Welcome back.
So we are here in Photoshop.
This is what it's going to look like.
Hopefully you've downloaded that, got your free trial or begun.
And you're going to open it up and it's going to look like this the first time you open up your Photoshop.
Now we need to first of all, we need to start a project, a new file.
It's called here.
We're going to click New File.
And we need to tell them what size we need because we need to make a photo.
We need to make a list.
We need to make a thumbnail that fits this perfectly.
If it's not the right size, you'll end up with black bars down the edge or along the top where it's
trying to stretch it to fit and it will look rubbish.
So do a quick Google search.
Correct size, YouTube thumbnail in pixels.
We need 1280 by 720.
So let's go to Photoshop.
Hit new file custom 1287 20.
I'd have my resolution at 300.
That means that's good enough.
You don't want it any less than that.
Really?
It could be 200.
Really?
Uh, you don't want it loads more than you need really big images to put in there.
And we're going to use the video image that I shot in the previous section for my main one.
So what I want you to do is go in and do this 1280 pixels.
Make sure this is pixels, not inches, centimeters, millimeters, 1280 pixels by 720.
Your orientation is landscape, not portrait landscape, which is why the width and height should be
this resolution 300 pixels per inch.
Don't worry about this should be the same here.
It might be set to white as standard.
It means when you start it your background is going to be white.
I want it transparent, I want nothing on my background and I'm going to add layers.
I will explain layers in the next section.
Uh, actually I probably do it on this video and that's exactly how I want it to be.
Click create and it's going to pop open and look something like this.
Now, it doesn't matter if you're not too familiar and it might be kind of scary.
Uh, Photoshop.
Wow.
This is a big bit of software and it is professional editing bit of software.
But for what we need for thumbnails, we don't need everything and all of it.
We just need to be a little bit familiar, a little bit familiar with using some of the tools.
So, uh, if I want to over here, I could click through all these tools and you don't need to know
what all these are.
I'll explain what some are.
If I click Ctrl click or right click, it will give me the other versions.
Uh, there's other tools in here.
Really quickly I'll go through.
This is how you select things.
I'm going to drag things around how I draw a box to select things.
The magnetic tool we're going to use.
That's how you cut around something.
The lasso tool sorry.
Use magnetic one.
It can stick around the person.
You can cut them out.
Uh, the wand tool means I click and it selects everything I think I'm trying to select there.
Uh, what else are we going to use in here?
We may use eraser some rubbing out.
We're not going to use a gradient background.
We may sharpen the image slightly.
We may make the darks and lights a bit bigger with these two.
Again I'm just whipping through these really quickly.
Uh we're going to go into them as and when we do these in the next few lectures.
This is not by any means a huge a huge tutorial on Photoshop.
It is just what you need for Photoshop, for creating thumbnails.
Um, you just have to make sure you've got the right tool selected when you select things and over here
are layers.
Now the way to think about layers is that right now I have this transparent layer.
If I was to grab and drag anything onto here, it would go on the layer above, and I can drag it above
or below just by clicking and dragging.
Think about layers as a piece of tracing paper, one on top of each other.
So this is the bottom one.
If I put something else on, it's on top, but something else on, it's on top of that, on top of that.
And I can rearrange the order for what's coming up above on top of each other.
And if I want to ever not see a layer, I can click this and just get rid of it.
That's a really quick overview of the size that you need for your template.
And also, uh, an overview of Photoshop.
You don't need to know anything else really for thumbnail creation.
Um, thumbnails are not too complex to need loads of tools, but we'll go through these and we'll do
these a bit at a time.
So on the next lecture I just want to quickly start creating.
Um, I'm going to get my background and my image.
We took a picture of and things and some of the rules about using some images and what you're allowed
to use offline, etc..
So let's go on to that lecture right now.