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Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another fantastic Adobe Live stream.
I am your host, Alex Lazaris, and I am so excited to be with y'all. I see a bunch of our regulars here. What's up, Gareth? What's up, Shauna? What's up, Barbara? How are you guys doing? Annika.
What's up? What's up? What's up, Annika's? Welcome into the stream by saying the king of Comic Papyrus is here. And that is true. It is not my birthday, but it feels like it whenever I get greeted with a Comic Papyrus.
So thank you. Appreciate it. What up, Wade? How you doing? Happy Thursday, everyone.
For those of you all that don't know, we are doing Design Fix today, so Kladi and I bounce between weeks. Essentially, Design Fix is a show for you to kind of submit your own businesses, submit your own brands, submit your own side projects, whatever you want. Fill out this form.
I'm going to post a link in Chat right now. What you can do with this link is fill out all your contact information, fill out the project, give us a little bit of information about what you're doing, what you want help with. You can choose between social graphics, logos, anything like that.
Today we're going to be working on Bob Tuttle Associates, and Bob essentially said we can do whatever he's looking for, ideas on anything. So we're going to go in there and try to help out where we can take a look at his website, take a look at his brand, kind of, currently, and we're going to be making stuff within Adobe Express, so it's going to be a lot of fun. Wade says every day on Adobe Live feels like a birthday.
It's true. It's true. And then one day, it was my birthday on Adobe Live, which was pretty cool, too.
We made express birthday cards. So if you haven't seen that, go to the YouTubes, wherever your YouTube browser is, and go check that out. It's pretty good.
White says design fixed. That's true. We should do a recap at the end of the year of all the things we've done in Design Fix, so that would be pretty fun.
So anyways, without further ado, tell me what your favorite food is in Chat today. I know we get a lot of where are you in the world? Those are always great. You can tell me where you are in the world, too.
I also want to know what you're eating, what you love, what your favorite food is. Let me know. Mine is pizza.
That we had pizza last night. It was fantastic. All right, enough about me mumbling jumbling.
Anyways, fill out the form I posted in Chat. Wade posted as well. Make sure you submit, and you might be a lucky winner in getting a free hour of design time from Kladi and myself.
So it's super exciting. We've been doing this for about two months, three months now. Four months now.
I don't know. Time flies when you're having fun. But without further ado, we're going to jump into it.
So for those of you that want to learn more about Bob Tuttle Associates, let me go here. Face the left. Perfect.
All right. This is Bob's website right now. This is what he submitted.
So from a high level, let me just refresh this. Whoa. No.
Oh, no. Runtime error. Lauren says, how do y'all from Austin? Hello.
Hello. I grew up in Texas, so I'm very familiar with Austin. Oh, no.
I think I killed Bob's website on accident. We're going to see what's going on here. All right, well, Bob's website seems to be struggling right now, which means we can just imagine the website.
I wonder if I could go backwards. No, that's not going to help. Okay.
Runtime error. That's fine. Maybe by the end of the website or maybe by the end of the stream, we'll do it.
Way to ask. Design fix the website. We could do that.
We could do that. Ken says 404. Bob not found.
What up, Ken? How are you doing? Ken's a budy of mine. Good to see you in here. Mariah having a fruit cocktail right now.
What kind of fruit and what kind of cocktail? Or just like the cups? Little. All right. I'm assuming that you mean by just a lot of fruit in a cup.
A fruit cup, which sounds refreshing and delightful. But anyways, without further ado, one website that is not down right now is the Adobe Express website. So if you don't know what Adobe Express is, it's essentially a stripped down version of all your favorite tools.
All one spot. Makes it super duper easy for you to work with. It has kind of some photo editing features.
You can remove backgrounds, so a little bit of photoshop in that you can create logos and badges really quickly. So it's got a little bit of like the Illustrator side in it. You've also got the option to start kind of making some quick gifs.
You can do social posts, you can resize things. You can import your own brands, so you can do so much stuff within Express. So we're going to actually just be messing around with Express pretty much the whole stream.
We're going to have a lot of fun with it. Before Bob's website did go down, though, I just pulled a little bit of information about what Bob Toddle Associates is. Looked on his LinkedIn a little bit.
Looks like he's been doing this for about 50 years. Is an avid photographer and videographer and makes a lot of vimeo and video content. So we really want to play into that.
Video training, as you see here, technical consulting, video training and documentation. Bob Tod Associates has been in business since 1972, helping individuals to lock large corporations with technical issues. They have these have ranged from computers, servers, networks, security systems, educational centers, wall displays, documentation and training both as a college professor and adobe educator.
I'm busy learning something new every day. My service area is the San Francisco North Bay area, and I have clients out of state, so that's super helpful just to get a little understanding. Oh, Shawna and Leon.
What's up? What's up, besties? All my friends are here today. I love this. This is great.
I love hanging out with you guys in video form through a chat screen. It's great. But if you want to hang out in person, I will be at Creative South at the end of the month, and I will be giving a talk and a workshop.
So make sure you go to Creativesout.com and sign up. If you do want to hang out in person, it's different from this.
This is free. You can pay to hang out with me too, apparently. It sounds so bad to say that.
Just forget that. Great. All right, cool.
All right, mosing on out. All right, we're going to just start going into Express, so let's just see if his I'm just going to keep refreshing his site. Yes, it's back.
Okay, we're back. All right, so it looks like the website right now is kind of a placeholder site. There's a lot of these kind of what's the proper word for it? There's a lack of a frame for oh, Shauna says the end of the month.
You mean next week? Yeah, that's what I meant. Next week. That's crazy.
It's next. Cool. Cool.
All right, cool. I should probably pack or something. All right, well, I'll see you in a week.
That's great. All right, back to this video website. It looks like he's trying to showcase some of the video work that he's done, but we're missing those screen grabs.
So maybe we'll take some screenshots today and then pull them into 16 by nine frames inside of Express and then show how we could crop that down into some one by ones for some social posts as well, just to kind of give ideas, since based off Bob's form, Fill says looking for any ideas. So we'll just jump with that. So this is an example of, like, a header image.
I'm not going to play the audio just so it makes it easier for everybody, but we got Bob Tuttle. It looks like an allstate insurance maybe a local insurance branch getting their videos done, which is great. We'll look over here as well.
So this is Bob. Hello, Bob. Good to see you.
I like that we're doing this video thing together. Amazing. Bob does a lot of educational content and documentation and making videos to make it easier for people.
So I think we're going to play a lot off this, where maybe when I want to do, like, a tutorial logo, maybe some video logos, maybe we'll do some documentation logos. I'll show you how to do this all really quickly in, Express, in just a couple of moments. So make sure you hang out so little things that we can give some feedback around.
We'll kind of incorporate. So since we're here right now in this current kind of lockup, my recommendation would be to use a tool like Loom, something where your face can be on top of the information so that most of it is your presentation. So kind of like right now, I'm in the corner of my screen.
The actual content that you're wanting to show this auto feed scanner itself could be front and center. So we can just do some quick little mockups inside of Express, even. So, I'm just going to take a screenshot.
Obviously, this is not going to be perfectly let me actually see if I can find there we go. This is a better example. No, give me that screenshot.
Cool. I'm going to take a screenshot here. Perfect.
Oh, no. I want the tools, the player's info to be gone. Come on.
No, Bob. All right. I should never refresh.
Oh, I think it's going to come back. Nope. Okay, let's start getting into Express.
We'll come back to that page in just a moment. All right, so for those of you that don't know, Express has a left aligned toolbar. It's great.
It gives you everything. There's a quick starting point for you to kind of work off of for the sake of this. We want a custom size just to start.
For this image, we're going to do like a 16 x nine. So we'll just do like 1920 by 1080. Boom.
Just to show kind of like what this content might be. Like, we'll do it as a mockup instead of bringing it to Photoshop or anything like that, just to start. You know what? I've got options.
If this doesn't work, let's just go to Adobe stock. Stock. Adobe Diagram.
Technical diagram. Just grab that. Obviously, I don't need to license this for the intents of showing this.
I'm just going to take a quick screenshot. I can also just copy paste, copy image, and move it in here. Or if I wanted to, I could also go straight into Photos and then be like, Tech Nicole Diagram.
Boom. Look at that. That's all I needed.
So we'll just grab this from the Adobe stock library. It's going to buffer in. Cool.
So we got technical know, kind of similar to that video that we saw. We'll just go down to my toolbar. I downloaded an image of you earlier.
Cool. So if we wanted to I think your presentations could benefit from having most of the content filling up the majority of the screen. And then you being the corner, we can try what the removed background does, I'm not sure with the lack of focus on kind of the shoulder and the background, how the removed background tool will work, but let's try it out.
This is really just a proof of concept Lauren Brown says, is Adobe Express a web browser or a desktop new to the tool. Well, it's a web browser app, so you can just go to searchyourexpress Adobe.com, but you can also use it on your mobile phone as well.
So you can do all that stuff on the tablet, whatever, if you need to. So, yeah, you can use it very easily. It's also free.
Oops, I forgot I didn't save it. Adobe Express is free, but the tools do get better. If you are already paying for Creative Cloud, the reason why, and I'll show you again, is whenever I had this image here, I'll just pop in another image.
You see these crowns in the left bar? Those crowns mean that it's part of your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. So if you don't have it, you won't be able to access the crown content. But there's still so many assets, so many photos, so many templates, so many tools that you can use.
Sorry, there's no tools that are locked behind your Paywall. It's just stock assets and stock templates and stuff like that. So you have tons and tons of things.
Like, this image right here is completely free to use, and you can use it whenever, however you want. So super good stuff. All right, so, Bob, if I was to be doing video content right now, I would be saying maybe use like a loom, or you can even use OBS, but this is way too much setup, I think, for maybe most of the recordings that you're doing.
But I think a loom video would be great. You can do, like, typically, like, loom videos have a circular crop to it. So we'll just do like a circle.
Circle. Grab my shape. Boom.
And then I'll do a little mockup here, and I'm going to move on. The bottom right is your layers in Express. So you just pull this down.
Boom. Cool. And then I can even go into the crop section.
So we've already masked you out, which is great, but I want a circle crop now just so I can kind of match it to the circle. Okay, great. It's fine.
Click the checkmark to accept it. And then I'm just going to shrink down this background circle just to give you kind of like if you were kind of talking through it. Cool.
So that's how I do it, is like a little loom video, like this something. And then you can just control where I'm going to group these two together. Actually, my keys aren't working.
That's fine. Websites aren't working. Keys aren't working.
That's fine, whatever. All right, so we'll put you in the corner, and that way you can talk through all your diagrams and you have the technical stuff, all the documentation, but you still have your face in the corner, so people still feel connected to you. So that's what I would suggest, and we'll just move on to the next thing.
All right, let's see if the website is working again. Yes. Okay.
I'm not going to reload ever again. Ever. All right.
My video career started in 1972, the old days of very big cameras and two inch videotapes. In today's world, I would use a much smaller and higher resolution camera and all digital recording. Once photography and videography are done, it's time to edit and create and use a wide spectrum of software tools to provide high quality output, if that's what you're looking for.
Cool. I love that. Very simple, quick value prop up front and center for people.
So gets that there small little thing, just little typo there. I know it's a lot of things that are moving quite rapidly. So let's see here.
What other things can we do? So we got this. I would say you'd probably want a hero asset for the COVID of this image, maybe if you need to. It's something about this printer.
So maybe you're focusing on, I don't know, whatever the computer lab that you're trying to kind of communicate to. You should just have that as the hero image for your videos. We can just pull that in, plop it into your 16 x nine, and then you'll be set to go.
We can just do another page. We'll just open it up, click add page at the bottom, same as this page. Since we're already using the 16 x 919 20 by 1080, let's see if we can find a printer photo.
I don't necessarily know your brand as much, but this photo seems to resonate with everybody. You can have a little bit of fun if you're doing a printer video. Maybe you're a little bit more serious than I am, but I feel like nobody likes working on printers and nobody's had a good experience with any printer chat.
Let me know if you have had good experiences with printers and I will revise my statement. And I apologize deeply to the printer world enthusiasts. But yeah, I would say maybe we would do something like that.
Then you start looking at like, okay, I wonder if there's even a template. There might be a template. Let's see if there's a template.
So if we just go to the templates tab and then type in printer, I wonder, oh my goodness, they've already got a meme template. When you think you've been working for 3 hours, but it's only been seven minutes. Okay, well in this case we would change out the copy to be something like when you thought you've ordered one print job and instead it prints out a whole room of paper and then you cry or something like that.
I don't know, I'm not a copywriter. The copywriters in chat are furiously typing notes. Shawna says, well, that's a stock image.
I thought this was a photo of you. Shauna Wade says, PC load letter, question mark, explanation mark. Absolutely.
That's how everybody feels. Lauren says, I've always hold my breath when sending things to the printer, especially tablet size prints. Yes, exactly.
We're working on location right now and doing some photo shoots as well. And Ethan looked at me and said, do you have a printer? I was like, yeah, but it's the normal printer. It's not printing black.
It's printing purple, and it's splotchy and it doesn't work. And yeah, it's awful. No matter what you try to do, no print.
Okay, this is getting into a Ted Talk about anti printers. I'm going to change topics. All right, let's go happier.
Let's see if there's any templates for, like, videos. Say you could do simple things like this. We can do this like a start project for it.
The templates are a really good starting point for you to kind of launch any of your work. So if you're doing website education is kind of like your title. I don't know if this is a meta tag and it's a placeholder for your current website, or if this is where you're really wanting to kind of reposition Bob Tuttle Associates to video website.
Yeah, simple ad. So you have an insurance company that wants to sell a Hispanic speaking community. What better way to have it from their native tongue? Okay, so you can, like, even know take a frame from this.
Use it as your kind of hero image. Make sure you have that in there. So that it's.
Sorry, I got distracted. I saw Wade in Chat go. Where are the stock photography for printers that work? That's a great question.
Let's see printers that work. Let's see if Adobe stock has this. If not, we might be giving the game away.
Oh, look at this guy. Is he happy? Let's see. Yeah, he's happy.
He's happy. Wade, the market is done. This guy, look, not only that, he successfully printed it, and he is also thrilled.
But look at that. He got all the ink colors to work. There's no splotchiness.
There's no change in color. Amazing. Truly amazing.
Give this man's printer a raise, and not only does he have an inkjet printer, he also gets to work with 3D printers. So that's pretty sick. This guy's a printing fiend.
Yeah. Good job. Him.
It's amazing. Not this girl. She's not happy.
White says color matches the outfit, too. Dang, you're right. I got that 3D printer in the foreground.
They color matched. Wow. Well, God, the the puns, they just keep coming.
I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to do it. What would you call this color value right here in the chat? What would you call it? I would call it pants tone. You're welcome.
All right, I'm done. All right, somebody get me off the Internet. All right, so if you wanted to, you can use these assets.
What I'm going to do is take a screenshot of kind of what is happening in this top left corner, and then we can start to pull in some of the color do. Shaw says this is the male equivalent of the woman laughing with salad. Wait, says what? I've never laughed with salad.
Yeah, the salad women laughing salad AI meme is kind of crazy. They all look like William Defoe for some reason. In my opinion, the AI ones, at least.
Cool. We're going to go in here. We're going to change this up.
Obviously, the yellow is not going to be a good fit for your brand. We're going to just make that white and pull this in. I think this is a little bit too juvenile of a brand for how you're presenting right now, but we can just go in there quickly.
Just go into Express, double click into it. Right now. We're going to actually go to font recommendations because I want to find a font that feels better and more aligned with your technical background and the technologies and things like that.
Go, new video. I really like this. It's got a little Sci-Fi edge to it.
A little bit of, like, old arcade, but it still feels like clean and technical and a little bit tech. Yes, Shauna. Pants tone.
Pants tone. Yep. You heard it right.
It's a new thing that we're going to be launching for Adobe. It's called Pants Tone, and we match your pants to whatever tone of Photos you want. Just kidding.
That's not actually an Adobe thing. Okay. Oh, my goodness.
Wade. Yes. Pants tone.
Well, that pun wasn't slacking in humor. All right, we're going to have to button up this chat. It's getting too rowdy in here.
The mods are rebelling. All right, we're going to adjust this Watch now button as well. Another font recommendation.
I don't like any of these, so we're going to click that, explore more or Show more. Keep clicking. I don't understand where these recommendations are coming from.
Something like that could work. Feels okay. I'm going to make that button size a little bit bigger.
So if you're not familiar with the type tool if you're not familiar with the type tool inside of Express, if you go here, you can create a shape effect. Right now, the default template already has it at 48. I'm going to actually just lower it so you can see what it looks like.
It starts to kind of get closer to the letters. And then what I'm going to do is double click back into that and then open back up and then make it bigger. I just wanted it to be a little bit more like, big.
You can also mask the test text so you only see the background behind it. I'm going to remove this green. I want to start bringing in the blues and the reds that you have already.
So I'm going to click into this. Let's see. Always love trying to figure out what people are doing with their templates.
If we click. Wade just did a zipper emoji in Chat and yeah, that's right, Wade. Zip it.
Zip those pants. Puns grab this red. Let's see.
Yeah. Cool. So now I've got the red from your logo there.
I'm actually going to go in here as well. And I'm going to grab this blue. Boom, click, and there we go.
Cool. So we're starting to bring in your brand elements. Grab a filter, and then I'm going to copy paste and then I'm going to copy paste this and grab it from the color swatches going in.
And boom. So what I just did, and I did it really quick and it didn't explain. So let me explain it.
I went in here right now you have filters within your images that they were already on. In that template, you have these options where you can go in and change either grayscale, Duotone, lighten, matte, contrast colorize, and multiply. I went in with Duotone.
You can plop in two colors and it will change it. This is not an example of it. I'll show you what we can do by just importing in an image really quickly.
This is good. Fine. Cool.
Grab this image just to show you really quickly. What the Duotone does is it gives you two color stops, and it will change that color for the entire image. So it's like a gradient app.
You just go in there. You can use the presets, or if you want to, you can click and individually change each color. And I'll go from that one to the other one.
It'd be super easy. Cool. So we got that.
I think we have options. With this background, we can either do a fill, we can turn it off completely. If that's the case, we might do this as a fill on the I need the video.
Cool. Let's do shape shadow. Outline the shadows there.
Okay. Font color. We'll do that red.
Cool. New video out. Now watch.
I think that's a nice call to action there. We can also go in here again, and we can change out these shapes, and we can border them up. If we need to make that border bigger, I can make it smaller.
Have a lot of fun with that, I think. Boom. Big in your face call to action.
Simple. Watch now button. We don't need it to have that pill background anymore.
We can keep it there just for the sake that it's there and just turn it off. Cool, we got this. This can be a social asset really quickly for you if you want.
Just pull this up here. I think it needs something like that and cool. So we can work with that.
What you can also do is duplicate this page, and then you've got that as your Instagram story if that's going to resonate with your audience. But if not, you can flip this and I'll show you really quickly. I think you said that you do work on, like, Facebook or that's one of your marketing channels.
So if you go there and you want something that's like more 16 x nine. What you can just go quickly do is click the resize button, make sure you're not clicking anywhere on the artboard. Just go off to the side, click resize, and then you can change it to any other sizes that you might need.
If you need a one by one, that's great. You can do the 1080 by 1080 or if you know you need a Facebook piece. There you go.
There's a Facebook banner for you right there. It's already resized it. It's already centered it.
We just want to like we would click it and move it. Boom. Cool.
Why is that? Sometimes it's hard with all the groups going. All right, cool. That's directly centered.
Now think should be cool. We're centered. Cool.
Shahan, what up man? How you doing? All right, so now it takes 2 seconds. You've got different asset sizes already. And of course I did not duplicate the original one, but that's okay, we're good.
We're having fun. All right, so now what we're going to do is we're going to go in and we're going to start exploring how to make logos really quickly within Express sip of water, duplicate. All right, great.
All right, so if you go into templates oh, logos, sorry, logos is your brand. Logos. We go to design assets, grid, photos, text, templates, discover.
You have all these different options. Let's see here. Video logo.
So I think there's a ton of different things. If you want to you can start pulling this in. You can create add as a page.
Cool, love that. So maybe there's also this here. We'll add this as a page.
We'll just start riffing really quickly with all these different options we have. So this is let's do t. This is b.
And then let me click in A so I can do a little monogram really quickly. And then let me move these around and then you can mess with it there. Let me get this over BTA.
Maybe this B needs to come up above. I'm going to ungroup this stuff just to bring just to make it a little bit easier for me to play with. Ah, monograms are difficult.
So let's see what we can do. Okay, let me bring the T above it. Just zoom in so you can see what I'm doing.
Trying to get everything snapped. All right. Got a BT.
See, just pull that over. Maybe I need to make the okay, this is going to be probably really difficult to make inside of Adobe Express. Maybe I bit off too much on this one.
Let's see. Cool. Let me get rid of this background for right now.
Hit that blue thumbs up for Alex. Oh my goodness, there's a blue thumbs up. I'll take those.
Thank you. They got their own cap. Oh my goodness.
What is happening? Ken says this tool is pretty sweet. You're pretty sweet, Ken. Yeah, Ken's a great guy.
One. Day, he's going to have the most robust behance portfolio, and I'm very excited to share that with y'all. But until that day, you're just gonna have to imagine all of Kin's.
Really cool, right? All right. That's a mess. All right, we're just gonna pivot.
This is what we're doing. When you hit a little snafu, you just pivot it's fine. All right.
This logo is already using Ibmplex mono, which is a really lovely monospace typeface. I really like it. I use it all the time.
I struggle to not use it all the time. So let's just keep it for right now. I love monospace typefaces, especially for brands or businesses that are tuck.
So I'd like that you're already doing that. Let's go to characters. Let me just caps lock it.
Cool. That's such a nice stack already. With Bob Tuttle associates.
Monospace typefaces. All the characters are the same width or bounding box for them, so they stack really nicely. Bob Tuttle and Associates being the same characters with the space is a really lovely, happy accident with the monospace typeface.
And I kind of like it. My typical preference when I do brands and things, though, is to keep it super duper simple, keep it memorable, keep it simple. Let me just kind of keep working with this.
Let me just delete that. But I'm also just a big fan of black and white logos, so I would just probably just do this Bob Tuttle Associates and just leave it. But you are not me.
So your preference is probably very different. So we're going to give you tons of different options to play with. So I'm going to go here.
Cool. Great background. I'm going to make it black, but this is just how I do it.
But now we're going to go back to giving you actual things that you might be pretty keen on. I know that you love videography and photography as well. Actually, the eyes were for Alex's comment, but all good.
Yeah, I don't know what I said anymore either, so I saw the eyes. I had no idea what happened. I'm just going to play it off like I know everything.
It's amazing. Wade says, I would hate to ban Alex during his show. Oh, no.
Oh, you meant probably because comic Papyrus needs to make its way in the stream, and I haven't done that yet, and I think I've really been slacking in the Comic Papyrus. Let's just make this black. You want your logos to always work.
Let's see in black and white at a minimum. And then you can add colors in. Sean says too late.
Comic book fires. All right. Getting distracted.
All right, we're going to go back to shapes design assets, I think. So one of the great things is, if you like, I don't love how the monospace typeface is working with this camera. It's too round.
And the type is very geometric and sharp. So I want to find something that's a little bit more sharp. I'm going to do, like, video.
Let's see if they have a logo for us or anything. Oh, it's funny. I know you were talking about in one of the pieces of copy, you had the bigger cameras.
I know this is not even remotely as big as cameras have been or are still currently very large, but just fun to kind of throw that in there. Camera we're going to go to Shapes after this, I think. Let's see shapes.
Camera yeah. So you have different options here. Let's see if we can find a nice grid one here.
Cool. So we got let me just duplicate this, go back to this one, go in here. Boom.
POW. Delete this, and then go back into the page view. And then we're going to go here, change this out, and then just make it black and white.
And then boom. Cool. That feels clean, simple.
We'll just keep playing with this idea. The weight around this corner, though, I want it to be smaller. So if I want it to be smaller, what could you do? The clever says, be kind.
Rewind. Yeah. BAC art cam.
Sean says, yeah. So pro. All right, I'm going to download this as a PDF.
Just this page, not the whole thing. What we're going to do is we're going to pull this in to Illustrator, and then I'm going to actually reduce the width of this icon. So now I'm in Illustrator, and I know that you said that you've been teaching Adobe classes and stuff, so that's great.
So you already have Adobe Illustrator, so you can do this also yourself. And boom. Now I've got this.
Let me just make it a little bit tighter. One of the best features, I believe of Express is the fact that you can download this as a vector file that you can start working off of. So that's pretty amazing to me.
I'm just going to shrink this inside box down, question mark. I'm just going to shrink all of it in. Why are you not snapping to the correct spots? Cool.
And then that goes there. And then we'll go here and touch that corner. Cool.
All right, great. So we got that background there. If we want to, we can change out this icon.
We can make it bigger. We can also just feels maybe a little bit too big. Now just keep it like that.
Give it enough white space and padding. I'm just going to bump this all down. I'm going to group it and then pull it down just slightly.
Cool. That's interesting. And then what we can do is we can take this in.
Let me just do that real quick. Let's say you love this logo, and it's the best logo you've ever seen. And you just like, wow.
Alex, please, can we make this my official brand? I'll be like, yes, absolutely. Let's just do that. Wow.
I just shrunk the oh, it's the background color. Okay, there we go. So I reduced it down.
Shauna says, oh, that camera design looks good. I like the geometric center of it. Why, thank you, Shauna.
I made this. Just kidding. Somebody on Express did, but now we've made it our own, and that's what the beauty of working in Express is.
So we're going to save this. I'm going to save this as an Illustrator file. PDF.
Cool save. And then I can save this as Illustrator file as well. So you've got it already in the formats that you need.
And what we're going to do is we're going to actually go in here. I'm going to go to home. Let's go to brands.
Click Create a brand. And what we're going to do in here is we're going to go upload your logo. You're going to grab it, go straight into Adobe Live.
Bob Tuttle images. Oh, one folder too far. We're going to grab the PDF logo.
Just kidding. I got to export it as a PNG. I was testing you guys.
You guys all passed. Good job. We're going to export as PDNG range.
One export, butabing but a boom 300 DPI, just in case. And then we'll go back to all my folders. Bob tuttle and boom.
Pick your color. I saw that you have the red on the website. We can run with that.
Grab my little color picker real quick. Grab your boom. Cool.
Let me just copy paste that in. Oh, my goodness. Why are you giving me everything? What? What is my color picker doing? All right, we're just going to screenshot it and then bring it into Illustrator very fast.
That's not it. I guess that is it. Leon asks, Is there a desktop version of Adobe Express available? No, siri, there is not.
It's called your web browser, and that's all you need. Just go in there and do it. Just use it.
Let's see here. What fonts does it give me? Add your fonts. IBM plex mono.
All right, we're just going to use Futura to start, and then we'll go to Bob Tuttle Associates. Create my brand. Great.
And that is your logo being uploaded to the cloud, where the Internet is, where all the cats and the memes and everything is in there. Leon says the web browser is on my desktop, therefore it's a version. That is true.
That is true. Good job, Leon. If y'all don't know who Leon is.
Leon was my first victim of design fix on Adobe Live. I took the work he did and then made it more stuff. That was a very good explanation.
Leon had a side project. Why am I forgetting the name already? I forgot the name. It's about motorcycles.
It's a lot of fun. That's pretty much Leon. A lot of fun and about motorcycles and stuff.
All right. Why do I not remember the name Crash Johnson? Crash Johnson was the name, and we were having, like, making social assets and kind of expanding upon the design system he already created. Wade says, I know Leon from the old twitch days, man.
That's true. That's amazing. Leon asks, are there automation tools available in Express? Like actions, Et.
No, it's not photoshop. It's a light version of everything. All right, so we got your brand in.
Oh, fun fact. There you go. It's crash Johnson.
I could have looked directly in the brand right here. Leon's little logos he made amazing. Yeah, he makes really cool skate graphics.
He does a lot of incredible hand lettering. He's probably the most talented individual I know. Leon Ingram right there in Chat.
Go look at him. He's amazing. And I might see him tonight.
So if you guys in Chat want me to pass any messages along to him, like, oh, my God, Leon, I love you, please let me know. I'll tell him in person and make him really awkward and blush. Yeah, he just knows everything about cameras, lighting, photography, design tools, how to make half tones, how to make texture packs.
Insane, insanely talented dude. All right. You can also add in multiple different logos as well.
So what we can do really quickly is go in here and I can make some additional marks for us. I'll just quickly do a horizontal version of this logo. Boom.
And then I'm going to shrink down. Whoa. What's the best way to do this? It's all right.
So what I'm going to do here is just put it behind. Cool. There we go.
All right, so we're going to shrink that down. I want that thickness to be correct, though, so I'm just going to shrink this down. Want it to remain kind of responsive based off of the type here.
Maybe that's not a good idea. We'll find out very shortly. Let me see.
Square, square. Let's make sure it's centered. Cool.
And then I'm going to grab this. I'm going to just pull it over to the right really quickly. Just trying to speed through creating a horizontal logo for us.
I'm going to just group everything, and then I'm going to just delete this artboard. Oh, yeah, I forgot. I have to delete the transparency.
There a bunch of different ways you can do this. I'm just going to just knock out that shape and then just confirm by putting it behind. Boom.
Shauna says, Pass a hug on from me to Leon Laz. I can do that. I can absolutely do that.
Leon asked, Does Adobe Express Auto create alternate size layouts for different socials based on one design or refat format? It automatically if you click and manually select which size you want. It will do its best to do it for you. Just depends on how you built your design assets.
It's easier if you're automatically already centered your content perfectly. It snaps a lot easier if you go watch the beginning of the stream where I took the one size from the Instagram story and switched it over to 16 by nine for or not 16 by nine, but for that foot, the Facebook asset. Oh, my gosh, I put the wrong artboard.
See, typing and talking, very difficult things to do together. Just do that really quickly. Boom.
So, yes, if you just center everything, you'll be in a good spot. If you don't center it, sometimes it snaps and gets weird. If you look back at the beginning of the stream, there's a spot where I did it and it was pretty solid.
All right, we can go in here. Now that we've got that horizontal logo, we just plop it in horizontal. Boom.
Now you got these options. We'll go out of this. So you got two options to use there, and then you go back into your projects.
And then we go in here. Edit project. All right, so go in here, got this logo.
Just add another page. Juju we'll go in here. We can even just since we already got the logos in there, we'll just apply it.
Boom. Perfect. It's going to automatically apply it to the corner.
You just grab it and then recenter it and you're fine. And then we can go to another page. And then you can flip it and then do logos.
And then I'll do a horizontal logo. Leon says, I'm making you explain things while working. This is VV good? V good good.
Yes, you're v good good, sir. Cool. Boom.
POW. Logo is done. Bob Title and Associates I know this is a photo logo.
We can obviously spin up different ones with different images. Go in there if you want, with shapes. You can change video camera or you can even let's just make another page.
Could throw these in, know, play with some sharp angles. Bob Tuttle and Associates that way. Oh, yeah, this is so let's just we only have like, two minutes, so I'm just going to throw a rectangle on square.
We're going to hide this for the sake of just illustrating what you can do in here. Click fill, bada bing, bada boom. Leon asks, can you upload lottie files? I haven't done the Lottie files thing.
Wade says you should be able to, but he also hasn't done the Lottie files. But really good question. Look at you, Mr.
Fancy pants using lottie files. Just throw this in. Boom.
BOP. Boom. Cool.
You can play with this kind of all day. Lots of different things are quickly concept with Express film. Maybe there's a film thing we want to really show.
Couldn't see here. All right, we got one whole minute, so we'll do a recap. But I kind of also want to just see what we can do with this really quick.
Film strip plaque. Turn it, flip it. Boom.
See here? Text add text. Bob Tuttle Associates you can also do the grid tool. And that should why is it not gridding? There we go.
That's not what I wanted. Grid Tool. Did you do all right.
Anyways, we're at time. Lots of things to cover. I'll see you guys soon.
But anyways, so really fast recap, we did different sizes of assets. We did some recommendations around how you can use Express and maybe using Loom for your videos. We checked out your website.
We saw that you loved making tons of technical documentation, videos, photography. So we started just trying to play with some logos, different resizing and things like that, to kind of help you kind of get more clutter all out the door faster. We know how long this stuff can take.
That's why Express is here, to help you get work out the door faster, help you resize stuff, make sure that you are getting work out the door for both yourself and for your clients and for your business, so you can spend time doing the things that you love. Thank you, everyone, for hanging out. Thank you, Gareth.
Thank you, Wade. Thank you, Shauna. Thank you, Leon.
Thank you, Ken. Thank you, Wade. I think I already said with Wade.
Thank you, Sean, as well. We'll see you all soon. See you all next week.
Bye.
