Create Stream Overlays without Photoshop or Software

all right today I'm gonna teach you how to create an overlay like this without the use of any software like Photoshop or having to download any programs the fiver just launched its which store where you can purchase graphic designs from creators whether you need professional overlays logos or panels you can browse through the catalog to get what you need for your streams yeah once a day by clicking the link in the description all right today we're gonna learn about creating overlays if you don't have any professional software like Photoshop or illustrator that's fine I'm gonna show you how you can get the same exact results using these tools and tips if you've never done any digital graphic designing worry none I'll try to go as slow as possible and be as detailed as I can just try to follow along and do the steps that I do and if you're stuck on something just go back and watch that part again first what you want to do is head over to this website photo P com photo P is an advanced image editor that you can use on your browser at first glance you will notice that it looks almost like Photoshop so if you already have experience with that you can use the same tools and tricks on its platform not only that but the amazing part about it is that you can load and explore Photoshop files any time you please so you're gonna see this X a lot that's because I'm in full-screen mode so if I press f11 I'm gonna make into fullscreen okay so start by going to file and then click new you could also use the shortcut command all control and now you're gonna have a lot of templates what we're gonna do first is create the name of the project so we're just gonna call it overlay whatever you want to call it doesn't matter I just make sure that the width is 1920 and your height is 1080 we're gonna be making our overlay and 1080p basically for our streams so click create now if you're like me you're gonna be staring at this portion for a while and that's because I like to get creative and think about what I want to do and honestly you could create whatever you want what I'd like to do is create a template in my mind and just have an idea what I want my overlaying streams to look like so think about what game you're playing and see how an overlay for the stream will look for that I mean just use reference from other streamers if you want to alright so use a theme that you prefer you could base it on any color you want so what you want to start off by doing first is opening and placing what you can do is throw down a background it could be anything if you're gonna follow along and do exactly what I do I'll post all the images files anything like that so I'm gonna use this wallpaper I created right here okay this wallpaper is 1920 by 1080 alright first thing I want to do is create a rectangle for my game and by doing that all I'll have to do is just go down to this tool right here and then you're gonna see this tool called rectangle you just click that and then on the right side let me just change my music first and on the right side on the top you're gonna see where it says free change that to fixed ratio because we want it sixteen by nine so let's go over the whiff of 1920 and then the height of 1080 so no matter how you move it it's always gonna be in that fixed dimension pretty cool if you don't have it set to a fixed ratio the the square the rectangle whatever you're using is gonna be it's gonna it's gonna look like that basically and yeah unless unless you play a game that's like that then be my guess let's listen to leet these all right I want you happy a rectangle what I like to do is I like to drag it to the top left corner and automatically you're gonna have a snap into place so you know it fits perfectly watch if I go if I slowly inch my cursor there you can see it snap into place what I'd like to do next is go to the move tool you can also press V on your keyboard if you like and now you have a free transform and what you can do next is hold shift on your keyboard and then all you got to do is is drag the corners and you can freely make this as big as you want so just have an idea of how big you want your game to be leave some space open for other things and then we'll just work from there if you ever need to make any changes later you can do that so generally I like to make it like this big since you're already in transform mode hold shift on your keyboard and you can move it with your arrow keys like this okay if you're not holding shift it moves it by one pixel I believe so holding shift moves it by like five pixels pretty cool so this is an idea of how to keep everything in the centered so as you snapped it to the corner before what I like to do is move down by two while holding shift so one two and then to the right twice while holding shift one two so this is gonna be your game your game border you're gonna notice that the background is red or whatever color your rectangle tool is you can change that what I'd like to do is go back to the rectangle see the fill option let's make that transparent by clicking the fill layer and then going to fill type and click none I like to add a border around it so just go to the stroke area and it's automatically defaulted to fill type none so just pick any color just pick red for example you can change that later it doesn't matter if you like to get fancy I mean you can add like some corners around it so for example like this and then let me move this around so you can see so if you can see let me zoom in you can see that the corners are like edged off if you like that be my guest dude you can you can make it look like that but I don't know it's just me I don't I don't like doing that so let me go back to it and just change it to miter meter honestly I don't even know any of these terminologies for before like digital like for Photoshop terms dude I just I just learned myself honestly it's all funny all right um okay so now we have our game box okay we have our game box and what we want to do next is make our webcam if you don't use a webcam OOP sorry you could make a box for anything I liked having boxes for chats boxes for donations but specifically for this we're gonna use a box for webcam just assuming that you use one so in my layers panel right here all what you can do is hold ctrl on your keyboard and press J and you can make a copy of that exact layer another way you can do it is just by right-clicking it and then duplicating layer same thing ctrl J is uh is a faster shortcut I just been used to do that so now that we have our second coffee what I'm gonna do is go back to my move tool I could present via my keyboard or I could just press it in a table left right here and I'm gonna move this and let it snap to the right side like that like how like what we did before basically and now same thing we did before I'm gonna hold shift and go to the left twice and then hold shift and go up twice perfect so you can see in this area I want to keep it like I give it like a that general consensus of like how much space is on two edges compared to where everything else is so where is it this one right here right go back to our move tool by holding B and then we're gonna we're gonna have the transform controls checked again and then I'm gonna hold shift and then on a top left corner this time I'm gonna move this around just so I can freely change this while keeping the fixed ratio and you don't want your webcam too big I mean if you care about people seeing you just just make it webcam like this big all you need is that what I'm just kidding all right so just have your webcam like this big I mean that's that's pretty normal for webcam size right you don't have to put your webcam there you could put it up Kim put your webcam here you can put your webcam here wherever you want it wherever you want whatever you're feeling it's up to you but I'm just gonna have it right here I want to add an image you know give this give this background some more def some character and make it look alive to do that I'm just gonna add like some pictures of whatever you prefer you know you're into anime dude let me let me show you a picture here you like animated hair here's a little anime girl we'll put her right here on the right side since we have like this full empty area if you don't want to use it chat just throw like an image over it anything you want anything you're feeling you know be as creative as possible so just for example I'm just gonna use this girl I believe that's REM from re0 just put it right there for now and what I like to do next is um change the color of the borders so to do that let me actually so to do that all you got to do is just right click and then go to blending options I believe you can also double click no nevermind wait oh you can okay so if you double click the name you could rename it to whatever you want you know if you're if you're not lazy like I am you can rename this to webcam or for this shape you can rename this to game box anything you want me I usually don't name my layers and then I always forget like where's like which is which and yeah you don't want to do that so I would recommend naming everything so let's go off the game box right let's right click that and go to blending options you can add a gradient if you want to that's too fancy for me so we're just going to keep it like normal let's add a color overlay right here for layer styles and let's change that color to white I feel like white would be nice um click OK so we're gonna do the same thing for the webcam add a color overlay and make it white so let's look at it now so you're gonna see that the game box and the webcam kind of blends in with the background right we can't really distinguish the game box and webcam from the background how are we gonna see the games what we're gonna do is add a shadow effect by going back into a blending option so let's go back to game box real quick let's add a drop shadow right um what I like to do is make the shadow go from the bottom right so you could change the angle to anywhere you please making it go to the bottom right is an angle of 125 let me do that so you're gonna see it's gonna point that way so the Sun is like coming this way right and then the shadow is gonna be reflecting over here I usually keep the opacity I like 50% if you go if you're in blend mode it might automatically be set to multiply so just make sure this is set to normal the distance I like to keep it is that five spread you could keep it ten if you want and then size is that 5 click OK and then let's take a look at it again you can see that it now gives it more depth of field it looks 3d and it just stands out a lot more you can see like a different layers coming together from the game box compared to the backdrop you know the wallpaper in the background I'm gonna do the same thing with the webcam if you're feeling lazy like me right click layer styles you could right-click your game box layer styles and copy go to your webcam box right click layer style pace so you can copy the blending option from one layer and paste it to another layer you can do it I if you're lazy but it's gonna copy every single one of those blending options that you have so we only had two which is color overlay and drop shadow so I was gonna just transfer that over to the other one and overwrite your previous ones if you're using the same type of like layer styles for the same type of rectangles that's the only time I would recommend doing that you see how this web camera here you can see the box in the background from this all we have to do to fix that is this what I'm gonna do is go to my webcam area right press W on my keyboard or you could go to this section right here it's a 4/5 it's a fourth tool just click that and then switch to your magic one and just click right here you're gonna have like a selection zoom in by holding ctrl and ctrl and plus another thing you can do is hold alt and then use it your scroll wheel pretty cool alright go here and I'm just gonna zoom in like that oops oh we already done goofed and my songs over I'm gonna listen to like the same song this whole time I've been working on this tutorial now that we have this area selected right what we're gonna do is delete the game border the access part of the game border that we don't need so to do that take off the blending options by going to effects if you don't see that just click this arrow right here if you take off the effects it's gonna remove all the blending options that we use previously I'm just gonna take it off temporarily because I'm gonna put it on once I delete that excess amount so let's remove the effects real quick while our layer is still selected I mean if you lose it just go back to your magic wand tool make sure you're in your webcam you have your webcam selected and click in if you're not in the webcam layer and you try to select it say for example I'm in my game box and I try to select it you're gonna see that it's only gonna select whatever is available in that layer which is the game box so you're gonna see it's just trying to select everything on the outside of that game box if I click inside the game box it's gonna select inside a game box so just make sure you have your your highlighted on your webcam layer and you select the inside of it alright so going back you can hold the spacebar on your on your keyboard and then you get this mouse at this hand tool which you can like move around if you're zoomed in so holding so I like to hold my spacebar and just like move my mouse if I need to get like a better view or something okay so we selected our webcam box and then I'm gonna go back to my game box right the layer right here because I want to delete the inside of that what I'm gonna do is right click and rasterize the layer right here now I can delete it if I didn't rasterize it and I try to delete it it's gonna say a layer is not editable so we're gonna rasterize and then delete so now you can see this area is empty if there's anything that you see like right there it kind of bothered me too we're just gonna delete that as well we're gonna use our selection tool which is right under our move tool so the second one you could also press M on your keyboard and then you could just like make any shape you want I don't like the that ellipse one change it to rectangle select it's easier to like move around like that so we're gonna select the excess amount like right there and then we're gonna we're gonna see some other stuff you know if you get bothered like blah delete that see something right here Wow delete that to get out of here okay now remember when we copied the blending options previously even if you didn't you could just steal it from your webcam and just add it to the game box no big deal so now I just go wah-pah or if you never removed it in the first place it doesn't matter because you could just add it back on simple dudes simple simple stuff you know what I mean dating so go to your wallpaper right if your wallpapers not already rasterized that means that you can't edit it at all if I try to erase like use an eraser to like you know delete some sections it's gonna detect that it's a smart object and it must be rasterized first so same process you did before right-click and rasterize the layer and now if I try to erase stuff you can see I can go to town use my selection tool press it by pressing M make sure I have the rectangle selected and I just want our freely trace where my game boarder is by going like right here and just making just retracing that game border and just deleting you could also just zoom in if you're if you having trouble just zoom in all the way as long as you're in your selection tool put your rectangle you can keep expanding it you're not gonna lose where you last initially put your your cursor so just draw that box and just make sure is within the border like this as long as it's not like you see how it's not like past this you want to make sure as long as it's like on top of it or touching it or inside of it and so this much is like fine just gotta make sure I'm in my wallpaper layer just press delete on my keyboard if you're gonna see that is all white that's just because under the bottom of our wallpaper layer is a white background we just unlocked that just by clicking this and then clicking that position tool and just delete that layer by pressing delete or delete layer like that the checkered box that you see right here just means that that that portion is transparent so we're gonna do the same thing with our webcam we're gonna delete this section right here and just select the inside of your webcam well if your magic one you can do that or you can select it and make a box yourself it's all the same just do it until you have an empty transparent area if it's still selected like this for example you can hold ctrl D to deselect or just go to select and then deselect so for example if I'm still selected inside that layer right here if I'm still selected in the layer just go to select deselect or control D on your keyboard I usually do ctrl D it's a lot faster you're gonna have like whatever you want to this next right you can add your name right here you know a name tag your gamertag whatever it is to add a little bit more fancy stuff to this I'm gonna put my gamertag right here so you can press T or you can just go to the text tool right here type tool just press it a is a little simpler and click where you want to start your text it doesn't matter where you click as long as this will find a box so give it some time to load and then on a top left section right and I don't worry about that yet just type your gamertag so for example my username is Project days I probably spelled that wrong honestly just make sure your your layer for your text is all the way on the top left to the top and then zoom in to where it was finally your gamertag is and then while pressing T again it's gonna open up this section on the bottom left if you're inside another tool you won't see it so it's gonna be like hey why can't I edit the the text you know so just make sure you have the type tool or just press T and now every time you click it you can change it to anything you want what I'm gonna do is make this a little bit bigger so I want to highlight all this you can just highlight it by doing that and then just change the size to whatever you feel like it until it fits you know let me zoom out by holding alt and using my scroll wheel and then I just like to see what will fit so I'm going yeah that's pretty cool it's cool forty forty looks like the perfect number and I'm just gonna press confirm if you press ctrl on your keyboard and move around you're gonna have like this arrow tool and you can just move things around if I try to click around and we'll follow holding ctrl it's gonna do that it's gonna use my text tool or whatever tool I was using previously so I just make sure you're holding ctrl make sure in the text layer and just whatever you move with control will move that layer so let me just move this to like I don't know right here is good and now let's zoom out all in scroll wheel let's go back click it without our text tool highlight that and let's play around with some fonts photo P gives you access to millions and millions of fonts and want to say million I'm talking about like hundreds so find a fun alright you have the previous section right here choose or whatever looks nice to you let me load a flan here I'm gonna be I'm gonna give you guys a nice font everybody always asked me hey what kind of fly you use let me download it real quick I don't have I don't even have the fun downloaded all right I'm gonna load a font real quick if you want to load a font just click this button right here and then find where you saved it and the phone I just loaded it's called distant stroke medium if you want to use that font as well I'll leave a link to where you can download it below in the description so find distance stroke look at it look at it click it whoa look at look at the file right now let's uh let me change that so it's like lower case now distance stroke I gotta make that even bigger so let's let's change the size to 100 oops change that to 100 press a checkmark hold ctrl and just move it to where I think it fit best right there alright let's let's play around you know we like playing with blending options let's right-click our text layer blending options right let's choose a color let me introduce you guys color overlay click color overlay have it checked right now click the box to have it highlighted and now you're gonna have access to two color overlay properties make sure a blend mode is set to normal opacity set to 100 and by default I believe it should be white let's change that color to anything we want if you click the color right here you're gonna have a color picker tool you can choose any color you want you know if I want the color to be like her dress just click the dress if I want it to be her hair I click the hair or feeling fancy just play around choose whatever a couple looks nice to you I'm gonna match your address and now you're probably like bro I can't see your name it's all good just add a drop shadow so if you click the drop shadow blending options if you have a checked it's gonna use what you use previously instead I'm gonna change the opacity up to 75% just so I can notice it a lot easier like this click OK and let's zoom out how does that look now you can read a name a little bit better I don't like having it like out there you know it's not too noticeable it's like subtle that's what I like about it you know all right honestly this could be done right here if this is all you need you could just export it right now by going to file export as PNG or you can save it as a Photoshop file um I like to think of what I want my stream to consists of so I'm gonna have things like you know what's that thing called recent events right if you want a recent events I'm just gonna leave this area blank just soak up what recent events if I want people don't know what like what kind of music I'm listening to I can make a box for that if I want donations like you know if you want to give recognitions to your donators you can make a box for that it's personal preference you could do whatever you want I just like to keep that blank just so I can you know freely change it however I want anytime and I'll just add like a box by itself separately and set up onto overlay so I'm gonna end it off right here with this all the way so let's save this real quick right what we can do is go to file on the top left you can save it as a Photoshop file and then export it as a PNG export as a PNG just so you could save transparency and I don't want you to save it all you gotta do is just click Save just make sure it retains a hundred percent of its quality make sure the width and the height is according to what we originally said it as and then just click Save if you need a look at the preview you can see it right here Wow this is what I made so cool good job dude save it and now you should have this thing right here which is your overlay you're probably wondering why is this white dude that's because that's transparent and normally if you open up like photos and the photo software on your Windows 10 or whatever you're using it will be generally black or white depending on what you have your setting is so let's load it into OBS real quick so I'll see you guys when we have OBS ready I'm gonna throw that overlay image in my OBS you can see like that the background is black that's because you know generally if you don't have anything OBS it's just completely pitch black you can see we have the section for a game border as well as a webcam it will have my webcam on probably not there let me let me add my webcam on I was wondering I was like yo why is my webcam not popping up for all cuz I'm using OBS to record my OBS so I can't have to I can't have two sources open at the same time alright let's go back to recording right here hey look at that holy crap ignore my keyboard I know it's dirty and let me just put that in the yeah and I'm just thrown under the overlay let's uh yeah let me throw up there see now it looks a lot cooler wowzers we'll just throw that screenshot in there and just okay so we got our game we got a webcam and we got you know the little cute girl right there you know and then we got our name ty right there which you honestly can't see but you know it's all good it's all good maybe I should have made that like blue or make it like a shade of her maid outfit who knows doesn't it doesn't matter change it go back and change it if you feel like it for me it's all good let me just add in my events you know like where you sit events you know that's basically it if you if you have like donators or something you know you can make a box like right here you can put a box right here you have so much open spaces to do whatever you want but yeah I hope this helped honestly I know I'm really bad at explaining things oh my god if I were to watch my video myself dude I'll probably be as confused as you guys but hopefully you'll learn something new hopefully if you made it to the end of the video you were able to recreate something similar to this and honestly I'm just glad that this tutorial is finally over all the links for whatever I use like the wallpaper the image things like that dimensions properties it's all gonna be in the description of the video if you're still confused and you're like this this was just a waste of time why don't I just buy an overlay for five dollars and just save them save my time and effort you know what just just pay someone to do it dude but yeah that's gonna be you guys gonna end it off right here thanks so much for watching if you guys want more videos like this in the future just let me know we could do something I could teach you guys how to do like even better stuff you know this is this is as basic as it gets oh this is a full overlay we I could probably teach you guys how to do like specifically lays for like you know if you play for tonight overwatch things like that League of Legends let me know

Channel: Project Ace

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Keywords: twitch overlay, stream overlay, how to make a twitch overlay, create stream overlay free, how to create your own stream overlay, photoshop, projectace, project ace, project ace overlay, project ace tutorial, 2019 tutorial

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Length: 27min 47sec (1667 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 03 2019