So in today's video, I'm gonna show you how you can go ahead and make
a Twitch profile picture utilizing a free tool called Adobe Express.
That way you start to stand out, you will start to recognize you, and you start
to brand yourself as an actual streamer.
So let's go ahead and dive right in.
So the first thing you're gonna want do is you're gonna wanna go
to the description of the video.
The very first link is gonna be the link for Adobe Express for you to
be able to go ahead and get signed up and create your free account so
you can go ahead and follow along.
Once you've done that, you're gonna be brought to a dashboard just like this.
The very first thing you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want
go ahead and go to the left hand side and select customized size.
This is very important for the width.
You're gonna wanna put 2 56 for the height you're gonna wanna put 2 56 as well.
And then you simply go ahead and hit next.
Now, one of the beautiful things about Adobe Express is that it's not
just for a profile picture maker.
You also can utilize this to do social media graphics, to
make logos, to make banners.
So much more you can do with this.
And I'll show you that here in just a few moments.
So once you have this canvas set up, The first thing you want to do is you want to
go ahead and find a picture of yourself.
Super important for your Twitch profile picture.
You wanna have a picture that's just your face, smiling, happy, excited.
Remember, this is gonna be the profile picture you're gonna use
on your Twitch, on your Instagram, on your tick, on your YouTube.
Everywhere you are, so that way there's consistency and people can
recognize you when they see it.
So we wanna make sure this looks really, really good.
So you wanna select upload photo.
I'm gonna go ahead and find a photo of yourself.
I'm just gonna simply go ahead and find one here of myself.
Here's one here.
I'm gonna select open, and you're gonna see that I'm gonna go ahead and add it,
and now you're gonna see that it's there.
Now one of the things is, is that if you wanna make your profile picture
look good, you wanna make sure you have a nice background behind you.
But the beautiful thing about Adobe Express is that we're gonna
be able to remove the background with a click of a button.
So click on your picture and you're gonna see on the right
hand side, there's a button to go ahead and remove your background.
Simply click.
And it's gonna go ahead and do his magic and it's gonna go ahead and automatically
remove the background from my picture.
You can see here that it went ahead and removed it.
You simply want to go ahead and lemme just undo that.
You simply wanna go ahead and hit oto and then once you hit oto, you then want to
go ahead and hit the check mark and that's gonna go ahead and make sure that your
picture, now the background hasn't been removed, so you see that it's removed.
So what we want to do now is that we don't want to leave it like this.
Remember, we want this to be more of a face shot.
So we want to increase this size as much as possible until we get more of
just our face inside the actual box.
So again, just keep resizing this and then once you have it at a perfect, at a
kind of a similar, even there, we could still go a little bit bigger because
the biggest focus that we want is our.
So once we have it about there, that's about perfect size for just my face.
You can see my eyes, you can see my teeth.
I'm smiling.
I'm happy.
And now what we want to do is you wanna go ahead and adjust this just a little
bit to make it look a little bit better.
So you wanna scroll down and bring the image.
You can access the background.
Click on the background.
And this is what's gonna make your picture pop.
You wanna go ahead?
A a color that's gonna match your branding.
So if it's a blue, if it's a red, this is how you're gonna be
able to go ahead and stand out.
So simply select the color that you want.
I'll select that this, I'll select the blue kind of color like this, and then
you want to grab your picture and just adjust it again and have it in there.
Now let's make it pop a little bit more.
So under the effects, once you have the image like that, you wanna selected hands.
And what you wanna do is you wanna increase the saturation just
a little bit, and the contrast just a little bit as well.
And that's gonna give it a little bit more of a pop.
So now that you have that there, you're gonna see here that now we
have a nice profile picture that we're gonna be able to utilize on our
Twitch and all of our social media.
So now what you want to do is you want to go ahead and select download, select
p and g, and select Start Download.
Okay.
Now one of the things you wanted while that's downloading is that you
can utilize this for so many options.
And again, this is gonna be free to be able to utilize, They have
so much free options you can use.
But if you want to go ahead and upgrade to the paid for $9 a month, you get access
to premium photos, you get access to.
Scheduling to post on your social media.
It's just amazing what you're able to do.
Once you upgrade it for $9, it's pretty, pretty good.
So once you have that picture downloaded, you wanna come to your Twitch
account, you're gonna come to where it says here on your profile picture.
You wanna select channel, and that's gonna bring you to a page just like this.
You're gonna wanna select edit, and that's gonna bring you over to your
creator dashboard once you're here.
You're gonna want to go ahead and go up top to select the brand.
And here you're gonna see profile picture.
You're gonna go ahead and find the profile picture we just went ahead and downloaded.
You'll have it in there and you'll see here that now it
fits perfectly where we want it.
You'll simply hit save.
And now you're gonna see here that your profile picture has now been updated.
So let's go ahead and update this here.
And we'll showcase that here in just a moment.
And you can see here that now my profile picture appears, it pops up, that
blue background brings a picture out.
And when people see this, when they're strolling on all my
social media platforms, they'll be able to know that it's me.
Now, it's super important that you have a nice profile picture,
but if you don't have a nice.
To be able to go with that, to look professional and have your
branding on point, you're not gonna get that much of exposure.
So again, we want viewers to take you serious.
So I want you to do is go ahead and click this video right here where I show you how
to make a Twitch banner utilizing Adobe Expresses free plan to be able to make it
look brandable, look professional, so that way you stand out amongst other streamers.
So go ahead and click this video right here to learn how to make a Twitch banner.
I'll see you guys in the next video.