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hello hello everyone my name is Alex Lazaris and I am so excited to be back
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with another Pro tip stream today so for
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all of y'all in chat I see Gareth Jack
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uh Oliver what's up every everybody
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hello hello good morning happy evening
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good afternoon wherever you're tuning in
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from today today we are going to be
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working on holiday greeting cards built
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in Express so we'll be doing a bunch of
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different collateral we're going to be
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using Genai we're going to be using
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generator F fill using type treatments a
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bunch of really cool fun Express
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templates and uh kind of AI forward
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pieces and we're going to be wrapping
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them up into some sweet little socials
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for you to kind of run with or if you
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want to you can print them off and use
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it for your family's you know holiday
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cards greeting cards holiday party
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invites You Name It We got it we're
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going to be doing a lot of fun stuff
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today so if you have any questions or if
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you want to you know collaborate in real
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time I love taking chats input feel free
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to come into chat over at be.net Adobe
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live where I'll be reading your comments
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and concerns or questions anything
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you've got we'll be jumping in right
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there so for those of you who don't know
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who I am I'm Alex Lazaris I run a design
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studio called Lazaris uh you can check
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out our work over at wearelazaris.com and if you
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do love this content and you want to see
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more you can obviously go to the Adobe
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live YouTube channel or you can go to
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our website and check out our broadcast
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tab over here in resources and then
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you'll see all the previous streams that
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I've done on Adobe Express or you know
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illustrator Photoshop any Adobe live
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stream I've done it's all there so make
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sure you go check it out anyways without
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further ado if you haven't seen Express
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you don't know what Express is Adobe
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Express is kind of I like to explain it
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as like a Swiss army knife for your
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creative needs you don't have to be a
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designer you don't have to be a creative
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to use Adobe Express it is free program
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for you but it does get better with your
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Adobe uh subscription so with that being
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said what you can do in Express is you
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can you know use templates to start off
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your projects you can make logos I've
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done lots of lots of Brands inside of
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adobe Express you can also edit videos
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cut them down you can post them social
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you can even schedule it so if you've
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never used it this is what your homepage
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looks like in in Adobe Express what
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we're going to be doing today is holiday
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greeting cards or party cards
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so that's what we're going to be doing
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inside this we can do like text to image
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if you haven't seen this tool it is
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awesome we're going to start off with
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some like winter wonderland scenes and
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see what we can get from there and then
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we're going to start to implement that
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into our greeting cards anak says hello
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is it a holiday content we don't use
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comic Papyrus that is a great question
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it is a very great question uh again
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probably don't have comic Papyrus
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working today which would be a real
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bummer but we'll see so we're going to
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go into text to image we're going to use
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that as our foundational first piece in
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Express we go text image so we're going
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to go in this little corner we going to
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say um
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winter Log
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Cabin
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cozy let's see generate and we'll see
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what it gives us and what we can do once
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we've generated this image is we can
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change the content type so you can go
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down from this drop down over here you
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click it you don't have to Art direct it
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if you don't want to you can click it to
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be photo and this will try to make it
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more photo realistic graphic and art
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both are a little bit more stylized
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graphic is going to be a little bit more
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painterly um this is actually kind of
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cool let's see what we got here we got
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it will get four options and we can kind
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of reconfigure it if we need to we can
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rerun that prompt or we can kind of art
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direct it a little bit more as
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well Oliver says what you haven't added
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comic paparis to express yet no it's
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just it keeps falling out for me so I
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have to keep like uploading the file
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every time uh this is cute this is cute
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this is cute this is cute h
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H let me see if I can see if I can get a
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little bit more white space in there
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winter log cabin on
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Horizon cozy let's see if if that'll
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make the Log Cabin a little bit smaller
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I want to have a little bit more space
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if possible that I can kind of
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put some additional like maybe some
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writing some copy in there and say
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you're invited no I think we're probably
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going to get
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all this this kind of sick though uh all
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right so we're gonna run with this all
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right so we're going to do this and then
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we're going to
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say let's just start to go in and then
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we can do some like text here let's go
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add your text and then be like
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uh winter
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camping trip I guess it's not really
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camping if you're in a log cabin but you
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know maybe
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Source Sands let's see what do I have
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let's see let's
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see I think I have comic papyrus in
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here
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comic nope no comic Papyrus but we'll do
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this cute cozy okay let's see if we can
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pull in a little bit more of
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this that little like
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moon what up Carol how you doing
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winter camping trip we'll say something
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like we can like use that real quick if
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we want
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to maybe I'll maybe I'll make it a
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little bit more fun so if you haven't
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used the text tool here you can go over
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into the left panel you can change out
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your type face you can make it you know
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change the weights if you want to you
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can also use different uh text layout
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tools I really like the dynamic tool you
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can do some really fun Stu stocking
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pieces here like this and we can like
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kind of pull it into the corner or we
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can make it a circle and try to make it
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feel like more of like a camping badge
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so we say like
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winter we'll say not camping we'll do
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clamping
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trip we'll do like that winter glamping
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small in the
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corner Boop winter
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glamping and and then I'll just do like
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another I'm just duplicate that over
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just there we go and then do 2023 oh man
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we're gonna be running out of saying
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2023
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soon since this is holiday themed does
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anybody in chat have uh you like New
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Year's resolutions you're
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doing love to know what kind of plans
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you've got for
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2024 we got witer clamping we got a
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little badge there boom done glamping
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yeah all over have you heard of glamping
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before it's glamorous camping it's like
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where you'd have this beautiful Log
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Cabin that you'd stay in and then
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consider it because it's a cabin that
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you're camping but you're really just
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clamping it's glamorized
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camping you don't know now you
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know all right let's go okay so we got
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that easy that's one one quick
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generative fill we made an illustration
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boom done text tool all right let me
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show you what else we can do within
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Express so we can do generative fill if
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you want we can go in there and like
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change stuff remove stuff that's fine we
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don't need to do that uh right now so
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anaka says convince Alex to use comic
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papus in every design true true uh
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that's a great New Year's resolution all
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right text to template so we could do um
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I tried to do this with the holiday
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cards earlier didn't really work very
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well for me but we could do like
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birthday party
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invite text the template and this will
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try to like create a template for you
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based off of your prompt this is a new
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feuture and it's only getting better uh
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but let's see what
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happens Carol says don't hold your
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breath on that one be happy if he saves
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you know the great thing about working
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and express is it's constantly saving
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for you so in the background you don't
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have to worry about you know your
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computer crashing or you know a program
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breaking on you no it's already
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happening in the back end for you and
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you're not constantly having to press
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command s or contrs all so this is like
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text the template you can kind of see
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how it works here let's grab this uh
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cake this template and you can kind of
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see how the template's going to like be
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built out based off your text to
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template
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tool boom now we're going to go in there
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we can edit it
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up so this is a great piece if you are
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trying to like quickly you know instead
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of typing and searching and scrolling
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scrolling scrolling for templates if you
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want to just like give it a prompt and
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try to work off of that that's great
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option for you as well um the only thing
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I'd probably change on this would be
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like maybe reframe this a little bit so
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it's a little bit more even so just by
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sliding that over it kind of aligns that
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Center text a little bit more and then
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we can always change you know background
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colors and pieces and stuff like that if
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we want to but we're not going to do
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that because I don't need to spend all
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the time on the birthday invite when
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we're doing holiday invites but I just
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wanted to show you really quickly text
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the template and how that works
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all right so you can do text effect as
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well this we'll make one of these and
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we'll bring it into our actual project
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so um let's do um
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Christmas tree
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lights
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generate make sure to put puns in the
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text template that's
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great all right we'll do uh happy
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holidays and
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ah we'll let it start trying to do its
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little
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rendering happy
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holidays boom we can loosen it up a bit
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too and then let's see
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here the a is a Struggle
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Bus
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all right let's use General SS and then
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do
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bold see if that a gets fixed a bit more
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for
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us so now it's going to re render on all
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that boom we can also change it if we
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want to uh I'm going
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to just retype it all on
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caps and then I'm going
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to do a
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Arch boom I think that'll be nice and
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cute and then what what we'll do is
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we're going to download
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this holidays boom cool download
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PNG and we can take this now and we'll
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implement it into our own little
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template so go back here and then we can
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go okay uh let's start you know you can
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start off with these default if you want
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to I personally I'm going to start from
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the flyer template since we are trying
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to think about this as like holiday
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cards maybe you're doing it from home uh
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we got this holiday template right here
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you can also just type in holiday
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party and then you pull up and it'll
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filter based off of that um this one's a
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really strong one as well so I'm going
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to just use this you can go in there you
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can start editing things you can change
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the fill the fill colors if you want to
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make them black white whatever you want
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if you do want to like streamline some
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of these color pieces you know you can
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go in there or if you have a brand saved
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you can also go in there and adjust
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stuff see here that doesn't do anything
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on the background colors okay cool theme
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see color
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theme well I'm going just reverse all
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that but we can just yeah we can go in
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there manually and just update
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everything if we want
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to I don't know what I'm doing anymore
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I'm just clicking random colors
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experimenting and having fun with it you
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go
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in so yeah you can go in there adjust
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all this copy if you want to you can
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also do like different templates so you
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go you know browse templates text the
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template
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nope holiday
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card
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perfect this is what I'm looking for
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here so we can do holiday card you can
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go in here and you can go in and remove
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background so if you've never used this
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before should give us a really good
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version so instead of having to go into
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Photoshop you can go in here and do a
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quick cuts on your remove background
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hopefully there's enough contrast
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between the foreground and the
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background then it'll be able to like
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streamline yeah it's pretty good get a
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little messy around her hair that's
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really where the flyways and the issues
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around like having really messy hair and
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a messy background can come in uh you
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can go in there and paint over it if you
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want to uh just to adjust stuff but
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we're going to just change that and then
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I'm going to go into media over here on
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the left panel and go into my stock
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images so one of the things that I
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mentioned earlier is that uh Adobe
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Express is free free to use but it does
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get better with your Adobe subscription
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so if you are subscribed like I am
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you'll see see this like Crown icons
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over here in the left bar these Crown
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icons uh means that it's included with
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your Adobe subscription so you do get
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these stock credits to go into it just
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go in and be like
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holiday
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family got this holiday family I can go
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in here I can also what I was really
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meaning to do was go into this
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and that's what I wanted to do just go
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up to the replace icon
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there and
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then
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adjust I'm going to just slide over I
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double clicked into that
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image just going to shrink it a tiny
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tiny
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bit cool cute little holiday card we can
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go into the background and change it up
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if we want it to be like more red or
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like a this
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uh beige color I think is actually
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really nice on it um and we can go in
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and we can also go to media and then
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upload from device and then I'm going to
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go
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to uh downloads there we
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go boom and then I'm gonna upload oh no
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didn't give me the
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transparent all right hold on we
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go just imagine that I had a transparent
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version of that in there so that's what
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we're do oh I see that there's
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this color here I'm just going to go in
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here and choose that
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red boom get those in there that feels
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really cozy and
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nice all right so one of the other
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incredible things that you can do within
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Express is obviously you've got this
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holiday card you can print it up send it
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out if you want to you can also go add
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um duplicate so I've gotten to out two
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of these if I go to my pages you'll see
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them side by side if I wanted to I could
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have that as the front side and then go
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on to page two and then make this the
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back side so I'm going to do the back
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side you know we can just remove a
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couple of these things and just be like
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you
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know I grab some Lauren
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ipsum
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so we're just going to grab just a
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little bit of War nipsom going in
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here and then I'm going to just adjust
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this down tiny bit shrink
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it and then this is where you know if
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you're doing holiday cards this year or
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you're maybe a little bit behind the
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eightball on it this is a great way to
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just kind of knock out building your
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updates sending it off to everybody and
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just do it with an exp Express you don't
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have to be a designer your cards are
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going to look a lot better than you know
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99% of people's and you'll have
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handwriting that's legible cuz you're
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using a type face that you love maybe
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it's comic
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Papyrus
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maybe all right
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uh so in this section you would write
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you know warm wishes this is us we're
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having such a great time and
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then you know our life is awesome isn't
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that what people do for holiday
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cards and then we'll use this image here
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and then boom done took two seconds I
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mean obviously it's going to take you
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more time to write what you know has
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been happening in your
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life or you can just be like haha warm
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wishes great done all right so that's
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front and back right chill that's super
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chill I don't know kids are on Instagram
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these days so what we're going to do
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we're going to duplicate this again and
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going be like boom all right cool that's
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a that flyer size we don't need that for
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an Instagram piece and so what we're
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going to do is make an Instagram Square
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size instead of mailing it who's got
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money for you
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know paying to mail with stamps stamps
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are
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expensive all right so if you're if
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you're like me and stamps are expensive
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and you want to just post it on socials
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here you go boom we've got a square crop
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happening here and we're just going to
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blow up the backside of this uh card and
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we're just make it a square boom we got
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this image here bada bing bada
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boom and then we're going to keep that
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bottom image off the bottom rails just
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so that you know any UI issues we have
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are not getting
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covered and then I'm going to make this
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also red whoa not the background
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image I me this
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color perfect and then we're going to
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move
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that all right I'm going move that here
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here
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boom
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boom all right that's warm wishes easy
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peasy that's one post all right so we're
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going to do the same thing on the other
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page let me go to the first
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page so if you want to you know extend
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your your content life cycle for be just
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you know the printed material that
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you're doing and you need to make
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multiple social posts you can do this as
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a carousel if you want uh what we're
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going to do is go to resize and then
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we're going to
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create uh the square post
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again 1080 by 1080 we're going to uncrop
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that I'm going to just slide this up and
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then I'm going to just adjust these just
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take up a little bit more horizontal
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space boom and just change out these
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colors real
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quick
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boom and
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boom all right so there we got so we got
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happy holidays from the Henderson we're
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going to
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actually scooch these over a little bit
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I want this uh combo this ornament
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to be a little bit bigger and in the
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center boom and then we have some
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additional elements that are just kind
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of like floating
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so cool I think that's feeling pretty
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good just G
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to Boom space him out a little bit more
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cool there you go you've now taken that
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fer that you designed and then you've
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streamlined it and you made it into two
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different sizes if you wanted to you can
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also do this again you know as a story a
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Tik Tok reel you know you can make it a
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YouTube thumbnail that's what you're
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doing as well maybe you're doing like a
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vlog at home and you want to cover that
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as well you can also go in and start
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scheduling this stuff out um which is
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awesome let me go into maybe we'll do
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like another post really really quickly
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templates no I don't want to do another
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template because if I do another
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template I'll have to
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restart uh let's do a story let's just
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resize another thing real
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quick uh
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duplicate and then we can just change
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this up oh the other thing you can
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do go in here and do
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it animation if we want to we can start
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animating things so let's see I'll
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do I like this and this I don't want I
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don't want the or I want the like
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ornament to stay so do animation in and
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we'll do
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pop and then let's see
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here
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boom I'll shorten that duration and
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then uh I'll do breathe actually that
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could be really nice
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intensity all
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right uh let's slow it down a tiny bit
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so right here all I'm doing is did an
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intro in we got an anim for breathe and
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then we're going to do an out as well
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maybe a
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flicker I don't think we want to animate
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out let's just keep it breathing all
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right so let's see what this animation
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would look
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like yeah it's cute I need to change up
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the the
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breath a little bit more just so it's a
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little bit more noticeable I think so
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we're going to go in here go back to the
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breath oh personality we can do
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energetic let's see what energetic
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breathe
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oh all right let's do breathe
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duration and then
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intensity cool let's try it
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again so we got some breathing animation
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going on so it kind of feels like the
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stars are twinkling which I think is
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rad yeah that's cute I think that's a
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great way like look at that it took us
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no time at all you've got an animated
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social asset for your post I'll probably
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Riff on this and post it for my own
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socials just because I think it's great
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it's works really easy and as media Rich
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so you got that video that video content
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is going to perform really well for you
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on your Instagram so that's awesome I
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think you you know within 30 minutes
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you've got 1 2 3 4 five five different
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things you can start posting online or
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physically IRL uh oops I don't need a
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bingo KN uh you can also go in like I
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showed you earlier you can go in and
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start doing the text effects you can
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start playing with like uh
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ice
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winter like snow maybe even snow could
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be a good one on there you can start
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seeing how like the text effects will
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start to play on that tight face for you
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as well uh snow
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blizard cold lots of very random words
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that are all in the same wheelhouse to
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see what we can get uh we can also
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change it from realistic to like oh
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that's actually really nice that's a
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really good one all right that prompt if
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you want it is ice winter snow blizzard
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cold uh very very frigid very very
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chilly um looks perfect on this type
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face actually it's really really good um
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so yeah type in whatever you want in
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this area you can change it up you know
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be like Alex that's me um it it'll work
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really well you download that PNG as a
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transparency and then throw it into any
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of your design assets um this is really
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killer so really really pumped on that
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again use these features go to express
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check it out text to image Genera to
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fill text to template and text effects
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are
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amazing uh yeah IM aorn says fast and
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easy it's awesome so thank you everybody
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for hanging out with me today I
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appreciate it hopefully this helps kind
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of take some of that creative burden off
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your plate for this holiday season and
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you can hit 2024 uh like the rock stars
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that you all are so thank you everybody
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I appreciate you thank you we'll see
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yall soon
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bye-bye
