- What is going on, my name is Dee and in this video and
by request I'm gonna show you how to make your YouTube
channel art or your channel banner using a free app called
PicsArt that's available for both iOS and android.
And if you're new to the channel and you wanna learn how
to master your mobile, make better content on your phone,
and be a mobile YouTuber, hit that subscribe button
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Now let me show you how to make that banner using PicsArt.
Now in order to make this work,
you need to download the template that I'm gonna put a
link to down in the description below.
That's gonna be the template that we're gonna
load up right here and you're gonna see what it looks like
as soon as I tap on it and open it up.
This is your channel banner template,
and the way this works is what you see here
on the full image is what you see if you view it on a TV.
So, if I zoom in you're gonna see
the size is 2,560 pixels by 1,140.
That's what people see if they're viewing on a TV.
If they're viewing on a desktop,
you're gonna see the size for that, on a tablet,
on a desktop minimum and mobile.
What we're gonna focus on today is on mobile because
this is what a lot of people are gonna be looking on and
of course you can expand as much as you want.
If you want to expand it all the way out to the desktop max
or the tablet that's entirely up to you,
but for this tutorial we are going to focus on the mobile
center area, which is the darkest area
with a size of 1,546 by 423.
So what we wanna do for the very first thing is come down
to the tools icon down on the bottom left.
Tap on that and go to resize.
And what's gonna happen is it's gonna show you the size
that it actually is.
If you do not see 2,560 by 1440
you need to correct this before you continue.
Now this part is critical and you need to make sure
that the size is correct.
If you skip this part, what's gonna happen is when you
upload the final image to youtube,
it's probably gonna be too small,
then you're gonna go down, you're gonna leave a comment,
and you're gonna say Dee it didn't work, it's too small.
And I'm gonna say user error, you didn't follow instruction.
So make sure the size is correct so everything lines up
when you put it online.
So now that the size is set, we wanna scroll down in the
tools all the way over to draw.
We're gonna tap on that and
they're gonna take us to another area.
What we wanna do is find a color that we wanna use
to fill in some of this image.
So on the bottom left
you're gonna tap on this icon down here,
it's a square and a color palette is gonna open.
I'm gonna choose one of these blues.
I'm gonna hit the check mark on the top right, and
then over on the right you're gonna see a little square
with a circle behind it.
We're gonna tap on that and
just kinda open up this option setting.
I wanna tap on the square,
I wanna make sure the fill is set,
then I'm gonna tap on okay.
Now I'm gonna zoom out just a little bit, and
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my finger,
push down on the bottom and
as I drag along its gonna draw a square.
Now I'm gonna bring it right up
to the bottom here just like that, and I'm gonna tap off.
I'm gonna do the exact same thing for the top.
Just like that.
Now as you can see if I zoom in,
actually that's pretty good,
but if yours did not make the line perfectly
you can just make another one and
just keep building it on top until it's perfect.
I'm okay with this.
So what I'm gonna do now is
I'm gonna go to the check mark on the top right,
I'm gonna tap on that and
it's gonna take us back to where we started.
Now I'm gonna add some effects to this image.
I wanna add a little bit of texture to it,
a little bit of an overlay.
So I'm gonna go to mask and
it's gonna load a bunch of masks that come with PicsArt.
So you can scroll through them, you can tap on 'em,
you can see what happens here.
You see, now as I tap these and as I move along it changes,
and I'm just, actually I like that one.
I'm gonna keep that one right here.
So, I'm gonna tap on the top check mark on the right,
and this is our image that we're gonna start with.
So I wanna save this to my gallery on my phone because
we're gonna work on a second image now.
To do this I'm gonna to the top right to the white arrow,
I'm gonna tap on that and then down on the bottom
I'm gonna tap on save.
Go into the bottom again,
I'm gonna save the picture to my device.
Then on the top right I'm gonna tap on done.
And this brings me right back to the beginning
to where we can work on another image.
Now let me pause for just a second because I'm curious
what you're currently using to make your channel banner with
or your channel art.
So go down and leave a comment below.
Let me know what your currently using,
as well as what you're using for your thumbnails.
I read every single comment and
I reply to as many of them as I can.
When this videos over,
I'm gonna go down there and carry on the conversation.
Now the next image that we're gonna work on
is this center mobile area.
We're gonna build this up,
then we're gonna place it inside
the first graphic that we worked on.
So, we're gonna go back down, tap on the plus,
but only this time we're gonna go over to draw,
and we're gonna tap on start drawing,
and up on the very top you're gonna see some size options.
We're gonna tap on custom and
this is the size that you want 1,546 by 423,
this is the center area for a mobile safe channel banner.
We're gonna tap on okay,
then we're gonna tap on the purple arrow on the top right.
So this is the image that we have to work with now.
This is where we're gonna build in the images,
we're gonna build any text here that we want,
any social media icons,
whatever you want it's going to go in this area.
Now I've prepared an image I want to drop in here.
So what I want to do is go down to the bottom right
and tap on this little square with a plus on it,
that's gonna allow me to load a photo.
And I'm gonna go find the image that I downloaded earlier.
Now if you look at the top here you can see that it's
a lot larger, it's 3,488 by 1,000.
That's fine, I can resize it once I drop it in.
So I'm gonna go up here to the top right, tap on the check,
and it's gonna drop it in.
What I wanna do is grab one of these corners
and just stretch it out, just like this.
And I'm gonna move myself all the way over
to the edge right about there.
Then I'm gonna tap off.
Now, if you accidentally tap off before you're moving this,
on the top left here, you see the little curved arrow,
tap on that it's gonna erase it and you can go back
and choose the photo again.
So I'm happy with this.
Now what I wanna do is I'm gonna get rid of
this white extra area here.
So I'm gonna go back down to the color palette,
which is the bottom left, I'm gonna tap on that.
Once again, I'm gonna tap on the eyedropper and then
I'm gonna move this target here
to the color I want to paint.
So, I obviously don't want white, I want it blue.
So I'm gonna put it right to the edge of blue there
and you see down on the corner it's turned blue.
Then I'm gonna come over here to the square in the circle
which is the shade.
So I'm gonna tap on that.
I'm gonna make sure that I choose a square and it's a fill.
I'm gonna tap okay, then I'm gonna use my finger
and I'm just gonna draw a square to fill this in,
just like that and I'm gonna tap off.
And when I'm finished, I'm gonna go up to the white arrow,
tap on that, and I'm gonna save this image to my device.
And then I'm gonna hit done.
Now this brings us right back to the first page again.
So we're gonna tap on the plus one more time,
we're gonna tap on edit and find the background image
that we started with.
We're gonna tap on that,
then we're gonna scroll over
to the right until we see add photo,
then we're gonna go find the photo
that we just worked on with the image I just added.
As you can see it dropped it in, it's kinda small,
I can grab this little arrow and I can zoom it right in.
Now I'm using two fingers to pinch and zoom.
That's how you zoom in and you zoom out.
So now that I have the image aligned up
exactly how I want it.
I'm gonna go back to
draw because I actually forgot to add something.
So I'm gonna scroll back over, I'm gonna go to draw,
and I'm gonna zoom in just like this,
I'm gonna choose a color again.
I'm gonna use the eyedropper and
I'm gonna choose the color of my shirt.
I'm gonna go to the shapes and
make sure I have a filled square.
Then I'm gonna draw a little image just like this.
Okay, so now I have that in place,
I'm gonna go back, tap on the check on the top right,
it's gonna take us right back to this area,
and I'm gonna start to add my texts.
So I'm gonna scroll over until I find the text icon,
which is in the bottom here.
Gonna tap on that, and then I'm gonna add some text.
Okay, so it's dropped my text in here,
it's larger than what I want it to be.
So I'm gonna resize it by pinching and zooming,
and trying to get this thing centered up in here
until it looks something like this.
Okay I'm happy with that.
So I'm gonna add another line of text.
So what I wanna do is go up to the top center,
tap on the plus and tap on text,
and I'm gonna add more text.
Now for this tutorial I'm just gonna add mobile stuff,
you add whatever you want.
And by the way you can add whatever you want here,
you don't have to copy this exactly,
add squares, add circles, add text, don't add text,
whatever you want to do, this is entirely up to you.
So now I have my text in here and
I don't like the actual font,
so I'm gonna come through here and
I'm gonna change the font.
Try to get this lined up here.
Okay, I like that, I'm gonna tap on it again,
and I'm gonna change the color.
For this I want a bright blue maybe.
Okay, I like the color.
Now here's something else you can do though,
if you come down to the bottom you can see stroke.
So if you tap on the stroke,
you can actually change the thickness of the stroke,
or you can change the color of the stroke.
I'm going to put this about right there,
and if you want to add a drop shadow,
you come over to the shadow icon, you tap on that.
Now because my stroke is a little bit thick,
you won't see it unless I change the position.
So I wanna come over to position and
I'm gonna hit these little arrows until it starts to move,
and you see it coming in there just a little bit.
Just like that.
Okay, mobile stuff with Dee Nimmin.
I like where this is going.
I'm gonna add one more thing down on the bottom here,
and to do that I'm gonna go back up to the top center,
tap on text again.
Uploads on Sundays and Thursdays,
I'm gonna come up here.
Wow that is really small,
so I'm gonna grab the corner here,
I'm gonna try and move this down, here we go.
Okay, mobile stuff with Dee Nimmin,
uploads Sundays and Thursdays.
I'm gonna make this the same color
that this background is on here.
Now I'm a little off center here, but I'm okay with that
because my hands in the way,
but I'm gonna zoom out and see how it looks overall.
And I'm liking where it's going,
but we do need to do something with these side areas.
So I'm gonna go to the top,
I'm gonna tap on the check on the right,
and I'm gonna go back to draw.
I'm gonna zoom in, and I wanna choose a color so,
back down to the corner, eyedrop, and
I want the color of the background.
Then I'm gonna go back to shape, make sure it's fill,
I'm gonna drag my finger in here and just fill this up,
just like this.
Now as you can see I'm having some problems here
getting it to cover so it's okay,
you just keep doing that and
you can just keep building layers,
and it will keep making them.
There we go, then I'm gonna do it
right here again on the bottom.
Okay, I like how that looks.
So we're gonna go back to the top on the right.
tap on the check, it's gonna take us back to this area.
And if you want to add anything else,
or any other designs on here,
that's fine do whatever you want.
Run wild, it's your channel banner, do whatever you want.
But for this tutorial this is enough.
So I'm gonna go back to the top right to the white arrow,
I'm gonna tap on that,
then I'm gonna go down to the bottom and hit save,
and save the picture to my device.
And then tap done up here on the top.
Now if you're new to all of this
and starting out with a blank slate is intimidating.
I made a video using canva.com and I'm gonna put
a link to it right there, and canva is also an app.
It's basically a template based system that allows
you to make thumbnails or
channel banners using pre-made templates.
So basically you go in, you change the fonts,
you can use their images or you can use your own,
it's entirely up to you and it's really easy to use.
So if you're not feeling this one,
be sure to check out my canva video.
Okay, so now we've made our channel art and good job
by the way, that looks awesome.
Let me show you how to upload it to YouTube,
and to do this you're gonna need the YouTube app,
not the YouTube studio app but the actual YouTube app,
the one that you watch videos on.
It's really easy it just takes a couple of steps,
so follow along and let's get it online.
So once you have the YouTube app open,
you want to go to the top right to your profile image,
you wanna tap on that, you wanna go to my channel.
Once your channel loads
you're gonna see the little gear icon right here,
you wanna tap on that,
then it's gonna allow you to change your description,
your name, your profile icon or your channel banner.
And over here on the far right you see a little photo icon,
we're gonna tap on that to upload our new channel banner.
So now I've tapped on that,
and I'm gonna go hunt down the complete image
that we just made inside of PicsArt.
Once it loads up I'm gonna grab two fingers and
I'm gonna position it in a place and
zoom it in just like this.
Then I'm gonna hit save.
It's gonna take a couple of seconds
to upload the image and refresh.
Then your channel art should load up.
And if it doesn't, just back out,
do a refresh on your channel, and watch it load up there.
Now as you can see here
after the page refresh and my banner loaded up.
My profile icon covers
some of the text on my channel banner.
So keep that in mind when you're putting this all together.
I'm actually not gonna redo this
because this is a test channel,
but for you if this is something
that you're gonna keep up on your channel,
this is something you wanna be aware of.
It's not a deal breaker,
it's just something to keep in mind
as your building the channel banner.
Thank you so much.
I do appreciate it.
If this is your first time here and you wanna learn
how to master your mobile,
make better content on your phone, or be a mobile YouTuber,
hit that subscribe button,
followed by the notification bell
so you don't miss out on anything.
And I'll see you in the next video.