Wondering how to make graphics for your YouTube videos with Canva?
In this Canva video tutorial, you'll learn all about designing video graphics in Canva
so that you can start creating beautiful graphics for YouTube, be it a Canva YouTube thumbnail,
Canva YouTube banner or something else.
So let's get right into this Canva tutorial for beginners on how to use Canva for visual
marketing.
First off, if you don't have a Canva account yet, just click on the link in the description
box below to sign up for free.
To make graphics for your YouTube videos with Canva, log in to your Canva account, click
on ‘your projects’ from the left-hand side panel, and then on ‘designs’ up top.
To create video graphics in Canva with ease, I actually created a number of Canva templates
that I can use and customize.
These include video graphics in Canva for Pinterest pins, YouTube thumbnails, Instagram
posts, Instagram stories, Instagram Reels, email marketing and promotional graphics.
If you want to save time as well, and get a number of these templates for yourself,
make sure to check out my Online Business Templates Vault which comes with 50 done-for-you
Canva templates which will help you save 90% of the time you're currently spending on designing
new graphics and create all the graphics you need for your online business in just a few
clicks.
I'll leave the link to it in the description box below.
To use these templates for video graphics in Canva, hover your mouse over the template
you wish to use, such as this first Pinterest pin one, click on the three little dots on
the top, right-hand side, and then click on ‘make a copy'.
For the second Pinterest pin, I'll check out which was the last Pinterest pin template
I used, click on the ‘Pinterest templates’ folder on the left-hand side panel, click
on the following Pinterest pin template, and then on ‘use this template'.
Now I'll x out of this design, click on ‘your projects’ from the left-hand side panel,
and then on ‘designs’ up top.
Locate the YouTube video thumbnail graphic, hover your mouse over it, click on the three
little dots on the top, right-hand side, and then click on ‘make a copy'.
Follow this process again to make a second copy of this YouTube video thumbnail graphic.
Since I don't want to duplicate the designs for my email marketing, promotional, Instagram
post, Instagram story and Instagram Reels video graphics in Canva, I'll just click on
them to open them up.
Now let's start the editing process of these graphics for your YouTube videos with Canva.
The first thing I'll do is copy the YouTube video's title I'll be creating video graphics
in Canva for from my script document, and rename some of these designs.
To
edit this first Pinterest pin video graphic in Canva, all I'll do is change the text,
click on the downward pointing arrow up top, change the file type to JPG, and then click
on download.
To edit this second Pinterest pin video graphic in Canva, I'll change the text, click on ‘photos’
from the left-hand side panel, and locate a photo that relates to the topic of the video
I'm creating.
Since I'm a Canva Pro user, which you can try out for free by clicking on the link in
the description box below, I have access to over 100 million premium stock photos, videos,
audio and graphics.
Once I've located a photo that relates to the topic of my video, I'll drag-and-drop
it where this current photo is to replace it.
Then all that's left to do is click on the ‘download’ button up top, change the file
type to JPG, and then click on download.
To edit this first YouTube thumbnail, I'll replace the text and image, make a copy of
this first page by clicking on ‘duplicate this page’ on the top, right-hand side,
and then drag-and-drop the YouTube play icon from the previous design into this second
page.
Then I'll go ahead and click on ‘delete page’ on the top, right-hand side of the
previous design.
I like saving each of these pages individually rather than at the same time, so to do that
I'll click on ‘download’ up top, change the file type to JPG, select page one, and
then click on ‘download’.
Once that first page has been saved, I'll repeat this same process again, but this time
select page two, and then click on ‘download’.
As I mentioned in my previous video on ‘how to write a script for a YouTube video’,
if you haven't watched that yet, I'll leave the link to it in the description box below,
since I plan my YouTube videos in advance, I like adding a teaser for my following YouTube
video at the end of this current one.
That's why I created two YouTube thumbnail video graphics in Canva: one YouTube thumbnail
video graphic is for the current video we're currently working on and the other is for
the following YouTube video which we'll be teasing.
To edit this second YouTube thumbnail, I'll first rename it as my subsequent YouTube video,
replace the text and image, make a copy of this first page by clicking on ‘duplicate
this page’ on the top, right-hand side, and then drag-and-drop the YouTube play icon
from the previous design into this second page.
Then I'll go ahead and click on ‘delete page’ on the top, right-hand side of the
previous design.
Just as before, I like saving each of these pages individually rather than at the same
time, so to do that I'll click on ‘download’ up top, change the file type to JPG, select
page one, and then click on ‘download’.
Once that first page has been saved, I'll repeat this same process again, but this time
select page two, and then click on ‘download’.
Once the YouTube thumbnail video graphic with the YouTube play icon for this current video
and the subsequent video have downloaded, I'll drag-and-drop them into Canva to add
them to my uploads folder.
I use these video graphics in Canva for my email marketing, promotional, Instagram post,
and Instagram story designs.
To edit this email marketing design, I'll drag-and-drop the YouTube thumbnail video
graphic with the YouTube play icon into the space provided, change the text, and then
click on the ‘download’ button up top.
I'll make sure that the file type is set to GIF, select the appropriate page, and then
click on ‘download’.
To edit this promotional graphic design, I'll drag-and-drop the YouTube thumbnail video
graphic with the YouTube play icon into the space provided, and then click on the downward
pointing arrow up top.
I'll make sure that the file type is set to MP4 video, and then click on ‘download’.
To edit this first Instagram post design, I'll add the image we've been using to promote
this YouTube video as the background image, and change the text.
To edit this second Instagram post design, which is a carousel post, I'll drag-and-drop
the YouTube thumbnail video graphic with the YouTube play icon into the space provided,
and change the text.
I'll also add the video title and main points of the script to the subsequent pages of the
Instagram carousel post.
I like saving each of these pages individually rather than at the same time, so to do that
I'll click on ‘download’ up top, change the file type to JPG, select the first page
I want to download, and then click on ‘download’.
Once that first page has been saved, I'll repeat this same process again, to save all
of the Instagram post design video graphics in Canva.
To edit this Instagram story, I'll drag-and-drop the YouTube thumbnail video graphic with the
YouTube play icon into the space provided, and then click on the ‘download’ button
up top.
I'll make sure that the file type is set to JPG, select the appropriate page, and then
click on ‘download’.
Lastly, we'll be adding the video in this Instagram Reel in a later video, since I can
only add it once I have recorded, edited and uploaded it with captions, so stay tuned for
that.
At this moment in time, all I'll be doing is editing the text.
If you're serious about making graphics for your YouTube videos with Canva, make sure
to check out our YouTube tutorials playlist for even more YouTube tips and tricks, as
well as our FREE cheat sheet with brilliant tools that you should use below this video
to learn more about how to save time and boost your productivity in your online business.
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for your YouTube videos.
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