 If you are new to stream deck or maybe you're not but just feel like you could be getting more out of stream deck Then this video is for you Hello, and welcome to take one tech my name's Alec and this is actually take two tech I just started rambling on and I wasn't quite pressed my record button properly or hadn't started recording So yes, this is officially take two. I don't know whether that's going to make it better or worse, but we'll find out So this is the fourth video in a series of videos I'm doing which I've called the beginners guide to stream deck and in video one We took a look at exactly what stream deck is and the various models that are available and video to we looked at how to get started with Setting up stream deck and adding in some basic actions and programming some buttons and Then in video three we looked at how to incorporate some of the plugins to have some more sort of application specific actions and In this video what we're going to look at is how to make all those buttons look pretty and start to actually Do something with them to add in icons and so that is what we're going to get straight into without further ado right now Now if you've watched those other three videos If you haven't I'll leave a link to them in the description But if you have then they should look a little bit familiar because this is sort of where we left off before and What you'll notice is that we've got some different icons on here That have been added in automatically. So these sort of media control buttons automatically have this little volume up and down symbol this one here was switching between headphones and add other speaker output and The built-in one for e-cam live also gives a little preview of the particular scene It's switching to but these two here I've just added in actually are just simple hotkey actions and as you can see it's just a generic symbol It doesn't really tell you exactly what it's doing and because these can be hotkeys They can do literally anything then that's obviously why it's a bit generic because they don't know what you're going to do with it yet So what we want to know is how can we add in icons to these and I did actually Discuss this on one of the previous videos So you already know how to get an icon in there But what I'm really going to focus on in this video is the various different places that you can actually get these icons And how you can get them into your stream deck So first of all, let me talk about the easiest way, which is the built-in Algato way and So up at the top corner here. They have linked to the store There are some icons already built in that will be there when you first start But if I just take you through to the store for a moment as I mentioned on a previous video It's called a store, but it is totally free at the moment for everything that's in there Maybe that will change in the future. I'm not sure given that it's called a store But here on the left hand side You've got a little icon button and so you can click on that and then here you'll see a list of groupings of icons So at the moment you can see that this one says uninstall that's because that little pack of icons has been installed But you can go down and you can have a look through all of these if it's got a big red install button It means it's something that can be added to your stream deck and the ones are to say that say install are already there So come down and have a little look at these There's one there that I haven't got yet. So that is the Photoshop icon pack So this would be a good one to do as a demonstration because I am quite a heavy Photoshop user I've actually got a lot of icons that I made myself for Photoshop before before version 5 came out But I'll have a look in these because dare say there'll be something there Then I haven't got that I'll need so clicking on that you can see this is the Photoshop icon pack and you can have a look It says there are 70 icons in the pack And then I can come back up here and just simply click on install By the way, these are from Sideshow FX. I happen to know that that's a very good resource for other icons I'll talk about that shortly as well, but I'm just going to click on the install button There we go. And that is now installing those little Photoshop icons into my icon library within my stream deck So let me come out of this for a moment That is how we can add the icons in as I say you can just click through these and have a look what other icons there are You've also got some for Premiere Pro. I'll grab those while we're here. So I'll just double click on that single click So now I've got the Premiere Pro icon pack as well And then I will come out of this moved over to one side. In fact so now let's say I was wanting to create a shortcut in here for the Photoshop pack that we've just downloaded what I would do is where the icon is Down here. I would highlight the icon that I want to change and then just simply click this little plus button Which is at the top left once again if you haven't updated to software version 5 then do do that Otherwise this little plus button won't be there and as you can see this opens up the stream deck icon library And what you'll find in here is there are a set of Algato icons the sort of standard ones that come with it one thing to bear in mind is stream deck was in Originally designed for and by streamers so there is quite a heavy sort of live streaming influence in all of the The icons that come as standard, but fortunately you can download these extra ones as well now So if you come down here In fact what I'll do is rather than go through all the Algato ones I'll just little click this little arrow to collapse them and then down here. You'll see That at the bottom we have our Photoshop icon pack. So if I right-click on That then you can see that we've got all of these different Photoshop icons So let's just say I was going to add the brush tool as a shortcut. There we go click on that And now it is added the brush tool To that particular icon So that is how easy it is to grab a set of icons and they do have Photoshop Final Cut Pro Premiere Pro Affinity Designer DaVinci Resolve, which I'm also having a little play around with these days as well So DaVinci Resolve is another icon pack from this same Same producer as well. So that's how easy it is to just go and add in little icons There is another way to do it, which is if you happen to have a Set of icons for example that you've got from somewhere else Or that you've just got an image that you want to use for the icon Then let's say in this particular one. Let's say I wanted to have this icon I've got a little icon file here and I can just drag it over and then that now is become the image So you can just simply drag and drop onto the icons one thing to watch out Is that you do actually drag it onto this bottom area here? Sometimes because it's highlighted it would seem logical that you might be able to just drag it over onto the actual button itself But that doesn't work. It does have to be down to this little area down here So where abouts would you go about getting icons to work just sort of drag and drop onto here? Well, there are a number of places you could certainly do a search on the internet for Streamdeck icons, but I would highly recommend that you actually try to make your own if you've got a little bit of time and You want something quite specific because unless you are for example looking for photoshop icons Then you've also obviously now got those built in But sometimes if you're looking for a particular grouping of icons and you want them to all look the same and consistent and a little bit pretty To have that same look it can be hard sometimes to get a whole group of icons that match and you know Maybe you even want them in your personal favorite colors or company branded colors or whatever it might be It can be hard to get them to match Whereas it is very quick and easy to make them in keynote And I did do a video all about how you can do that and I'll link to that video Down in the description and also up in the top corner as well if I point to the right corner But failing that if you want to actually Buy some icons. There are a number of options for you there as well I do have a store on my website where I have a couple of options So I've got a set of 3000 icons, which is basically it's actually 150 icons in 20 different colors So just to be perfectly clear about that And in fact these are the icons they look something like this So a range of different icons to cover various different things and so yeah You can have a look at those in the the store And then I've also got a specific couple of groups of icons just for some little things that I've also done videos on about How I use stream deck, but I'll link to those videos Down in the description as well But I do mention at the top of my store wait before you buy any icons Do give them a go to actually just create some yourself because it's very easy Now if that does not take your fancy and you've got a more specific use case then I mentioned those icons that were available in the store on the Streamdeck store the store that's free They they were done by Sideshow FX now it's funny because I was actually turned on to this website by Doc Rock on one of his recent live streams in the e-cam community By the way, if you're an e-cam user and you're not in the e-cam live community You're really missing out so much great value in there So I highly recommend that just go to facebook.com Slush groups slash e-cam live great group of people in there all striving to To do the same great things and they're all helping each other out So yeah, you get lots of little tips from there and that is where I find out about this particular website Sideshow FX. This has got a lot of really great Icons for so here you got Ableton live affinity designer after effects audition and all sorts of different applications Very specific sets of icons and as you can see they are just stunning looking and they work for Streamdeck also for loopdeck and for other different Control services that you can get for iPad and and whatnot. So yeah, really really great website I'd highly recommend going and checking those out as well So that is another place that you can go and buy them but do bear in mind. Don't forget to check the store first in The Streamdeck because like these ones adobe illustrator. I've got a feeling that that is the exact same set Or maybe it's maybe there's slightly more in here now. I thought it might be too good to be true So they've got basically around about 70 or 80 that are free in the Streamdeck store But then if you want the complete set then you can get them over here and these are $20 for the for the set for Adobe illustrator So yeah highly recommend highly recommend this site. It's really good for sort of application specific Icons so that's about covers different resources, you know, obviously just searching for them on the internet I'm sure you can find lots as well and so in terms of adding the icons in I've mentioned you can drag and drop you can also Select the file manually by clicking here So going to search on your finder in your finder in your Mac to find them Or you can simply click this open Streamdeck icon library, which is the same thing that little plus key does the one thing I would probably avoid doing is Create new icon that option because what that does is it opens up the Streamdeck icon creator website Speaking as a former web developer This is not a very user friendly website at all and I think you can probably do a lot better with a simple keynote presentation than this the whole User interface of this I think is not good and the design freedom that it gives you is very limited So yeah as a bit of advice, I would probably avoid Of that particular option there But that is how we can get some icons into our Streamdeck and make it looking a little bit more pretty and incidentally if I just come to Show you my profile Of my main Streamdeck the one that I'm actually using this is my setup that I've got at the moment And as you can see there is a sort of consistent look and feel to these And I just made all of these in keynote and it didn't really take me that long once I've got the The the template the layout things like this this little one that looks like a mobile phone. That's just a standard Pictogram in keynote So is the little presentation thing there the little iMac these are all standard things the little camera It's just standard pictograms that you can find in in keynote So that is how I made my icons and then I set up another template and dropped in my application logos to create those So it's really quite Quite straightforward to make icons really and it doesn't take it take that long So I definitely advise giving that a go. Well, that's my little lecture over I hope that you have found that useful if you have found it useful then as always Then don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel and also share this with anybody else Who you think might find it useful as well In the next video I'm going to do a bit more of an in-depth look into the store Basically that they have in the Algato store and just cover all of those different sections that they have I did cover this already in my Version 5 upgrade But I just wanted to include it in this sort of series to touch on some of the things that I haven't talked about with It so far and then that will be almost to the end of our little journey On our beginner's guide to stream deck and then I'll start moving on to some slightly more advanced features that you may want to use and Get away from the sort of little demo screen that I had and show you a little bit more about how I am using stream deck to improve my productivity So those videos are all coming up, but you don't have to wait for those because as ever there's more great videos coming up next Until the next time have a great day