if you're a Creator who's trying to make live streams that look really professional there are
a lot of free tools out there that you can use to help you do that today I want to talk about
three of my favorite free tools that can help take your live stream to the next level the first one I
want to talk about is Page marker page marker is a free Chrome extension that allows you to
do some very cool things once you've installed it anytime you open up Chrome you'll see in the upper
right there's a little pen that you can click on that'll open up the interface for page marker now
this allows you to do things like drawing on your browser window just by clicking on the
pen icon and you can do things like increase the size of that pen make it a larger stroke
or even change the color of that to something that works better for what you're drawing on
it even has a highlighter tool that allows you to highlight certain areas of text without completely
blocking them out you can erase things that you've done on screen using the Eraser you can actually
use the text tool to start typing things out if you need to draw an absolutely straight line you
can do that too and you can even download what you just did on screen as a screenshot to use
later on you can undo previous steps or you can completely delete everything on screen this makes
it really easy when you're doing a presentation to draw attention to things that you want people
to notice on screen in your browser window the second one I want to talk to you about is
magnifying glass this tool is not only available for Chrome but also available for other browsers
like Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox so it's available to a larger range of users by clicking
on the magnifying glass in the upper right it actually creates a magnifying glass that you
can drag around with your cursor anywhere on your browser window what's cool about this is if you
right click and open up the options you'll see that you have the ability to control the size of
that magnifying glass as well as the zoom level how much it actually is magnifying what you've
got it over you can also control the Border color on this if there's a specific color that you like
to have the outside of that magnifying glass and it's a super useful tool for when you're trying
to show something on screen that might be hard for people to see if they're watching your live
stream from a mobile device like their iPhone now the third and probably my most favorite tool is
called Zoom it this tool isn't a browser extension it's actually a free Microsoft Windows tool so
that means you don't have to necessarily just be using a browser window this can work if you're
presenting software that you might be using on your computer basically anything you see on your
monitor screen this will work for now the Zuma tool is a bit like the last two tools combined
it can do things like zoom in and out but it also allows you to stop and draw on screen at the same
time this is great for tutorials or when you're showing somebody some software where some of the
text in the user interface might be hard to see you can easily zoom in and show them different
parts of that software so it's right up in their face on screen but what's even cooler about this
software is all the different things that you can do now you can draw on screen simply by zooming in
and left clicking and drawing whatever you want the difference here is that Zoom it relies on
hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts so if you want to change the color of the ink from something like
pink to Red you just hit r on your keyboard and now your pen is red B for blue y for yellow o for
orange and so on other cool things that I really like about it is you can create a whiteboard or
a Blackboard drawing mode just by hitting simple keystrokes while zumit is engaged if I hit K on
my keyboard it opens up a Blackboard that I can start drawing anything that I want it allows me
to do things with keyboard shortcuts such as drawing a rectangle or even drawing a circle
around something I can draw arrows to point to specific areas and then use all of these
keyboard shortcuts to either erase my last moves or erase everything I can also create screenshots
I can copy them to my clipboard or save those screenshots of anything I'm doing right now but
what's really cool is zoom it allows you to do a screen recording and save those recordings just
by hitting a couple of keys it has things like an on-screen countdown timer that you can create and
you can use this live for setting a timer for almost anything you want the best thing is is
that all of these features are absolutely free and you can start using them today I'll leave links
to these free tools down in the description so you can go try them out today and if you want to learn
more about how to use live streaming to grow your YouTube channel or take your live streams to the
next level click on the video that's on screen now or the ones that I'll link down below peace