Club MacMost Exclusive: How I Create My Video Poster Images

When I'm done making each tutorial, I spend a few minutes making the poster that you see at YouTube and the MacMost site. This includes the title, a graphic like an icon, and usually me looking excited/authoritative/goofy in front of a background. I create these in Pixelmator with a variety of techniques. I use two selection tools to cut myself out of the image and then put myself in front of the background and template with a subtle shadow. My hope is that by including a face in the poster it makes it more "visible" in places like YouTube so get some new people watching my tutorials.

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