- Today, we're talkin' about Canva,
and I'm gonna show you how to make
simple YouTube channel art using
their easy to use drag and drop system.
And in case you don't know what Canva is,
Canva is a free website and app
available for both Android and IOS device.
It's template base, it's drag and drop,
and it has a ton of free templates for you to use.
You can upload your images to it,
upload your logos, your pictures,
change the text, save it, download it,
put it on YouTube, put it on Facebook,
put it on Instagram, whatever you wanna do.
It's royalty free, you can do whatever you want with it.
Now before we open up Canva and
get started on that YouTube header,
go down and leave a comment, let me know what
you use to build your current YouTube header.
I read every single comment and
I reply to as many people as possible.
When this video's over, I'm gonna go
down there and I'm gonna continue this discussion.
So let's open up Canva and get started.
Okay, if this is the first time you're
opening Canva, you're probably gonna
end up on a white screen like this.
Now your screen might be totally blank,
because this is where they save your
projects that you're working on.
Even after you save and export it,
it's still gonna save your project here
that you can edit or delete later.
What we want to do is we wanna to the top and
scroll all the way to the right until we see
YouTube art and we're gonna tap on that,
and it's gonna load up a bunch of templates for you.
And you're gonna notice the templates here on the top,
if you look at the one that says Run Club on the right,
it's got some tokens and the number one.
Those are paid templates, for this
video we're not gonna use those.
However, you can purchase them if you want,
that's entirely up to you.
For this video, we're gonna be using free templates only.
So we're gonna scroll down until
we find a template that we wanna work with.
Okay, so I'm gonna choose this template right here.
Now anything that I tap on here,
it can be the background, the text or
it could be the box behind the text,
I can edit all of this but that's not what I'm gonna do.
First of all, the first thing I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna tap on the background and
I'm going to upload the template.
Now, this is the template that I'm
linking in the description below
so you can download it and upload this yourself,
so you can build the correct size for the mobile browser.
Now, the correct size for the mobile browser is
the dark space in the center there,
so that's what I'm going to build around.
And don't worry about building on top of this
because when your text is finally in place,
we're gonna come back and we're
gonna change the background image.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is
I'm going to tap on this background image here,
and as you can see I can put my thumb on it and
I can move it around, but I don't want this.
So I'm just gonna go to the to and hit delete and it's gone.
Now I'm gonna tap on the text and
I can stretch this out and right here
I'm only going to the max of the mobile area.
So this is where it's at, I can move it
around anywhere I want but I don't want to.
What I wanna do is tap off and
that's what it would look like inside the mobile area.
So now as you see the template,
you're gonna see several different shades of gray.
The top and the bottom, that's gonna be
what people see on a television.
However, I'm gonna zoom in so you can see the rest here.
The dark center in the middle,
that's for desktop minimum and mobile.
Moving out, that's the tablet and
out here to the far end, that's your desktop maximum.
What we're gonna work on today is
just the inside for mobile, so I'm gonna tap on the text,
and I'm gonna go over here and tap on this,
and I'm gonna put my name in here.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Okay and then I'm gonna tap done.
Now I think that's a bit large,
so I'm gonna grab it and I'm gonna
shrink it just a little bit, right there.
Now I'm gonna tap off, now this would
fill the entire top of a mobile header and
I like that so that's what I'm gonna use right now.
But if I want to go in and if I want to
change the colors and the fonts,
I can tap on it and you can see I can make it bold or not.
Now if you tap on that, that's just
gonna make everything capitalize.
I can center it or justify it to the left or to the right.
I can tap here, I can go in and change color.
But for now, I'm gonna leave it white,
and we'll change this later.
I can change the font size and
I can even change the spacing, pretty cool, huh?
So we're gonna go back and change that
after we get the background image on,
right now I'm just gonna build my text.
So I'm gonna tap off again and
I'm gonna go down to the plus down on the bottom,
I'm gonna tap that and I'm gonna add some more text.
Now, when this loads up it has a
bunch of preset text examples that
you could drop in, but we're not
gonna use those, we're gonna add our own text.
So scroll back up to the top and
tap on add some text of your own.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Now that the second row of text is added,
I'm gonna tap on it and add my own text.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Then I'm gonna stretch it out
to make sure it fits the mobile safe area.
Now I think this is a little bit too big,
so I'm gonna go down to the font size and
I'm gonna shrink down and center it out
just a little bit and I'm gonna move it down.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Okay, now I'm gonna make sure
all the letters are capitalized,
and I'm gonna shrink it down just a little bit more.
Now I have everything centered up
inside the mobile safe area.
Okay, now that my text is in place
I'm gonna tap off and then you're gonna see
Camera Roll, Images, Colors and Filters pop up again.
I'm gonna tap on Images and search for a
royalty free image that I can use in my template.
And once again, you can see some of them are
free and some of them are paid.
But today we're only using free templates,
and once I find an image that I want
I tap on it, it automatically goes into the template,
and then I can go over to Filters and
add a filter just like you would in
Instagram or any other photo app.
And you can also go down to Advanced and
you can adjust the Brightness,
Contrast, Saturation, Colorize it,
add a little bit of Blur, add a Vignette and so on.
And when you're finished, just tap Done.
Now I'm just kinda makin' this
template up as I go so bear with me here
as I kind of mold it into shape.
So now that I have my name and my tagline on here,
explaining what the channel's about and
then I have a background image and I have it filtered.
I'm not totally happy with it so I'm
gonna adjust it a little bit more.
The first thing I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go back and put back in the
mobile safe template because I wanna
add some sort of a logo and I wanna
make sure it fits within the mobile safe area.
Now once the template is showing again as the
background, I'm gonna go over,
I'm gonna move my text to the left.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Now that my text is moved to the left,
you see I have some space on my right where I can add
some sort of a logo or a symbol.
So I'm gonna go back to the plus,
and then I'm gonna search in Graphics.
I'm gonna search for a camera.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Ooh, I like that right away, okay,
I tap it, I drop it in and I can size it down.
And in case you're wondering how I'm zooming in,
I'm using two fingers to zoom in.
So I'm just gonna play with this and
line it up a little bit until I'm happy.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Okay I like where this is going,
so I'm gonna find a new background image.
So I'm gonna go to images and
I'm gonna type in photography.
I'm gonna look for something dark.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Oh, there you, boom, okay I like that a lot.
Tap on it, once again it goes straight to the background.
Now I think this looks pretty good,
but I think it would look better if
that little shutter icon was moved over to the left,
and my name and the tagline were moved over to the right.
So let me show you how to do that.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is
go back to the Camera Roll and
choose my template once again because
I want to make sure that everything that
I'm working on stays inside the mobile safe zone.
Now once this is back into my template,
I'm just gonna simply tap on whatever
I want to move and I'm gonna move it around.
So, let me play with this for just a
few seconds, get everything into place.
I'm gonna put the background back on.
Then I'll show you how to export it,
and upload it into YouTube.
(soft music)
- [Dee] Okay, so I have the icon and
the text where I want it so I'm gonna
go back and I'm gonna upload the
background image of the camera again.
Yeah, I like that a lot better.
Okay, so let's export it and to do this,
you're gonna go to the Share text
on the top right and then Canva's gonna say
they're making the magic happen.
But if you ask me, this might be where babies are made.
Now when it's all finished it's gonna
give the option to tap Done or Share.
If you tap Share, you're gonna be
able to save it to your camera roll,
so that's what we're gonna do.
(soft music)
- [Dee] And if you tap on the X that
you see on the to left corner,
it's gonna take you back to the
original white page that we first landed on,
and this is where everything's gonna be saved
that you've worked on inside of Canva.
And you can come back and edit those and export them later.
Now let's open up the YouTube app,
and put this into our header.
So after the YouTube app opens,
you wanna go to the top right corner,
and tap on your profile image.
Then once that's opened, you wanna tap on My Channel.
Once My Channel opens up, you wanna
tap on the Settings icon over on the right side.
Now what loads up is the profile page
where you can customize and change everything.
You see you have a camera on top of
your profile icon and on top of your background.
So we're gonna tap on the camera for the background,
and then we're gonna choose the
picture that we want to upload.
Okay now once you have the photo uploaded,
because we used the template to keep everything mobile safe,
you don't have to adjust this at all.
All you have to do is upload it and then tap Use Photo.
Then it's gonna upload your photo and
give you an alert down at the bottom to
let you know that your channel art was
uploaded successfully and now you
have a new YouTube channel header.
And that is how you use Canva to
make simple YouTube channel art.
Of course you can go back and make it as
complex as you want but for the
sake of this tutorial I kept it
kinda easy for people to follow along
if this is the first time you're doin' it.
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