good morning welcome to a little day in the life studio vlog style video I hope
you're doing good you know why it's actually really warm in this office
let's just open a window okay hopefully no one starts drilling
so today I've actually woken up earlier than usual and I actually have a really
busy day firstly I'm gonna have a call with a
friend and he's gonna talk me through SEO web site things all the stuff that
boggles my brain and hopefully by the end of it I'll feel enlightened and I'll
feel motivated to sort my website out and then I'm gonna talk to you a little
bit about this week's blog sponsor which I'm very excited about got me notepad
feeling very prefer at first snack time
hey we've cracked it there we go hello I'm good thank you how are you so we're
done that call actually lasted longer than I thought and what I've learned a
lot I've got like three pages of notes that I need to sort of implement and
look up on my website for like SEO all that stuff that totally blows my mind
but we'll get there I'm gonna leave that till tomorrow probably but I want to
talk to you about today's video sponsor and I am blown away so far so the team
over at Logitech very kindly have asked me to try out and let you guys know what
I think of their MX master series mouse and keyboard so we have the mouse which
is the code that MX master 3 we have the keyboard which is here it's so nice it's
actually such a good quality and this is the MA
keys keyboard and I said them up this morning I downloaded the software where
you can sort of adjust things and let me tell you I'm actually really impressed I
didn't really realize how a customizable mouse and keyboard could really help my
process even just going around on Chrome and Photoshop all those kind of apps and
my editing software they have like customizable settings which makes it so
smooth and easy to use and I also especially like that it works with
Windows and Mac but yeah basically if you guys follow me on Instagram you will
have seen this briefly because I did a little unboxing for Logitech over there
but basically this keyboard a mouse or the whole MX master series has been
designed with creatives and designers in mind so obviously they thought I was a
pretty good fit feeling very honored to be a part of this little campaign and
Logitech really wanted to focus on and shout about being productive and staying
calm especially now a lot more of us are working from home and having equipment
that is efficient and does things well and just things quickly is really
important so that you can get your job done faster and you can get more done in
your day without getting frustrated because I can't tell you the amount of
times I've had equipment and software and stuff that just doesn't work and it
just makes the whole process longer I'm sure you can relate so what we're gonna
do I will leave links to both the keyboard and the mouse in my description
box if you want to go and check them out and throughout the day I'm gonna check
in with you guys and tell you about some of the features review it with you and
see how it works I've used it so far for like four hours and I am very much
enjoying it this mouse it's like economically created to really
fit your hand and be comfortable effectively and it's so nice it's got
like extra buttons on the side there's like a button on my thumb maybe I should
show you this properly so the mouse has a button here so this whole thing you
can click it with your thumb and on a Mac it lets you go to different
screens I have the software up on my screen at the minute so if I go into my
devices I can click the mouse and it lets me customize the buttons so this is
the button I'm pressing now and it lets me go into Mission Control and it lets
me switch between desktop apps and down here you can change what it does so
there's lots of different options which is quite cool I feel like the more I use
it the more I'll know what I want it to be used for so this little wheel here
actually lets you scroll horizontally which is going to be super helpful on
Final Cut Pro because I have to move across the timeline and that's actually
one of the app specific sort of customizations that they have and then
obviously they have the scroll wheel and you can adjust how it Scrolls like it
has a smooth scroll and if you click this it changes to like like a clicky
scroll Wow I love being technical and then they
have the two buttons here which depending on which application you're in
do different things so we're gonna see how this goes throughout the day and
then the keyboard obviously this is really sleek it's made out of like one
piece of metal and it feels so nice such good quality and it's also I really like
it's got a backlight on it so when I'm in the office late at night I can still
see which is going to be so helpful because there's a lot of late nights in
this office so what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna quickly or hopefully quickly try
and edit the studio vlog for this week I have two memory cards full of footage
and I can't really remember what footage I took so we're gonna take that footage
off I'm going to use Final Cut Pro I'm going to use the mouse which is going to
be different because I've not edited with the mouse for a long time but I'm
excited to see how efficient this is
I'm currently at nine and a half minutes into editin and the vlog and I have
discovered an amazing little shortcut I have added to the mouse and I have to
share it because it's speeding up this process so much so what I've done is
customized the two buttons under this wheel so this button here now deletes
things and this button does the zoom tool so when I'm editing this is going
to be really hard for me to show so like I'm editing here and I need to
chop out this bit of information and this bit where you can see the sound
waves like basically I'm not talking so I'm gonna chop that out so what I'm
doing is cutting in here so to cut I've always used my keyboard shortcut which
is at command B I'm loving that as a command button and then move it to the
next bit command B and then to delete it I'm just clicking in the thing with my
left mouse so click there one and then delete with the belly button at the side
and it's making the process so much quicker I don't know if you could see in
the time-lapse I've just filmed but usually to delete I'll just click the
backspace so my hand goes from here to there - like command B backspace whereas
now I just kind of come and be command B click delete with the mouse well it's
the little things isn't it I'm gonna continue editing this vlog I don't think
it'll take much longer especially now I've discovered that vlog
is edited I'm gonna pack up a couple of orders I've got head to the post office
usually I walk to the post office but it looks like it's about to rain so I'm
gonna go in my car and then when we get back I'm gonna do some website stuff I
guess all the behind the scenes I'll show you we'll all behind the scenes of
my soul on fire and I also might update my portfolio I've just got a lot of
things I want to do and I want to do it all yesterday but let's package I'm not
gonna show whole process cuz you've seen this a
thousand times
no queue at the post office straight in straight out that's what I like to hear
see do can you tell I've been in the office for too long today back from the
post office my mom's made me a salad so gonna quickly eat this lunch was well
and truly inhaled I'm gonna scream recover my laptop now and we're gonna
we're gonna talk through some mock-ups because I get questions a lot about
mock-ups and when I first discovered them at uni it was a revelation it made
things so much easier but I didn't know about them until anyone told me so
hopefully if you didn't know you can use this for your projects and things that
are you do in the future it'll be interesting to see the customizations
that I can do with this mouse in Photoshop as well because I've not yet
used it in here okay so this is a mock-up that I use for my
greeting cards initially I used to set every single card up and try and make
them as identical as possible for like the first image however I quickly
realized that that's not very time efficient and it's nearly impossible to
get them exactly right so what I did was I purchased this mock-up you can get
them from loads of websites online just search PSD mock-ups a lot of them are
free but for this one I purchased purchased it purchased it because I
wanted to make sure I had like the full resolution version and then all it does
it comes with either like a preloaded image or a blank one and usually it
tells you where to click so if you look on the right-hand side it says two times
clicks to open you just double click that or click it in the wrong place
double click the photo there we go and that is where you put your files so
let's just drag in one of these this is not in the right format at all but all
just pretend it is for now and then let's just that to match and then hit
enter to save that so I've just replaced that image basically command S or ctrl s
to save it and then if I cross this off you can get rid of that now going back
to the original card design it's now been changed so whatever I make weight
so whatever change I make in there updates this file this is a really
simple mock-up actually let me just get another one like a random random one
okay this is the file that I used when I was trying to mock up my enamel pin so
again this was definitely frayed did not pay for this one and you can see that my
little pin is on this denim jacket and that is not a fair I took and that pin
did not exist when I created that I'm gonna get the pin so you can see it's in
a pin is here and I actually ended up taking a photo like this with my own
denim jacket so I do have an actual image but for this I wanted to see what
it would look like and I wanted to see the measurements and all that stuff so
again if you double-click on the file that at the top usually it tells you to
like edit it it depends on who's made the thing yeah look softer normal pin
badge edit so that means you click on that later so then in here is where you
can change the different bits this is the base file so that is the file that I
sent to the printers and you put it in here and then you can press save so you
can even go file save as get rid of it and then the next layer is the top layer
and in there you put like the outlines so it has the gold outline so that shows
where the gold parts of this will be so I kind of could get an idea of where the
gold is see what I mean it's like the outlines and then the inside is the
color so this was how I got an idea of what would look like before actually was
created and then it sort of combines the two I've done mock-ups before for like
shop-windows you can put logos in shop windows that's quite cool you can put
logos on mugs on candles there's literally thousands so if you just
search PSD mock-up which is the short word for Photoshop you should be able to
find them whilst we're actually in Photoshop I want to show you one of my
favorite customizations for the mouse I've just this
good so if I click on to you any brush tool I can change the size of the mouse
with just this so the metal thumb wheel here on the side that I was talking
about earlier it's changed its use because it's in a different application
the mouse knows what application I'm in and it means when I move up and down on
the wheel if you can see on my screen it's moving the size of the brush
amazing and then also these buttons either side underneath or redo and undo
so what I'm actually gonna do is I'm going to edit some new soul and fire
photos photos are done I've created some new mock-ups for the website I have
edited a couple of images and we're ready to sort of refresh soul and fires
website we're gonna do that quickly I'll touch on the SEO a little bit but maybe
I can do a full SEO video another day but I will scream record what I'm doing
and actually in chrome the mouse but is here fancy seeing you here
then the mouse actually has adjustments for Chrome as well and Safari too you
can use the thumb wheel to like switch between tabs and again there's not even
film in my face and again there's a lot of customizations which you can find in
the application that I downloaded let's let's take a nosedive into this SEO
probably
all right we're done I'm done for the day
I'm so tired I've been staring at this computer for so long it's been a very
desk heavy studio hug today final summary of the MX master series
mouse and keyboard I am thoroughly impressed the fact that this mouse is so
comfortable to use it's meant I can sit at my desk all day usually I get really
fed up of being sat here so I end up leaving I especially love this them will
you might have noticed I've mentioned it a lot because the fact that I can now
edit my videos with the thumb wheel I added the customisation of deleting
stuff it's been really really handy and really time efficient and because
Logitech are promoting creativity and productivity a mouse like this is really
gonna help me with that because it gets rid of any fiddly things and it means I
can just get straight to it one thing I haven't mentioned actually is how
they're connected to my laptop so they actually are connected to my laptop via
bluetooth what if your laptop doesn't have that capability you have this or
USB thing which you can plug in for each device but other than that they're
completely wireless they charge via a USBC cable and the mouse actually lasts
for 17 days when it's being fully charged which is great because I forget
to charge things all the time and actually it does say you can get three
hours of use from a one-minute charge so even the forgetful people like me and
can still use it you're not gonna be without it but the fact that works with
Photoshop Final Cut Pro Chrome it works with like Microsoft Word Excel Safari
Premiere Pro and the Logitech software allows you to go into each app and
change what specific things you want the mouse to do incredible and the same
applies for the keyboard you can customize the buttons and change it
depending on which application you're in also I should probably mention a really
big selling point that I saw in the documents and stuff for these products
is that you can use them both on multiple devices so you can sync it and
you can have up to three different devices so if you're working between
different laptops you don't have to switch mouse and keyboard every time it
automatically does it Logitech software called flow yeah I
can't believe how much I'm like geeking out over over this because I don't know
it's just great and the fact that this has a backlight on it is going to be
amazing it has like a sensor so when your hands are near it and depending on
how light and dark it is in the room it sort of detects it which saves battery
life I'm just very impressed and I'm very
much a little geek right now and I'm going to be geeking out about this for a
while I am actually working with Logitech on some future contents so
watch out for that we can have a little bit of an update of how I've been
getting on with it and more of a comprehensive review of like long term
use but yeah I hope you've enjoyed this studio vlog sorry it has been so desk
based but it's been a very admin laptop based vlog thank you very much logitech
for sponsoring the video it means a lot and it's been amazing it's been such a
perfect fit and hopefully you guys can see and understand why I said yes to
them and hopefully we can create some cool things together so yeah thank you
so much for watching and I'll see you soon for another video