hi this is Sarah from sarahtypes.com
today I'm going to show you how to
create a custom geo filter for snapchat
these are great for weddings birthdays
bachelorette parties or any kind of
event where you can add it at that
specific location
first you want to go to snapchat's
website, go to snapchat.com/geofilters
when you get here if you scroll
down you'll see two types of geo filters
community and on-demand, community is
free and it's something that artists do
for their area and on demand is
something that you're creating for your
special event or for your brand so click
on learn more for on demand and if you
scroll down you'll see the three steps
you design it, you select an area on the
map and then buy. Go ahead and
click on create now and log into your
snapchat account, if you don't have one
they're free to create. Now you'll
see the first step is to either upload
your own or create one online. I'm going
to show you two ways that i would create it
one is by downloading their templates
for either photoshop or illustrator - this
is a very simple way but if you don't
have photoshop or illustrator you can
also use something like canva which is
free so if you just go to the canva
website at www.canva.com, you can create
an account for free, sign in and then on
the right-hand side you'll see use
custom dimensions - click that and then
enter in 1080 x 1920, these are the
dimensions snapchat requires you to use
for the Geo filter so now you'll see
your artboard on the right-hand side and
your design tools on the left, if you
click on upload you can upload an image
that you already have
I did that, I already had it one so I will
just click to add it, if you're all done
you can save it by clicking the download
button you must save it as a PNG
If you don't have an image to upload you
can create one straight from canva so
I'm just going to delete that and then
you can see in layouts they
have a lot of different examples where
you can put in your images
but because we need it on the bottom
third of the page
we're just going to do that ourselves in
elements, i'm just gonna click on the
icons to grab one of their free icons
and add it to my design. I'm gonna grab
the watermelon just for fun and I'm just
going to size it down so it it's there
on the bottom part of the screen and to
add text just click on the text icon you
can either click to add your own
headings or you can select one of their
pre-made ones, they're actually
pretty good so I would just select one of
the ones they have
you can size it down, drag it down and then
if you double-click you're able to edit
that text and then you can also change
the size and you can also change the
font as well so i'm going to
double-click the smaller text and just
get rid of that and and then you you
might want to change the color I'm going
to just change it to white show you
so once you're done with that you can
save it the same way as i showed you
before and then uploaded to snapchat but
if you're looking to create something
from scratch on photoshop i suggest
going to a free image site like freepik.com
you can use their images for
personal use
so I'm just going to type in 'just married'
because i'm going to create a
wedding filter, i actually already
downloaded my image - i downloaded a pink
Cadillac because we're getting married
in vegas, i added our names as well as
the date. I'm just going to change the
dates color to white so it shows up
against a photo
I'm going to upload the illustrator image
into photoshop with the dimensions that
snapchat requires actually using their
template
i'm gonna copy it and then
i'm going to paste it into photoshop
I'll resize it so it fits the whole width of
the page and then drag it down to the
bottom now i'm going to insert some
photos that I have just to see what it
will look like against an actual picture
in the background, I have about 4 or 5 of them
that I'm going to test out just to see
how it would look against those
different images and you can see in this
last image that the Sarah and Kevin part
isn't that visible, it kinda gets blended
into the background so to fix that I'm
actually just going to add a drop shadow
around that part but i'm only going to
do it on the words not the actual
Cadillac image and so now you can see
how it stands out a little bit from the
photo so using bright colors as well as
some drop shadows will really help your
overlay show no matter what background
you're using so you want to save that
for web as a PNG again and the
dimensions are 1080 x 1920 and then go
back to snapchat and click upload
grab it from your computer and this just tells
you that you can move the image around
and change the size while in the
snapchat interface, i'm pretty happy with
this so I'm just going to go ahead
and name it and before I click Next
I'm going to click on the submission guidelines
there are few rules that you have to
abide by, snapchat can reject your image
for any of these reasons so you want to
make sure you double check this list and
make sure that your image abides by these
rules otherwise you could have wasted a
lot of time, it's better just to submit
something you know is going to get
accepted so now i'm going to click Next
and this is where you pick the date I
think snapchat only allows you to do the
next month
because when i click forward you're not
able to do it farther in advance
so I'm just going to choose january and
then i'm going to choose a time frame of
four hours and then we'll click Next
I was already in the screen so that's
why the area is already selected you can
just copy and paste your address into
the field on top of the map and then
you'll see that the marker gets put
exactly where that address is you can
adjust the size of that green overlay to
whatever you want the area to be and
you'll see in the top left-hand side
that the price changes, so the larger your
area the more expensive the filter is
going to be i know mine is just a
building so I'm just
going to adjust the size so it just gets
that area and not anywhere else that's
not necessary
so I'm pretty happy with the price and
where it's located so i'm going to click
Next and you'll go to this area where
you enter in your payment details and
you should be good to go! thanks for
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