 Hello, and welcome to the live stream. Today, we are talking about five apps that I've been using just lately that have been helping me be a little bit more productive. And they're all part of the Setup bundle as well. So that means that if you are a user of Setup, I'll be talking about exactly what that is in a little while as well. Then you've basically just got these as part of that subscription. There is, as you know, over 200 great apps in Setup. But these are just five of the ones that are sort of top of mind for me at the moment. So I could spend days just going into all of the different apps that are available. But as I say, these are just sort of five that I've been finding particularly useful just recently. So the first one, and by the way, I've mentioned in the thumbnail and the title, it was all about being more productive. But they're not actually productivity apps per se. So we're not talking about task managers. You know that I'm just fully on board with OmniFocus from that point of view. That said, there are some productivity and task management style apps in Setup, just not ones that I use. But some great ones in there as well. But yeah, these are more sort of utility style apps to just help you be a little bit more focused and get things done on your Mac. So the first one, let's see if my stream button works, the first one is called Hazeover. And what this is, let me see if this has worked. I was trying to be clever here, trying to post my links to these apps at the same time as adding timestamps. Not sure they've come through though, but never mind. So this is an app called Hazeover. And what this does is it basically just dims out all of the other things on your screen. It's a really simple app. It's basically just got a sort of toggle to turn it on and off. And it's probably easier if I show you this by just coming into live demo mode for a moment. And if I come into the Hazeover app and I just toggle it, then you'll see that everything else on my screen sort of goes completely dim. So I hope you can see that, okay? So it's basically just hazing out everything except the active app. And as I come through and change my different apps then you're gonna see different things being shown. I'm just noticing, do you see my live demo mode? It doesn't appear to be in my output for some reason. Oh no, I think it is, I think he's going out, okay? So that's all it does really. And you can change the sort of brightness of it, the level that you've got here. You can also change the sort of color that you have for the background. So if you want to come over here and maybe have a completely different color, not that that would necessarily be really great for your eyes but you can basically change to whatever color you want. And I just find this really useful to really just sort of block out everything else that is going on my Mac. So let me just change this back to something a little bit more appropriate. So click in here and we'll change that to dark like this. There we go. And so yeah, it basically just allows you to sort of block out everything and it helps to get rid of sort of unwanted distractions and things like that. You can set it so that it works on all of your displays or have it so that it just focuses on one app at a time. So in what I mean by that is if you have a dim or windows, you can't actually see all of my other screens. But let me just come out of live demo mode for a second. There we go. Then you can either have it so that it just focuses literally on one window just on one screen. But if you are like me and you sometimes use things over multiple monitors and you do want to have two things visible at one time, then you can have this second option here. So it basically just spotlights whatever is on the on the screen on both screens at any one time. You can set keyboard shortcuts for these as well. So there's lots of shortcuts that you can assign to these for like the intensity so you can have it so that you can sort of turn up the amount that it is dimming by. You can set that as a shortcut. For me, I just want it to stay the same. But then I've obviously created a stream deck button for this. So that then basically allows me to just come and toggle this on and off as I want it. So if I come down to this screen down here one second, there we go, down here. So I've just created a button in my stream deck that basically just triggers that keyboard shortcut that I set up for it. So then as I press that, it's just gonna dim out everything else on the screen. So really useful to, as I say, just get yourself a little bit more productive and focused on the task in hand. So the next app on the list is one called Almighty. I'm gonna try this next little thing. See if that posts the link. It didn't, don't think it posted the link to the other one but we'll get there in the end. I'll have a look at, I'll show you how to find these in setup in any case in a moment. So the next one, as I say, is called Almighty and what this is is it allows you to go through and toggle certain settings that there are within Mac OS that maybe aren't so obvious for everybody. So it may be things that you wouldn't ordinarily know where to find them. So if we just go through this list just here, you can see that there is one big long list of all of the different things that you can sort of tweak in your system. There's a few different apps that do this by the way and as I say, these are all things that are built in but sometimes it is just nice to be able to go through and change them like this. It makes it a lot easier and also you can assign keyboard shortcuts to all of these so that you can toggle these things on and off again using the stream deck. So one of them is on the desktop, you can have it to show and hide desktop icons. So I actually use OneSwitch is another app that does this. So as I say, there's sometimes multiple different ways you can do it but basically this is just used to show and hide icons on the desktop. So if you are doing screen demos and things like that, it's handy to just be able to toggle those off if you don't want to show them or maybe on Zoom calls or things like that. If you want to just be able to hide them out of the way. The next one down is all related to the dock. So I don't know if you are a big user of the dock. I tend to have a few apps that I keep in there all the time but most things I actually launch with keyboard shortcuts. One of the ones I like in here though is just the ability to insert a spacer so you can add a spacer into your dock and you just click on this and it would just add a spacer to your dock. And if I come into the demo mode again and I'll just show you what my dock looks like down at the bottom, then you can see that I've basically got these little spaces between them. So it just helps keep a little bit of separation in amongst the apps that I've got down there in the dock. So keeping on going through this list then there's also some for find out. I'm not going to actually go through every single one of these actions but it's good to just be able to go through and have a look at the sort of things that you can do because there are a lot of really useful things in here that you may want to have a look at. In the finder then one that I always have toggled on here is show hidden files because often when you want to have a look at system files and things like that then they will usually be sort of hidden to some extent. So if you want to find out, for example, where ECAM stores certain bits of data it's not necessarily immediately obvious where it is and it's because it's in a hidden folder somewhere. So I always have show hidden files switched on so you can toggle that one off. You can have it showing the full path of the folder that you're in or the file that you're in in the header. I tend to have that in the footer of the finder in any case but just a few different options there. Keyboard, so enable standard key mode, function keys rather than if you know the keys on the function keys on the Mac they've also got those like multimedia keys so pause, play and all that sort of stuff. So this would just be a toggle to toggle between using the standard function keys or those media keys. And again, the good thing about this is you can just come in here and assign a keyboard shortcut to it. So if you want to just be able to toggle these sorts of things on the fly then you can easily do that just by assigning a keyboard shortcut. The next one then, mission control that's not something I used to be honest the one where all of the windows pop up I just tend to use other ways to sort of switch apps and things like that but there are a couple of things in there so you can rearrange those automatically. Photos, it really annoys me when the Mac tries to open up some application that it thinks you need when you don't actually want to do it. So often I'll find the Photos app would want to start up if I did anything with a photo or imported a photo or something like that. So here you can just stop that from happening. Screenshots, I'll come on to screenshots in a while because I've got another app that is specifically for a better way of taking screenshots than the Mac's built in screenshot capability. But in here you have got a couple of options to just disable the border that it puts around or the shadow that it puts. So if you capture an entire app window then it keeps that little shadow that we have around our apps so you can have it so that it just toggles that one off. A couple of more down here but one specifically that I just wanted to mention was in the system because there's quite a few things in here. It's just a case of really going through these and taking a look but one of them is this one so auto plain text. I always prefer to just if I'm copying and pasting stuff I tend to want plain text so that it just pasted in the format of whatever documents I happen to be pasting it into. But the default would be that you copy it with all of the formatting and things like that. So that can be a little bit annoying sometimes. So here you can just make it so that it always copies the plain text. And then once again, you can add a shortcut to that as well. Another couple in here is, let's have a little look where they are. There was a couple more that I noticed down here that I'd normally have. Oh, I'll tell you what it was. It was this one for this virtual cursor. So you'll know that I use ProMouse but a lot of people have issues with ProMouse. So you can see that now if I just turn my ProMouse off for a second, where's it gone? I'll just have to toggle this off from up here. Can't find it now actually. Where's it gone? Let me toggle it off this way. There we go. So you can see that this can basically simulate something a bit like ProMouse. So you can turn this one on and then you'll get that sort of virtual cursor that's the one in the middle of my ProMouse halo still there. But you can see that I can click on the screen and it's highlighting that in blue. They've also got virtual keystrokes as well. So that is if you are doing things where you're doing screen demos and you're typing in keystrokes, then this will capture those on the screen as well. So that's just something that is a little alternative to ProMouse if you are doing screen demos and you've had issues with ProMouse as so many people have. So that was the almighty app. Now, as I say, these are all available on set-up. So probably now is a good time to just sort of mention exactly what set-up is. And it is a subscription basically where you pay one monthly fee of $9.99 but then that is dollars but then you get access to over 200 great apps. And if I just come into the all apps section and the way this works by the way is it sits on your desktop or on your computer as a completely standalone app store. So in addition to the regular app store from Apple, it just works in exactly the same way. You've got all of these apps that you can browse and as I say, there's over 200 of them. One thing that is I think much better about this than the regular app store is that this is a really well curated list. And so all of these apps are really high quality apps that do whatever it is that they do. They generally do it pretty well. Whereas the Mac app store, I find that it's hard to find the gems in there in amongst all of the other stuff that we've got in there. So it's just as simple as you go through here. If you see an app that you want, let's say I wanted to use this app, then first of all, you can just click on it to find out what it is. Just the same, looks very familiar just like the regular app store. And then if you want to try it, you can just click on install and it will just install it on your computer and it runs just like the app as if you'd got it from the regular app store. Another good thing about this though is there's some apps where you might find that they're really useful to use for one particular task that you've got in mind that you might never be doing again. And you wouldn't necessarily have gone out and bought the app just for that one specific use case or for one day or whatever it is. But the fact that you've got it in set app means that you've got these apps that you can just use and then when you finish with them, you could just as easily sort of offload them. So if I install something, then I can just click on here, it will install it. And then if you want to uninstall it afterwards, you can just as easily take it off again. So it's a really great way as I say to try these apps. They're split down into different categories as well. So lifestyle, creativity, developer tools and all that sort of thing. They are generally these like utility style apps as well. So that's the kind of app that you're gonna find in there. So things to do with here. We've got scheduling. This is the one that we've just looked at this almighty and then various other different things. Here's a to-do list one. There's a few different to-do lists and sort of task management apps in there that are pretty decent as well. As I say from my live stream last week, you know that I am definitely an omnifocus person, but that isn't part of this. However, there are lots of others. I think Todoist is in here as well, which is another great sort of GTD style to-do list app. By the way, some of these also do have iOS versions as well. So one that we're gonna be looking at is this cloud outliner. And that has both an iOS and the Mac version. And if you get the, if you've got set up, then it does give you access to those Mac apps, those iOS apps as well as the Mac version. So you really are getting the whole sort of thing with it. So yeah, definitely worth having a look at that. So the, if you go to set up, sorry, we go to, takeonetech.io slash set up. I feel as though I'm all over the place today. Takeonetech.io slash set up. I've pinned the comment in the chat and then also it's linked in the description as well. The way that affiliate program works, because by the way, that's an affiliate link. The way that affiliate program works is if you try the set up for the free trial and then go on to sign up, then when you sign up, you will get a free month and I will get a free month too. So that's basically how their affiliate system works. It works out really well because you're just recommending it and both of us get that free month onto our subscription. So the next one then that I want to talk about is probably gonna take a little bit longer to talk about but it is called a clean shot. And it looks like my little multi-actions just really aren't working. It's called clean shot and it's basically a better way to take screenshots on the Mac. So let's have a little look, shall we? It sits up in the menu bar but as ever, there is a keyboard shortcuts for it. So here, if I just click this little dropdown, you can basically capture an area of the screen, a capture a full screen view of the screen, capture a window. You can do a scrolling capture which I'll come onto, self timer. You can do OCR of text. I've actually got another one that I did a video about on my channel called Tech Sniper. So I actually prefer that one for, and in fact that is this one just up here. That's for if you want to just take a screenshot of something to grab the text out of the screen whether it is from an image or if it's just, you've got an email, you want to just grab it from there and copy it somewhere else. I suppose you probably just copy and paste it regularly then though, but yeah, it's basically for just taking any characters that you've got on the screen, specifically from images. But this Tech Sniper also does QR codes as well. So if somebody's pasted a QR code or a barcode as an image, you can just basically highlight it on the screen and grab it and it will go to wherever that QR code goes to. So that was Tech Sniper, but the one I'm talking about today though, and by the way, I've left a link in the description to the playlist that I've done all about the setup apps because I've done quite a few videos now that are reviews of different setup apps. So that's the best place to go to if you want to have a look at some of the other things that you can get on setup. Hey, Aubrey, I've just noticed you popping in. Great to see you here. So with this clean shot though, one thing that I like about it is the fact that it makes it really easy to take these screenshots and then annotate them. And that is really one of its great features. So if I go to capture area and then let me come back to this screen down here. If I come down to this bottom corner. Right, so now you can see that I've got some crosshairs on the screen. Hopefully you can see that. And it's also got, although I think actually it's not coming through in the screen share, it, you can see the little coordinates, but I'm also seeing a little box here which is showing me exactly what I'm looking at down to the pixel. So it's kind of magnifying exactly where the crosshairs are. I don't know if that's really coming through, but what that means is you can be really super accurate about what you're actually grabbing. So if you want to get a particular part of a window or something like that, you can easily do it. And then you just sort of highlight the area that you want and let it go. And what it does is, this is another thing it's not actually popping up. Let me just come into my live demo mode. Hopefully you can see that then. So you'll notice down in the bottom corner here, right down in the bottom, hopefully this is coming through. You can see that I've got this little sort of tile that's popping over the bottom of the screen here. And from here, you can either upload the image straight to the clear shot servers because from there, you can share this out. So that's another great thing about it is it does create a link for you to share this. So if you want to just show somebody, somebody's got a question, you can just basically grab the link from here. But you can also annotate. So if I click on the annotate, let me just see if this is going to show up in the output. If I come back down here, I think that when I'm in live demo mode, I think it's one of these things where because it is a window, I know it is showing it, there we go. So you can still see that, that's good. So yeah, this is the way that you annotate it. It's pretty familiar to the way that you'd annotate it in preview, but there's a couple of things that are nice. First of all is we've got these little numbers here. And what that allows you to do is just simply go through and sort of number things. So if you wanna add, you know, you're talking about steps that people need to take, then this makes it really easy to just go in and add in numbers. It's easy to go in and add things like arrows as well, so that you could just, you know, talking about different things on this particular screen like that. You can just go in and add those in. So it's just really quick actually to do this. Once you've done that, you can, and you know, obviously you've got all the other annotation tools that you would expect to see. Another good one that's in here is redaction. So you can just redact something. And if I just put a little thing over this area, you can hopefully see there that it has just sort of blurred that area out. So that's another useful thing if you are showing documents or things like that just to be able to redact things and make them so that they're not visible. And then as soon as you have finished, you can click on done. And then from there, you'll notice that that little thing I had down in the bottom corner. Hopefully you can see that again. It's now got all those annotations on it. And there's a couple of things you can do here. You can just literally drag it straight from here. And now I'm holding that. So I could drag that into a document, into an email, into a text message or something like that. It's just really easy to, as I say, just take it from there and do something with it. But the other thing that you've got there is this one to upload to the cloud. So it's now uploading to the cloud and it's automatically copied the link. So if you want to send this in a message with a link rather than the actual file itself, then it's very easy to do that as well. Let's have a little look at some of the other options you've got with this, because this sort of explains things a little bit more than that. In fact, let me get up a website because I'll show you this other thing first before we do this. Let me get up a website. Where's my, there it is. So I'm going to show you this scrolling capture because this is a really cool thing. In fact, let's go to the, why not go to the ECAM website? It's always a good one because it's got lots of nice stuff on the screen. So what I'm going to do now is if I come back over to this view here. In fact, it might be easier to show you this if I come into demo mode again. So let me just zoom in a little bit so that we can see this a bit better. Here we've got the ECAM live website. So I'm going to come into the clean chart again. And again, you can set up shortcuts for this, but this is the one that is useful, this scrolling capture. So I'm going to click on scrolling capture. And then I'm going to drag to capture a part of the screen. So let's capture the ECAM website like that, okay? And now I'm going to click on start capture. So it says start capture down here. I'm hoping this is coming through, okay? Click on start capture. And now as I scroll the website, what it's actually doing is it's creating one long image. So rather than having, you know, obviously the size of the window is as it is. If I click on done now, there we go, that has saved that. And now if I come and click on this image, and let's just edit it for a sec, shall we say? There we go. Now I've got one single image, but it's actually the whole length of the website or however long I scroll. So often the stuff that you want to capture, and you want to capture it all, but it won't physically all fit on the screen at any given time. So this is a way that you can actually capture the whole length of it. And it's done a really good job. Apart from the bit at the top there, where there was the movie playing in the background, that hasn't come through so well, but the rest of it has. And in fact, there is a way that you can pause the screen. So I don't normally capture videos in a scroll like that. But if I come back to this area here, these are the setups, the setup I should say, there is a few different options that we've got in here. I don't want that one. Don't want to haze over, I want this one. What you can see here is there is an option to basically pause the screen while you are taking screenshots. So somewhere in here, there is something which says, let me have a little look. There's one of these that is to pause it whilst we are scrolling. So I think it's in screenshots. There we go, this one. So if I had done my job properly there, I would have just selected freeze screen when taking a screenshot. And then when I was doing that scrolling screenshot, it would have just paused the video that was playing on the screen there. But as I say, there are shortcuts for all of these things as with everything. So you can create shortcuts for the different types of screenshots. So you might be familiar with Command Shift 4 and 5 or for Apple's built-in screenshots. So I've got six, seven, and eight for some of these. And then I also use two for that text. And I've got one to grab the text. So it's a really useful app for, as I say, for these annotations. It does save all the stuff to the cloud as well. So on their service, you sort of basically sign up for it. And so you can always go back and look at the ones that you've got there or go and delete them. But yeah, certainly for sharing, it just makes it really easy. So let me just come and just double check that there are. And then obviously you've got screen recording as well. So just as we've got before. Another useful thing about this though, just while I come back to this, if I come to this option up here, there we go. If I select that I want to do this all in one, now where's the little thing come here? I might have to go into this view again. I don't know if you can see this down here is where I've got the area that I'm doing. The other thing about this is when you want to select a specific area, it does actually tell you the size of the area that you are selecting. So sometimes you might want to get something that is exactly 1920 by 1080. So it fits nicely into whatever it is you're doing or it might be some other size. You can see that you can actually just edit this in here. So I could actually make this exactly that size. And so that is now giving me an area that is exactly that size. Sometimes it's better to be able to get the area that you want right and then you're gonna adjust the thing that you're taking a screenshot of so that it fits into that area. You've also got some other presets in here so you can make it just like either a square, 16 by nine, and so on. So you've got these sort of different presets so you can make that to be exactly a square and then you can just sort of make it larger and smaller that way. So I do like that to be able to get that sizing exactly right. It's a lot more precise as I say than the built-in options that we've got with the Max Screen Sharing. So let me just get that one out of the way. So that is Clean Shot. I highly recommend that. Hey Orbs, yeah, it's really cool that one and it does make things very easy for just doing nice little annotated screenshots because I'm often, I don't know if other people are but I'm often people's tech support and so they're asking me questions and so I just can easily just create a screenshot and annotate it. And with the websites, when I used to do web designing things like that, being able to have those scrolling things to show somebody what an entire website's gonna look like especially if you're designing something for them, they wanna see what the whole page is gonna look like as opposed to just the one bit or maybe from a coding point of view as well, having a whole sort of screenshot of the coding is useful too. Now the next one, I'm gonna press my button just in case even if it doesn't actually post the link. Not quite sure why it wasn't. I've got everything set up so I'll press buttons on my stream deck. It adds timestamps and it also posts links to the apps that I'm talking about but it appears that the posting links bit isn't working but never mind. The next one is called Cloud Outliner. So this is really a lightweight outlining app and I think I've talked about this on the channel before, I've made a video about it but it's worth mentioning because it is one that I just use all the time. I generally don't do outlines for my videos but I do often do outlines for my live streams just so that I don't get off track because I'm very easily distracted as you all know. So I do tend to write like a high level outline for the live streams but then also for any presentations I'm doing and courses. And what I like about Cloud Outliner is it is just a really simple and basic program that does one thing really well. So let me just come over to here for a second. As you can see, it's pretty simple looking interface. You've just got a series of folders in this side and then you've got your different outlines or notes down here. And so the interface is just as simple as if you wanna create a new folder, click here. You want to create a new outline, click there. So once you are in one of these things, if I just click like that, you can see that I've just got a point here. It's got a number and it's got a checkbox. Just click return, it will give you another one. Click, what is it now? I can't say it because I've just do it by memory now but it is control command and then the arrow left and right to basically indent things. So if you wanted to create some sub things here, maybe come back here and create some more points down here. So you can see and you can indent this as much as you want as well. So however you want to do your outlines, you can do it from here. Obviously you can sort of collapse all these down as well. The checkboxes are optional. So if I come into the preferences, you can see here to whether you want to show checkboxes or not. And then you can also add notes to selected rows. So if I come in here and this is the title of one of my sections, you can attach a note to it as well. So just coming here and then this would allow you to put some sort of different notes in associated with that particular item. So you can have it so that it shows the notes at all times or only when you have that specific row selected. So if I click on that, this you'll find should it might not change until, there we go. I don't think that's gonna change until I maybe quit it and come back into it again. But it's basically so that the notes would not show up for things that aren't kind of like the active parts. You can also have it so that as you go through and check off these things, it will also check off the ones that the sort of parent items as well. So if I click off or check off all of these things, you can see that that's now being checked off. Same with here, as I check these three here, the fourth one you'll see will turn this check mark into a check mark as well. So it's got this sort of hierarchy. But it's just really simple to do. There's keyboard shortcuts for all of this. So I tend to just fly around this with keyboard shortcuts to in order to sort of arrange all of these things. I use it for the outlines for my course, for my live streams as I say, and for presentations. But you can also do this with these keys up at the top here rather than the keyboard shortcuts. But you'll see in the preferences, there are keyboard shortcuts for all of these different things. You know, adding new rows, child rows, parent rows, that sort of thing. So there, yeah, it was basically, you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard, which for me is the crucial thing when I'm doing an outline. I don't want to be having to click here and there and everywhere. But sometimes some of these outliners can get a bit feature rich and bloated, whereas all I want is just a simple way to create this kind of outline. You can do formatting as well, so you can come in here, change the font size, color and stuff like that. I don't tend to do much of that. And it's fairly limited. It is just literally, as you can see here, these few colors, and you can change the size of the font. But apart from that, as I say, it's just a really lightweight thing that I find really useful for making these kind of outlines. So I mentioned that I use these for my courses. So I should probably just mention that one of them I did was the Ecamm Live Masterclass. I planned that all out in Cloud Outliner. Same with my Zoom Masterclass as well. You can find those at ecammlivemasterclass.com and zoommasterclass.com. And they basically take you from beginner to advanced on both of those applications. And it's just broken down into sort of bite-size videos covering everything that you need to know from not just the applications, but actually the other tools and things like that that go hand in hand with them. So for example, the Ecamm course also covers things like stream decks and basic presentation skills using Ecamm with PowerPoint and Keynote as well. So it's kind of the other things that surround these apps as well. I'm currently working on another three different courses as well in terms of working on the structure and the outline. So it's all done with Cloud Outliner though. So I highly recommend it. I find it really useful to just be able to get these things together. So with that said, I've left a link obviously to all of these things in the description that I'm talking about today. The final one then that I want to talk about is another really simple app. It's one of these apps that does one thing and does it really well. And it's an app called Squash, which I also think I may have talked about on the channel before, but I've been using it a lot recently because I've been trying to switch up my thumbnail style a little bit. I'm not sure that I've found a style, but before I used to make all my thumbnails for YouTube, they all just looked the same basically. Just I would switch out one of my stupid YouTube face stock pictures that I'd got of myself and then change whatever the text was on the other side of it. But recently I've just been trying to do something a little bit more creative and see how that goes. And so what I've been doing is creating these other thumbnails, but I've noticed that they've been now larger than the two megabyte size limit for YouTube. So Squash, I've been using pretty much every time I've done a video. And so let me show you exactly what this is. This is a really simple app. You just basically drag an image and drop it onto the app. And here I'm just gonna click on Use Sample Photo. By the way, you can actually drag a whole load of pictures on it as well. So it can be used to do things in batches. But what it allows you to do is a series of sort of adjustments to the image. So if I dropped a load of images on here, I would see all of the images, but there's just one here that I'm using as this sample. There's a couple of different views on it. So you can either have it where it shows you a thumbnail, but you can also click this view and it's gonna basically show you what the original was like on the left hand side and what the other versions like, the final finished versions like on the right hand side and you can just sort of swipe from left to right. Obviously this looks a little bit weird at the moment. So let me go through and show you the things that you can do because I've toggled a load of things on here. So the first thing is you can resize it. So if you do have to do batch resizing of images, you can do that. You can either do it where you select the actual width or the height, or you might want to have a maximum size or you could have a in terms of, so the max either of the width or the height, that would mean, or you can have a percentage. So you're just scaling it down by a certain percent or you can have a sort of free size where you're gonna put in the actual size of it. So obviously that's great if you need to actually resize the image and you can toggle all of these things on and off. So you might wanna just sort of simply toggle one of these different things on or off if you want. The next thing is just some general adjustments. So you can adjust the blur and as you can see as I adjust the blur on here, it is blurring out the image in the little preview there. So you can see these sort of before and after you can see what it's doing. We've got some sharpening there, vibrance. You could change it to monochrome, add some sepia tone to it, whatever if you want to do those kind of adjustments, it's just really easy to make these. And the thing about this, of course, is these are sort of presets as well. So once you've created these, you can save it as a preset. So next we'll come down to some other effects. So if you just wanna add some of these, you know, a bit like you've got an Instagram, different effects that you can add in, then these are just some preset effects that you can add in here. You can also add in borders and there's some adjustments that you can make there. So this is changing the sort of border around the outside. You can also add in a watermark. So if you want to add in a sort of copyright or something like that, you can add in one or you can add in multiple watermarks. So I can just click on the plus there and add something different in and you can see it's adding it down here. And then you can click on the little buttons there to make some adjustments in terms of petition and things like that. Next one is compression and there you go, you see the different texts that you can add in and that you can edit the font and all that kind of thing as well. The next one down though is compression. So if you want to compress a image to make it smaller, you can change that. So you can also change the format. If you wanna change from a JPEG to PNG, for example, or something like that, you can come and select those in here and then you can change the quality and it will tell you up at the top here. Here is the original, it's showing you the size of it. And then it's showing you the image size as well, the file size I should say, and the image size. And then over here, it's showing you the new file size and the image size as well. So that's how you can see that thing about YouTube thumbnails, they need to be less than two megabytes. So if you want to, you can just come in and take an image and drop it down here to make sure that you've met that particular size requirement. Another one is metadata. This is quite handy if you want to strip out metadata like GPS location and things like that. It's surprising actually, how many people don't realize that they're out there snapping pictures with their iPhones and then they're posting pictures in places and people can actually find the location just from, is it all embedded within the picture? So it may be something that you wanna consider stripping out of your images, in which case you can come into this metadata section and just turn off the GPS location if you're embarrassed because you're owning a Nikon you can turn off the camera model as well. So you can do that in there. And then you can also when it exports the image you can rename the file. So you can add either a suffix or a prefix or you can just replace the file name altogether. So the one I've got here is just, it's gonna add onto the end of the file it's gonna add hyphen squash so I know which file is which and then you can change the case and so on, white space and so on. So that is just to basically rename the file that you're editing or you can have it so that it actually just overwrites the original. Obviously I'm gonna advise that you just create a separate file and give it a new name. And then you can also do the same with the date information as you could do with the GPS location. So you can strip out some of that if you wanna strip out the date created and so on or the date modified. And then finally the export is gonna choose the location that you want to export it to. So you can either have a fixed location so this is actually where it's my thumbnails are going and then for all of these things after you have created multiple different ones of these then you can just add this as a new preset and give it a new preset name and then that will then add this to your list of presets. So then when you drop images in depending on what it is you want to do then you can just click on whichever preset that you want to apply to it. So it's a really useful app. Let me just quickly pop into the preferences. I think we've pretty much covered everything. The preferences you can change are the icons. One thing that's really weird about this app for a photo editor is it does actually have if I come into here, let me switch that. You can actually have it playing music in the background. I wanna say music. I just mean this thing that's built in is just such a weird feature for me and it's one that, I mean, it sounds pretty ominous. I don't know if I'd want to do adjustments to my photos with this running in the background. It's a bit weird as a feature that is but here you can toggle this whether you want this Zen track as they call it on, off or not. But yeah, I just thought that was quite amusing. You can also change some of different packs that you can install here for different borders and filters and things like that as well. So I think you can add those sorts of things separately as well. Hey, Michael, just noticed you popped into the chat. Not looked down at that for a little while and hey, Rich, great to see you here as well. Well, that is actually all I was gonna cover today. So it's basically just these, as I say, these five apps but I highly recommend going and checking out setup because there are over 200 great apps in there and it's just a case of going through and trying these ones out. Go and look at the groupings of them and see which ones you think work for you. Now, I've also just wanna mention that I have started my Amazon live show which is called The Sunday Session. And you can see that if I click on this one, hopefully it should pop up, there we go. The one that I'm doing on this Sunday, so it is Sunday at 7 p.m. US time, Eastern Standard Time. And this week it's all about the live stream in Nexus. I did actually cover the live stream in Nexus on my YouTube channel a while ago but I'm gonna go a bit more in depth with this with a full setup tutorial. So I'll be live on Amazon every Sunday, as I say, at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time when I'll be doing deep dive tutorials into things like this. So the week before, last week I did all about the ROCASTER Pro 2. And this week, as I say, I'm doing the live stream in Nexus and next week I'm gonna do a full live stream all about the stream deck and sort of a beginner's guide setting it up from beginner all the way through to some of the more advanced stuff you can do. So those live streams on Amazon tend to go on a little bit longer. So the ROCASTER one was around two hours, something like that, although I did drop the connection about twice in the middle of it. Thank you, Amazon. But hopefully this next one will run a bit smoother. But I've left a link in the description to my Amazon live channel as well so that you can head over there and I would appreciate you going over there and giving me a follow over there. And I will look forward to seeing you. If not over there, then maybe on the next live stream here. So that's all for me today. Thank you very much for stopping by and I will catch you all a bit later. And for those watching on the replay, why don't I leave a link to my other set up playlist over on the right hand side.