Oh boy. In this video, we are gonna recreate the podcast covers from Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend,
Call Her Daddy, and the Huberman Lab. And we're not just gonna do this because
it's a ton of fun and because we want to copy the artwork of other creators. No,
because instead, this is one of my favorite ways.
To learn and teach design fundamentals and to see how accessible Canva is to create professional
graphics. We're gonna learn about text placement, choosing the right text, photo placement, removing
the background from photos, adding effects to photos, and a lot more. By the end of this video,
you'll have everything you need to design your own professional, really slick looking podcast cover.
So what do you say? We get to it.
Let's see how long it takes me. I'm kind of hoping that I can do this. In less than 20
minutes. So let's start with this one, with Conan O'Brien. This is gonna be really fun.
And instead of Conan O'Brien needs a friend, we'll say Studio Steve needs a friend. So to start with,
we can just start a new page by clicking on this icon right here and start with the blank page.
And then let's bring in this podcast cover with Conan again. And this time we'll crop it down
so that we just see Conan, and then we can see if we can find the font. That this font is now here,
you can either press the T key for text or you can come over here to
text and just add a heading and then you can resize it this way.
Or you can always type in up here to do a quick resize,
which I find myself doing a lot. And we'll actually just put in Conan, you can already,
this railway heavy looks a lot like it, but we can also continue to try to find something
even more spot on. Go down here. This a, a Laron. This a Laron heavy. Looks good.
If we were to bold it, that's even closer. I think
so. That's looking really good. We'll go with this one. And we can even play
with the letter spacing by clicking on our spacing tool. Up here in the top hand toolbar,
kind of squeeze the letters together a little bit more. And that looks pretty good. Pretty spot on.
That's some impressive stuff. So now we can match the color by changing the
color from this text color button up here. And because this design is here,
it knows the photo color here, so, Now we have the photo color too, and I think I
squeezed these together too much. So we'll do something like that. That looks really good.
Now we just change it to studio, and then we can delete the Conan. We'll put this up here
and let's copy this. We'll press command C or control C for copy on a pc,
and then controller command V as in Victor for paste, and we'll call it Steve. Let's
make the letters. Spacing a little bigger because Steve is a shorter word than O'Brien,
so it's gonna fit into the design a little bit differently.
And that looks pretty good. I know, I know.
I know what's cool. If you ever want to kind of reverse engineer or, uh, try to match, uh,
podcast cover art, which I like to do a lot, or even YouTube, something else is you can design
right on top of the podcast, cover art, and get the dimensions and everything just riot.
So if we come to elements here and then we look for lines and shapes,
let's click on this first line option that's available to us. And then I'm
gonna zoom in a little bit more on this. With our handy Zoom slider tool here on the bottom
and move this right in place, we can click up here and change the color of the line.
We also can change the line style, so we'll make it a little bigger like that. Now we
can slide it into place and we'll get this line exactly like the line on Conan's cover,
and we can even find. The right color using our eye drop tool from the color picker button
right here. And then we have an eye drop tool and we can go until we find this gray color.
And now we have the exact gray color that Conan uses as well. And then if we just put
it perfectly in place, and again, press command or control C and then come down
to our design and command v. This gives us an idea of where that line really should be. So
we know we have to come up with the font and find a nice position for Studio Steve there.
Now we need needs a friend, so I'm gonna zoom out a little bit again. Again,
we can come over here and press T and add a heading and we can change it to 200.
And let's just type in needs a friend. That studio Steve really needs a friend.
And then I will left align it by clicking on the alignment tool up here in our top hand toolbar.
And also we're going to adjust the line spacing. Now again with our spacing tool.
Make that a little closer. Bring this over here. That looks pretty good. Now
we just need to find this font. So let's zoom all the way out so we can see both.
And I like the font, Oswald. I think that it's gonna look a lot like this.
A little bit different, but probably very similar. So let's go to Oswald
and we again can just drag this up here and position it on directly on top of Conan's
Design if we wanted to. To get it looking really close. Maybe just the letter space
spacing ever so slightly. I think that's pretty good. I mean, that's really close.
So now we can command C to copy that, come down here and command V. And now we need this part
Team Cocoa. We could probably use this same font or something similar. Let's go ahead and press T
this time for text. Instead we'll say Team pss. And we'll change the pss to the orange color
by highlighting just the pss, going to the color picker and choosing the same orange color again.
And let's do the same thing with this. We can drag it up to Conan's design here to
get the sizing right, and that looks pretty good, but this is definitely the wrong font
for this. Let's see if that Aon heavy, however you pronounce. That looks good.
This looks pretty good. Actually. I think this is the one we'll go with.
Just there. Now, command C and we pop it in here. Now we just need a picture of
studio Steve. So if we come along to the left hand toolbar and click on uploads,
we'll find a picture of me and then we just need to remove the
background. If we come up to where it says edit image, and select background remover.
It will remove the background. This effect is worth the camera pro subscription alone.
It's amazing. Okay. And I like to crop this unused space here in the photo. It
makes it more manageable later. And we'll go ahead and say apply. Okay? Now if we want,
we can actually bring this one, slide him on top of Kona two, and get the face.
Positioning just right. Put my head over Conan's head and maybe it needs a little
of a rotation. We get the positioning just right and now we can copy this,
come down here and paste this, and that should look very similar. So if we come up here and
let's. Just delete all the elements we added so that we can get back to Conan's Original.
Actually, I just remember there was one last thing I wanted to show you that we forgot to do,
and that is this design of my studio Steve needs a friend isn't quite right because
it still needs a drop shadow cuz as you can see, Conan has a nice little faint
blurred out drop shadow behind him, which really helps him pop out in this design.
So we'll click on my image. Come up here to where it says edit image. Then from edit image,
if you scroll all the way down, you see shadows. Let's go ahead and select drop. And it's putting
the drop shadow off to the bottom right, just like Conan. But we'll need to click on these
three sliders, this icon right here in the middle of drop, so that we can adjust the parameters.
Of this effect, and let's go ahead and blur it more. And as we start to blur the effect more,
that should look good. And then we need to make the transparency we need to make it
more transparent. The offset is quite a bit, has quite a bit of an offset,
and the angle's kind of like so, and then more transparency.
And it's not gonna look just like Conans, but it looks pretty close. His is a little
more blurry. They sort of blurred it off. But this looks really nice just like that.
Now on to the very popular call Her Daddy podcast. It's a Spotify exclusive. We're
going to use a picture of Veronica for this one. And let's call it,
call your cousin. Hey Henry. Call your cousin. Okay, so we'll go ahead and create a new design,
brand new page again, and let's start by working on the background.
Let's look for photos and we'll type in. Studio background because it seems like
she's in a studio here. We kind of see that faint distance of what would be the floor back there,
so any of these studios will probably work just fine for us. This one looks good,
but if we want to get it to really match and really look similar,
We might have to do this one and then actually change up the brightness and contrast of it.
So while this image is selected, we can click edit image, and then here
we can adjust the brightness and we can get it pretty darn close.
Now we just need to find this font, so let's go ahead back to text again, add a heading Again,
we can make it bigger any way we want. And in all caps, I'm gonna type in, call her first.
We'll bring it up here and kind of spin it, rotate it a little bit, and now let's
look through the fonts. You can look through all of the fonts. One thing you can do also,
if you click in this box right here, Canva will give you some suggested font categories,
and this can be really helpful. This one handwriting would be the perfect one to look in.
This font right here. Is the font, and it's called KnewWave, spelled with a K. This is
actually the precise exact font that they use. So it's really cool when you can luck
out and get the exact font. So now, instead of call her, we'll say, call your, and it looks
like these are actually different font. Uh, they're using different fonts from each other.
So let's press the T again, and this time we'll say cousin, call your cousin.
And we can do the same thing where we sort of position it like, so this one looks like the
permanent marker. Let's try that. Yeah, I'd say that's close enough and we could put it
right there. And now let's change the text color by clicking in the color selector.
And look, we have the photo color right here. We can find the pink. Ooh, but it's not quite
the pink. So we can go to the color picker and actually use the eyedropper and go directly to the
color. And there we go. Now we have the exact pink color, and we have, let's change this to a white.
Uh, we'll go to the color picker and change it to a white, and now we need something for podcast.
But I'm gonna copy these and put 'em in our design. And now we have call your
Cousin in exactly the right place. Now let's look for the word podcast again.
I'll press t for text. We'll just type in an all capsule word podcast. And actually let's
leave out the O and put a couple spaces in there. Stop putting a period in there.
And for this text, let's try the finger paint. Text that looks pretty good. Pretty
spot on. Let's make it white. Come up to our spacing tool again and change
the letter spacing. So this kind of fits right where it should. It looks like they
have it kind of tilted down a little bit like this, and that should leave enough.
Space for our lip marks. And now let's find some lips. I'll click on elements from the
left hand toolbar and type in lips until we find the perfect set. Let's say see all under graphics,
and when we find lips we really like, we can choose those. I think I like these
ones. And we'll go ahead and use that same pink color from the design that we've been using.
And now we use lips for the O instead. Of an O That looks pretty good. We might need to
make those a little smaller. We can zoom in with our handy zoom in slider at the
bottom. Pretty good. Now, her lips were a little more smeared. Maybe we want more smeared lips,
more realistically smeared lips like these ones might look better.
Let's try these ones.
The call Your Cousin podcast. This is great. Now what we're gonna need
is so we can delete these elements from up here. We're gonna need a line. And remember,
we know how to find lines. We go to elements, and click on line. Click on online.
Move it where it should be and now we can play with the weight of the line and get it just right.
And then the color of the line can be our pink color as well. We could actually command X or
control X to copy it, but make it go away and then paste it down here. And
interesting how that isn't lining up the way that it should. Very interesting indeed. Oh,
because it wasn't lined up. There we go. Now let's move it right in place.
And if you want to get something really precise, here's a Canva Pro Tip. Canva Pro tip.
You can use the arrow keys to slide your elements and objects around. So now I will
press command C for copy. We'll come down into this design and press command V for
paste. That looks pretty good. We can move it around ourselves and get it how we want it.
And now we need to get this Spotify exclusive logo up here. An easy way
to do that. And another pro tip is to press the R button,
which stands for rectangle. Let's make it white. It'll automatically bring in an R
button. And then if you ever want to. Scale a square and keep it square dimensions. You
can hold the shift key when you scale it at the corner and then we'll get that.
Now I don't know what the quick key is for triangle, cuz t is for text,
not triangles. So let's just search the elements for a triangle. I think
this one will be good and we'll change the color white of this as well. Let's turn it
up here. We're gonna flip it around to, uh, 180 degrees. Ooh, I flipped it the wrong way.
We wanna flip it this way. To eight 90 degrees. And now with the triangle selected,
I'll hold the shift button and select the square, and then this word group appears above them and I
can group them and now they can move around as if they're one thing. So now I can copy this,
paste it down here into our design and put this up to the corner.
And now if I go to elements, let's try typing in. Spotify. And look,
we have the same Spotify graphic. All we have to do is pop it in here just like that,
a little smaller. In fact, we can check what it looks like here and get it the exact same size.
It comes in at the right size. And let's change the color with the eyedrop picker.
We can just pick this background color right here, and that should look just right. Yes,
it does. So now we have the Collier Cousin Podcast. The only thing we need is a picture
of Veronica and a pink couch. Oh, and we also need. A Spotify exclusive. Let's
type that in real quick. Uh, let's come up here. I'm gonna press the T
again and let's all caps write a Spotify exclusive and we'll look around fonts.
We can click up here where it says Oswald, and we can search from all of the fonts.
I think this roboto is perfect, especially if we bold it. It's a little more letters.
Spacing and that is gonna take up basically the same amount of space. I'm gonna call that good.
Let's change the color to white. We'll press command C or control C for copy.
Come down to our design and paste it. So now we're gonna need a picture of Veronica and a
pink couch. So back to our uploads again. I found this picture of a pink couch. All
we need to do is replace the is remove the background. So let's click on edit image
and background remover. Yes, you can remove the background of any object using Camba Pro.
It's amazing. There it is. We'll press apply and let's position this in a way
that seems about right. I'm going to zoom out a little bit so we can analyze the other
picture as well. I think that's good. Now this is gonna take up a little more space,
but we may move the couch around once we get Veronica in there.
Now I have this picture of Veronica that I've already removed the background from,
so now we can just kind of resize her if we want. We can actually kinda make Veronica the same size
as the host of the call her Daddy podcast here. I mean, Sure their faces are about the same size.
So if Veronica's taking up ba, basically the same amount of space right about there's good.
And then we can come down here and paste Veronica right there and there you have
it. Call your cousin. Okay, and last but not least, we're up to 19 minutes. God,
I only did two in 20 minutes. Well, this one's really easy. Basically with this one,
we just need to find the text very quickly, which we can do. So let's just press that T again.
Let's do dendri Google. What's a dendri? Dendrites are processes
that extend from the cell bodies of cortical neurons, Dendri den,
and this font, Oswald is looking like the right font. Let's change the color to the blue color
of the design. And let's just work on Dendri first and then we'll add the den afterwards.
I think if we were to make it the right size, let's zoom in a little bit,
make it the right size like that, and then actually play with the letter spacing. We'd
be in good shape. There's Dendri, and then we'll copy and paste that. And now down here,
let's write. Den. Now we have those. So we can zoom out,
go to our new design and press command V for paste, and we have the dendri den in there.
Now all we need is this little border here. So let's come to the elements again and let's just
type in. Border or square border? Probably this one right here would be good. Let's
see if when we scale this up, if it gets to be about the same size it does. Yes.
It's like perfect. And then we come here and we use that blue color once again.
We copy it and bring it down into our design here. And now we need a photo of a guapo looking
ombre like that just so happens. We got one right here. So let's go to uploads and look
at this guapo looking ombre right here. So let's get him in the right position with,
uh, Mr. Host up here. We'll turn this around.
Might need to spin me a little bit, and then we can copy that and paste
it right there. There we go. And now we'll just need to adjust the positioning of it
to make it come in front. Now here is another Canva Pro Tip, Canva Pro tip.
This is a really incredible pro tip. You're gonna love me for this one.
And it's also a hot key. So remember this option one. Seriously. It brings up the layers tab,
which is really cool. And then all we need to do is slide this in front like that, and
then of course we would need to slide him behind there, but we want to keep the background white
the way it is. Now, the only thing we have to do with this picture is to make me black and white.
And also add a lot of contrast it looks like, and probably bring up some of my
highlights as well. So all we have to do is click on my image, select edit image,
and then we can go to these adjustments here. Let's go ahead and click on see all.
And first we're going to add a little brightness, add a little contrast.
And let's take all the saturation away. Definitely gonna need some more highlights
like that. That's gonna look more like his photo. Definitely some more contrast.
And then I would even bring the shadows down so my shirt becomes even more black.
His shirt is basically the pure color black, which really helps in this design.
And I think we can now, let's.
Even out my shoulders a little bit more, bring me down like that. I think that's good. Look at that.
Okay, so where are we at 25? I did it in 25 minutes and 27 seconds. What do
you think? Pretty cool, right? This is something that I do inside of our core,
smart and simple podcasting when we work with students to actually craft the perfect. Podcast
cover for them, so I thought I would share a small amount of it with you.
In that program, we have a podcast workshop where we go into great detail
about design a lot more than I could cover in this video. It's a coaching
program where we work in a virtual classroom setting with students to
help them produce professional podcasts as part of their content marketing strategy.
So check out pod sound school.com to find out if we're open for enrollment and what other programs
we offer. So what would you like to see me create next? I'm thinking website banners,
YouTube banners. Who are some of your favorite creators? Let me know in the comments below,
and I may include it in my next Canvas video.
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