Twitch emotes are incredibly expensive when you're just starting out and
honestly when we're talking about starting out they're incredibly
confusing as well what size do they have to be how do i
make them where do i get them from if i can't make them
how do i upload them it's just so much to cover
and it can be a bit daunting but fear not because today i'm going to show you
guys how to create your own free twitch
emotes and get them uploaded without any hassle let's go
hey my name is Eljay from streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at
twitch.tv/eljayem_ I'm most likely live
right now there's a link in the description
now if you were to check me out right now then you would probably see my
community using a mode the lj7 emote the reason you'll most likely see this
is because my community absolutely loves using that emote and i'm going to cover
exactly how i made it in this video and get you guys up and
running with some of your own awesome emotes
if you are unsure whether or not this video is for you let me just explain the
very first emote i had commissioned to be made on my channel that was six
months ago when i reached affiliate has been used over 8570 times that's lj
hype you should be able to see it on screen here
however just one short month ago i created my own
emote using this exact method and it has already been used over 11
000 times so if you're a fresh affiliate this video is definitely for you based
off that and i'll even reveal that remote to hopefully give you some ideas
later in the video so on to the first question you guys always seem to ask is
what emotes should i make when i reach affiliate or just in general what a mode
should i make now i think when it comes to making
emotes you should always stick with the core
reactions after all their emotions their emojis so if you look at other streamers
they tend to cover the basics with their first slots of emotes which is
laughing hype fail love hello or waving instead of hello is another one and
these tend to be a really good place to start
i will say here when coming up with your remotes whether it's laughing failing
hyping or whatever it's going to be remember it has to be 112 pixels by 112
pixels this means keep it simple think about
your composition as a square and try and make sure that it's not too much
detail if there's too much detail you're not going to be able to see
what it is once you've come up with the idea it's about grabbing the core
concept of your remote and removing the background now i
personally prefer photo emotes because i feel like they're just a bit
more to my brand but you can kind of do this with any imagery at all as long as
you have a copyright to it so keep that in mind that said when i ran polls with
a few communities talked to other streamers and looked at some of the most
used emotes of all time most people do prefer photo emotes so
keep that in mind i know it's everyone seems to go straight to fiverr and get
those drawn emotes and that's great but sometimes
the photo mode actually does come out the best if you're going to use a photo
or mode then grab yourself a smartphone or a good camera get yourself into some
nice even lighting make sure you don't blend in too much to
your background because that'll make it harder on you strike a pose and take a
picture so i'm just going to remake lj7 so
cool and i'm going to screenshot that off the video and i'll show you guys the
process using this once you have that image i think it's
really important to remove the background to make sure that your core
stands out if they're square remotes it tends to
make it a bit harder for people to see what's actually going on
so it's just a personal preference but i do really feel like it works best
so there are two ways i can show you how to remove the background the first is
using photoshop and the masking tool which we'll cover and the second is
using a free website which we will also cover so
don't worry in the future i do recommend trying to get some sort of program like
photoshop or [ __ ] they're really really great and a little
bit of graphic design will go a long way in your streaming career
that said let's switch over to the computer and get into this so first up
we're gonna do photoshop open up photoshop drop your image in
select the quick select mask tool you'll see it over here
run it over the image holding shift to pick up any bits you missed
and alt to remove stuff you don't want in it
once you have it all selected you hit this button down here it is the mask
button it will give you a cutout if it isn't quite right you can grab this
brush tool and click back on the mask use the brush
tool with the color black to remove parts and use the brush tool with
white to add it back in so this will give you a bit of a play with but if you
own photoshop and you can understand this method try and just refine it and
make it the best you possibly can but that's the place to start now if you
want to use the free method that's fine we're going to do that right now
switching back over so a website i found that's called
remove.bg it seems like it's a really good tool
what you do is you just upload your image you let it run and then you can
edit it here with this brush tool it's a much simpler method than say
using photoshop you do lose a bit of quality because the upload and download
process and since we are going to compress this
file down to 112 pixels by 110 pixels it means that we're gonna lose even more
detail so i do prefer to use photoshop but if you don't have it this will work
as well onto the next stage resizing your image
down to 112 pixels by 112 pixels now a lot of tutorials out there
probably explain that you need to make a 58 pixel or a 26 pixel as well
or whatever the smaller ones are however thanks to twitch's new uploading process
you just need the 112 pixel which is awesome and it'll resize the rest for
you saves a lot of effort and a lot of time so we're just going to resize
to 112. that said if you do still want the other sizes this method will work
you just don't use 112 use the other sizes but for now
just stick with the bigger size so again i have two methods i've gone
ahead and found a free method and a photoshop method for you i'm going to
cover photoshop first and then the free method
same thing as before the free method will compress this down and you'll lose
a bit of quality and the photoshop version won't so keep
that in mind but if you can't just go with the free method and it'll still
work fine for you so open up photoshop click create a new project then set a
custom project size to 112 by 112 make sure this is set to pixels change
the background to transparent instead of white and then click create
now open up the project with your image that has the background removed
right click the layer duplicate change it so it duplicates into the 112 by 112
project this will open it in your new project
just hit ctrl t and resize your image using the edges
here so it fits your new 112 pixel square this is where you'll see if
your remote is really simple enough because it'll start to show
how small 112 pixels actually is and if you can't see the edges used to resize
things after hitting ctrl t then just hit ctrl h and it should
appear once you have this in it's sized and you're happy with it head up to file
make sure you click on export click quick export as png
and then pick a place to save it and congratulations you have your remote i'm
going to quickly cover the free method and then we're going to get into
uploading it in the best way so the browser version is incredibly
simple but you will lose some quality as i keep saying
let's show you that now so you've downloaded your image off the background
removing website now what you're going to do is re-upload
it to the new website the new website is called pickfreesize
and there is a link in the description to both of them so we'll go with that
once it's uploaded you're going to hit continue to edit picture now the first
thing you need to do is crop your image to be a square so hold shift and drag a
square over the section you want and just like with photoshop when you
have your square you'll see what i mean when it comes to composition and making
sure that everything is kept in frame once you have your square setup and your
framing set up hit the crop selection button then down below go to the select
a new size for your picture drop down menu
pick custom size then in a spaces between set the width to 112 pixels
and the height to 112 pixels as well ignore all the special effects change
the image file format to png a png just means that it's going to be a
transparent background otherwise if you don't select png it's not gonna have the
transparent background hit done and you can view the image to
see if it's worked if it didn't go back and you can edit it
or just hit refresh to start entirely again but it did work then save it to
your disk select where you want to save your remote to
and you should be good to go congratulations if you followed all
these steps to the tee then it means you should have your remote
fully downloaded and ready to be uploaded to twitch
but just quickly here i'm going to say if you enjoyed this video if it helped
you out at all please consider checking out my
other content i upload videos weekly all about twitch and twitch streaming
everything you need to know if this one helped you or maybe even
just consider chucking a like or a subscribe
next week i'm releasing a video all about better twitch tv which is a
fantastic tool that every streamer know every single twitch viewer needs to
have so if you subscribe you'll get notified when that goes live
and i think it's going to be pretty helpful honestly i'm really excited for
that video like really excited actually sorry we'll
get back into it and i'm going to reveal as also
what a moat i released that got 11 000 uses in a month
so let's cover something simple uploading the emote just because i want
to make sure that all the bases are checked for you guys
what you're going to do is you're going to head to your twitch channel head over
to the creator dashboard you'll see preferences on the left
click that then head to affiliate click on emotes and you'll see at the bottom
tier one through three click the tier you want to upload your
remote for select simple upload and upload your fresh emote we just made
and make sure it is under one megabyte which one accept it add your unique code
this is the first thing that follows your channel prefix
so for me say i wanted to upload lj7 i would type in 7 here and it would come
up as lj7 now hit save and wait for twitch to approve your new emote however
if you've been an affiliate for i think it's 60 to 90 days and you have no
strikes in your channel and you're in good standing
then your remote will be instant upload otherwise it'll probably take two to
three days depending on if you upload it during the weekend
remember it's also an american company so it'll most likely be an american time
zone that it gets approved so now for the grand reveal of over 11
000 uses on my new remote and it was lj7 that's right this little
salute got used so much if i wanted to know if people
wanted to do a certain game or do a certain thing i could say hey guys check
a salute in chat or if anyone subscribed people would do
saluting rather than hype it just turned out to be a really solid
emote for my community to use and honestly i think every single
channel needs a salute i think it builds communities and i think it's better than
a hype so seriously make a seven whatever your prefix is
seven do it as i said lj7 was straight up inspired
by some of the bigger communities and bigger
streamers which isn't i don't think a bad thing so don't feel bad if you want
to use it as well and just chucking it out there again
subscribe so you can see the better twitch tv emotes for next week
and so you're notified when our free animated overlays go live
very very soon i just finished building all the panels and all the last little
bits and pieces you guys need and that's coming very soon so keep an
eye out