In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can go ahead and
make a Twitch banner utilizing a free tool called Adobe Express.
So let's go ahead and dive right into it.
So the first thing you want to do is you wanna go to the description of the video.
The first link there is gonna give you access to Adobe Express for you to be
able to make your free account to be able to go ahead and do this today.
So once you have your account set up and you're logged in, you'll be brought to
a dashboard just like this, and you're gonna see here just how easy it is to be
able to go ahead and make a Twitch banner.
So that way you're branded, you look professional, and viewers
start taking you serious when they put land on your Twitch profile.
So the first thing you want to do is you want to come here to the left
hand side and select custom size.
Very important here for the whiff, we're gonna go ahead and put 1200.
For the height, you're gonna go ahead and put four 80, and this is gonna
give us the perfect size for Twitch.
So once you're here, you're gonna see that you're gonna have a clean canvas.
It's gonna give you options for templates.
And the good thing about Adobe Express is they give you so much stuff that you can
utilize, photos, shapes, the backgrounds, everything that you're gonna see.
I'm gonna show you here today just so you can see how you can use this for.
Than just your Twitch banner.
So the first thing we want to do for our banner is we want to go
ahead and create a background.
Now, because of the fact on Twitch, you have a video in the middle of the screen.
You don't wanna put text and things of that sort on your banner.
You wanna keep it very simple.
You wanna do a nice background color, maybe add some shapes, some elements,
and potentially put your logo in the center for the mobile version.
And that's what we're gonna do here today.
So let's go ahead and begin with backgrounds.
So on the left hand side, you're gonna wanna select back.
And now you're gonna come and scroll down.
You can select any background that that you like.
Now I personally like to go ahead and scroll down and look for chromatic.
Hit more, and then you can simply select any kind of color that you want Here.
I like to go for blurred colors.
And I typically like to look for something that's gonna stand
out, like, let's use this one.
You simply just click on it, and that's gonna go ahead and
add the background directly here into your Adobe Express account.
So now that we have our background, let's go ahead and add a few
elements in there, right?
So this is a great opportunity that if you have your own logo, you can go
ahead and upload that now by coming here to where it says, Upload the photo and
then you'll be able to upload your logo.
But if you don't have one, here's the beautiful thing.
Adobe Express has some logos you can actually use.
So we'll type in gaming logo and we'll simply hit enter.
And you'll see here that we'll get a few options here out of the blue that you
can go ahead and select if you like one.
I really like this Eagles one.
Now, one thing you gotta keep in mind, if you see anything with a crown,
that means it's not included in the free plan, it's only on the paid plan.
So if you look at the Adobe Pay plan, I mean for $9 a month, it's
amazing what you actually get, right?
You get over 20,000 files and, and graphics and things that you can utilize.
You can schedule your stuff to social media.
So this is also a good tool to be able to post things to social
media and things of that sort.
So get a lot of things for $9 a month.
If you do see something that has a crown, it does require a paid plan, and that
is your choice to be able to utilize or not, but is available for $9 a month and
anything that doesn't have a crown, you're gonna be able to go ahead and utilize.
So again, I'm just gonna go ahead and utilize the Eagle
for the purposes example.
That's gonna go ahead and add it in there for me.
Now you're gonna see here that it has a white background, right?
And I don't want that.
Well, the good thing about Adobe Express is that with a click of
a button, you can actually remove the background of any picture.
So we'll click that.
We'll come here to where it says, Remove background.
And then what's gonna automatically remove that background for us, for us to be able
to utilize the logo a little bit better.
So you'll see that it's removed, Hit auto.
And then after you do that, go ahead and hit the little check mark.
You're gonna see here that now that's done.
And what we simply wanna do is just wanna size it.
Don't make it too big.
Because what it happens is you don't want it to showcase on the desktop version.
You want it to be more for the mobile experience.
Right.
So now that we have that there, what we want do is we wanna make this
background look a little bit better.
It's right.
So this is a beautiful thing you can do here.
So we'll go to shapes, we'll go ahead and use the square.
I'll just find a square here.
Let's take a look right here.
And here you're gonna be able to go ahead and just add some kind of elements.
Now again, you can follow along with what it is that I'm doing.
So I'm just gonna turn this a little bit slight, slightly sideways.
I'm gonna go ahead and bring it in and then I'm just gonna size it just like
this and you're gonna see what we're gonna do here in just an actual moment.
So here on the right hand side, this is where you're gonna
be able to edit this shape.
So we're gonna change this to fill in the inside to be black, cuz we
wanted to match kind of like our logo.
Border.
We're gonna say yes because we want a white border.
Okay.
And now here you're gonna see here that you can make this smaller.
And now you can bring this here.
And what we wanna do is make it a little bit bigger, turn it a little
bit, and then what we want to do is we want to go ahead and, and size it up
just so that it fits in this corner.
So we'll set it.
Set it just like, I like to just match it up, bring it a little bit wider.
And now you're gonna see here that now we have one side completed.
Now one of the things you can do is you can click this and
here is this little plus icon.
You're gonna be able to duplicate it.
Cause what we simply want to do is we want to go ahead and just rotate it,
change the angle of it, and make sure we do the same thing on the other side to
be able to get it to look good as well.
So we'll just come here, maybe have to turn it a little bit more.
And then you're gonna see here that we're gonna be able to go ahead and add that in.
So once again, there we go.
So now we have our, our banner.
Okay.
Everything, everything is looking good.
Now I kind of wanna make this to be towards the bottom, but again,
you can see here just utilizing the stuff inside of Adobe Express, how
easy it is to be able to go ahead and start creating things, even if
you don't have no kind of experience.
So again, I'm gonna add it just like that.
And now here, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and center
the logo just a little bit.
Right in the center.
Okay, so now we have kind of like our banner created, right?
But now we want to give it a little bit more color, make it pop a little bit.
So what I want you to do is click on the background and you're gonna see
here, it's gonna say edit background, how you know you've selected it.
We're gonna come to where it says enhancements, right?
And what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and increase the saturation to
make that blue just pop a little bit more.
We're gonna go ahead and reduce the shadow.
Add a little bit of highlights.
Now, this doesn't have to be perfect, but here are the figures you can do
and then we'll increase the contrast.
And you see here that now it's nice and blue and it's actually popping.
So what we want to do, once you have that banner completed, you wanna come
to the top, you wanna go ahead and hit download, and you wanna make sure you
select p and g start, download, right?
So that's gonna go ahead and download directly onto your computer.
Most likely it's gonna go to your downloads.
And then what you wanna do is you wanna come back to Twitch.
Right now, you don't want to keep this basic generic background because it's
not gonna give you that professional look that you're looking for.
And that's where we're doing this banner here today.
So on your Twitch profile, once you're logged in, you're gonna
click on your profile icon.
You're gonna come to where it says channel, and that's gonna
bring you to this page here.
Where it says, customize your channel, you're gonna select edit.
Once you do that, that's gonna bring you here into your creator
dashboard, where you're gonna be able to go ahead and edit what we see.
So you're gonna come to where it says brand.
You're gonna go ahead and select that there.
Then here where it says Profile Banner, you're gonna select Custom Image,
but you're first gonna select Upload, and you're gonna upload the image
that we just went ahead and created.
So we'll select that there.
You'll see that it'll go ahead and upload, and then it'll say Success.
And now what you wanna do is you wanna select custom.
You wanna select save, and now what you want to do is you want to go ahead
and refresh your channel browser.
To be able to see the new banner appear on your profile.
So you can see here that now the banner is, is there again, remember the
logo's gonna be covered on the desktop version, but you still have the branded
sides that you're able to do there.
And then what you'll see here is that on the mobile version which is typically
where people watch Twitch, either way you're gonna see that it's gonna look
very professional, just like I have it here on the screen where we've made the.
You see the logo and you have that branding in there.
Now, that is the beautiful thing about Adobe Express.
You can see how we went ahead and set that up.
Now it's super important that you know, you just made a professional banner.
You don't wanna just have a generic profile picture either.
This also is super important for you to be able to go ahead and have branding.
For people to recognize you and for you to increase your subscribers,
your followers, just because people can start to recognize you.
So go ahead and click this video right here where I show you how to go
ahead and make a profile picture for your Twitch utilizing the same tool,
which as used say for your banner.
So go ahead and click that right there, so that way you can fully brand your
Twitch profile and look professional all the way across the board.
Click that video right there.
I'll see you guys in the next video.