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Today I am going to show you an old, simple trick that I use all the time. When I say
an old trick, well, it is old indeed, because people used it even before “Photoshop”
and even before computers. Just with some scissors and some glue photographers could
do magic with their pictures. So, what exactly I was talking about? Let’s see. Here I have
a “Youtube” thumbnail with some text on the left side and here is an original picture
I used for the thumbnail. As you can see there is not a lot space on the left side to add
any text. So where did I get all this background? Well, that’s the trick, because it’s very
simple to do without doing any fancy photo editing and you can use any photo editing
software even “Ms Paint”. So, I am just playing around with my picture here. And I
want to add the text to the left side and when I do that you can see that text is actually
right in my face and I don’t like that, so what I need to do is move myself to the
left or to the right. When I move myself to the left I see a mop in the background and
I don’t want it there, so I’m gonna move myself to the right. Here is the problem that
I don’t have any background left. So, what to do? Copy a part of the background and paste
it. After that flip it horizontally or vertically depending of the picture and join it to the
end. Repeat the procedure as many times as necessary. That way you will create a pattern
and you will expand your background. Now this is an amazing trick to be honest cos it works
great. With some pictures it will work better, with some worse, but generally it works really
great. Here I am going to show you another example with this “Windows 7” picture
from the picture folder. I’m gonna select the part of the background, I’mgonna copy
it, paste it, flip it and joint it and do the same thing again. Then I’m gonna add
the text. Very simple, very fast and very effective. You don’t need to do any fancy
photo editing. “Ms Paint” can do it. That’s it. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed
this video.