Good morning, my name is Stephanie and I am your host for this video tutorial.
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time I upload a new video. All right, so today I want to show you how to create like a halo around
a photo that you want to upload of yourself onto a blank canvas in in Canva itself. Now this is very
useful if you want to add a video to a thumbnail to a video that you want to do over on link on
I'm falling all over myself over here. If you want to upload a YouTube video with a YouTube thumbnail.
There I said it. All right, so first things first, I'm going to share a screen with you
and that is that one over there. This is the Canva desktop app. So the first thing we do
is we create a design and of course a YouTube thumbnail. You can search by either start typing
thumbnail or YouTube as I have done over there. Then simply click on it and a new screen will open
such as this. Now I'm hoping it's going to be a little bit faster because this is very slow.
All right, so there we have our blank canvas and then simply go and find a photograph of yourself.
I'm going to use that one over there. It's me with a little bit of a perplexed expression.
Let's change the background color so we can see what that there's you know that
the little halo that we want to create. So, now that we have our background in place and we've got
our very unflattering photograph in place as well, click on the photo so that you see the
blue line is around it with the fence posts and the little circles. Then on to edit image up on the
status bar at the top or the menu bar up at the top and now what you're going to do is if you're
if shadows is not under your recently used, simply click scroll down, not click, scroll down and it may
be right at the bottom where it says then that you want to activate this function. So then you
simply activate it and it will hop to the top somewhere over here. But because I have recently
used it it's sitting right there easy to use. So click on shadows and this will open up a number
of options for you. None is selected. Now what we're wanting to do is select glow why specifically glow
because as you can see it has got that gray outline all around it so we click on glow
and then Canva does its own thing. It seems like it's done it; we can't really see very
much so then we simply click on those little gear like that bar with the circle on. People
call it a hamburger bar. I don't know. Here you can set now the size, we go bigger. See that it appears
if we don't want it to be too big let's go over there, we can set the transparency
very dark and absolutely nothing. So set the transparency to however you want it,
and then you can blur it as well. As you can, see the blurring effect is a
solid line and then as it as you go higher to point 20 it becomes very soft and well
blurred. And down here you can set the color. At the moment it is set to black; if we change it
to let's say we change it to that white over there, you can see the it's very clear now. So change
it to very blurred it's very blurred not very blurred that looks really harsh; and that's not
the effect that we that we're wanting to achieve. Transparency set to very very little transparency
and right down to absolutely nothing at all. So it depends on how bright you want to have your
Your outline itself and then the size - right down to very little to quite large.
I will set it to about over there now you can change the color
to something quite bright like a yellow which is not really what I want to do.
I prefer either my brand gray or my brand white like that. And then you simply click on apply
and there you go there your photograph has got its own little
halo effect or what do you want to call it - a shadow effect that you've got going. All
right, and that is how easy it is to create a let's just insert some text over here create
a shadow around your photo. Like so, let's just make that a little bit bigger
over there and like that. All right, let's just change the color over here because
that is certainly not doing any favors at all. Create a shadow around your photo
using Canva's shadow effect. As always, if there's anything else you need
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Oh, and it's still recording [laughing] all right let's stop recording all the best, bye now!