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Hello, everyone. My name is Alex Lazaris and I am so excited to be hanging out with you all today. I am going to be like the previous serum said, I'm going to be working with Kubo Labs today, a Brazilian 3D printed jewelry company.
So I'm super excited. I know we always start this off with where are you tuning in from? I already know where all you all are tuning in from. We're already best friends.
I want to hear about not your weather, I want to hear about what was the last exciting thing you did in Chat. Not in Chat, but last exciting thing you did. Tell me what it is.
Maybe you ran a marathon lately, maybe you went to the go Kart track, maybe you went for a jog, maybe you're playing with your pets. I don't know. Do you? Tell me.
I want to hear what you're doing. What's keeping you happy? What's keeping you excited? I want to know everything. Tell me about it.
Let's get to know each other a little bit better. Welcome. Welcome, everyone.
For those of you all who don't know, this stream is called Design Fix and we are essentially taking your brand, your business, any side project or side hustle you have, and we are going to help you out. So if you didn't know there's a form that you can fill out, let me just take you straight into it. Bada bing, bada boom.
I'm going to go here. Oh, yeah. Personal news updates.
Before we jump into exactly what we're doing, I'm going to be giving a talk at Creative South at the end of this month. Make sure if you haven't booked your ticket, you do that, my talk specifically will be called don't Let Your Dreams become Memes. And it's going to be really fun.
It's going to help you talk about how to get your dream clients, your dream work, your dream business. I'm going to be doing that. I'm also going to be doing a portfolio workshop so you can sign up for that, it's extra.
And in that we will be critiquing walking through how to do, like, portfolio interviews, how to get know the next step, how do you get in? First thing that you're presenting your portfolio to hiring managers, how do you present it, how do you show it online? Whether you do using Behance or your own custom website, we're going to go through all of that. So it's actually going to be a lot of fun. So just want to pass that information along.
Shawna says, shocked you didn't say memes. Yeah, memes are still part of the thing, all right. This is part of the culture, all right? Memes, aka memes.
Oh, no, you're right. I butchered my own talk title by not calling it memes. Where's Voodoo Val when she hears me slip up like that? That's amazing.
Thank you, Shauna, for keeping me correct. It is. Don't let your dreams become memes.
Not memes. Okay. Wade says BFF.
Paloma was saying, I'm excited. I love design fix, and I miss these streams. Yes.
Welcome back. We are here. You get me back to back for two whole weeks, and then Kladi will be taking over while I'm at Creative South.
Super excited about it. Back to the original premise of what I was trying to talk about. This is the form.
Go fill out the form. Let me put this into Chat real quick. Shorten URL.
Boom, grab it. Boom, copy paste. Blasting it into Chat right now.
All right, so if you're in Chat, great. If you're on YouTube, great. But you can check us out live at Adobe Live.
That's where you can participate. Hang out with us. It's super, super simple.
This form is super short. All I ask is that if you do put in your current logo, please give us the Illustrator file. Taking JPEGs is really painful.
Unless you're wanting us to completely redo it. Just give us the Illustrator file, give us an editable, PDF, whatever you can give us that we can work with is super, super helpful. But make sure that you're going to the form and you're filling it out so you can be featured.
We got 24 responses right now. Let's get those forms filled out so we can get you on the screen. Shauna, it's so funny.
Memes Annika is here for the memes, too. That's true. Shauna says, don't let your drem.
Mez become memmez, which is actually really good. I really like that. I've already got my title slide figured out, and it's got a lot of Gifs and memes already in it.
So make sure you come to Creative South. Hang out with us. Yeah.
So, anyways, without further ado cuba Labs Brazil. I don't speak Portuguese. All I know how to say is abregado, so I apologize if I butcher anything.
But anyways, Cuba Labs, this is their website. I'm going to go to the English version of it. Thank you for having that option for me.
They have really cool stuff. I love 3D printed just in general. I think it's really cool.
I think it's the future. I love that the space is constantly getting adapted and changed. I love that people are exploring with 3D printed concrete homes.
So I think naturally makes a lot of sense to start doing 3D printed jewelry. And it looks like a lot of this stuff is really organic over doing a metallic or anything like that, but just really cool to see essentially, in the form. They filled it out.
They said, give me some tips and tricks for my business. So we're going to look at what they've sent over. We're going to try to give them some helpful tips, and then we're going to go and express, and we're going to start knocking out some social templates.
Yeah. So I'm super duper excited to jump into this with you all. If you have any questions along the way, please let us know.
Let me know. I'm happy to answer them, happy to be your guide through this. For those of y'all who don't know what Adobe Express is, Adobe Express is a lightweight version of pretty much all your favorite design tools.
It's really, really good for taking a brand and bringing it and putting it across any different sizes, any different medium types you might need. You can do like, background removals really quick. You don't even need Photoshop to do it.
You can jump in there, edit a photo really quickly. You can make social posts. You can make videos.
You can make gifs. You can export things. So if we're making a logo in it, which we'll do next week, we'll be making a logo within Express.
You can take that logo and you can save it as an SVG, and you can PDF, and you can bring that into Illustrator and you make fine tunements. If you're like, a professional designer, maybe you're a marketing manager, maybe you're doing social media for a company. Express is your best friend to do this.
It really is a really great tool. It's also free. Free with an asterisk.
The asterisks being, it does get better when you are using your creative cloud subscription, because you do get more assets, more templates, more stock photos, things like that. But you can absolutely use it for free. You get all the features.
It's not Paywalled or anything like that, but just the little stock photos and stock assets. That stuff, I think, is personally worth the subscription on its own. So go check it out.
But first of all, we're just going to quickly go through Kubalab's website and images just to kind of get a good sense of what they're currently doing on their social. And then we're going to make it like a strategic Pivot for us, for the rest of the stream to be working within Express. So right now, looking at some detailed shots in the product, I personally, if I was to look at this image, it's a little out of focus, but it could be my monitor.
And the lighting is kind of really one sided. That's okay. That's a stylistic choice.
What I would say is I think this would probably benefit from being like a slider or a carousel and having one full photo of the actual necklace and then getting into the detail shots. Think about it like a fashion brand, like a Nike or something like that. They typically give you the whole picture before giving you the details.
I think that's super important. So, like, right here, obviously the same necklace. This lighting is much better.
It tells the story better. And this is in a slider. So you've already done that.
So I guess that feedback kind of useless. I would probably say instead of posting the same image twice like that, like you already have, I would say maybe you rotate the image or you try to make it feel a little bit new or fresh in some sort of capacity, that'd probably be really helpful as well. Overall, it seems like light, temperature and lighting are kind of all over the place.
Not that bad typically, but sometimes I think especially when you look at like a grid, I think just getting it more consistent when it's the same, like lay flat. Photography is really helpful. If you're trying to do different lifestyles, that's totally fine.
Lighting is obviously going to change per lifestyle shot, but I think just white balance it out a little bit more. Maybe play with the levels and just try to get all the images to feel a little bit more consistently lit. Like, this image is great.
This one I like as well. A little blurry. Then we're going into it.
The 3D printing process, that's really cool. I love the behind the scenes stuff. I think that's such a great way to kind of show people how you're making your jewelry, what makes it exciting and unique and special.
Maybe even the showing some of the 3D designs that you did before they even go to the printer could be really helpful as well. So, yeah, let's look at this on model. Cool.
And then this ring. This ring is really cool. I think it's awesome.
Just a little bit of things. I think depth of field. I think it's important just making sure, like, especially when you're doing such a close up, probably keep the fingers in focus as well.
I know it's intentional to try to put this as the focus, but I think it's just a little bit off the rule of thirds and everything is kind of out of focus, including a little bit of this. So just tidy up that focus a tiny bit. I think it'll go a lot further.
This is a great photo. This is a great photo as well. Love the color palette of that accessory as well.
Cool. So looks like a lot of photos. Small little logo lockups in the corner.
Cool. I really like these natural these sets that you're kind of creating with this. I think it's a great way of conveying the natural, organic shapes within the jewelry itself.
The vases are really cool, especially with the organic flowers and leaves. That's awesome stuff I can start seeing. This is what I really wanted to see, especially for as we start to dive into Express, how are you currently using your brand? How are you using type and things like that? Here's the 3D shape that we were talking about from the CAD files.
I think that's great. Awesome stuff. I like this a lot where you're starting to pull that in.
Cool. Like it. So we're seeing a lot of type, some cursive, some heavier kind of geometric typefaces as well.
Cool. So it looks like for the most part, you're using the logo as a backdrop with an opacity change on top of it. What I would probably say and what we're going to work on today is using this frame that you have within your logo.
We're going to use that as a starting point and not using an opacity, because I think the opacity behind this isn't really doing much to find it more distracting than it is beneficial for the brand. So we're just remove that and then use the Square as a frame to frame your content, frame your images and all that stuff. So I think there's a lot we can play with, and I'm excited to start jumping into it with you all today.
Let's see what else we do on the website. Cool. Yeah.
Great images. Talk about your process and why these are really cool. I grabbed your mission already.
It's in the Illustrator file. Cool. Say stories.
No post yet. Cool. So let's dive into it.
Let's go on over to Express, and we're going to start a new project. Actually, before we do that, we're going to go into our Illustrator file that you gave us, a PDF. I've opened it as an Illustrator.
So now I have all these vectors. What we're going to do really quickly is we're going to take Artboards one through four here, and we're going to export them out as PNGs. I'm going to make a new folder, call it Logos Create, and then I'll call this Kubolab logo PNG.
Use Artboards. And then we're going to do range one through four. So I'll just do one through four, export.
Export at 300 with a transparent background, this is super important. So if you are working with a logo that you already have, just pull that out. And then we're going to start a new brand.
We're going to go to Brands in this Brands corner. So this is the quick selection bar you have on Express. Top left is how it starts, but you're looking for that third button down or fourth button down the Brands button and click Create a Brand.
This is where you're going to upload one logo to start, and then let's grab it. Google labs, images, logos. Boom.
So I've got four logos. I'm going to start with your Square logo, which is the fourth one, and I'm going to upload it directly there. Going to go to your color palette.
And so I'm assuming that the P and the S stands for primary and secondary on the top row and secondary on the bottom row. And then you've got these beautiful frames. What I'm going to do is I'm going to start with the gray as your primary color.
Actually, let me just grab this Hex code save and then choose your font. I'm going to choose BBoss. I didn't get the font supplied, but I'm going to actually not upload my own.
I'm going to see if I can choose it from this list. I know BBoss is available, so we're just going to choose future artist start, and then we'll change it out in the actual thing. Kubo lab.
Boom. Great brand. Annika says, how can they make their photography feel fresh for socials? Well, let me show you.
Let me show you. We'll get into that real quick. Like, let's see if I can find B bus, because I know earlier I had it.
I don't know why it doesn't show me everything. Let's see here. B bus.
No. All right, I'll do it in the thing. So once you got the brand sorted oh, I can upload multiple different logos.
Let me do that really quickly as well. One through three. So let me just upload one and then two, and then three.
Perfect. All right, so we got one, two, three in there. Cool.
We can add colors in. Let me just grab those colors really quick from the document. I'm accidentally opening up photoshop.
Ignore that's. Grab this. Cool.
So they're primaries. Let me grab this red real quick and then pop that in. Go in, grab this greenhouse.
And then we're going to grab this lighter green. And we'll have the primaries in there. And then we can add in our secondaries whenever we want.
Erica says, nice. Yes. Show us.
I will, I will. Give me 2 seconds. All right, so you go into brands.
Now you can see we have oh, no. Where is okay, right now? Our last express project, we did creative pounds. So it already has a star on it.
Right now. You'll see, Kubo is right here. There's no star.
You're going to want to make sure that you go up here, click the Ellipses, and then you click make default. This is really important that you do it. If you don't, then you'll be working within a different brand palette.
So you just want to make sure you have the primary brand set and already sorted for you. So just do that whenever you start it. And then now we can go in there and just click, like, let's make an Instagram post.
Cool. So we got a post. You can start with a template.
Let's just start by looking at some of these images. Honestly, I really like this one to start. So let's go up here.
Let me see if I can find store accessories. Let's go find that one without the Instagram filter on it. Oh, there it is.
That's the one I wanted. All right, let's go back. Ring.
Come here. All right, cool. So I'm going to see if I can just copy and paste it directly in.
I can. Great. So we're going to grab this image.
I actually like the white balance on this. I think it's great. I think the image is already great too, so cool.
That's a great starting point. We know that you have this square logo, right? And you like to leverage these kind of rectangle shapes. We have the ability within Express to just give you the shape rectangle or is it just square? Let's see.
Square shapes. Cool. Basic shape.
So within Express, right here, automatically you've got the fill and border color. You can change both of these. We don't want to necessarily pull the fill color because it doesn't really do much for us in this example.
And what I'm going to do is actually try to get closer to your secondary color here. Shawna says that's such an interesting ring. It absolutely is.
It's really cool. Go in here, see if this secondary color it's kind of close. I personally feel like I love when content and designs reflect the color palette within it.
I'm really big into having responsive design systems like that, especially if you're doing a material thing. So let's just run with this as the same color as the red, and you can play up the border, make it thicker. We can even just pull it down.
Cool. So we can frame it completely like that. I think that's an option.
What we're going to do here is we're going to duplicate the page. We're going to give you a bunch of different options to work with here really quickly. That's kind of one of the beautiful things about Express, in my opinion, is that you can knock out assets so fast and have them work really well for your projects.
So now you've got this option, and then you got this option. So you have a full frame fill, and then you also have an outline fill, which you've already kind of or an outline stroke, which you already are kind of doing with some of the design language on your Instagram, like this. So I just want to give you another option within that.
I love the way that the ring is kind of sitting in this space as well. So we're going to keep playing with that. We're on the second one, give you another.
So now here you can go if you want to, you can click Design, and then it'll say Apply Brand. It'll throw a logo in there and then it'll adjust. And then you can keep clicking it and it'll just swap through colors and things that are close to your brand already.
But I don't need that right now. I want no fill, and I want that original red color that we had pulled from it. Cool.
So we have that option where we can just lock up this logo in the corner. We can also have it spread more. If you did need to watermark it, I personally wouldn't watermark it.
But let's just grab this grab this color palette real quick for like this example especially. I just personally would oh, no. Cool.
Let's explore it. I'm not the biggest fan of watermarking images with logos on them, but I do understand that a lot of clients and a lot of people want to keep their proprietary images or whatever watermarked. So if you want to do that, we can do that.
It'll be just export that. I'll just call it red. And I'm going to pull that exported PNG directly into this piece.
Let me see here. Cool. So we got that.
And do another Oops duplicate page. And then I will adjust this and boom. Perfect.
I just pull this down a little bit, and we could place it in the corner, and I'll delete that layer. So now you've got a red version on red. Boom.
Easy peasy. You can play with that. We'll just keep duplicating and playing with this super quick so you can have a bunch of different images and assets to start running with if you want to.
I'm going to remove that, probably lower this thickness. I think there's opportunities to interlace and play with duplicating and repeating shapes within your brand, especially with the 3D printing aspect of it. I think if you play with some of the shape language like this, you can start to create kind of interlocking and interlacing just elements, which is what makes 3D printing so fascinating.
You can do something like that. You can even pull this to the corner and then maybe pull it over to the right and top left. Perfect.
And then you can put in there if you needed to, say, add text. We'll call this b busy. And then maybe I'll just take some copy from your post about it.
And now Rochelle pool and go pull that in and just copy paste it. Boom. And then I'm going to pull this color palette from this page, and then I can just lock this up into the corner.
From a social perspective, this would get cut off most likely in certain crops, but I do like how it's looking right now, so we're going to work with it. I guess it's a square image, so it probably wouldn't be cut off. So I think we're okay.
Actually just do BBoss and go for, like, bold, something a little bit thicker. I think that starts to complement especially some of the rigid lines in there and everything Chris says. Hey, Alex.
What up, Chris? How you doing? Welcome back. All right, so I think that's a cool image as well. Let's go back, let's start making more pieces.
If you ever wanted to, let's actually just grab stuff from the website. Super duper fast. Cool.
So I was talking about this one being so gray earlier. Let's see if we can adjust it within Express. Let's see how many pages we got so far.
Cool. Let's grab this image and then copy paste, and then this image goes by, and then we can start playing with filters enhancements. Let me see here.
Contrast, brightness, warmth. The warmth is way too high. Just playing with some of the shadows, some of the highlights.
Saturation. Let's desaturate it just a tiny bit to keep it still grayscale. I'm just trying to get the white balance a little bit wider because I'm assuming that this is shot on white.
I'm making some assumptions. Probably doing it wrong, but that's okay. Just trying to get it to feel a little bit more similar to the other images.
Original Photos this how dark it is. Oh, no. It turned it off completely.
Boo. All right, let me just fix that real quick. Brightness saturation down.
Highlights. Shadows up. Do I want the shadows? Lower the shadows a little bit.
Warmth. Just like five, six warmth and then sharpen. I don't need to sharpen it.
Sharpening is going to make it look bad. All right, cool. So that's a little bit better.
I think that's a little bit cleaner. I know that you're probably losing a little bit of the fidelity around the edges. I think part of that looks at how you light the scene, how you're shooting stuff.
Just make sure that you've got the correct kind of, like, depth that you're building. You can pull it off the background a little bit more if you needed to. To give you a little bit less fall off on the edges.
Might help you out with some of that shooting there. This one I think is really cool. Copy image.
I'm going to grab this image really quickly. I can show you really quick how to do it. We're working on a new Lazaris brand right now.
So you see people's heads it's because that's what we've been so there you go. That's my face. Enjoy.
It so funny. All right, so we're going to go in here and we can just do like an auto levels, even mode layer. Image auto.
It's not doing auto. Image auto tone, image auto color. That's bad.
Auto contrast. So just even like using a quick little auto in Photoshop if you have it helps bring that alive so much more. This is a little like you can tell the white balance is off.
This brings the white balance much closer to what people would actually see in reality. So I think it's really important to just do stuff like that. I'm going to save this really quickly.
As image export as PNG shared live site. Nope. Kubo.
Labs. Images. Boom.
Now we can pull that in. Take this in really quickly into Express. We'll do another duplication.
Sorry, I don't need to look at all our assets so far. Go ahead. Duplicate page.
I personally find it much easier to do white balancing inside of Photoshop. Did I just save the wrong image? Why is that? Let me just make sure. Okay.
There we go. That was weird. It loaded in the wrong image.
So now it's the correct image. That makes me happier. Cool.
So that's feeling pretty good. But now how are we going to show off this work? We can do a couple of things so we can use you've got some interesting images that you're using for elements like these are great. I love these pieces.
I'm just going to screenshot it really quickly and then drag it in and then see if we can play with bringing it into express. So the background got changed to one of these colors. Change it, please.
Cool. There we go. What up, Steve? How you doing today? So we got this.
So we've got these kind of different elements happening here. I'm going to actually just change this fill and turning off the border. And then I'm going to do the green around this maybe.
So if we want to do like a collage, we can do that really quickly. So we've got those pieces kind of there it is I as zoro. It is I, Steve Castle.
Castleberry. I was going to call you Castleberry. I don't understand why casaboom the zorro.
Lock that up there. I'm going to pull this above. Pull that over here.
Boom. Little collages really, really quick. This is not that necklace, though.
So I need to change the necklace name. Just go in there. Boom.
And then I can just go like this. You can start to play with these elements. I'm actually going to duplicate this square again.
Annika says cute and that's all I'm going for. I appreciate when I can get Annika's buy off on things, especially when it's comic Papyrus or my memes. Those are two really important things to me.
So the more I can get buy in on those two things, the happier I am. All right. So this is going to go there with this image.
I can group those two together, command g to group things. So now I've got a little border on both these g. Boom.
Shauna says comic papyrus. Everybody knows if you come to this chat or at least come to this chat long enough, you know that our game is how do we fit comic Papyrus into your brand? And everybody knows it always also okay. So since your logo has these, it goes up to the edge a lot, like here and there and some of your social posts.
I think it's okay to play with letting the type just sit fully fleshed up against the side. I would want to this is one of the hard parts with Adobe Express sometimes is trying to get it to not snap. When it's like that cool.
It's not snapping. It's nice there. Only thing is I didn't actually measure the outside fill box, so they're a little bit asymmetrical.
So what we can do for that is instead of doing a border, let me do a border instead. So instead of doing a fill, what I'm going to do is actually pull this above that group and then I'm going to click that layer and then I'm going to just make sure it's on 15 for the inside border. Did I do this right? No, I didn't.
Because it needs to be the exact width of the image. All right. Let me ungroup this.
Make my life easier. Ungroup click it. Boom.
It's going. Here and there. Cool.
Let's grab that top, bottom, boom, BOP, boom. Perfect. Great.
And then we're going to do the exact same thing on this. We're going to ungroup it, move the square above it, click the square, and then we're going to go right there. And then we're going to click border, close, fill, turn border onto that green, and then we're going to make sure that that border is also 15.
So that way you have a nice kind of padding, and it's even completely shauna says if your talk does not include comic papyrus, I will be very disappointed. I guess you'll see. Guess you'll see.
I guess you'll have to see. There we go. Cool.
It's doing the thing again. All right. Small incremental changes sometimes get a little tough in Express, but we're almost there.
It's wanting to snap. So right now, what it's trying to do is it's trying to align the outside with the type. Come on, load.
And if I just there we go. Ever so gently. Give it some encouragement.
Tell it it can do it. We're in there. We're in there.
Cool. So that gives you another option. Oh, that padding on the top is not where I want it to be.
Okay, cool. Saved. All right, so we got that the necklace.
We can even throw in your logo in the corner. What I'll do for that is just grab the kubalab. I'm going to grab actually, I don't want looking through these real quick.
I want the horizontal stack without the square. So I'm going to go in here, grab just the letter forms for it, boom. Group it together, and then I'm just going to quickly just export just the type, export as type, logos, artboards, and then range, artboard, 23, export that out, and then I'm going to pull that in.
I might need to export it as a color, but I think maybe it's okay. Just keep it like that. I'm going to actually all right, let me grab this and then click this.
I don't understand. All right, I'm just going to move this over in the corner. Give me the padding I need, and then I'm just going to move this over, and then we're good.
Cool. So I got those locked up in the corner. We got this over here.
We're going to just move this over. Boom. Kuba lab.
We can also play with the opacity. We can do, like, a multiply and then lower it down if we needed to, to keep it kind of close to the monochromatic green system that we currently have. But I think just keeping it as we've got it at full normal 100% in black could work really well.
I might just make it a little bit smaller so it doesn't feel like you're having to yell at people a little bit too much. Boom. That's pretty decent, I think.
All right, I'm going to keep going chat. Let me know if there's anything that you specifically want to see, whether it's Instagram posts or stories or anything like that, we can absolutely do that. What I'm going to do here is actually click duplicate page, and then I'm going to show you how to quickly resize this.
So we've already got this as a post. Maybe you want to make it a story really quickly. Express makes it so easy for you to do that.
All you have to do is click to resize, and you can scroll through. There's tons and tons of different dimensions already pre built for you. So you got story posts, portraits.
You got landscapes. You got your Facebook pinterest images, your YouTube thumbnail. So maybe you're working on a YouTube channel or you need to make thumbnails and images.
You have these already at your fingertips, so make sure you're using them. You've also got print sizes and things like that to use as well. So if you do need to do a poster or a PDF, you have that available for you.
But for right now, we're going to be focusing on the Instagram story just to make it a little bit easier. Boom. Got the type here.
Got this group, and I'm going to grab okay, I'm just going to play with, I think this. I want to have it feel really tight. Let me see here.
Okay, cool. This is group. Okay, group.
Boom. I'm going to make it bigger, and then I'm going to grab these. I'm going to group these together.
I'm going to start with kind of starting since your eye already starts to read naturally from like an F pattern. So it's like across and then down. So think about that whenever you're designing things.
I want people to remember the name of the necklace. So I'm going to keep it there. I'm giving it a little bit of padding on the top, and I'm going to balance it out.
The top reason is because I don't want any of the UI elements from Instagram to be in the way. So I'm just going to give it a little bit of padding and space. And I don't want anything at the full bottom because it's also going to get really distracting there as well.
So I'm just going to take this and play with the spacing. That way. I'm going to make this a little bit bigger.
Boom. And then I'm going to take this logo, and I'm just going to rotate it completely, let it snap. And then I'm going to put the logo locked up right there.
So really quickly, within a matter of minutes or seconds even, it probably took us, what, 30 seconds to do this, you've already got an Instagram story and an Instagram post. So you're set, you're ready to go. So that's huge.
That's really exciting. Cool, let's take that. I'm actually going to lower this down just a tiny bit just to fit that space a little bit better.
Now I'll probably just take everything now. All right, just maybe like that. Perfect.
Boom. All right, next up, duplicate. Yeah.
Cool. So we got those. We got three.
Okay, cool. Let's look back at what you got. Impressow three D and hype all right, let's do that.
So we'll take this graphic you've already made. We use this as a baseline. So I'm just going to screenshot it really quickly.
And then we're going to go into Express. I'm going to go resize. I'm going to go Instagram post.
We'll just keep it square. All right, let's throw this in just so you can kind of see. We'll start making it ourselves.
All right, background. Chuck. Chuck.
Chuck. I'm going to use the colors you have given us. So I'm gonna go with this purple.
This color goes in here. And then I'm going to grab that square again. We'll go back to Shapes Square.
Grab that, and then I'm going to click it, remove the fill, take the square, and then I'm going to center it. Cool. Looking pretty good.
I'll make it a little bit bigger just so we're a little bit more let's just leave it for right now. All right. And this is Impressal 3d Hype.
So I'm going to do add text, move this up to the top so I can see it better. Impress. Ow.
Three d e hype din. Sorry, B bus is what we were doing. All right, B bus, come here.
Click, click. Double click in there. B bus.
Let's go bold again. Cool. So the reason why I like using BBoss with this is because it feels really good with the geometric nature that you have with your logo and your type that you have already got.
So I like that you can play with that really nicely. It already makes it to feel a lot more legible, which is nice as well. That seems pretty good to me.
I might make the width a little bit bigger of the border. I think that's pretty solid, to be honest. Let's duplicate it really quickly.
I can show you some other of the great features or type tools within Express. So we can also do like, a gridded view. We can put it together in the Magic Type tool.
These are kind of also really easy. So you can just play with the bounding box and you can try to shrink it, make it what you want. We can put it all onto multiple different lines, but I personally like it how you had it already.
Do something like that. So you can see how really quickly you can make with the Magic Type tool. You can make new shapes.
They're all gridded. It'll start doing its own magic for you. That's why it's called the magic type tool.
You could do this, but personally, or you could even do this as well. This very hard to read. Very difficult.
So I don't typically use this tool. If I do use one it's typically going to be the magic tool, but I'm going to just keep 3D Hype, press how cool and lock that up. And then I'm going to make this bigger boom.
So it gives you an option right there as well. So now you have two different options. So you got different versions you can do if you needed to if you needed to talk about.
Maybe you're going to a conference, maybe you're doing a pop up shop, maybe you're selling at a cafe or something. You can start to pull those in really easily. Let's see here.
We got about seven minutes chat. So if you have any questions, please let me know. Happy to answer them for you.
All right, let's grab it. This is cool here. Let's grab see what other good things you've got going here.
This is a cool one. I really like this ring. All right, grab this ring.
I'm going to pull it in really quickly. Just into photoshop. Do a quick little auto.
We can get really into white balance and stuff, but I think just quick auto colors is typically helpful sometimes. Do a Curves pass? Maybe. All I'm doing here is I'm trying to get the details of the product in there a little bit more while also trying to give it a little bit more depth.
So just really quickly. That touch made it look from this sorry, from this is the original image. And then that's the updated version.
Lower this. Actually, I think I did a little bit too much craziness on the Curves. So just lower the opacity of the curves just a tad just to make it a little bit better.
Cool. That stands off of the background a lot more. Let's export it up.
Export as export PNG images. Black ring. Cool.
We'll pull this in. Um, what we can do here is we can actually pull this in. Let me just open up my files.
Get it. Where are you? All right, there we go. It was hiding.
Black ring. Pull in black ring. We have the option.
Let's see if this is going to be a good candidate for it. I'm going to try. Could be a good one.
We might have to do it in Photoshop. Clicking the Remove background on the Edit image tab. I'm hoping that it will give me everything I need from it.
Yeah, actually, this is really good. So the Remove Background tool allowed me to quickly pull this image from the background. There is a little bit of, like a funk on the bottom right here.
I'm just going to just ever so gently try to mask it out with my eye. So like I said earlier, you can get a little bit of a little Photoshop touch. That's my new removed background song.
You guys are all privy to it. All right, perfect. So just a little touch up there.
Cool. That's actually really nice. Okay, it's good.
Edit cut out. We'll pull out and we'll put it here. We can even keep this text in the background.
I think that could be really cool. Three D. I feel like if we're going to keep 3D as big there, we might want to wade says, OOH, that turned out nicely.
Thank you, Wade. I didn't do anything. It was all Adobe Express.
All right, let's clicky, click, snap. That grid. Snap, boom.
3d. Impressive. Owl.
Let's grab this and then we'll start playing with the grid type. No, not the grid type. No, not that type either.
Actually, I think even doing something like this could work really well for the brand if we keep the type like we had it. Boom. Just make sure that the circle type is actually centered correctly.
Snap. Where are you? Snap. Snap it.
All right, let me see. Okay, centered. So the pink line is centered horizontally.
And let me grab this again. There we go. Okay, so that's there.
Now I'm going to rotate this. Cool. That feels pretty nice.
I'm liking it. Oh, Paloma says and the removed background song. Thank you.
Thank you. And Wade says. That's what I meant.
I will try to incorporate more beeps and boops into future streams for you all. Seems like that's resonating. That's part of the beauty of doing these community streams is building beeps and boops together.
Boom. I'm going to rotate this just ever so slightly. Cool.
That feels really nice. It feels like it's on brand. Feels cool.
The geometric type is working. I like BBoss. It's working.
I also guiltedly have liked BBoss for a very long time. What up, RB? How you doing, man? All right. Let's look back at all the things we've made really quickly.
We started to work with, one, creating all your stuff. I really like your business. I love the jewelry.
I think 3D printing is the future. It's super exciting. We started to look through how you can quickly spin up different assets, different grid structures.
How do you start to play with maybe interlocking things, since that's one of the greatest things about working with 3D printing and 3D materials specifically. Then we started to work with some level adjustments inside of Express. Just making sure that you are comfortable inside of Express.
Just making sure that you are comfortable with that. We can also do it in Photoshop. We started to look at how you can leverage that kind of square box language from your logo into creating, like, design assets with it.
Maybe you're overlaying. You got a different grid, you can start to do collages with it. That's super exciting as well.
How you can turn that into different sizes, how different type techniques that you can do as well. Like using BBoss, all that great stuff. And then last but not least, removing background and locking it up in a circle type.
Super duper exciting stuff. I hope that this was helpful for you all. Please let me know I'm going to obviously send you an email with this later, but thank you all for hanging out with me.
I've thoroughly loved working with you all through this project. If you have any questions, reach out to me, let me know. Give us a look on my behalf.
Come to Creative South. Hang out with us in person. Love to see you there.
Love to hang out with you. But without further ado, enjoy the rest of your day, enjoy the rest of the streams, and we'll be talking to you all very shortly. Thank you, everyone.
Goodbye.
