Hey there, I've got good news!
TechSmith's Camtasia 2018 now allows us to setup and maintain color palettes under
what they are calling themes.
Today, we're going to discuss what I consider to be one of the best tools for creating color
palettes and then how to use and manage those color palettes in Camtasia 2018 themes for
editing your videos!
I'm Naomi Skarzinski with the Top Shelf VA channel.
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So, let's go ahead and get into it.
To fully understand using and managing Camtasia 2018 themes, we are going to learn in a specific
order and thought process.
This will help make setting up your Camtasia theme palettes a breeze as you follow along.
So, first, we're going to discuss the mindset of branding.
Second, we'll learn how to create color palettes using my favorite tool.
Third, we are going to learn how to manage the setup of the Camtasia 2018 themes.
And fourth, we're going to see how we can use the Camtasia 2018 themes for editing our
videos.
And, last but not least, a bonus of some workflow tips when working with Camtasia 2018 themes.
Branding covers a whole gamut of theories and criteria.
For our purposes, we're focusing on branding as far as what people will consistently see.
More than likely you'll be handling one of three types of brands, or maybe all three.
There is the branding for your company or your YouTube channel.
This is specific to what will be consistent for your company or your YouTube channel across
all platforms of social media, print, and videos.
The, there will be the branding for a specific video project.
It's the brand that must be consistent for that specific video but not necessarily any
other videos you may be producing.
And then of course last, if you create videos for clients, as I do in my business, you will
have clients' branding, which is specific to their businesses.
Now, before we jump directly into setting up the Camtasia 2018 themes, it's much better
for us to work out the color branding and have a color palette developed for our purposes
first.
So, let's move on to the fun part, or what I think is the fun part, and create our color
palettes.
My absolute favorite tool for creating color palettes for video or anything to do with
design is Adobe Color CC.
You can find this at Color.Adobe.com.
I'll have the link for you in the description below.
You could create your initial color palette in Camtasia 2018; however, I find this tool
will give you a better, full-scale, automated, at-a-glance idea of what your palette colors
will look like side by side.
With this tool you can use the color wheel exclusively.
You can work from an image.
Or, my favorite, use an image and the color wheel in conjunction with each other.
So, let's first look at the layout of the color wheel side of things, so you understand
it better.
The color wheel itself you can minimize or expand with a click.
There are five color boxes under the wheel, representing the five colors selected in the
wheel.
The base color the wheel works from has a white triangle.
There are four adjustment bars.
The first three are your RGB adjustments.
And, the fourth is your shade adjustment, where you are adding black to the color to
make the shade.
Underneath the bars are the RGB and the HEX code of the color in the box above it.
The wheel itself, the outside of the wheel is the full saturated hue of the color.
As you go into the center of the wheel, you are adding white, which is called the tint
of the color.
These color arms, for a lack of a better term, can be easily moved.
To the left of the wheel is a drop down to select the Color Harmony.
Now, we won't go into the full color theory but here's a short synopsis of what each
means.
Analogous are colors that are usually close to each other.
Monochromatic colors are different tints and shades of a specific color or hue.
Triads are three main colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
Complementary colors sit opposite of each other on the color wheel.
Compound, or what is also known as split-complementary, is using colors opposite each other, on the
side of a specific hue or color.
Shades is simply the amount of black that was added to the original hue or color.
As you work with setting up your color palette, always keep in mind how you might be using
these colors.
For instance, what is the color of the text font you want?
What is going to be your main color?
What are your background colors?
Colors for accents?
The five colors you're seeing in the boxes, how pleasing are they to the eye?
Now that we understand the color wheel tool, let's get at my favorite way of creating
color palettes.
Using an image and the color wheel, together.
Click on import image and import an image from your hard drive.
You can go through the Change Color Mood drop down and select a different mood.
If you want, you can click on one of the color boxes to select it and move the corresponding
circle to a color a little more to your liking.
Now before we move back to the color wheel, let's select a different picture.
You can change the picture by clicking on the current picture and selecting another
one from your hard drive.
One of the easiest things to do for consistency, for your business or your channel, is to use
the masthead from your YouTube channel or your website.
I'll use my Top Shelf VA channel masthead as an example here.
I'll move those circles to colors I want to start with by clicking on the squares and
their corresponding circles and then move those circles around to what I like.
Okay, now that I am close to what I want from the picture, I'll move back to the color
wheel.
And, as you can see, my color palette from the picture carried over here.
I'll start with this red as I want more of an orange for my palette.
I'll use the arms, the RGB, and the shades to get what I want.
I also want this blue to be a darker blue.
So, for each of the colors, I will simply adjust the RGB slides, and the shade as needed,
possibly the arms, though that's usually the last when I add some white to a color.
And, now I have my main color palette.
You can save it in your Adobe account if you have one, or simply take a snapshot of it
with SnagIt or another screenshot software and save it to your hard drive.
You'll see why saving your color palettes to your hard drive is a good idea when we
get into Camtasia 2018.
I also suggest making two more palettes, one of lighter tints of your palette by adding
the white to the hue and dragging the arm straight down from each color.
And, then one of darker shades by adding black on the bottom adjustment bar for each color.
Make sure to take a snap shot of the lighter color palette and the darker palette and save
those to your hard drive.
Okay, now we're on to the simpler task of setting up these color palettes as Camtasia
2018 themes.
The first thing I'm going to do is load each of my saved color palettes into the media
bin and put them at the bottom of the canvas.
I'll be using these as a guide for easy setup of the themes.
Click on File, then Manage Themes.
Let me move this to the side, so I have room to show you some training notes.
Here's one reason why I like creating the color palettes in Adobe Color CC, the colors
are right next to each other.
Visually, this gives a better understanding how the colors will affect the eye.
In the Camtasia 2018 Theme Manager, with the dark grey background and the white border
around each color, it is harder to know immediately how the colors would work together side by
side.
As we see here, when opening the Theme Manger for the first time, the theme is called default,
and these are Camtasia's or TechSmith's Camtasia colors.
We also have labels for each of these, which at first can seem confusing.
Why didn't they simply call it color one through five?
Well, once I figured it out, I realized there actually is a specific thought process behind
this.
Here's how to think of it.
Think of foreground as the text color you most often use.
Yes, you can use the other colors for other text, but this foreground is the color that
will be used immediately, or automatically, when selecting this theme, unless you decide
to manually change the font color later.
You'll see in a minute.
The two background colors are exactly what they are.
Background 1 is what I think of as the background color I most often use.
As with the Foreground color, I'm thinking of Background 1 as the color that will be
used immediately, or automatically, when selecting this theme for all solid filled annotation
backgrounds.
Accent 1 and Accent 2 are probably best thought of as the colors you believe you would use
most often for the drawing annotations, possibly borders, or lines and arrows.
Let's create our first theme.
Click on the drop-down box.
Click on Rename Theme and give it a new name.
I'll call this TSVA Palette as this will be my main theme.
I usually use white for my text, so I will change this from the drop-down and color picker
to a pure white.
For my background, I normally use this base blue on most of my callouts annotations.
I'll use the eye dropper and select the color from my saved Adobe Color CC palette
down here.
The other color I use quite often for my background is the purple.
So drop-down, eye dropper, and select the purple.
I use the green and orange most often for my drawing annotations.
I'll click on the plus sign to add the orange.
The Annotation Background is what I was referring to as what I want to automatically use whenever
I select this Camtasia 2018 theme.
So, I'll change that to the blue.
You'll see the only colors we can select are the Background and Accent colors, which
is why in my mind, I keep my mindset as Background 1 is my main background color.
It's simpler, easier for me to think of it that way.
I could click on Okay to save this theme; however, I want to set up the other two themes
now for the light tint and the darker shades of the colors.
I can handle that right now.
I'll click on the Theme Drop Down and select Create New Theme.
With this I'm going to use all five colors of the light palette that I created, not worrying
as much about the font color.
Now, I'll do the dark theme.
I'll click on the Okay button to save all three of my palettes.
I can now remove the palettes from the canvas and the Media bin as I don't need them anymore.
Whoops, I did forget to set the fonts for the themes.
Yep, with the themes, once the font is set, no more having to scroll through a ton of
fonts each time.
Let's go back in, File, Manage Themes, and set the fonts by clicking on the font tab.
Once again, Font 1 will be the font that is automatically, or immediately, used when the
theme is selected.
If you select a second font to use for your videos, it should be significantly different
from the first font.
You don't want to use two fonts side-by-side that are so similar, they are hard to distinguish
from each other.
A significant difference can add interest to the design of your videos.
Let me go ahead and change the font on the other two themes.
Then click okay.
From this point, using the theme is relatively straight forward.
Put an annotation on the canvas and in your Properties Panel, at the very top, select
your theme to make automatic changes.
Now, what if you wanted to use a different background color?
Simply go down to the drop-down for the shape fill and select the theme and a different
color for the background.
The theme selection at the top of the annotations panel is automatic and that's set in you
theme.
And the individual drop downs are your manual settings, so if you want to change the color
from what is set in the theme, you can change it to any individual color of your choosing.
If you want to change the font to your second theme font, simply select a theme and the
two fonts will appear for you to select from.
Of course, you can also always manually use a different color or adjust a color using
the color bar or moving the color picker here.
If you find you like a color a little better, and you prefer that in your them, just copy
the hex code by highlighting it and pressing Control plus C.
Click on the drop-down for the color and the Theme selection.
Click on Manage themes, select the theme, the color drop-down you want to change, and
paste in the new Hex code with Control plus V.
What is great about using themes is you could have several call outs on a track, and you
could change the colors all at once by highlighting them all then selecting the theme or manually
selecting a color.
As I mentioned earlier, a few annotations that do not have the automatic color selection
are the lines, arrows, and drawing annotations.
Those are usually your Accent colors that you had set.
Those you will select directly from the drop-down theme menus.
Here are a couple bonus workflow tips.
If you have annotations you constantly use outside of your normal theme setup, for instance,
a text box with a specific color and with a border, set one up, then save it in your
library.
This way you do not have to bother with constantly selecting an annotation, the color of the
box, the color of the font, and the border color and size.
Simply open the Library, select and drag the saved annotation onto the canvas, and change
the text.
The second workflow tip is, unfortunately, Themes cannot be shared amongst workstations.
If you collaborate with others on a team, with multiple workstations, simply open a
Camtasia 2018 theme template and take a snapshot with Snagit of the color tab and the font
tab.
Save those images to your Camtasia library because libraries can be shared.
Than all your team members need to do is open the theme images and create themes within
their Camtasia 2018 using the color eye dropper to select the colors from the image.
Now you can see, you can now create a multitude of color palettes for your own YouTube channel,
or your clients' videos, or for a specific one-time only video project.
If you liked this video on Camtasia 2018 themes, you may like to watch one of my other training
videos.
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I am constantly taking requests and learning from your feedback on what you would like
to learn.
So, until we meet again, have a wonderful day!
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