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Monday, June 3, 2024

Product Packaging Design In Pacdora - Dielines, 3D Designs, Mockups, & More! - Detailed Tutorial

June 03, 2024 0




INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another quick tutorial this one I'm in pacd door.com now pacora for those you that don't know this is an all-in-one tool that's strictly for packaging it does anything you can imagine if you're creating merch if you've got bottles cans you've got t-shirts boxes anything that's packaging oriented it's here and we're not just talking about the basic functionality 



TALKING TEMPLATES

we're talking templates and dielines if you want a 3D rendering in real time to see what it looks like that you can zoom zoom in and out on mockups so if you need to do a mockup it will show you what it looks like before you send it to the printer and you have all those issues it's absolutely nuts and this tool covers it all I'm going to show you how to use it let's go all right so the first step of course is you want to go to the website it's pacd dora.com 



MOCKUPS

I'll put a link in the description below and then at the top right you're going to see the login option simply click on that and it'll ask you to sign up if you don't have an account it's free to sign up for so go ahead and go nuts there now I'm going to switch over to Google Chrome because I'm already logged in so this is what the logged in screen looks like and you'll very quickly see that this is a very easy to navigate tool it's simple you basically use the mockups the 3D design tool and the templates and die lines generator for those of you that you know want to make sure you get the the folds correct for me.



TEMPLATES

 I always click on the mock-ups generator to start the party let's click on that I'm going to left click on it and then bang you're going to see we've got got a whole bunch of options now pacora currently has 4,900 pre-built templates and no doubt they're going to add more so there's a lot here already to work with but here we go let's just flip through here and then in this case I don't know I'm a YouTuber and in this case for example I'm going to create some merch so I want to create like a a soda or an energy drink that I sell to my you know to my subscribers as an example



RENDERED IN 3D

 so on the left side I would go through the menu here and then I would look at cans and jars and then when I do that just taking a quick look through here here you go here's a standard you know basic standard soda can or pop can and here is an energy drink can kind of looks like red bullish so here you go we can select any of these I'm going to select your basic one here nice uh short and chubby one and I'm just going to left click on it and go just start working on it it opens up a new tab and now I'm going to show you how to design all right so let's go ahead and start the design process so here we go we've got our basic silver can here and again it's rendered in 3D





CANVA

 so you'll see exactly what your design looks like now you have a few options but the one I generally select is simply to upload an image so if you've got a pre-built design whether you built it in canva or you know you just took a picture of it whatever I'm going to click on upload and then presso we're going to get this option here now on the right side you're going to see that I can resize this window so anything that I do here any work that I do you'll see here exactly how it renders in the image so I'm going to go ahead and go to my finder because I'm on a Mac if you're on a PC maybe go to your uh Windows Explorer and then I've got this kind of cool looking abstract design that I'm just going to drag and drop right there 



DIMENSIONS

so there we go I've dragged and dropped it and you know what it doesn't look quite right here look at this just right out of the box it's pretty close to a cool looking can but again the dimensions aren't quite right so I'm going to just make this a little smaller and then let's take a look here I'm going to just fit this so if I go ahead and make it smaller you'll see here that I kind of want to fit it into that middle Square type thing so I'm just going to pull on this handle here something like that and then Presto let's take a look at it here inside the 3D render so this is what it looks like 





EXAMPLE 

so far now you can always pull this down if you don't want it to go right to the top for example you want the white at the top it's doing this in real time which is absolutely amazing so do what you need to do there but I'm going to leave it like that because I like the look of that and let's take a look here we've got this very cool can now for some people that's all you need to do you're literally done but I'm going to show you a few more tweaks as well as how to export it and take it to the next level all right here we go so here's what we've got 




ABSTRACT CONCEPT

so far here I'm just going to go ahead and spin this can around and to be honest with you I like the look of it it's kind of got that uh Vincent Vango star night type style to it nice abstract concept very cool let's add to it though in theory now this is of course optional but if you go on the left side here you'll see we can go ahead and add some elements in so when I click on that we can add in text we can add in shapes or we can even add in packaging symbols for example if this was I don't know if this was like non-bio degradable you'd add that in there uh or you can even add in your social media for that matter and if we look down here further we can go ahead and add text 





ADD IN THE TEXT

 now I'll be honest with you they've got about you know what is it 6 12 14 different styles of text so in a lot of cases you may want to go ahead and add in the text yourself whether it's using canva which is free you can use one of their fonts or if you got something in mind but if you want to use one of theirs like for example what is this this is more like an energy drink pop can so I could add something like there we go true love and now if I go ahead and look at the pop can here or the energy drink okay 





TECHNIQUE

I mean maybe not but hey you know what it's cool you can go ahead and fix that up change it up here maybe I would make that probably a little smaller and Center it and again this is just an example of what you can do right out of the box this is not Custom Design or anything like that and then bang you know what if I saw that on the Shelf when I was buying a can maybe I'd go for that hard to say I'm going to delete that though because I just want to show you the technique




DESIGNER

 I'm not as good a designer as you probably are so there we go you can add in some elements shapes Etc and if you need Inspirations there's two things here you can add in some pre-built patterns so I kind of like this Scottish Scotch uh christmy packaging one but if you like these and they work for you go ahead and you can can also check for inspiration so for example here if I was creating a wine you could go ahead and delete this even though I'm not going to but I want to show you I'd click this here and then it would just go ahead and add this in and then I can go ahead and then just resize it maybe I make it bigger something like this let's see what we got here I'm just doing this in real time just to show you the technique and look at well I mean holy smokes fruit wine cherry fruit that is a really cool looking can would probably change the gradient a little bit and stuff but you know what for right out of the box that's really cool 




3D STYLE 

So anyways I'm going to go ahead and uh undo that and I'm going to go back to what we had here I'm going to even undo this and then this is the design now I'm going to click on Save and I'm going to show you some of the next steps here all right so there's just one more step and there's an optional step I'll show you the optional real quickly here it's not required of course but I'm going to click on this 3D design button here up at the top right when I do that you're going to see here that I get this cool looking 3D style 




BASICALLY ZOOM

now I'll be honest with you not everybody you know is used to this what happens here is you can basically zoom in zoom out and get a 3D representation that you can turn and move basically kind of like if you were using after effects or Cinema 4D or uh something like that but here you go you can move it on the XY and Zed axises I generally don't use this but I will twirl it around just to take a quick look and then maybe move it up and down and just to see what I got I like it I'm going to go ahead and X out of this but I just wanted you to know that that was available but generally what you want to do now




JPEG OR A PNG

 now that we've got the design we kind of like and it looks pretty cool let's go over here to Super export when you do that you get a whole bunch of different options I'm going to go through them with you right now all right so at this stage of the game the hard work's basically done you can see here that you can go ahead and render and download a JPEG or a PNG so I would just click on download depending on what you want if you've got something that's kind of tricky and it has a DI line and you want to make sure like a box for example and you want to make sure all the designs and folds are correct or your printer's requesting the dialine





PDF AI 

 you'll see here I just clicked on dialine and I can go ahead and download it whether I want a PDF AI stands for Adobe Illustrator not artificial intelligence just in case or a dxf file and you can also select a color mode now in most cases you want CMYK which is cyan magenta yellow and key uh cyan magenta yellow and black is what it actually stands for I want to make sure my design skills are my design knowledge is there so cmk is General but if you want generally the right one but if you want RGB go nuts you can export that right here if you want videos now normally you'd be like why would I want a video but if you are creating you know social media post 



HTML

 you're doing um you know you've got a YouTube channel and you want a sec you know like a four second snap of this or you want an 8sec video like look at this this is just an example here of this uh can just shooting in I would just go ahead and click on export now and literally job's done you can already see that it's cooking uh I can go ahead and download it when it's done so this is just some of the stuff you can do here I'll go back to that screen while it looks at that if in any way you need the code in most cases you won't need that but it's there if it's HTML and you need that HTML





YOUR PACKAGER 

 go ahead and finally guys if you want to share it and this is not sharing on Facebook or Instagram but this is sharing within like a design team so you can share this link I'll just copy the link and then I could share that to maybe you know the head of marketing or you can share that link to your printer or to your packager whoever that is and that way they can make sure that everything's correct because if you have a you know a large run and you want to do like a lot of packages or a lot of cans you want to make sure you get it right first





CONCLUSION 

 so there you go that Link's ready to go and literally guys that is it that's how easy this is to use it's like canva and figma kind of met but they did it in a browser and it just works for packaging this is the way to go pack Dora give it a shot it just works links in the description below thanks for watching be back soon

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Sunday, June 2, 2024

How To Use A Green Screen To Create AI Music Video In Filmora

June 02, 2024 0

 



INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another AI video in this one we're in Flora 13.3 and I've got something very cool to show you I am going to show you how to create amazing composite videos just like this using AI functionality built into filora 13 the first step is we're going to get some green screen footage and then we're going to use their AI chroma key functionality to pull out the green and just leave the subject after that we're going to create a background using their AI image an AI art generator in this case



CYBERPUNK BACKGROUND

 I've got a cyberpunk background but you can of course create a background to your choosing after that we're going to create the music to go with the video they have an AI audio or an AI music generator inside flora and I'm going to show you all the different ways you can create background music to go with it and then finally I'm going to show you a little bit of color correction so that you can make sure that the video the green screen footage the or the subject matches the background 



SCREEN FOOTAGE

so to speak so there's just a couple of steps here guys I'm going to show them all to you step by step let's go all right excellent so the first step is we're going to work with the green screen footage now there's two ways you can go about this you can add in your own footage which I'll do right here I'm on a Mac so I'm going to click on finder and then I'm going to open up my filora 13 folder I'm just going to grab this green screen footage and drag it and drop it right into project media it's going to ask me and it did ask me if I want to create a proxy file I do not want that because I have a very fast computer 




RESOLUTION

so uh I can work with high def resolution pretty quickly here but if you've got a slower computer consider using a proxy now if you don't have any green screen footage very simple all you got to do here is go up to stock media and they've got green screen footage ready to go right here so under trending already you can see that I've got this green screened explosion here I've got this uh curtains opening up like there's a whole bunch of different green screen stuff that you can select right out of the box right out of the right from Thora




CAT ROBOT

 now I happen to know that I like this one here it's called cat robot and I'm going to type that in here and check this out they've got a green screen cat robot so let's go ahead and use this one I'm going to drag and drop this into the timeline and then Presto it's going to add it that's step one now we're going to chroma key it all right so to remove the green color cast or the green green screen that's a lot of greens super easy to do in film all you got to do is go up here to the top right under video and then switch it from basic to AI tools once you do that you're going to see the chroma key toggle 




BACKGROUND AI 

now 99 out of 100 times all you need to do is just click this button and the background is gone if it is not perfectly gone it's not to worry about right now because I'm going to show you how to fine-tune it once we get a background AI image in there and we can go into the next step so right now the green screen's gone let's create a background image okay the next step is to just grab the footage in the timeline just click on it left click on it and then push it up so that it's in video track too the reason we're doing this very quickly is because because we're putting in background AI generated image in behind it 




AI IMAGES

so you have to have the green screen on the top track and then the image in behind it once you've done that I'm now going to go ahead and I'm going to go and click on stock media and under stock media you'll see a whole bunch of options the one that we want is AI image click on that little triangle and then you're going to see one that says tool this is what we want because this is where we generate the AI images so I'm going to go ahead and now click on start and when I do that you're see is going to load up the AI image beta




IMAGE STYLES

 now very quickly here there are three aspect ratios right out of the box that you can use I'm going to use 16 by 9 because this is a wide screen but if you were doing YouTube shorts you would want to go with 916 now I'm going to describe the image that I want to create so I uh this is a we're going to do a cyberpunk cyberpunk dystopia with buildings and um I don't know people in the background something like that very simple it it it doesn't really really matter I'm just going to go ahead and create that image before I do that though you'll notice that we have some default image Styles keep in mind you can always describe exactly what you want but these image Styles here are kind of nice because if you know you're looking for something like





COLOR CORRECT

 I'm looking for cyberpunk it's really just one click here and it's going to automatically give the cyberpunk objectives or adjective so to speak so there we go I'm going to now go ahead and click on start creating I'll come back when it's done show you the candidates and then we'll input it in and then we'll get to the next step all right welcome back so it has gone ahead and created four candidate images for me so let's just click on them real quickly here first one second one third one fourth one so which one okay I like this one here CU I think we can sneak our little cat robot in here and we'll color correct it to make it look like it belongs in the scene so this is proper looking cyberpunk AI image generation looks great




AI GENERATED FOLDER

 I'm going to go ahead and click on this little down arrow because it's very important this is going to go ahead and load it into my stock AI generated folder I'm going to click out of this now okay I'm going to close all this I don't need to go through that and now look here you'll see here I'm going to show it to you under Library oh pardon me we're going to go AI image generated here it is right here aigc cyberpunk dystopia I'm going to click on that image and then I'm just going to drag it right underneath the cat robot and look at that our cat robot is now in this scene of course it's not properly scaled and colored yet but you'll see where we're going with this finally I'm going to grab this image here and I'm just going to pull on the handle a little bit 





LOW BEAT ORCHESTRAL

so that they're both the same size all right let's get to the next step all right so that took just a few seconds here and it has gone ahead and created six songs just like it said it would so here they are you'll see it said it says right here generated six of six results let's listen to the first one all right pretty cool it's kind of low beat orchestral let's go down and listen the next one okay all right so I really like that one so I'm going to go ahead and click on the download of course if this was a you know my own project and it wasn't a tutorial I would probably listen to all of the rest of them but again I know that one's really really good





CINEMATIC TYPE SCENE 

 so again I hit the download button and now it's been added to the project now let's go ahead and close out of that just like I did here and let's just go ahead and put that track in let me show you how all right adding in the track is a piece of cake I'm going to go from the tool I'm going to click on music and then I'm just going to go ahead and click on where is it AI music generated that's the one and there you go the top one here is epic cinematic let's listen to it again perfect that's the one I wanted I'm just going to left click on that and I'm going to drag that onto the audio track just like that now I want to note here that the audio may be a little bit loud if you're doing a cinematic type scene 




VOLUME KNOB DOWN

so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and pull down the audio a little bit here so I'm going to click on the audio track I'm going to go up here to the top and then you'll see here under adjustment that I could just pull this volume knob down a little bit I'm going to go ahead and do that just because I want this to be a more subtle and muted sound as opposed to in your face Presto finally I'm going to grab the right edge of this track here and I'm just going to pull it in so they're all the same length now if we hit play let's take a listen and see what we got all right this could be all you need to do we've got our robot in a dystopian scene all of this is AI image generated green key if you want a color correct 




ADJUST HEIGHT

I'm going to show you how to do that in about 30 seconds let's go all right last but not least is the color correction and we're just going to scale the robot down a little bit so it looks like it belongs more in the uh video here so the first step I'm going to click on the green screen footage or the robot footage and then under basic you'll see transform these are linked together at the moment so I'm going to go ahead and decrease the scale if I decrease the X it also decreases the Y so it width and height both scale proportionally if you do not want that just click on this lock button and it will go ahead and you can adjust height and width independently in this case 




SMALLER CUZ 

I don't want to so I'm going to go ahead and maybe make something like that what do you think let's make him a little smaller or her a little smaller cuz it's a subtle thing here we're going to put them right about here so there we go that's the decrease in size now let's fix up the colors a little bit I'm going to go ahead and makeing sure I'm still on the same track I'm going to go up here to the top and then video audio color and then all you need to do is just make sure that this color tab is turned on and then look here you'll see tinting Vibrance saturation all these tools 



VIBRANCE UP 

I know that this is cyberpunk and it all goes towards the purplish and pinkish and light blue teal temperature so I'm going to just go ahead and tint it a little here so you'll see here I'm turning up the tint and already you can see what's happening the robot is turning nice and purplish and then I'm going to pull the tint or the temperature down to get it a little bit cool here so we've got purple in the robot and we've got some cool Blues in the hands which matches the color so far I'm going to go ahead and turn the Vibrance up a little bit I'll saturate it a little more and again 




PURPLISH

you can do this as you see fit if you want it to be more in the shot and you can increase the exposure if you want it to be a little subtler like for example you just want them sort of hanging out there but not really being the center of attention you can pull the exposure down things like this just adjust this as you see fit I like to increase the contrast so that there's a nice contrast and then Presto this little robot here has some of the purplish and the bluish reflection on him and because it's made of metal it you would expect it to be um you know the light would be kind of reflecting on him 




CONCLUSION 

so something like that and then just adjust this as you see fit Shadows Etc and prestol there you go we've gone ahead and added in through AI we've got green screen footage we've kind of pulled out the green screen we've got an AI image generated background we've got AI audio included we've color corrected it this is how you make a amazing composite video in inside filora 13 using their AI tools thanks for watching

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How To Remove Background In Capcut PC - Two Methods - Tutorial

June 02, 2024 0

 



INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another cap cut tutorial in this one I'm going to show you how to remove backgrounds from your video and I'm going to show you two different ways to do it the first method is a more traditional style where you get some green screen footage like I've got here and then we remove the green using chroma key 



GREEN SCREEN

I want to note up front here that cap cut and its green screen functionality is free to use so there's no charge on this the second method involves Ai and this is simple background removal I say simple but involves very complex AI to do this but I'm going to show you how to do that and we're going to take this lady here and we're going to put a fun background in behind her both of these methods are included in the free plan 




SKILLSHARE

let's go all right so before we roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty I just want to quickly note here that this video is sponsored by skillshare recently I've been wanting to update and upgrade my video editing game and the way I did that was to go to skillshare and I took a couple of their cap cut classes I did a beginner's class and then I did an advanced class that I can do some of these techniques that I'm going to show you including the two in this video 




LEARNING COMMUNITY

I found these courses on skillshare the largest online learning community for creatives like you and me and they have thousands of classes led by industry experts across film illustration design freelance productivity and more this summer invest in yourself and your goals by starting a Learning Journey with skillshare and take your career skills or side hustle to the next level all right if you're looking to upgrade your skills like I am I've got a link for you just click on the link in the description below and you'll receive a one month free trial of skillshare all right let's get cooking all right 




FOOTAGE

so the first thing I'm going to show you is this technique here you'll see we've got some stock footage of some TVs against the wall then all of a sudden one of the TVs has some cool 80s sci-fi Miami Vice Motion Graphics inside of it how do to do that let's start from scratch and go all right so there's nothing on the timeline let's get cooking here so the first step go to import up here at the top left and under stock materials I'm going to show you how to use pre-built footage and content that they've already got included in it if you have your own footage that you want to work with go ahead and import it as you see fit but I'm going to show you




STOCK MATERIALS 

 how to do it just using their built-in stock stuff okay so under stock materials I'm going to go ahead and type in TV when I do that I'm going to hit enter and watch this you're going to see a whole bunch of different options now instead of going type No Limit I'm going to go type video because I want a video background so here we go look at this one here this is I think this is the same one actually there we go there we go I'm going to grab this one and then I'm just going to go ahead and put that into the timeline right there at the bottom now the next step is I'm going to click on it and I'm going to move it up one




SECOND VIDEO TRACK

 so I want this to be on the second video track and there's one underneath it okay hopefully you're following along with me piece of cake now I'm just going to go ahead and click on that X and I want to add in the footage I want in the background so again I'm going to go ahead and let's look under trending what do we want to star in this video so we've got the green screen TV and then under underneath it let's go ahead and do the same thing I'm going to go with let's go with this one here this looks pretty cool yeah I like that let's go ahead and drag then drop that underneath the green screen footage okay there we go so nothing has happened yet that's okay the next step 




REMOVE BG

I'm going to go and click on the top footage here and then I'm just going to grab the handle on the far right and I'm just going to make them both the same length nice and easy now making sure you're clicked on the top screen this is where the magic comes we're going to go up here to the top right right and then you'll see we have a few options I'm going to click on video make sure you're on the video tab then go ahead and go to remove BG that means remove background and when you do that I'll just increase the size a little bit here we get two options we get Auto removal and we get chroma key there is a custom removal but that is a paid feature and I'm sticking to the free stuff for this one





CHROMA KEY

 so I'm now going to click on the little check boox beside chroma key nothing happens yet not to panic I'm now going to go ahead and click on that ey dropper hold it down and look at that when I hover over the green on the TV you'll see here that it has gone ahead and basically taken away the green that said if you look very closely at the edges here there's still some green it's kind of spilled over on the top and the left a little bit so what I'm going to do is I'm going to increase the intensity a little bit and as I do that you'll see the green sort of Retreats away and it becomes perfect so that's just the way to do it you can increase the shadow a bit too if you see fit but in this case it looks like we got a good green screen





TOP LAYER

 let's make sure the play heads at the beginning hit play look at that it's pretty darn cool now the one thing I will note here is we can go ahead and turn the top track off and when we do that you'll see here we've got the bottom track we can change the size of this so if I click on it and I go back to video and I go back to basic there's a couple ways to do this I'm just going to change this scale down to something about TV size so I'm going to go with something like that let's say turn the top layer back on and then look at this I'm just going to go ahead and slowly move this in here maybe it's a bit too big here




ORIGINAL SHOT

 I'm going to pull the handles something like that now let's see what we got that is a very cool effect and we did that in just a few seconds using their chroma key functionality for free let's get into the second technique all right the second technique is how you can do the same thing but without any green screen let me show you here's the original shot of the grandma she looks like a regular Grandma cooking making mashed potatoes but here's the thing this is this Grandma was actually made with open AI Sora this is a completely AI generated video straight up 100% check it out





TIMELINE

 now to kind of keep with that theme we took away the background and then we put some Matrix scary AI in the background because that sort of fits with it so how did I do that let me show you here start from scratch all right here we go we got a blank timeline this will be very very quick the first step I'm going to go into my finder if you're on a PC you may want to use your Explorer and just grab the video that you're looking to add in this one here is is called sora Grandma I'm just going to drag and import that in as you see here now I'm going to take it and put it on my timeline just like that the next step





THE STOCK MATERIALS

 I'm going to grab the footage here and I'm going to move it up a track so it's on the second track we're going to leave the track below it empty so there you go if you don't have any footage just grab something out of the stock materials here uh I don't know you can just search for somebody you know cooking or cleaning or whatever it is you want it to be now the next step is we got to put some footage under underneath Grandma here so I'm going to go ahead and under stock material I'm just going to type in Matrix then I'm going to hit enter when I do that you get a whole bunch of different options





VIDEOS CUTZ

 now I'm going to go ahead and click on No Limit and restrict it to videos cuz I don't want any photos I want this to be video stuff and the one that we were going with well let's see what we got here there's a whole bunch of different options let's go with this one here this is the one we used before I like it even though it's scary as hell I'm going to grab that and I'm going to slide that underneath our original footage of the grandma now I'm just going to go ahead and pull the right handle here on the right side so that they're both the same length now the next step is very very easy making sure you're clicked on the original shot here or this video track two of the grandma or whatever you're using I'm going to go up here to the top right and I'm going to see video




REMOVE BACKGROUND

 I'm going to go to remove background and then I'm going to click on auto removal this is fantastic it's going to go ahead and cook it up and look at that we've already done it but I'm going to go ahead and move her now so I'm going to maybe move her to the right side something like that and then also I'm going to grab one of these handles and I'm going to scale her down a little bit because you'll see here that it even got rid of a little bit of her stomach here it's just sort of like the top torso so it maybe it went a little bit too far but that's okay we'll do something like that we'll put Grandma right here maybe something like that cooking up some mashed



CONCLUSION 

Now let's see what we got I'll just hit play yep there we go looks pretty good kind of scary stuff I will note here there are a few other things you can do if you want to put a stroke around her for example you can click on that button here and there we go we've got that white stroke that you see in so many YouTube thumbnails this one's a little bit less of a stroke you can adjust it here the size the color if you wanted a yellow stroke for example you can go ahead and select yellow and there you go and also there's a little bit of offset and some this looks like a like a mystery movie where you know we've got this weird uh dotted version but there you go guys this is all there is to it to removing backgrounds in cap cut thanks for watching

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

How to Remove Video Background in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (Tutorial)

April 27, 2024 0

 



INTRODUCTION 

one of my tutorials that a lot of people have found helpful is how to remove a green screen in adobe premiere pro so in this video i'm going to show you some more background removal tricks maybe when you don't have a green screen like this video here so we're starting out with a video clip where we don't have a green screen background and i'm probably going to do many examples of these because each clip is going to be different



BRIGHTNESS OR DARKNESS

 so in this case we have a few things to note we have a basically kind of solid even colored bright background so brightness or darkness matters we have a pretty decent line of contrast here so a skin tone might matter as well depending on the contrast between that in the background and also he's wearing a white t-shirt which may give us some problems because it's the same color sort of as these white clouds but i'm going to show you for this example a two layered approach that you can use to still get a pretty decent cut out when it's just not a green screen 



LUMA KEY

so in the effects panel we're going to be using the keying effects and we're going to use a combination of the luma key and the ultra key here i've just got the original clip this is the original clip on track one i'm going to hide that just so we can have it for reference now i'm going to take the clip put it on another track so we can work with it and the first thing we can try is a luma key so luma refers to the luminance or the brightness or darkness basically so in the luma key effect controls you have two things threshold and cutoff 




TRANSPARENT

so you can adjust the threshold at which the video will become transparent and it looks like just it's just becoming black but that's actually just transparency if you actually want to see that displayed as transparency you can click the settings icon and under transparency grid you can check that and you can actually get see like the one that you see in photoshop if that helps you but as i adjust this amount especially from zero to fifty to a hundred percent we see it sort of cuts out him but if we go too far it starts to cut out some of the clouds as well 




THRESHOLD OR VICE VERSA

so you wanna find a balance between the threshold and the cut off where you're just getting a decent selection of your person and you can see kind of how it inverts itself when the cutoff becomes higher than the threshold or vice versa but not to complicate matters you can just kind of balance these two sliders and the goal is to try to get as much of the subject and as little of the background with as clear of a line as possible so this is what that might look like for me but you notice that this is still not perfect if i put it on black again we're still getting you know parts of since this shirt is so bright it it's kind of registering as the background even this highlights on his cheek and that's why i'm offering a two-layered approach here to kind of help you out further





DUPLICATE THIS CLIP 

 so you know depending on your clip if you just want something really rough this could be workable but it's not gonna look great because you're cutting into important parts of the subject like the face so if i were to just duplicate this clip i'll just do that by holding option and click and dragging it on a layer above itself you can also just drag it back over i'll delete the luma key on this effect so we're bringing back the full original clip and i will now use an ultra key as well so just to show you what's going on i'm going to hide everything else except this layer and the ultra key allows you to pick a key color instead of working with brightness and remove that 





GENERATION TOOLS

so i'm going to ink drop over to sort of this really light blue color maybe i can try a few different ones and see which one seems to get a bet the best amount and then i'm also going to open up the matte generation tools and here you can adjust things about the tolerance of this selection so right now at 50 we can increase it so it even goes in more of those blue ranges if you want you can open the matte cleanup and soften things up a little bit this can have a tendency to get a little bit pixelated looking but for the most part we have removed a lot of stuff around here and in this case




CREATE A MASK 

 we're still keeping the parts of the face and for this method since we might get a lot of extra stuff in the corners and the side if you're able to if you're working with something that's not moving across the frame a crazy amount you can even add a mask on the opacity of the layer so if i just create i'll just use the pen tool for this case it'll be easier for a person shape but if i sort of just create a mask on the opacity of the rough outline of this person you'll notice once you get to the end it's kind of hard to make a point a workaround is to zoom out a little bit on the program window and then you can go beyond those boundaries and make those points and then you can put it back to fit if you want 




KEYFRAME ANIMATION 

so now i've really contained in my mask  a little bit more i can add points if i want to bring it in even a little bit more and if you really wanted to get advanced with it and go tedious you could add a keyframe animation onto this mask path so i could begin this mask and if you lose the blue outlines just make sure you highlight mask one again i can begin this kind of opened up enough and if i notice that you know i need more room here for the skateboard flip i can bring out that mask a little bit and then as he puts the skateboard down i can bring it back in so if you want to take this extra step you can sort of animate this mask





BACKGROUND OF YOUR CLIP

 so it tracks your subject a little bit more so again every clip is going to be case by case and these are the different sort of things that might be included in a clip and these are tools that you can use to find solutions to those problems so since we can only key out one color at a time the cool thing with these keys is we can stack them so first i keyed out the blue now let me try to key out this really grayish blue white and this is another issue where i need to be careful because his shirt and his outfit is white as well and you're going to find oftentimes perhaps the color of clothing matches the greenery or background of your clip and these are things to keep in mind 




TOLERANCE

so for this you maybe don't want to increase the tolerance too much but i'm still able to remove even some more of that section in if you really want to get in there that's where you're probably going to want to make sure that mask is really in there so effectively we've removed out much of that stuff and we've used the mask to make sure we don't have to worry about everything else now depending on your clip you know this might be enough but you'll notice this way sometimes kind of get grainy or not the best





ADD AN OPACITY MASK

 so what we've done by combining the two methods is we still get that crisp line and edge from the luma key on the first layer that we did but then we also fill in the remaining portions of those areas using this second layer and i notice there's some clouds here in the luma key layer so it might not hurt to also add an opacity mask on the luma key layer so that we don't have to worry about that as well and although this is not perfect if i add another clip on the background 




CROP ANIMATION 

so that's the original if i add like whatever layer underneath it does provide a pretty decent result and it's up to you know how much key framing and how tight you make that mask to how clean your effect will be but it's still a little bit faster than more of a masking or rotoscoping style where you literally have to mask it exactly on the edge frame by frame that's a job that's much better suited towards after effects and as an added bonus if you want to know how to do that little before and after thing it's just simply a crop effect which is under the transform video effects folder and i simply will add a crop animation 




CONCLUSION

let's just say on the left starts at zero and you can move forward a little bit and make it go to 100 and that'll do like a before and after i have a full tutorial on that if you want like a deeper explanation before and after transitions but that's another example of how to remove backgrounds in adobe premiere if you enjoyed this video you can check out the others on my channel and subscribe to stay tuned for more i'll probably do other examples to show you guys how i would approach those and the unique problems and solutions that other clips would provide my name is justin odisho thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in the next video you

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Capcut Color Grading - 3 Methods To Color Grade For FREE - PC Tutorial

April 27, 2024 0

 



INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another quick video in this one we're in cap cut for desktop and I am going to show you how to color grade your footage for free there's no plugins there's no nothing here going to show you how to do it for free and I'm going to show you using three methods I'm going to show you how to do it using adjustments



ORIGINAL FOOTAGE

 how to do it using curves and then how to add in quick filters to take it over the top to show you that I know what I'm talking about here is the original footage here if I just move this slider here look at this this is awful footage everything is literally the same color it's just terrible there's like there's no colors in it and then if I move the slider to the right here well look at that we've got three different styles here I've got a nice brighter version and then you'll see here in this one here I darkened up the the ocean a little bit and the corners




NICE COOL ORANGE 

 I've got vignettes in the corner to draw your eye into the middle and then I even did an orange and stylish type style over here on this little birdie if I click on the bird here this is a better piece of footage this is the original footage it's not very good and then after color grading well look at that we've got a nice cool orange teal action look I'm going to show you to do this for free it'll take just a couple minutes let's go all right let's get cooking so the first step here is there's nothing on my timeline 




COLOR CORRECT

I'm just going to drag and drop a piece of footage in that I want to color correct in this case it's this terrible footage here of these boats in the sea where everything's the same color okay not a problem the next step is I'm going to grab this same piece of footage and I'm going to drag and drop it right on top of it so we've got two pieces of the the exact same footage lined up at the exact same time then I'm going to hit the eyeball on the bottom track 




ADJUSTMENT

now let's get cooking and start making some changes all right here we go let's cook all right so the first step make sure you're selected on the top video track then on the right side you're going to see video audio speed animation we don't want any of those what you want to do is you either want to click on these two arrows to get to adjustment or if you see adjustment just click on it when you do that you'll see curves hsl and basic hsl is highlight and saturation lightness but the first thing is we're going to go on basic and because I am basic just kidding



QUICK CHANGES

 I'm not that basic we're going to go ahead and make some very quick changes and this is often all you need to do to get a nice quick and dirty uh color adjustment so here we go I'm going to go ahead and increase the decrease the temperature part of me quite a bit and you'll see here by just pulling the slider we've gone ahead and added in some blue into the sky and into the ocean kind kind of like




SATURATION

 what we want now this isn't even as blue as I'd like it to go but there we go we're going to start off with this I'm going to put some green Aqua looking into this so I pulled the tint down again depending on the type of footage that you have you can adjust this as you see fit and I'm just going to increase the saturation a bit cuz I like bright colors because I'm a simple man now as I go down here under lightness you've got all of these different ones you can play with I would normally increase the exposure just a little bit I would increase the contrast cont a little bit even though you will see that we are losing some of that blue that's okay 




SLIGHT VIGNETTE

we're going to add that back in in a second I'm going to go ahead and adjust the whites down a little uh let's see something like that oh no that's not enough something like that and then I'm going to play with the blacks a bit here uh I'm going to pull that down a little bit that sounded weird and uh there we go so Brilliance I'll increase it again this is just me messing around with it you know getting it to where I like it the one thing I do like to add in though is a vignette so I'm going to add in a slight vignette of about five and what that did is it added in some shadows in the corners and that draws your eye into the video




REVISED FOOTAGE

 so it kind of pulls your eyes into the middle so that's looking okay so far now this is why I have a second piece of footage underneath it in the exact same spot cuz when I turn this eyeball on and off you'll see this is the original this is the revised footage with the vignette and the color changes now I'm going to show you a second technique to dial it in and get it a even better all right so the next step is we're going to go over here and we're going to go from basic we're going to switch over to Curves and every guy likes curves uh for color grading and other things 




MANIPULATED

so here we go there are four curves and very briefly the Luma curve is brightness Luma means luminance which means brightness and then there's the red the green and the blue and all of these curves can be manipulated now for the brightness I like the brightness of this shot so I'm going to leave that alone for the red curve here and it's nice and colored red so you can't really get it wrong you'll notice that when I hover the mouse over you'll see that it allows us to add a point or add a beat so on the line here I'm going to add one in the middle somewhere around here and watch this I'm just going to pull this up and that makes the water red




BLUR WATER

 so if you're doing a Jaws movie for example and then if I pull it down it adds in that nice turquoises green color so I'm going to go ahead and add that in there I'm going to go down to the blue or actually let's go to the green one next here let's do the the green and then I can move a point up if I want green water and if I want some of that cool looking Bluer water for example I'll pull it down a little bit and again




FILTERS

 Guys these are just up to you completely but I'm just sort of dialing in the colors that I like and I'll add a point on the blue one watch this I pull it down I get that drab color but if I pull it up we get that really cool looking blue sea now again these are totally up to you once you've pulled them up you can go ahead and keep adjusting them as you see fit I might yeah I like the blue c although I also like the green uh let's go with a blue c for this one okay so there we go we've gone ahead and added in some curves feel free to adjust these as you see fit it's very subtle stuff now I'm going to show you how to put filters on this to dial it in and finish it up all right 





FINAL THIRD STEP

so the next step here is I'll just do a quick comparison just to show you where we've gotten so far so again this is the original footage it's terrible and now here is the revised footage it's looking pretty good although the sea is kind of blending a little bit in with the sky more than I'd like so let's go ahead and do a final third step on the top making sure you're selected on the top footage we're now going to go up here and go to the filters option and under filters we get a whole bunch of different color filters now I'm going to go hover on a few of them some of them you know you may get one lucky that you want here this one's actually not too bad ghost but the one that I'm looking for is down here 




VIDEO TRACK 

let's see where it is it is orange and blue and obviously this is way too much but I'm going to go ahead and drag this filter onto video track three so it is on top of the footage and then I'm going to just drag it out all the way across now you're going to be like hey you ruin the footage and you'd be right but look at this up here at the right you'll see here that under filters we can dial this in so we can take it off completely or I can just start to move the slider a little bit here and then maybe up the intensity for the orange blue so maybe something that might be a bit too much something like that maybe and then if we've got it kind of like where we want it 






CONCLUSION 

so we've got a Bluer sea we've got nice bright orange colors in the boats here the sky is nice and blue we've got a vignette if we turn off the top two layers we've got our original footage then we've got adjusted and then we've got it with a filter applied this is pretty darn good you can always go back in and make adjustments so if I go back to basic and I decide that that's too blue I can pull some blue out or I could put some blue in tint it as I see fit but there you go Go Guys these are the three techniques you need to know to color grade inside cap cut completely for free thank you for watching

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Image To Video AI Just Got Real - Domo AI - Detailed Tutorial

April 27, 2024 0

 





INTRODUCTION 

hell yeah what's up guys this is kurur Pike my friends call me Big C back in Action today I got something crazy to show you and if you're a Tik Tok dancer you're going to want to turn this video off right now cuz it's coming for you but here's the thing I'm going to show you how to take any image literally any type of image and animate it in a cartoon this is not taking a video and turning it into a cartoon



ANIMATED CARTOON

 I'm going to show you how to do that as well but this is an image into a cartoon and then into an animated cartoon in a style of your choice for example and I'll give you the example running behind me I've got an image of this white lady here doing her thing she's just a regular white lady I put the image in I put the video of this Asian girl doing some weird dance thing going on I hit the button and all of a sudden I've got a cartoon of that white girl doing the dance that the Asian lady was doing and I can download it and use it upload it to YouTube and it's going to pass all the copyright checks this is nuts let me show you how to do this all right 




DOMO AI 

first up head over to Google or whatever you use and type in do AI when you get there you want to make sure that you select the second result at least for me you want Domo AI doapp a. doo.com totally different sites same name kind of weird click on that and then Presto you're going to see this it's going to ask you to join your Discord so you're going to join up with Discord and then I'll show you in Discord what the next steps are all right here we go so we are in Domo Ai and just keep in mind that it's this robot icon if you not sure and you get lost it's the robot icon right here and then you get a whole bunch of options but what we want to do is we want to go to one of the generate rooms here 





GENERATE ROOMS

so there's 11 generate rooms I'm going to go to generate video 11 and you can already see here that here's an example of what I did earlier so I added this woman here this is just a stock image and then I added this video here of this girl dancing which is the stock video and it gave me this which is pretty damn impressive I am not going to lie this is crazy okay so how did I do that well let's just go right to the bottom here I'm just going to grab this and pull it down and then here we go so the first step is you want to go forward slove and when you do that hit enter you get two options you get to upload a video and you get to upload the image





DANCING VIDEO

 so let's start with the video so I'm going to go ahead and grab this video here and just so you know this is the video of that Asian lady dancing that's her dancing and now I'm going to grab the image so I'm just going to click on that again and then I'm going to go to movies and I've got an image that I want to use let's use this lady here we've got a nice attractive lady here with a nice smile so we're basically saying Hey I want this lady and this is also a stock image to take this image and turn it into a dancing video like this crazy I know all right 





FEW DIFFERENT OPTIONS

so in the prompt section here all you got to do is type in what you want attractive lady dancing doesn't have to be too specific because it's more or less using um the the video instead of what your prompt ISS hit enter and now you're going to get a couple options it's going to take a few seconds for it to think about what we're doing here but here we go Domo AI is thinking all right I'm going to come back when it's done some thinking show me a second that's already done okay good enough now look at this we get a few different options here here we go so a defaults to anime style but there is a realistic model as well 




FOUR DIFFERENT STYLES

so I'm going to go with the anime version 6 but there are four different styles I recommend you try out all of them they're all really really good let's go with the anime style secondly can go for a 3 second video a 5-second video a 10-second video or a 20 second video Believe It or Not uh do keep in mind that the 20 second video takes 20 minutes to render and I believe the big one is only for paid subscribers so I have a I have a paid subscription to this but you'll only probably have the first three so let's go ahead and click on 10 seconds here generate 10 seconds and then literally all you got to do is hit start and it's going to start cooking and then I'm going to come back in a few minutes and I'll show you what we got all right welcome back 





ORIGINAL IMAGE

so here we go here's the original image which we put in there nice lady having a nice smile plus the dancing lady full body dancing only half of her body showing in this picture but look at this if I click on this here and I click on Play There we go we've got her she's got the same kind of shirt on and then it gave her some matching pants and there she is doing her thing dancing away and if I want to download them look here you'll see here that it gives you the results it gives you the original image and the video that you can go ahead and download if needed 





REALLY COOL STUFF 

so really really cool stuff now I want to show you how to change one type of video into another it's cool watch this all right welcome back so the next thing I want to show you is how to take a video and change its style so let me show you what I'm talking about here here's a video of this you know pretty lady just sort of looking back and then like all women do looking away and walking away from me okay this is just a okay this is just a uh stock video this isn't real life but here you go I've turned this into this style literally with one click now her left eye has a little bit of a wobble there but I mean this is pretty cool it's even borderline uh Grand Theft Auto 5 style 





BIG DEAL

so let me show you how to do this it's easy as heck to do all you got to do is just type in forward slide and then hit enter once you do that it says drag and drop a video you want to select I'm going to go ahead and select I don't know let's select a puppy dog here we're going to get this papoo and we're going to drag and drop in this puppy that just does puppy things now for the prompt this isn't a big deal but I'm just going to be like cute puppy that's it I don't have to do anything really it doesn't really even matter but you got to put something in here 





3D CARTOON

so I'm going to hit enter And now when I do this check this out this is where it gets kind of crazy so first thing like always you can go ahead and select three 5 10 or 20 seconds if you have a paid subscription you can also refer to Source video more which is what I almost always recommend or refer to prompt more if you've got a bad video I suppose but anyways when I click on this down arrow you'll see here that there is not just like one style there are 23 different styles van go paper art Grand Theft Auto game color illustration story book comic pixel 3D cartoon Chinese ink painting anime of all different types and flavors I mean just tons of stuff here 




2.5D ILLUSTRATION

so 2.5d illustration style is one of the newer Styles PlayStation 2 style color pencil Style Just altogether amazing stuff I'm going to go ahead and select uh 2.5d illustration style cuz I find this to be quite good but again you can always experiment try out the different styles there's 23 of them I'm going to go ahead and select a 5c version of this and it says here it should take about 5 minutes so I'm going to go ahead and click Start and then we're going to render this one out and we'll see what it looks like when I come back all right welcome back so here we go here's another example I've got my puppy dog doing puppy dog things here just just being a boss and and then 





CHROMA KEY

I click out and then bang here we go we've got our perer doing some Grand Theft Auto illustration uh animation type things and the same thing goes for this uh pretty lady which I think I showed you earlier and then here she is in sort of like a line drawn Grand Theft Auto style so this is all one click easy to do let me show you one more thing you can do with this product though all right so the last thing I want to show you is you can actually make your content with a green background for example so if you want to you know chroma key or green screen or pull out the green color you can do that as well let me show you example I'm going to go forward SL move going to hit enter and then you'll see video and image





DASH DASH KEY

 so let's do the same thing again I'm going to grab let's go for the video we're going to have that lady doing her dance thing drag and drop it there for an image I'm going to use this image of Livy Dunn cuz she's very pretty and that's just how I roll but watch this under prompt I'll have pretty woman dancing and then this this is what I'm going to do dash dash key or D- key when I do that and hit enter there we go so we'll see here that it's going to go ahead it allows me to do 5 Seconds 3 seconds Etc I'm going to do 5 seconds on this one




GREEN SCREEN ACTION

 I'm going to go anime Japanese style anime and then I'm just going to click on start all right and here is some green screen action here we go here's a picture that I used it's Livy Dunn the gymnast it's a terrible picture it's low quality but hey that's okay just wanted to show you what this is capable of doing so there's the image there again is our little dancing lady that does her silly dance and now look at this here's the animation but look it's got green screen in the back so if you know how a chroma key or green screen 




CONCLUSION 

you can just pull out the green and then you've got the dancing character with no background which is awesome especially if you like to create Motion Graphics that are kind of funny and quirky so there you go guys this is all inside Domo AI I got a link in the description below give it a try let me know what you think in the comments below thanks for watching

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Friday, April 26, 2024

All About the Align Panel in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

April 26, 2024 0

 




INTRODUCTION 

what's going on everybody welcome back to design Smith today I'm going to be showing you all about the Align panel in Adobe Illustrator before we get started if you end up liking this video please remember to hit like And subscribe it really helps me with the growth of my channel and I appreciate it so the first thing we want to do is make sure that our align panel is showing




ALIGN PANEL

 so go up to window and click on align and it'll show up probably over here somewhere I like to put mine on the right side I'm going to be doing a video pretty soon about how to set up your workspace in the best way possible so just keep an eye out for that okay so your align panel does exactly what you think it would do it aligns your objects for you and there's all kinds of different things going on here but I assure you it's very simple




CENTER HORIZONTAL

 so the first thing I'm going to do here is just draw a square right here and what we can do is we've got several options we've got align to artboard align to selection and aligned to key object align to artboard is going to be your default and what you can do is go up here to the center horizontal align Center and you can also align it to the ver vertical Center of your artboard so this is now perfectly centered with the artboard and just like you would expect you could do horizontal align Left Right top and bottom




DISTRIBUTE OBJECTS

 so that covers this first row right here and as you can see it's not as intimidating as you may have thought all right so the next row is distribute objects and this is very helpful if you want to distribute objects evenly so I'm going to draw probably five going across right here and I'm just going to move them I'm going to move some of them out out of the bounds of the art board and just kind of randomly place them anywhere I'm going to move this one let's move this way over here move this over here just kind of scatter them in general 




VERTICAL ALIGN CENTER

now what you can do is select all of these or you can do command Orr a on your keyboard and just make sure that these are selected and nothing outside of these bounds are being selected and you can go up to align objects and vertical align Center and then you can click on horizontal distribute Center so that is going to horizontally distribute your objects evenly and the same thing applies vertically you can do the same thing over here these are not aligned horizontally but they are aligned vertically all right and so for the distribute objects row a couple of these could be a little bit confusing 





TOPMOST ELEMENT 

so I'll try to explain it the best way I can let's go ahead and arrange these like this and what this is going to do if you select all of these and if you go up to distribute objects vertical distribute top this is going to vertically distribute all of these squares right here with respect to the topmost element so that's going to be this one right here now after you do the top if you click on the center it will do the ex EXA same thing so let's undo what we just did and click on the center and that's going to look for the object that is the most in the center




VERTICAL DISTRIBUTE

 so it's this one and it's going to vertically distribute with respect to this square right here and then we can undo that and then go over here to Vertical distribute bottom so that's going to vertically distribute with respect to this bottom square right here I rarely use vertical distribute top bottom and same thing with horizontal left and horizontal right




SELECTION PERSONALLY

 I'm a lot more likely to use vertical distribut Center and horizontal distribute Center and I'll show you what those do let's just kind of move these around like this select everything and click on vertical distribute Center and this is taking into account all of these squares right here and it's Distributing everything with respect to the vertical Center of your selection and then the same thing over here with horizontal this is going to distribute all of our objects in accordance with our selection personally for what I do I use distribute objects the least amount all right in this next one I used more than anything else 





CONTEXTUAL TEXT BAR 

so let's go ahead and draw some more squares let's get this contextual text bar out of the way we'll move these over here we'll just kind of create these randomly and now let's select everything and this is going to be distribute spacing and you have to select one of your objects in order to activate this so we're going to say that we want one inch in between each of our boxes




VALUABLE TOOL 

 so you can go ahead and click on horizontal distribute space and now there's exactly 1 inch in between each one of these objects and you can enter in whatever value you want and you'll notice over here that aign to key object is highlighted when we do this that's because we have this object highlighted as our key object because we selected it after we made our selection if you want you can change your key object and then go over here and increase the spacing a little bit and now it's going to align to this object it's going to keep this object still and push everything else outward this is a very valuable tool 




ARTBOARD VERSUS

when you've got a lot of elements on the p page and you're trying to get some Symmetry and now with all of these selected we can just go up here to align vertical Center and that will align all of these vertically centered and now let's take a look at aligning to the artboard versus aligning to the selection so let's select all of these and let's go over here to align to artboard so we're going to distribute the spacing horizontally and what that's going to do is align all of our objects to the bounds of our artboard and we can do the same thing horizontally





STROKE

 so you can use this if you want to use some Randomness and let's bring this this in really quickly and I'll show you what selection is so this is our selection and now let's click on align to selection and you can distribute spacing to your selection and it will only stay within the bounds of this selection here all right and there's a couple more things that I want to show you so for this example we need to swap the fill in the stroke so let's put like this bright pink stroke on the outside here I'm going to go over here to stroke and a line to stroke I'm going to bring this up to 20 points and now I'm going to create just a little line here with our pin tool I'll bring that down to like one point and then 




COLOR DROP

I'm going to color drop this one so that both of these match each other so what we're going to do here is Select both of these and let's click on this line to make that our key object go over here to a line and check use preview bounds what that's going to do is even though we have a stroke on this element right here it's going to align to this line to the outer edges of this pink so let's do vertical align bottom and as you can see this shape with its stroke is aligned to our line now now we're going to uncheck use preview bounds select both of these click on our line to make that a key object and now align to the bottom and it's aligning to the shape without the stroke 





TEXT BOX

so keep that in mind if anything is acting weird you might have used preview bounds checked or unchecked depending on what you're trying to do okay and the last thing I want to show you is aligning to the text box versus the glyph area so let's select both of these and let's go over here to align to glyph bounds and if you have Point text and area text both selected and you make this box your key object let's align to this right here and if you move this over here you'll see that the uppermost part of the text which is right there where that s is it's aligning to that instead of the text box itself where these bounds are so let's uncheck both of these and this box is still our key object so let's align to the top here 





CONCLUSION 

now it's going to align to that text box in this example right here we'll do an area type and align to this and let's unch Tech area text and that will align with the top of the text instead of the text box well I hope I taught you something in illustrator today thank you so much for watching and if you wouldn't mind please hit like And subscribe it helps me a lot with the YouTube algorithm and I really appreciate it thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time bye-bye

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