you can always just go back in history. Is this just too much for you hotcakes? 00:04:18.860 --> 00:04:23.900 So you can do it relatively quickly the thing that you got to make sure though is that you connect them at the end 00:04:24.020 --> 00:04:30.880 So you get a little circle coming up from the pen tool Boop that means. It's ready to connect there you go 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:33.489 We have our thing what I usually just do is right-click 00:04:34.070 --> 00:04:39.040 On the thing here hit make a selection you can add a feather, but that's for pussies 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:43.450 I rather do that later now we have selected his face, but how do we delete the background? 00:04:43.450 --> 00:04:49.209 I'll just hit delete Felix. Nah fam. Look what you did get away from here controls Zed that bitch 00:04:49.210 --> 00:04:55.510 We got to inverse the selection by hitting ctrl shift. I done now you can hit delete 00:04:56.750 --> 00:05:00.640 Isn't that right you're wrong only plebs. Delete directly 00:05:00.640 --> 00:05:02.290 Okay, you gotta hit the mask button 00:05:02.290 --> 00:05:06.760 And if you do the mask button you didn't even have to inverse you can just hit it BAM 00:05:07.310 --> 00:05:12.010 Bam's should say I'm on a lamb look at that now we have the mask selected there look 00:05:12.290 --> 00:05:20.019 huh now we have the picture selected mask selected picture selected mask selected picture selected if I select the mask I 00:05:20.660 --> 00:05:25.239 Can paint and shit all over and look at this I can paint back all over 00:05:25.729 --> 00:05:28.599 Wow you don't need to know any of this actually nevermind now 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:33.369 We have a jacksepticeye look at him look at him go very happy very pleased with this crop 00:05:33.370 --> 00:05:39.070 Hey beauty, what's the next step finding a nice looking background? What should we go for something? 00:05:39.710 --> 00:05:47.350 Psychedelic perhaps, oh wow this is really trippy. This looks skin copy that shit paste it now. We have it on a new layer 00:05:47.350 --> 00:05:54.189 Oh my god, two layers. I know this is pretty hardcore stuff. What did we learn mmm-hmm? What do we learn? 00:05:54.190 --> 00:05:59.799 How do we just decide that's right ctrl T. That's right? That's right, and what else did we learn that's right? 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:03.550 Never fuck up the aspect ratio hold on hold down shift and drag it 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:07.959 Border full, but I can't see Jack. I no calm down 00:06:08.509 --> 00:06:10.189 Just drag the layer 00:06:10.189 --> 00:06:12.759 Underneath Jack there you go now 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:17.199 It has this sort of vortex sitting in the middle right so we kind of want it to be there 00:06:17.389 --> 00:06:22.299 But oh no, we have all this space here to the left. What possibly could we do 00:06:22.969 --> 00:06:25.119 simple trick my man press M 00:06:26.270 --> 00:06:28.270 Okay, which makes the square selection? 00:06:30.259 --> 00:06:32.259 Select this bit all right 00:06:32.629 --> 00:06:39.639 Hit ctrl J. Which makes a copy of your selection in a new layer hit ctrl T and 00:06:40.430 --> 00:06:42.430 Then no shift this time Pham 00:06:43.159 --> 00:06:45.139 Just drag it over 00:06:45.139 --> 00:06:48.218 Just drag it over. No one will know anything 00:06:49.069 --> 00:06:55.359 It will be our little secret now. We have two layers doing the same thing we want to merge them 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:03.250 Click on one hold down ctrl click onto the other right click merge layers BAM 00:07:03.379 --> 00:07:08.139 It's one unified son of a bitch now. What a lot of youtubers. Do is they add this like? 00:07:09.469 --> 00:07:16.869 Background right eh everyone met everyone messes with the FX this little button down here so select the jacksepticeye layer, and then hit 00:07:16.870 --> 00:07:22.329 FX everyone does this outer glow look at look at that wow it's so glowy and nice 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:27.459 But today we're going to do something a little different pull that range fam to the bottom 00:07:28.099 --> 00:07:30.399 Okay, then may adjust the size 00:07:31.339 --> 00:07:33.080 Like that make it 00:07:33.080 --> 00:07:40.330 Make it not very spreaded about 84% look at that that looks pretty interesting now. We're gonna do a drop shadow 00:07:40.330 --> 00:07:43.659 Are you ready BAM and then hit okay 00:07:44.779 --> 00:07:51.338 Looks pretty cool. Looks pretty interesting. You know it makes it different. It makes it pop. It makes it good now 00:07:51.339 --> 00:07:54.399 We're gonna add a text go to Dafont okay 00:07:54.979 --> 00:08:00.158 They have old free fonts. It's really good. You want something very bold 00:08:01.009 --> 00:08:03.009 easy to read and 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:09.579 Kind of like this you ready, is this too advanced for you, that's right you hit T 00:08:09.640 --> 00:08:14.340 You click with your mouse you select the font up here. Look I have Bebas ready 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:21.060 I suck look at that hit ctrl a to mark your font select the color 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.140 You can just click on his stupid hair and there you go 00:08:26.140 --> 00:08:31.900 We have the same one now press V to move that bish around adjust the size 00:08:31.900 --> 00:08:35.280 Maybe maybe going the edges to change 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.800 How it it's tilted and stuff ok press ENTER 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:44.380 And then we have a pretty neat looking looking font that is if you're an idiot of course 00:08:44.420 --> 00:08:46.690 We're gonna add effects on that bitch now 00:08:46.690 --> 00:08:49.749 We already added effects on Jack so we can cheat a little bit 00:08:49.750 --> 00:08:56.830 We can hit alt and then drag the outer glow to the I suck and same thing with the shadow look at that 00:08:57.020 --> 00:09:01.809 We didn't even have to do any work my god. I actually don't really like the outer glow 00:09:01.810 --> 00:09:07.780 I think it looks too much, so we're just gonna double click on the drop shadow to edit it and 00:09:08.930 --> 00:09:13.539 Then just decrease it a little bit. Just let just a little bit now we're gonna ctrl T 00:09:13.550 --> 00:09:19.840 Right click and warp and then just drag and make it a little bit more interesting. Okay go with the flow you know 00:09:20.450 --> 00:09:26.289 Anything to stand out these days everyone is doing thumbnails you gotta make them right you gotta make the details 00:09:26.290 --> 00:09:27.430 This is advanced stuff 00:09:27.430 --> 00:09:29.000 This is only for the pros 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:35.169 But I'm telling you the secrets because I know you can keep up press Enter god damn that looks good 00:09:35.180 --> 00:09:41.109 But I'm thinking it misses a little bit of glow, so let's go to outer glow, and yeah, yeah 00:09:41.110 --> 00:09:46.659 That looks good remove the sass a little bit. You know what I'm feeling crazy. Let's add a shadow again 00:09:46.730 --> 00:09:52.599 How many shadows can I add as many as I goddamn please mom and then let's make it spread a little bit 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:53.780 This is details 00:09:53.780 --> 00:10:00.519 This is deep test hits ctrl + - zoom out ctrl + zooms in control - zooms out now 00:10:00.520 --> 00:10:03.159 We can look at it. We need to judge from a perspective. Oh look at that 00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:09.160 I can read the font from the thumbnail how about that minor adjustments? We're almost done hit ctrl T 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:12.910 Adjust that son of a bitch and just that son of bitches a little bit more 00:10:12.910 --> 00:10:17.020 That's right same thing with this bitch basically what I like to do is find 00:10:17.570 --> 00:10:23.439 Fine-tuning touches when I'm done with my thumbnail. I'll create a new layer, and then I hit ctrl alt shift E 00:10:23.450 --> 00:10:29.919 Which basically merges all your layer and creates a new layer for you, so you have that here. It's really. It's really useful 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:33.220 Zoom in a little bit ctrl + 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:39.760 Ctrl T. And then I like to adjust it the cropper Little bit make it a little bit more interesting and there you go 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:44.800 We're done with the beautiful thumbnail if you're a moron. Ctrl U add up the saturation 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:48.960 Make the kids want to click on that bitch, and then okay look at that 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.840 Saved we just did a thumbnail. Oh 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:57.400 *hallelujah (Jack Doesn't Suck) hallelujah hallelujah* 00:10:57.400 --> 00:10:59.400 Was this useful 00:10:59.540 --> 00:11:02.769 Listen I just see all of you make really ugly thumbnails 00:11:02.770 --> 00:11:07.329 And I hope this helps maybe a little bit if you have any questions. Let me know in the comments 00:11:07.330 --> 00:11:12.400 I'll try and answer some of them Photoshop it there's a million tutorials out there of Photoshop 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:15.250 It's really the kind of thing that you can easily easily 00:11:15.770 --> 00:11:23.259 Self learn it by watching tutorials, and it's really fun to learn it's really fun to create stuff. I really recommend it 00:11:23.260 --> 00:11:29.379 There's a 30 day free trial or you can just torrent it. I mean it's fucking crazy expensive. Let's get real here 00:11:29.510 --> 00:11:33.370 That's all for me for now leave it like if you enjoyed. I know this is different and in there 00:11:33.370 --> 00:11:35.370 I don't know. I don't know maybe maybe most 00:11:35.570 --> 00:11:39.730 99% of people won't even care, but thank you for watching anyway and squad fam out