How to create a you tube channel banner using canva

How To Create AYouTube Channel

Banner Using Canva

Herman Drost

How To Create A YouTube Channel Banner Using Canva

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.

Watch the video below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X3RUOqdG18

http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-create-a-youtube-channel-banner-using-canva/


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


http://www.canva.com/

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2972003?hl=en



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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTuGzJFgHA



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http://www.drostdesigns.com/video-optimization-checklist

You’ll learn the 10 things that you need to do before going

live with your video on YouTube.


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