Stream Labels are incredibly powerful! Simply having your latest follower or latest subscriber
on-screen can sometimes be enough to make someone follow or subscribe because who doesn't want their
name in lights right or if you want you can take it a step further and simply add one label like i
did that tripled my subscribers gained per stream today we're gonna be setting up stream labels
inside obs using stream elements this is entirely free you'll learn how to set up every single label
you need whether this is recent follower later sub most subs donations anything at all including
hosts and raids you'll also learn how to create custom goals and i'll show you how to actually
set up your labels to look aesthetically pleasing with styling and animation but i'll take it a step
further and also give you guys a bunch of free graphics you can use right now to make your stream
look much cleaner and professional all of the time codes are linked in the description and in
the top comments you can skip ahead to whichever part of this tutorial you're in need of right now
but with that out of the way let's get into it your first step is to open obs because we need
to confirm what canvas size you're using for your stream and make note of it for later so
open up obs head to your settings and select video and then read what your base canvas size is
and make note of it now head over to stream elements.com which is linked in the description
log in using your twitch account and then on the left hand side you'll want to click on streaming
tools click my overlays and then click new overlay you'll be prompted to choose a resolution now if
your canvas size was 1920x10a then select 1080p or if your canvas size was 1280x720 change this
to 720. these are the two most common resolutions but if you had something different just make sure
that your resolution here matches the canvas you have over in obs once you select that you'll be
met with this nice big open canvas imagine this is your obs window whatever we put in this will
appear later inside obs head to your top left and name your new canvas so you don't get it confused
later okay next we're going to click add widget or click the plus button down at the bottom when
it opens up you'll see a lot of different widgets that stream elements offers these are alerts chat
boxes and all sorts of cool things we'll cover all that in another video so subscribe but for now
we're focusing on a label so hover over the label section and you'll see all of the different label
options if we click any of these label options it will appear in your canvas such as clicking
latest follower will show us our latest follower now this looks absolutely terrible which we'll fix
in a second but first you'll want to add a graphic known as a support bar this is what your text will
sit on top of to make it easier to read and more aesthetically pleasing for you and your viewers
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your graphic you're going to go down to that plus button and give it a little click you'll head to
the static slash custom section and if the graphic you're adding is a video file you'll click video
or if it's an image you'll click image video files are usually webm format and images are usually png
format but it's usually easy to tell if it's a video image anyway once added you'll go to the
top left and make sure the new video layer that's been added is selected then you'll click change
video or change image you'll click upload in the top right of the pop-up and you'll drag your new
support bar graphic in and it should appear on the canvas nice job you smashed it now once it's
uploaded you can click the corners of your support bar and drag it to be bigger or smaller if needed
and you can also click it and drag it anywhere to move it around as well imagine where you want this
graphic to be inside obs while you're streaming and then place it around there for now now if you
don't have any support bar graphics or you haven't been able to pick your favorite pack from owned
yet we do have a bunch of free ones available for you all you have to do is head to the description
click on our discord read the rules and rolls so you can verify and then scroll down to the
free stream graphics you can pick any overlay pack you want to download because they all come
with support bars now that everyone has a graphic fully uploaded we can head back to stream elements
now if you added the label before when i was showing you guys you can just click and drag
it or if you need you can add it again by going to the plus button head to labels and click
latest follower just like before this adds in a label that will display your latest follower and
just like before it still looks terrible i want you to click on the new text that has appeared
and drag it over the top of your support bar for now if it goes behind or under the support bar
rather than above or on top of it don't worry head to the top left and select the label layer
now drag it above the video or image layer that your graphic is on this will put it above the
graphic now click settings with the label layer selected here you can see and edit the text for
your label the first part is just text essentially but the part in brackets is very basic code that
tells the label to pull the name of your latest follower you can change the front part and the
part after to say whatever you want essentially and the name will still appear for example we
could put new king and as long as you don't change the brackets the latest follower will still appear
there now obviously depending on the label what appears in the brackets will do different things
if you added the label for latest subscriber then in the brackets it would pull the latest subs name
rather than the latest followers name next up we have position size and style settings these don't
overly matter to be entirely honest the width and the height are the size of your label's border box
you can either change it here or you can simply click and drag to expand or shrink the border
in the canvas top and left are where the label is actually appearing on your canvas
but again you can just click and drag it around as well opacity lets you make the label transparent
and rotate well it's pretty simply put it lets you rotate the label and now we're onto the fun
part the text settings i love this bit in your text settings you can change the font your label
appears as to fit the aesthetic of the design you're choosing but if stream elements doesn't
have the font you want built in you can actually tick custom font just make sure you've installed
the custom font you want to use to your pc before opening your browser and doing all of this if you
didn't install the custom font first make sure you save everything close it all down install the font
and now open it back up if you want to change the color of your label it's actually right here next
to your font as well below that you'll change the size of your font we want this to be nice and big
so it fits our graphic and it's easy to read then you'll have the line height which lets us do some
slide adjustments to up and down if you can't get it right when you drag it now my follower
label looks fine but if i set up a subscriber label you'll see the name and everything kind
of goes too far outside the box it's too long now rather than changing my font size and trying
to make it fit what i'll do instead is turn on dynamic font size this means if i change
my border to fit my box it'll always make sure the names and the words that i use in this label
fit perfectly and then below that are the normal paragraph settings i won't cover these too much
because at the end of the day these are the same as a word document or a notepad you don't really
need them now this is looking pretty good you've got your graphic you've got your label there if
someone follows it will appear but what if you want that text to pop a little bit what if it's
fading too much into the graphic you chose to use well there are two settings that i absolutely love
for doing this the first is the stroke effect this adds a slight outline to a label so let's say we
have white text but we also have a light support panel we could add a slight black stroke to help
it be more readable on the light panel or the other option which i absolutely love is the text
shadow this adds exactly what the name implies a shadow to your text but it is so much more than
that the rgb and 000 are the shadow color controls and then next to that where it says pxl or
pixel is how you control the shadow's location and softness let's leave the color at zero zero zero
because that is black for now when it comes to controlling location pixel one is how far to the
right the shadow is gonna go pixel two is how far down it's going to go and pixel three is how soft
the shadow is going to look for now set this to 550 so we have a nice crisp hard shadow that drops
five pixels down to the right that said the shadow doesn't have to be black i actually prefer to add
a pop of color to mine you can do this by changing the rgb settings obviously to do this we actually
need to know a color code the easiest option is to go back up to your text stroke click the circle
and then move this around to find a color you really like once you find it you'll copy the code
come back to the shadow and replace rgb00 with rgb and the code given just remember to change
your text stroke back to the color you were using before moving on below that is the text scrolling
option this tells the label to scroll like a ticker tape through the border you set it does
look a little bit weird when you only have one name such as the latest follower but all the
labels actually come with a recent version which displays all the reason of that type so if we
clicked the plus clicked follower recent followers and then in the settings for this new label layer
we set how many names to include in the label so let's say 25 of the most recent follows and
then pretty simply it will display 25 of the most recent followers the rest of the settings
here are exactly the same as i showed you before so we can change those to make it look nice and
then we'll click text scrolling we will layer and line this up with our graphic we can size it right
so it fits the edges and then ta-da you've got all your recent followers scrolling along
obviously that scroll isn't for everyone but i wanted to include it in case you needed it
now no matter what label you're trying to add this process is pretty much the exact same you
click the plus you add the label you make it look nice and there you go for example adding latest
subscriber would be exactly the same now i still need to show you guys how to set up custom goals
that look so much nicer than the default goals and i want to show you that one label i used to triple
my subscribers but first i want to show you guys how to add this recent follower into obs before
we get too far ahead of ourselves head back to stream elements and i want you to click save
you'll find this in the top right and then you're going to copy the link as shown on screen here now
now head back to obs click add source browser source name it recent follower and once it's added
open its properties by double clicking on it paste in the browser source url we copied from stream
elements and then change the size of the source to the same size as the canvas on stream elements
which should also be the same as obs because we covered it at the start for me mine was 1920
by 1080 but make sure yours just matches we'll then hit save and make sure the browser source
is on the top of the source list and not hidden behind any other layers and there you go it should
appear if you followed everything correctly now sometimes your browser source might be a little
bit squiff and you need to line it up properly if you've set all your resolutions correctly
simply right click on the browser source transform and click fit to frame size it will then scale and
match the corners perfectly to your canvas now as i said if we want to add a new label such
as latest subscriber then it is the exact same process but if you're adding a second label you
need to decide whether or not you're going to add it to the current browser source you've set up or
make a whole new overlay and add that as another browser source if you go back to stream elements
and go to my overlays you can click edit and you'll open up your canvas again now you can add
another label here to the one we created earlier let's say latest subscriber and hit save now this
means they're both inside one layer in obs so if you want to change where your recent follower is
it will also move where your latest sub is as well this obviously can make things pretty simple if
you have four different bars and they're all in the same overlay when you move one they all move
together pretty easily but if you want control over each individual one and you don't want to
constantly have to go back into stream elements to move them then you'll need them on separate
layers inside obs to do this you'll go back to my overlays and you'll click on the dot dot dot of
the overlay you're then going to click duplicate and rename the duplicate of the old label overlay
now inside this new overlay i want you to delete the old label that's duplicated from the scene
to do this go to the top left select the label you want to delete and click the trash bin
now we have a blank canvas with just the graphic we added earlier now add in your new label to the
empty graphic the same way as i showed you earlier and then add this as its own browser source again
the same as i showed you earlier you're probably thinking though but how do i get rid of the other
two empty bars i don't want well after you've imported them all you have to do is hold alt
and drag the edges and this will actually crop it down to the only the bar you want you have to be
careful though because you'll actually see that as i scale these to be larger they become blurry this
is because obviously we're losing resolution by dragging them up so make them bigger inside stream
elements before you start cropping and making them larger here in obs now you have two separate
support bars on two separate browser source layers inside obs which you can move manually however you
want but a trick here if you want you can actually select them all and then group them in a folder
this means you can move them around as the folder or open it up and move them around individually
but i promise you would be able to boost your growth and potentially triple your subscribers
which we will do but first let me show you how to add a custom daily follower goal that actually
looks good head back to stream elements and either make a brand new canvas or simply open up the one
you want to add your follower goal to click your plus button in the bottom left again and
i'm sure you're thinking that i'm going to click the follower labels and then click the label named
goals but i'm not because i hate how these look by default it takes up too much screen space and
looks like trash nope instead i want you to click the plus go to labels and then depending on what
kind of goal you want whether it's followers or subscribers go to there for us we're gonna go with
followers click total all time and then select follow account now all the text and style settings
to make it look nice are the same as i showed you before the part that is different is when you go
to the settings so head over to the settings in the top left and change the name from session
followers to just say goal or any word you like go to the other side of the account and then hit
space and type slash another space and then the number of your goals for example let's say your
goal is to have five new follows a stream now in the no data section if you've had no new followers
in the period you selected below or stream elements was reset then the label will show
what is written in no data we want this instead to emulate what our goal would look like if it
was at zero so copy the name to the node data and change the count to just say zero instead now in
the period drop down below it has three options seven days and 30 days are pretty self-explanatory
you can change this to count follows or subs to however long your goal is meant to be for
so if you want your account to display how many followers you've received in the last seven days
you'll select 7 or 30 days you'll select 30 days or you can select session session is essentially
a custom time period for your counter you can either reset this manually or today we're going
to be setting up so it resets automatically after every single stream go to the top right and click
session data now here you'll be able to see all of your latest and recent events it also gives you
the option to reset these events entirely wiping the data so let's not click that and instead go
to settings in the top right of this section and you'll see a switch that says reset 15 minutes
after each stream turning this on resets your session automatically after each stream so if
you go live and you have your goal set up to have five daily follows it'll say zero or five and then
let's say you get six new followers that stream you end stream 15 minutes after ending it'll reset
back down so next time you go live it'll say 0.05 again this is the easiest way i've found at really
nice minimal daily goals that aren't too imposing on your stream okay enough of the boring stuff
let's add the final label for today the one i use to triple my subscribers gain first stream it is
the train label a train label starts a timer when someone follows subscribes or donates depending on
the train you set up and then the idea is that someone will want to donate subscribe or follow
to stop that timer from hitting zero it's sort of like a subathon but today we're gonna do something
that's much cooler than a subathon obviously by itself this train widget is incredibly
powerful it sort of chains together your new follows your new subs or your new donations
but instead i did something much cooler i set it up so that every time someone subbed an 11
second counter started on my screen for those 11 seconds i couldn't use my controls while
playing elden ring or dark souls 3. two very hard games this allowed chat to essentially troll me
in every single boss fight to add this label do exactly what i showed you earlier make a
new canvas or find a canvas you want to add it to you're going to click the plus button labels add a
train and it will appear on screen now again all the tools to make this look nice and change the
size etc are the exact same so go ahead and do all of that then come back to your settings in the top
left train duration is the minutes that will start counting down when someone takes an
action by default it should be set to 5 minutes below that is where you change the train type
if you set this to subs when someone subscribes that's when your timer will start same for follows
and same for tips once you've set your train type if you go down to emulate and emulate the type
of alert that matches what you set it to so for example for a sub you'll see the counter starts to
count down below that there are a few more options such as the ability to show the latest user who
contributed to the train show the total users who are contributing the timer of course and then the
icons oh and vertical but i've never seen anyone use this vertically because it looks real trash so
set your train type and your timer to be whatever you want and think of an interesting or engaging
way to use these very basic label tools to make them interactive and engaging to boost your growth
and you're probably thinking lj how did you make it so that this connects to your controller so it
stops working well it's really simple when i had the timer set up the 11 seconds appears on screen
and then i just put the controller down for the entire 11 seconds that's it you don't
need to go fancy you can use very basic tools and then enforce them upon yourself
to make good engaging content and boost your revenue and growth by a huge amount
it took me less than two minutes and some creative thinking to add that train label
from there it tripled and quadrupled the subs gained on those streams that i used it if you want
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