Hello friend, welcome to Roxanna Reed Media. Today I'm going to show you how to
make youtube channel art in canva that fits so if you need to know YouTube
channel art correct dimensions this videos for you you can use any device to
make this so if you want to know how to make a youtube banner on MacBook on
Android on PC on pretty much anything you can follow this tutorial what
exactly do I mean by youtube channel art that fits this means that no matter what
device you and youtube channel art is viewed on it will look good it will look
normal it won't have any weird things missing
or something popping up out of somewhere it will just look good across all
devices there are four main devices that youtube is viewed on and these are TV
desktop such as a PC a laptop macbook tablet like an iPad and lastly mobile so
that includes Android and iOS devices and Google or whatever else is out there
I don't really know now often I see people making wonderful YouTube channel
art and it looks great but then when they put it on their actual YouTube
channel and viewer on mobile it's chopped off there are bits missing so
I'm going to show you how to make sure that your YouTube channel art fits
across all devices let's jump into my laptop first of all you want to get the
correct sizing guide you want to get a youtube channel art template so you can
do this in various ways some people just go to Google and search in Google Images
but you don't know if those are absolutely correct because sometimes the
channel art dimensions might change or I don't know those files that you download
might not actually have the absolutely correct dimensions so what I like to do
is go to the actual website from Google from YouTube and I will leave this in a
link in the description below so check that out and you go all the way down and
there's this section here channel art template click on this do not download
the image that you see but click where it says download our
channel art templates that will then download into a sip file this is how it
works on PC I guess it's similar on Mac but I'm not too sure because I've never
owned an Apple product there is a folder there for Mac so yeah you can figure
that out but what you want is this fireworks file however because it's in a
sip file you just need to click extract all extract and it will come up in this
new file here so this is the file that you want now you can go on to canva.com
again this works on all devices on Mac on your mobile whatever it's a bit
different on mobile but it's ok you can handle it and you want to search YouTube
channel art and it will just come up voila and you can see there are many
different templates in here however some of them just aren't that good because
for example this one here if you had these pictures they would get chopped
off on mobile you just wouldn't be able to see them so it's pointless so what I
like to do is just be creative and start with a blank canvas then you want to go
to the upload tab and you can grab that file that you've just extracted here it
is I think and we can just chuck it over there ok once that's uploaded you want
to make it your background on your canvas if you simply click on it it's
just gonna come up in the middle of the page and you have to adjust it and it's
it's just too long so don't do that instead click and drag to the corner and
it will snap into place like this and then that is perfectly sized it's so
easy so here this is the TV size where it says TV that is going to be the
absolute biggest and I don't think that many people really view YouTube on TV or
at least your YouTube channel art I don't know now here these other areas
are more important the most important is this text and logo safe area you want
absolutely anything that is essential to fit into that area because it will be
viewed on the smallest device and also on the biggest
device the next sizes are tablet and desktop Macs
so if you had something extra that isn't so important you could put it here a
very good idea would be to put some kind of call to action with a link to your
website so if you had I don't know like a free ebook download you could show a
little image of your ebook there and have an arrow saying you know like
download this ebook and point down here because on the desktop version this is
where you're like social links and a link to your website could be okay so
now let's get to sign in if you want to have some kind of general background
color do not click on the background tab because it will replace this which is
your background you want to keep that instead you can go to elements and go
down to shapes and select a square and just drag it out to make it cover the
whole background now of course you can't see your template anymore so click this
transparency button up here it's also on it's also available on mobile and just
decrease this so you can see the background the template background
slightly okay and then you can put anything you want in here so I don't
know let's just Chuck this photo of myself on here I'm going to scale it
down so it fits in the text and logo safe area you can add your head in so
greater text add a subheading or whatever and put your channel name so -
Oksana read media and then you can just add whatever it is that you want to add
so like if you want to add some other elements icons some more text and so on
the most important thing to do after you've finished a sign-in is to click on
this square whatever color it is and increase the transparency so that you
can no longer see the background thing then when you download this everything
in here will fit in the smallest area and of course if you've added something
extra there it will look good on all devices so this is what my channel art
currently looks like you can see I have a lot of blank space around here but
like who said nobody really on my channel views it from the TV so I'm not
bothered about that and then later on I might add another image here on the side
that can be viewed on desktop alright so I hope you liked that quick and easy
canva tutorial and you now know how to make YouTube channel art that fits
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