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All right, so now that we've actually downloaded our main theme off of the stock photo site, we want

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to move on to step two.

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So step two is to simply upload that main image in Adobe later.

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OK.

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So we're gonna hit the plus button right here.

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We're gonna grab our main image that we downloaded and we're going to add one photo.

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Now, you can also have multiple photos down here in the tray if you're working on multiple photos or

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you don't want to delete them.

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But I usually just kind of keep a clear tray.

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I delete all the ones.

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I'm not using them.

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Now that we have this main upload, uploaded the image in here for our theme and our background.

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We want to then resize the image using Lightroom so we don't distort the pixel ratio, but we get the

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right sized image.

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OK.

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So what you want to do is you want to come over here to crop and rotate.

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You're going to click that.

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Now, if you come to aspect ratio up here, you can obviously input a custom EQ aspect ratio if you

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ever need to.

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Although if you look all the way down here, you can see that they just have a preset that's 19, 20

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by 10, 80.

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Right.

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If you just click that, what's going to happen is it's gonna give you this little drag bar that lets

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you see, like, OK.

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Everything in this little rectangle right here is 19, 20 by 10, 80.

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So you can obviously drag the photo around to meet that.

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Now, clearly, this this the like the left and the right of this photo already matched the 19 20 by

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10, 80 ratio.

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Right.

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But sometimes you'll get an image that's bigger on both sides, both with and you height.

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OK.

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So in that aspect, you can just drag the rectangle around to where you want the picture to be.

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Now, because the focus of this image is clearly down here, like right off here, and then it slowly

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gets a little, you know, less and less, more like focused as it goes out.

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I don't want to drag it all the way up to the top.

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Right.

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I want the main part of the image with the focus down here.

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OK.

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So that's what I'm going to do.

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And then I simply hit enter and that's going to bring that image resized back in to a light room.

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You're then going to want to adjust the brightness, the saturation and a few other things to make the

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image brighter and to honestly give it more pop.

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OK.

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Think about it.

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You want a bright, saturated image that captures eye attention, you know, immediately, especially

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because you're going to compete, be competing with other images on the screen, you know, and you

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want people to immediately see yours and have their eyes drawn, OK?

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And that doesn't matter if you're competing on a core site.

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If you're competing on somewhere like YouTube, if you're simply competing on a social network, it's

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all about eye traffic and eye attention.

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OK.

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And one of the easiest ways and quickest ways to to get this and, you know, achieve that result is

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to simply brighten the image and saturate.

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OK.

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Now a recommendation quickly before we jump into the side, things over here and I show you how I go

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about doing it and some of the things that you're going to want to set up as well, depending on your

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image.

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Obviously, each image is going to be slightly different when you start a recommendation is to don't

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you know, you don't want to go overboard with us, OK?

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It can look a little cartoonish if you go overboard, unless, you know, that's the look that you're

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going for, then more power to you.

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OK.

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So the first thing I'll do, it depends, obviously.

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Like I said, you know, on the image that you're grabbing, you know, is I'm going to increase the

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contrast a little bit.

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I like the way that looks.

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I think it increases the contrast between the light and the dark colors and the palette a little bit

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better.

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Now, if it's a darker image, sometimes if I'm taking like a steel frame from the video that I do,

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what I'll do is I'll improve the highlights or I'll improve.

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You can also type over here on the sides and type in a number.

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If you ever wanna go back to zero, you're having trouble getting there.

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Sometimes I'll try and drag it back and it'll end up being like negative.

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Right.

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So I'm gonna make those zero.

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But sometimes if you ever need a brightening image up, you can just increase the shadows, you can

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increase the white, you can increase the highlights and play around with it.

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So it looks a little bit better.

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But I like the way that this image looks right here, so I'm going to keep it right.

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So generally speaking, I usually only do three things, and that increase the contrast, increased

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the vibrance a little bit, make it more vibrant.

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See, if I did drag it down, how much that increases the vibrance there.

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You don't want to go too much.

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Then it looks cartoonish and it doesn't look real.

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But if you just go a little bit.

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Right.

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Like, instead of like zero ish right here, you just increase it a little bit.

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It's going to kind of give it a little bit more pop.

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Right.

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Especially when you add a little bit of saturation there, too.

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Right.

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So that's the way.

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That's just basically going to add a little bit more brightness, a little bit more saturation, a little

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bit more vibrance and a little bit more kind of, you know, attention to the eye when they're scrolling

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quickly.

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Right.

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Because you're trying to grab attention almost immediately.

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It's an attention game against other similar images.

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OK.

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This is one of the easiest ways to basically achieve that.

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Now, some of the things like I said, those are the main three that I always adjust and I'll adjust

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them up or down a little bit slightly.

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Never like down this way.

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But like on the right side of these spectrums, I'll adjust them up and down according to how the original

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photo looks.

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And you can take, you know, a couple of minutes and play around with it, try to find something that's

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good and looks good for you.

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Those are the three that I have always do.

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Now, every once in a while, like I said, I'll adjust the highlights if it's dark or the shadows or

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the whites, if it's if it's a dark image and obviously vice versa.

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If it's a darker it's a brighter image and you want to darken it a little bit every once in a while.

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I will, too.

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If the image isn't very, very clear.

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And this is obviously a good picture taken from a stock photo site.

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I'll increase the clarity a little bit every.

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Or I'll increase the texture if we do that or increase the texture a little bit.

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You can kind of see like the texture on some of the rocks or or whatever the focus is on, I'll do that.

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But I'm not going to do that for this one or even increase the drain sometimes.

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Or if you scroll down a little bit, I'll sharpen it up and I'll reduce the noise.

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But that's very, very rare.

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Those are things that you can play around with.

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But really, all you need to know, because this course is obviously how to do it quickly, is all you

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really need to know is upload your image, resize it using the crop to 19, 20 by 10, 80 or whatever,

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you know, ratio that you need and then work on the contrast, the vibrance in the saturation.

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That's maybe maybe 90 to 95 percent of the battle with these types of images.