Hello, everybody welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. So recently, I have been teaching you how
you can start your own YouTube channel and how to make money online as a YouTuber. In today's video,
I'm going to teach you how to create your own beautiful YouTube channel art or channel banner
completely for free using Canva. I'm also going to link you to a template that you can get started
creating your own channel art for free that I've created for you. And I've linked you to in the
description below. So it's really important to have a professional YouTube banner or channel art,
because when someone watches one of your videos, before they decide to subscribe to you, many
times they'll click on your profile to go to your channel. And if they see that you don't have many
videos there, or it's not very professional and doesn't look like you are a legitimate channel,
they probably will not subscribe to you. But if they click on your channel, and they see that you
do have a beautiful banner, and that you have a legitimate presence on YouTube, they're much more
likely to subscribe to your channel. So in today's video, I'm going to show you a step by step how to
create your own beautiful YouTube banner using Canva completely for free. I'll also link you to
a template that I've created that you can use to get started. And I'm going to show you how
to use Canva even if you are a complete beginner. So before we get started, if you haven't already,
make sure to subscribe to my channel for more videos just like this one. And let's get started.
Okay, so the first thing I want to show you is the YouTube channel art and how it can look different
on different devices. So for example, this is my YouTube channel art for my main channel.
And this is what it looks like on a computer. However, if you were watching this on a TV,
it would look like this, you would see this full image here. So some people will make use
of this space and add something like new videos every week. Or you can just leave it blank,
like I have. However, if you were watching my channel from a mobile phone, you would not
see this subscribe button or this arrow here, you would just see this portion in the middle.
So what we're going to do today is I want to create a new YouTube banner for my other channel
sparkle English, I've had this banner for quite a while... it's really basic, and I want to change it.
I also have a new logo that I've been using in my videos. And so I need to
update this with my new logo. So what we're going to do is we're going to go to Canva.
So Canva is completely free, there is a premium option, but you do not need the premium option to
create YouTube channel art. And I'm going to show you how to do this completely for free.
So you can join Canva by clicking on my link in the description below.
And then you're just going to go to templates and click on YouTube channel art, I also am going to
link you to a YouTube channel art template that's completely for free. So you don't have to go
through creating and setting up all the guidelines yourself. But I will show you how to do that.
So here you can see all these different YouTube channel art templates. And you can scroll and
use any of these and edit them as you want. If you don't want to go step by step and create your own.
So what we're going to do is click create a blank YouTube channel art. And this is going to give
us the complete full size. So whatever we put on here will be visible on the television. However,
we need to set it up. So we have the proper guidelines for all the different devices. So the
first thing we're going to do is click on elements and just click on this square here. And we need to
adjust this to 1546 pixels by 423 pixels. You can click here and zoom up and then try again.
So the width you can see, we want it to be 1546. Okay, and the height we want to be 423. Again,
if you can't get it, exactly, you can just go like zoom up, and then try again. For 23. Great. Okay,
so now we're going to click on this and drag it and until it's centered, you can see what the
purple lines. So what this is, is this is the space that is safe for the text and logo on a
mobile phone. So a lot of people only use YouTube on their mobile phones. And so we want to make
sure all of our important information is in this box here. So you can change the color of this
right now. I'm just going to change this to this color here. And we're going to create a second
box, we're going to click here again and then change the color so we can differentiate the two.
And we want to make it the height the same again. So I'm just going to drag it so it's matching the
height of the first box and then adjust this here, clicking and dragging, so it's the same.
So what we want to do for this one is make it 1855. So we're going to see 1855... Perfect.
And then again, I want to send her that so it's in the center, then right click Send to Back.
So what we have here, everything that's on this first top box will be visible on the mobile phone.
And on this blue box is what will be visible on a tablet, if you're someone's viewing your channel.
And then this part here would be on a desktop computer, and all of this on a television. So
from here, what we're going to do is go File show guides. And what we can do is create our own
little guidelines. Now you don't have to do this, but I think it's nice. So you're always aware of
what contents are in each box. So you just click and drag down, and then it will snap to the box.
So let's just do that and create guidelines across all of the different sections here. So we have
those two, then over to the side, click, put one line there, click again, one line here, one line
here, and one line here. Okay, so in this part is the mobile phone, this part of the tablet, this
part, desktop, or PC, and all of this is the TD. So what you can do from here is erase these boxes
or choose to keep them I like to keep the boxes in case I accidentally move one of the guidelines.
Now what I'm going to do is link you to this template in the description below. So you
can go ahead and start editing right away, and you don't have to create your own guidelines.
So this is the template right here that you can get started using, you can go ahead and put in
your own picture here your channel name, and edit any of the text box and all the guidelines are
set up for you just click Use Template, you will have to sign up. Or if you're already logged into
your Canva account, you can just go ahead and click Use Template. Okay, so now we're ready to
start creating. So I want to change the background color. So I'm going to click on the background, go
here and choose whatever color I want, I actually want this to be the color of the background,
you could also click on background, and use any of these backgrounds or patterns that you want,
or click on Upload and upload your own image that you want to use.
Now I'm going to click on this blue box. And I actually want to make it a yellow color. So I'm
gonna click here add new color, I actually know the code color that I want. So I'm gonna paste
it here. And I'm going to extend this box. So it fills this whole space again, keeping
in mind that the text and logo has to be within this space. And I want to change this to white.
And one thing I want to keep in mind is sometimes we have these rulers, but when we're trying to
crop things, see how the ruler can move and it can be a little annoying. So I'm going to
turn that off for now by going to File show guides. And then I can turn them on whenever
I need them. But right now, I don't want them on, I actually want to create a little border.
I just think a little border is nice on the mobile phone. And I'm going to bring this,
like that. So now I'm going to turn my guides back on. And what I want to do is add my logo
here and a picture of me. So to add your logo, go to uploads, and then click Upload
Media and upload your logo, I already have my logo added. So I'm just going to click it
and drag it on to the document. So you can position it wherever you want. You just click and
drag on these nodes to adjust the size. And I also want to add a picture of myself. Now I've already
cropped out the picture of myself and remove the background. So I'm gonna go ahead and add that. If
you don't know how to do that I recently created a tutorial actually using this exact same picture,
which I will link to in the description below. So you can go ahead and adjust this wherever you
want. Now if you want to make any edits to this image, click on Edit Image and you can adjust the
brightness contrast, even add a filter. I want to add a shadow so I'm going to click shadows.
And then you can either add a glow or a drop shadow. I like the glow. If you want to make
edits to that you can click again and you can adjust the color the blur or the size. I'm happy
with how that looks. So I'll click Apply. Okay, so let's add some text to this. We can go ahead
click on text, you can click add a heading at a subheading. We're going to click Add a subheading.
Again we want to make sure this is within the box here so it's going to show up on our mobile phone.
I'm going to put learn and practice North American English. And if you want to adjust the font type,
just click and highlight it and go over here and adjust whatever font you want to use.
I already know for my brand I want to use forum. So I'll click on that I can also adjust the color
by clicking on this box here and then adjusting the color. And, for example,
I wanted just this to be blue. So I highlighted it and then clicked whatever color I wanted to use.
You can also adjust the positioning of it even at bullets, or adjust the spacing the line spacing
by clicking here and adjusting the line spacing if you want to give yourself some more space.
With text, you can also click on Effects. And you can give it a shadow if you want
a lift, make it hollow, you can experiment with any of these effects.
And you can also do the same with your logo if you wanted to add a shadow to your logo.
Now let's say you want to add some sort of graphic, you can go here to elements. And there's
all sorts of different graphics that you can use. Because I'm teaching Canadian English, I want to
add a little Canada flag. So go ahead click on my little flag that I want to use, and put it
where I want it and then go ahead and just the positioning of it again dragging on these nodes.
And then to change the color of the elements. If there's the option to change it, the color will
pop up here. So I want that to just match with my brand. So I'm going to choose this color here.
So going back to my channel art for my current channel, you can see here that I have this arrow,
and it points down to these little buttons here. So if someone's looking at my channel,
on their computer, they could go ahead and link to my Instagram or my Facebook or my website.
So what we can do is add an arrow in this box here. So I'm going to go ahead click on arrow.
And again, you can see if one is free, it'll say free at the bottom. And if it's Pro,
it'll say Pro. But all of these that I'm seeing are free. I'm going to click on this one here.
And we're going to rotate it to 90 degrees, change the color.
And you can just position that however you want here and that way it will point down to
the button. So you kind of want it to get as far over here as you can. So it'll will point down to
these three buttons here. So that looks good to me. Okay, so this looks pretty good. Let's say
if someone's watching on their television, and maybe I want to put something up here
or down here, maybe I'm going to put some text at the top here. And I will say
new lessons every week. Change that to white, and then change it to my font type.
You can even add in some embellishments. Let's say I typed in lines
to something like this, and they use the arrow key. To bring it up. You can click here even
and change the ending of it as well or change how the line type is and change the color if you want.
And then you can extend it as well. So let's go new lessons every week.
And finally, I want to put a Subscribe button down here. So I'm going to type in subscribe.
And there's all these different Subscribe buttons that you can use.
Some of these are pro and then others are free. This one here is free.
So you can go ahead and let's say scroll that scroll down and put that here. And if you click
on edit image, you can go ahead and add any effect that you want to the subscribe button. Okay,
and then you can turn off the guidelines just to see what it looks like. And I think this looks
pretty good. But now to download this, just click here on download and then just click download.
And this is what our new banner will look like. I'm going to make a few other little adjustments.
But when you're ready to upload it, just go to your channel, and then just click on your banner.
And that will bring you to your branding section here under Channel customization. And then here
you're just going to click Change, and then upload your new your new banner. And then you can see
here what's going to be visible on all devices and what's going to be visible on the television.
And then just click Done. And then click publish. And now we'll go to View channel and you can see
that we have our new banner, I might make a few other little adjustments to this,
such as taking this arrow and moving it up a little bit. But it's just that easy to create your
own custom professional looking YouTube banner. So I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial, please
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related to creating on YouTube. Thank you guys so much and I will see you in my next tutorial.