If you want to brand your YouTube Channel identity and give your channel home page a unique look then I suggest using Canva to create your channel banner.
Canva is a free online tool for editing graphics. Once you’ve created it your channel banner will adjust in size so it will display correctly on TVs, Mobile Phones and desktop computers.
- First you want to go to Canva.com and here’s the home page where you can sign up with Facebook, Google or Email.
- Click “login”
- You want to click on “More”
- And here you’ve got all different templates
- You’ve got popular design types, Social media posts, Documents, Blogging and Ebooks, Marketing Materials, Social Media and Email Headers and here is the YouTube Chanel Art Template
- Click on YouTube Chanel Art Template
- And here you’ve got a whole bunch of images that you can choose from
- You can also search for images, such as “dogs” and “mountain scenery”
- I like beaches so I search for “beaches”
- You’ve got a lot of images here that are free
but you also have ones you have have to pay for - I’m going to select this free image.
- Then you can just drag it until it fills up the space
- I can add elements to it if I wish
- I can add text
- You can have a different background
- Or you can upload your own images but for now
we are just going to go with text - Give it a title..you can highlight that, change
the color and bold it, or center it - I can also change the size and change the color
- I can move the image around
- I can expand the image if I wish
- Next you want to download the template
from YouTube by going to this website…
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2972003?hl=en - And here it says create or edit channel art
- It gives you the guidelines for the channel art
- And here it says “if you’re not sure about the width or height of an image, download the our Channel Art Templates”.
- Now go back to canva and we are going to upload our channel art template
- Go to uploads…upload your own images..so go to the
channel art template and upload the template - On canva it puts it over the top of the image we are trying to create
- Then we just expand the template to cover our image
- And then what we do is click on this drop down arrow
- Go to transparency and bring the transparency down so you can just see the template through your image
- So you can see that the title is going to actually appear on the banner
- Ok once we’ve got the image right .. we can just download it by clicking “download”
- I’m going to download it as a jpg instead of png
- It says “Hold tight, preparing your design”
- Go back to my YouTube channel
- Click “edit channel art”
- So go back to my computer again
- The PNG is 6.9MB which is over 4MB that is why it is too large
- videosdoneforyou.jpg is 3.2MB so it’s under 4MB so that should be fine
- Click open..it’s uploading
- Here is desktop, tv and mobile
- Click select
- Here you’ve got your banner titled..”videos done for you”
- It’s not perfect but it will do for now
- If you want to add a photo of yourself or change your channel icon
watch this video tutorial
Now you know how to create a YouTube Channel Banner Using Canva
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