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Hey everybody welcome to Mina Studio. I'm Nathan and with me as always is my
tech director Ronald. Thank You Ronald. Today we're gonna take a look at
Photoscape X. So here we are in Photoscape X you can see all of the
tools we have on top here. Today we're going to spend most of our time in the
editor because we're making a simple graphic. I also have the viewer which is
as a sounds to view the photos. You have batch editing which will edit multiple
pictures at the same time. You have collage which if you're gonna make it
collage this is actually a pretty good program to do so. You can see the
simple collage is easy to make. You can combine pictures, create GIFs, print, you
have other tools like screen capture, color picker which I have not used yet
and store. Right now let's go back to the editor where we spend our time today. As
you can see here in the editor we have all of the files on our computer here.
We're gonna go to YouTube graphics. We're gonna go ahead and make a thumbnail for
this very video we're making right now. So let's open this incredibly exciting
screen shot of me staring at you and now we are editing this photo in the editor.
You can see all of the editing tools up here in the top corner. The first one is
just simple editing tools like resize, crop it's got some fun stuff like
miniature and bloom. Really simple adjustments like grayscale or sepia and
then if you click that plus there you have even more adjustments. Auto levels
Auto contrasts, reduced noise, all kinds of stuff there. Down here you have the
more professional editing tools like levels curves, channel mixer, color
balance, and these are what you'll need to purchase the pro version for. Now
since we're just making a simple graphic for Youtube we don't need to use this
so we'll just stick with these simple free editing tools today. So the first
thing we need to do is crop YouTube thumbnails are sixteen by nine so let me
make sure my picture is sixteen by nine. You can see over there you can also
select other sizes or free or custom. We are sixteen by nine. There we go. So next
we're gonna go to the color tab. In the color tab we'll see some simple
adjustments- bright, darken, dehaze, light and shadows, contrast, saturation. If you click
this plus button here you'll see more like exposure gamma correction
brightness. These are all we're gonna need to use today. We're actually not
gonna use a whole lot here. I think I will do here is maybe lessen the
contrast and brighten the picture a little bit. That looks good. I
think we're just gonna make this picture very bright so we can add some black or
colored text on top of it. Make it a little more interesting. That's all
we're gonna do the color tab. Next let's go to the film tab. The film tab is
where you'll find all of your filters. Here are your categories of filters up
top. The film ones are the kind of instagram-y filters. I think they're
actually pretty good. Then you also have duotone, light leaks, which actually
use light leaks pretty often you just gotta use them subtly. Let's see
I don't want the hearts in mine, I kind of like that one, let's use that one.
Then down here, let me move myself,
down here you can see you can adjust the amount of the effect in there for
this light leak we're gonna go pretty small and then you hit apply when you're
ready. You can also undo if you don't like the effect you did, you can redo as well.
You can see the original by holding this button or you can compare what you just
did with what it was previously before you added the current effect. That
looks pretty good for now. I'm going to slide this back over- all right. We're
also gonna add some film filters. We want to make it lighter, so I like that one.
Let's add that one- apply. Then let's add let's see...
I like picnic blanket. Strange name, but I get it. Apply and there we go. We're
just brightening this up right now. That is all we're gonna do in the filter
section, but there's lots to explore here. Next we have frames we're not really going to
do anything with frames, but as you can see there's tons of frames you can use. I
don't use these very often, but there's a lot of them. There's also lots more you
can add by purchasing the pro version of the software. As you can see there's some
that are really good and some that are well, you know not so great. We're not
gonna add any- actually I kind of like these, let's add these. I like these.
We're gonna add that frame. Hit apply and there we go.
Next we're gonna go to the insert tab and the insert tab is where we're
gonna do most of our work today. This is where you'll do most of the graphic
design things. Now you can't replace a software like
Illustrator or Inkscape with this piece of software that's not what this is for,
these are just simple graphics for things like emails or Youtubes or things you
just need to add some text and some effects to. Let's go over what is in
the insert tab so you can see up here we have stickers, image, figure,
text, magnifier, and filter. Stickers are stickers. We're not gonna use any of
these today, but if you want to put a giant heart on your picture then there's
a giant heart for you. I do not want that giant heart, so you'll delete that. You can
also add images to your picture, other images, so you can see we can just pick
this random sermon image off my computer like you know if we wanted to do a
picture-in-picture look like that. You can see it'll always bring up this
inspector palette on this side and you can do all kinds of stuff with them like
adjust angle or opacity. You can transform, add drop shadows all that.
That'll come up with pictures or stickers or figures or text or anything
you're adding. Again I don't want that so we will delete that. Next we have figures
this is similar to stickers I guess, but these are just more basic shapes could
be useful if I needed to add a giant number five on my picture.
I don't need to today, but you know it's kind of like that maybe someday I'll do
something like that. Don't need that. We'll go to text in a minute because we
are gonna do a lot there. Next to a magnifier magnifies a part of the screen.
I don't need to do that. I don't know why you would need to do that, but
it's good to have it. Then filters add simple filters like mosaic, jitter, blur.
If you've seen the intro video on the Mina Studio videos you've seen that I use the
newsprint filter for that. We are going to use that one today. We're gonna make
it a little less drastic than this. Let me expand the filter out, to fill the
whole picture, then I'll take the strength here and put it way down.
Like so and there we go. The next thing I want to do is bring down the
contrast a little more. A good way to do that is actually to just add a
transparent shape on the top. You can see here we have some simple shapes that
we can add arrows, lines, squares, circles, and you also have outlines of those
shapes so we're gonna choose a square. Then you can just draw it on your
image, like so. Make sure we get the whole image here. It'll kind of snap to
the sides of the image. All right- well that's not what I want, but I do want
something like this. So we can adjust the opacity and that'll kind of fake bring
my contrast down so we can add words on top and they'll stand out. Again you can
do things like adjust the angle and transform an outline and stuff. I don't
want to do that. I think that looks good for a YouTube thumbnail and now
we're gonna add text. One of the things I like about this program is you
can do multiple text boxes which you can't always do in photo editing
programs. We're gonna add a couple here. Let's go- let's do blue. Shall we, I
like blue. Let's go Photoscape X. There we go. I do not want that font, so
I'll change the font. I think I like Din Condensed for this, sorry I have a lot of
fonts on my computer. Designer problems. There we go. Photoscape X, and then I also
like that you can expand the text with the arrows instead of just increasing
the font size, like this makes it a whole lot easier to get exactly what I want.
Since this is a YouTube thumbnail the text will need to be ginormous so people
can read it when it's tiny. All right there we go. I think we're gonna increase
the- actually I kind of like that, a little transparent. Alright let's
go to our other text box. Let's make a graphic design. "Graphic design with" All
right, let's use Din Condensed again and make it black, so you can see it. There we
go. Move it over here. I think I want those lines closer together, which you
can do by going to more options here and you can adjust the letter spacing. Which I
don't want to adjust that or the line spacing which is- both of those are very
useful. Let's do the letters close, expand it like so...
and I like that. I think now we need a line so will X out of our text inspector
and go back to our top bar and click line and then we just draw a line, like
so. Actually I like how thick that is, so I'll just keep that like that, but if I
wanted to you could adjust the thickness- it's good right about there. Looks pretty
good. Adjust the opacity. I don't need to do that. If you wanted to you could
add other shapes there's also like outline shapes like this. As well as
circles and stuff, but I think that looks pretty good for now.
One last thing I will do is I'm going to put the letters closer together in
"Photoscape X" so that I can make it slightly bigger. I'm gonna make
this just a touch smaller. Just click on each one and you'll be able to adjust it.
There we go. I think that will be our thumbnail for
now. Thumbnail obviously won't be that big, so let's hit our zoom down here just
to see what it'll look like smaller. Looks pretty good.
Stands out a lot, not super complicated. When you are done with your
graphic we have our options on the bottom to save it. Now the save
options actually took me a little longer to figure out than I'd like to admit.
You have "save", which will save over the original file you. Have "save to" which
just saves it to another place. You have "save as" which saves a new file (that's
what we'll do) and you also "save project" which will save the editable project in
that crazy format there PSXPRJ, it's just a Photoscape format. You can also adjust
your quality here- metadata file, data dpi, it's fine right now. Since it's gonna
be a thumbnail we're gonna shrink it down so much that it's not a big deal.
We'll click save as- let's do Photoscape Thumbnail, I'll just save it
to my desktop for now save it as a JPEG. You can save it as a ping, and there we
go. There we have it. That is how you do
simple designs with Photoscape X. Again it's a free program for Mac or Windows
10 and it's a great program for doing these simple things. It won't replace the
big programs like Illustrator, Photoshop, or Lightroom it doesn't do any of those
things that well but it is everything decently
so that you can make great thumbnails and emails and other simple graphics.
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