 Well, how's it hanging freedom partners? My name is VW and welcome back to episode five of freedom for last Friday's in the last episode I showed you all how to make an awesome thumbnail But then I asked for you all in the comments what you wanted me to make in photopee So taking some of those suggestions Let's get to the true power of photopee by showing you something that you'll probably find pretty useful Gaming thumbnails my specialty and remember if you have any ideas of what you want me to make in photopee for the next Episodes, let me know in the comments down below But let's start and make our beautiful perfect Gaming thumbnail and here we are back again in our good friend photopee Now if this doesn't look familiar for some reason then be sure to go back and watch episodes one through four If you've already seen all those then you know what to do you go in start a new project Make sure that you are on HD make sure that your resolution is 200 background Transparent and then you can create your beautiful blank template now to begin with a gaming thumbnail You want a picture that is most likely taken right out of your video or the game that you are playing for instance I took this image while playing forza horizon 4. I took this image This is not an image that you'll find anywhere else that is ideally what you want However, if there are no good shots from within the game that you can use then of course you can go and look up Other pictures on Google images or whatever now there's one problem with this image And it's that it's not focusing on what we want it to we want the three cars here to be the focus We don't want text down here, and we don't want so much space on the sides So we're just gonna go and we're gonna resize it a bit Just to hide those and make it look a little prettier and Something something like this looks about right, and you'll see in a second why I left so much space open over here on The left. This is just by design choice You don't have to do this, but I'll talk about that more towards the end when we get there So next I'm gonna show you all a few new tricks that I haven't shown before and the first is By going up over to here to these three tools the one that we want to use is the magnetic Lasso tool now when you select the magnetic lasso tool Nothing is going to be happening until you click and you only want to click when you are on the car At least in this case you'll want to click on your subject at hand Which in our case is the car and you'll see that as we drag the cursor along It'll automatically for the most part connect to the side of the car and it may not be perfect And that's when you can click and that'll place a point like that and it'll snap to that point But for the most part it tends to do pretty good at Clipping to the car just going along the car making sure it gets the outline making sure that it doesn't mess up Down here since there are a lot of colors down here. It may want to mess up on So once you have that You'll see that it is outlined and once it is outlined you'll want to copy it and paste it in a new layer So now you have two different layers and your background You'll have the picture that you brought in and what you just made So if you make the picture that you brought in invisible You'll just have the part that you copied if you have make the part you copied invisible. You won't see a change yet This is where the fun begins. So now you want to go back to your image layer We're gonna do another new trick here. So get ready. We're gonna go up to filter We're gonna go down to blur and we're gonna go to motion blur since this is a race going on here We're gonna make it look like a little bit more like a race We're gonna angle this this way since the cars are going in that direction And we're gonna change the distance and you'll see as we make it the distance more It'll get blurrier and blurrier except for the part that we copied now It'll look like the front of the car is In focus and that's what we want something like that now that looks pretty good Now it's the front of the car in the focus and the rest of it is blurred out now Moving on from this we're gonna add a little touch to this just to make it look nice and these are Speed lines so once you have your speed lines in you're gonna go select the magic wand tool Click everything that's black and then erase it all and you'll see that now you have some nice little speed lines on Your screen, but that's not all we're not done with the speed lines yet We're gonna take the speed lines and add another blur to them But instead of using a motion blur We're gonna use a radial blur and this will add two different types of blurs you can use spin or zoom We want to use zoom and you'll see that as we move it It'll look as though they're zooming in towards the screen will press okay And then we have our beautiful speed lines now of course layering is everything so see all these down here They look kind of weird being over the car don't they but all we have to do is move the speed lines On this layer here below the layer that we copied and that already it looks much better It gives a 3d effect to the thumbnail and makes it look as though the car is sort of popping out of the thumbnail That is what you want next is not necessary But for this thumbnail I'm just gonna throw it in and that is of course the title of the game Forza horizon for or whatever game you may be playing You don't always have to put the title of the game or the logo for the game But for this one, I'm gonna put it especially if you play a lot of games on your channel. It can be helpful Especially if they're similar games So if you play lots of racing games having the title of the game in the thumbnail and in the title Would be really really helpful and for these we're just gonna go through give it a stroke and give it a drop Shadow, so of course you'll go into effects give it a white draw or a right stroke Make sure that it's not too thick not too thin just right and then we'll add a drop shadow to it Make sure it's angled right and make it a little darker to fit your fancy and boom just like that We have forza horizon for and our car now one thing I like to do sometimes is put the title Inside the thumbnail. Well, how are you gonna do that? This is how we're gonna take our text tool and we're gonna click and you'll see that it'll load our text tool Of course now we're gonna go and change the font that we have and the font that I'm going to use is called Action man once action man is loaded. We're just gonna type in cancaio Do it if do right there and of course resize it to the size that we want it to be put it about the same Angle as the logo and drop it right below Resize it to make it look prettier and boom. We have cancai drifto forza horizon for But something still doesn't look right. It's just black text. It looks kind of bland Well, you thought I was done introducing new things didn't show well. I'm not done Where's there's more to come so next you're going to want to find an image any image And we're gonna take that image save it on your computer and Drag it up here onto the project bar and when you let go you'll see that it will load Right here now for this part pay attention. You have to go up to edit Define new and pattern and you'll see that it will say pattern added and there's nothing here anymore Where'd it go? Well now if you go back to your project here you go down to effects You click pattern overlay you'll see that there's this gross yellow overlay on your text That's really ugly. You don't want that So all you have to do is click the pattern and you'll see your pattern Right there you can adjust it you can adjust to where it is on the text and you can adjust the size of it And of course the opacity now since the text is just black changing the opacity will make it darker We don't want any of that. We're just gonna make it look Pretty fancy gonna center it like this boom and there we have canside drift dough now Just like the fours of horizon four we're gonna add a stroke But since the text is bright with the bright red the white we're gonna take and make the stroke black Make it a little thicker not too thick But something like that looks good and then we'll add a drop shadow Don't need it to be that far away make it a little darker And boom you have your thumbnail for forza horizon four episode canside drift dough now Of course, you won't be using all these steps for every gaming thumbnail that you do However, they are all nice and really good tips for any thumbnail that you may be making You want there to be a focus from the episode on the thumbnail like we did with the car and the blurring It makes the car pop more and adds more focus to the car than anything in the background You have the title of the game so that it's easy to spot without having to read an entire title And the title of the video right there in The thumbnail now of course for the last step We've gone over this way too many times you go to file export as png And then make sure that everything is right 1280 720 100 percent Press save and it will download your new image right there And there you go one awesome thumbnail idea just for you Do you have any other suggestions? Let me know in the comments down below It can be anything as specific as fortnite gaming thumbnails Please help me if that's your request or anything as generic as just thumbnails in general banners Logos whatever it may be if you have an idea. Let me know down below So thank you all for watching freedom flash fridays My name is voya and I will see you all in the next episode