 hell yo what's up guys this is Chris Pike my friends call me big C back in action today gonna show you how to remove blemishes on your youtube thumbnail on your image if you put your if you're a gamer and for example and you put your video you put your image on your thumbnail and you've got some blemishes acne zits scars i don't know maybe you took a cannonball to the face i don't know i'm gonna show you how to fix that let's get going the first step is you want to go to your finder or your windows explorer in all likelihood drag and drop the photo that you want to work on right here it's dragged and dropped it for me but it dragged and dropped it into the top left quadrant i don't want that so i clicked on it and i'm going to move it now i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna click on this little you see that little rectangle or square i'm clicking on it and i'm just holding up and what i'm doing is i'm just increasing the size of it so that it fits kind of where i want it good okay i'm gonna hit enter and now it's placed now the work starts the first step to get rid of any blemishes is to use one of three tools the first tool and probably the most useful tool let me just go over here under the left side here is the spot healing brush tool right here you'll see it i'll hover over it again right here spot healing brush and what you want to do is you want to zoom in tight and you can increase or decrease the size of this and the way to do that is using the right or the left bracket so depending on which version you want i'm going to go ahead and increase the size to about that spot healing brush does not require a set point it doesn't require you to take it from any other piece it just does automatic or does ai to try and do it so i'm going to left click on it and see what we got doesn't work we've got a rasterized a layer first a rasterized a layer right click on it and then you'll see convert to smart object once you've converted to a smart object right click again and it allows you to rasterize it it's two steps it's kind of weird but hey it's free software so it works now left click on that um on the blemish this case this acne left click on it and you'll see presto it's gone i'm going to do it on this one presto it's gone and when i zoom way in it's done a pretty good job but if you've got an eagle eye you'll notice that it's got a little bit of deformation there so i'm going to command zed and undo those i'm going to show you the second tool that you can use the second tool is the standard healing brush this is different than the spot healing brush because you got to hold down the alt or the option key and what ends up happening is it takes basically it's skin grafting it looks at a section so i'm going to hold down the alt key and i'm hovering over a piece of the skin that i like i like this part here now i'm going to go ahead and hover and left click on it and you'll see it's gone ahead and removed it as well i'm going to do this one as well i'm going to hold down the alt or the option key if you're on a mac and i'm going to select maybe this color of the skin right here and then i'm going to go ahead and left click on it and presto it's removed it so that's the second option the third and final option is the patch tool this one's a little trickier but it does really really good job and it allows you to be very very precise i'm going to zoom way in and once you've got the patch tool selected i'm actually going to go ahead and draw around the area that i want to remove good i've got that now i'm just going to left click on it and i'm going to move it up and i'm basically what i'm doing is i'm just selecting an area of skin that i think matches what i'm looking for so something like that and then i'm going to let go and now when i zoom out i'm going to go to select deselect and it has removed that blemish this is three ways to do it to make your gaming thumbnails and make your face look a lot better for youtube thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up stay