all of these were made with adobe photoshop. For all of them i used a gradient background. For all of my text I used different things but the ones I most used were bevel & emboss, outer glow, and a drop shadow. To make these backgrounds, you need to make a new layer, press the gradient tool on the sidebar, then you can pick the colors you want. You can also change the shape of the gradient if you want it to be radial, linear, or freeform.All of these images that I have were originally from google but then I put them into photoshop to give them touch ups.You can edit the text by right-clicking on the T sign in the right bottom corner, where all of your backgrounds, and text are.  Then get a list of options then you are gonna click blending options. From there, you can colorize and edit the text however you like. for all of the pictures mr hicks will teach you how too go to advanced search settings so that you can try to find a picture that is 8 megapixels or larger. if you can not find anything though he will let your number go down not to much though because you need a specific size for the video. What he will sometimes let you do is find an image scaling website and use that to make it bigger that is how i used the one of my riding instructor because originally it was to small but then i scaled it. If you need to scale an image this is the program I used: ILoveIMG.com.

This is what I did in photoshop for some of my pictures that needed more life to them.😁😁