One thing that almost every YouTube creator would like to have is more
subscribers. We can't all be like Casey Neistat and get a new subscriber
every one or two seconds. So I'd like to show you how to use the Canva website to
help you create a clickable subscribe button that'll show up on all your
YouTube videos. Go to the Canva website and create a free account if you don't
already have one. Canva does have a paid option that will give you more features,
but the free account will work just fine for us. When you've logged in you'll see
a page similar to this and a section that says "Create a design". And there's
some preset, pre-made design templates there for different purposes. But we want
to go and click on "Use custom dimensions", and put in 800 by 800 pixels and click
, "Design". Then we get our workspace right there and there are several choices here.
These are Canva layouts that are already pre-made. Click there and there
are Elements, different shapes. There's text that you can add. Different fonts.
There are different colored solid backgrounds and textured backgrounds.
And this is a section where you can upload your own images. Well we're gonna go to
Backgrounds first. And I want something that's kind of a YouTube red.
There's all kinds of colors you can use. But there's a red. I really want one darker.
So you can click there and there's a color wheel when you can drag the little
dot to wherever you want to on that color wheel and pick a color. I'm gonna
pull it further into the red and have a little darker red going on. It also gives
you the color code for the color you've created. You can write that down in case
you want to use it for another project. If you have a paid account it stores
that for you. And now let's go to elements and then shapes and I want a
white square to put on my red background. These say Free. A paid account has more options.
And there's our white square. And you can move it around and it'll tell
you when it's centered vertically and horizontally.
There it's just right in the center vertically and horizontally. So I'm going
to move it up a little bit vertically and pull it up. Shorten the
box so there's room below for text. And then now I want a triangle; something I
can use to simulate a play button. So it puts it in there. And it's white, so I
don't want it white. So you can go up here and select a color. It has your
basic options but it also has the red that I just created. So we can click on
that to get the same color of red. So there you go.
And you can also click this button and it would change anything that's white to
that red you just selected. I don't really want that but that shows you what
it can do. So then I want to pull this up a little higher and then I want to trim
it down - resize it a little bit. Make it smaller. I'll center it there for now.
And then I want to rotate it. Have it point to the right to look more like a play button.
Then I want to resize it again. Make it smaller and pull it down there.
It's kind of centered. I'm gonna make it a little smaller so it'll stand out more.
And now I'm gonna select text, and put some text underneath it. I want it to say
"Subscribe". There's lots of different choices here, but I want something simple.
Something that will stand out well and be very readable. So I'm going to go down
to the example that has the word "Dazzle", and select it. And that'll place the text
box over in the work area. And it tells you at the top of the work area there
that the font name is "Glacial Indifference". And you can resize this box.
I want it to eventually end up being the full width of that area at the bottom.
It comes with pre-filled text, and you'll want to delete that.
Delete that par fumeor however you say it. And then we'll pull this out some more to get it edge-to-edge.
And delete the "Dazzle" text and I want to put in "Subscribe".
So we've got that. There's the Glacial indifference font indication and that is
the size of the font. Not big enough, so I'm gonna try 88. A little too big. I'm
gonna go back and hit 80. And that's pretty good. I might try a little bigger.
I'm gonna try 85. So you can actually go up and type that in there; whatever font
size you want, and hit enter. And it pulled it across a little more.
So I'll leave it there and then get it centered again horizontally and vertically in
that lower section. And there you have your basic subscribe button. You can save
it, although it automatically saves pretty often. And then you want to
download it into whatever folder you've got set up for this. PNG is the default
recommended file format here for saving, and it's one that YouTube also
recommends. And so Te're gonna save it there. there are other things that you
can create besides just a "Subscribe" button that'll serve the same purpose.
You can upload your own image. This is a graphic I use on one of my channels. I'm
gonna pull that out and fill that work space. That 800 by 800 size, and Save that.
You can also upload a picture of yourself or in this case, me. Although I
decided I didn't want my face staring back at everybody on all my videos. Or if
your channel is all about cars, you could upload a graphic of a vehicle and that
would make a great watermark. So what do you do with what you've just created?
Well, go to your channel. Be sure you're in Creator Studio. And then go to the
left-hand column and select Channel. And under Channel, select Branding.
And under Branding, there's a button that says, "Add a watermark". Click that and it
gives you some guidelines about the recommended file format. That's either
PNG or GIF, although you can use JPEG. And the maximum file size is one megabyte.
And then hit "Choose File" and go to where you saved that, and select your Subscribe button.
And then hit "Save", and then it shows you your uploaded watermark. So hit
"Save", again, and then it shows you your watermark here. And it says, Showing on
all your uploads". And over here you can choose when it displays. You can choose
for it to show at the end of the video, choose a custom start time, or have it
show for the entire video. I'm going to choose, "Custom start time", and have it
start showing 10 seconds into each video. And click "Update". So let's take a look at
a video, and see how that SUBSCRIBE button looks. There it is in the lower
right hand corner. And if they do click on that image, it takes them right to
your channel. They can see what you're all about, and if they want to, they can
subscribe. It's a great benefit having this watermark on all your videos. I know
it helped my channel after I added it to all my videos, and I really believe it
can help you too. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe to my channel if you
would, and have a great day. Bye!