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How to Make a YouTube Banner (YouTube Channel Art Tutorial w_ Canva)
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May 21, 2024
In this video tutorial, learn how to create a stunning YouTube banner (channel art) using Canva. Discover step-by-step instructions on designing and customizing your banner to make your channel stand out. Whether you're a new YouTuber or looking to refresh your channel's branding, this guide will help you create professional-looking YouTube channel art that captivates your audience.
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Welcome to our YouTube channel art tutorial video
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So in this video, I'm going to walk you through step by step, how to create your YouTube channel art or banner
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I know this can seem like something that's really, really complicated. There's all these different image sizes
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So you have one size that you upload to YouTube, but then it's only going to show up a certain way on your phone
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a different way on a tablet, and show more of the screen if you're on a computer. This seems super difficult, but as we create everything in Canva
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you'll see that it's really, really easy. We're going to be using Canva Pro, but you can do everything in this tutorial using the free version
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except for one small step. that you'll have to do on another website. But don't worry, I'm gonna walk you through step by step
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as we go through this tutorial. If you wanna give Canva Pro a try for free for 45 days
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you can check out the link down below in the description. This is our affiliate link. So if you sign up and later upgrade
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we may earn a small commission, but at no extra cost to you. Now let's hop on the computer and create your banner
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Okay, so when you sign in a canvas, gonna look something like this. So to find the channel art
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all you need to do is go to the search bar, type YouTube, and probably the top thing is the channel art
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You can see the dimension, so 25, 60, by 1440. Let's click on this. So you can see within Canva there are 576 templates or
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you can create one from scratch. I recommend doing this because most of these are not set up
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right where the text, images, things like that are going to be cut off. So let me show you what I
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mean by that. So let's see the five popular kids games. Let's click on this one. So what I'm
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to show you how to do in the tutorial is you want to go to file and then show rulers so that you can
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figure out which is the area that you can actually use and is going to show up on YouTube
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To show you the first one we're going to add, if you go to 508, 507, this, below this is going
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to show, it's like this range right here. So five popular and then half of this word and then three
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of the kids' heads are being cut off. And this part isn't going to show up as well. So again
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just be really careful if you try to use one of their templates
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Let's just go back to home, YouTube banner or channel art. So we don't, and so we don't have problems, let's start from scratch
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For me, step one, change the background to our blue. So we already have the rulers, but if you just go to file, show rulers, you'll get them as well
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Take this, and then the first one you want is at 508
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These are only in three pixel increments, so you might not get exactly
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So 509, that's close enough. And then 932 on the bottom. 933
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Okay. And then the vertical lines, let's start on the right-hand side with 2208
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And we have 2053. Then we have 507 And then we have 353 I know I added the ruler lines really quickly If you want a list of all the lines I added check out the description below Okay so this middle area will show up everywhere
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This little piece right here will show up on tablets and on computer such as in Chrome
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Safari, things like that will be the entire width. Now it's time to design
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So what I would go to next is the... No, let's not go to elements, let's go to uploads
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So let's go and add a picture. So maybe we want to add this picture. And obviously you can see it would be cut off
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right in the middle of my eyes right now. First, let's get rid of the background
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So this is one of the things you're not able to do with the free version of Canva, but there are free tools where you can remove the background of images
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I'll link to a tutorial right here, but you can go to remove.bG, upload your photo, it'll get rid of the image
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and then you can use the image without a background just like I'm using with Canva Pro here
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And so now let's change the dimensions. so something like that. Maybe like right here
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And I don't want this part showing up. So let's then click on
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If I click off, click on, then I got crop. I can grab the corner, bring it up to here
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click off. Now we have a cropped image. Maybe I want to be a little bit bigger
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Something like that. And then I would put myself, along the side, maybe like so. Now the next thing I would do is add our logo. So again, with
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Canva Pro, you have a logo section or it would just show up if you upload it, scroll down
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until you find your logo. Logos, let's use our white logo here. That's a little too big. Maybe
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something like that. Let's add this right about there. That's good. Now, if you want to
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text you can either go to text right here or I just like to hit T and it gives you
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somewhere to write so let's do cap block best YouTube best YouTube channel then this font maybe I want it to be bold or maybe even too
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thin let's go to open sands extra bold let's now move this right underneath our
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logo you can see now it's aligned left now if I grab
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this corner, I can make the text smaller so that it fits right underneath our logo
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So it's the same width. So this part where it's best YouTube channel, I would have some type of a tagline here
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So something that describes your channel. So someone coming to your channel immediately knows what your channel's about
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Your logo, our name doesn't really tell you anything about what the content's about
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But we say like best content for entrepreneurs or grow your business online or whatever we might
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want to put here. Then the next thing I would add is how frequently you plan on putting out content So if it new content every Wednesday new videos every Tuesday and Thursday a new video every month whatever it is just setting the expectations so someone knows
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hey, this isn't just a channel with one video. They're going to be putting out a lot of content
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I better subscribe because this is the first thing someone's going to see when they go to your channel page
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Use this to help convince them to subscribe to your channel. So again, let's hit T for text and say new videos every Saturday
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And so if we wanted to say differentiate this text from the other text, maybe we want to add some type of background behind it
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So to do that, what you could do is you could click on elements and then shapes
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So do we want a kind of rectangular square like this? I think I want one with the rounded corners like so
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So maybe I don't want red. Maybe that this could just be
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What if we made this are green? And then let's shrink it down
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Let's see. So sometimes you have to grab the corner and then sometimes you can move it kind of one dimension at a time
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So we got something like that and it should be this wide to cover the text
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Then one of the other things, if you click on any object like this and move it around, you can see the dotted lines showing you where it is in terms of alignment
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So where I have it right now, you can see that it's perfectly aligned vertically and horizontally in the middle of this box
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So that looks pretty good like that. I think it's a little bit too big
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So what I can do is kind of a little bonus trick. If I highlight the things that I want, I can group them together
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So now these things move as one object. So if I shrink it, the text and the box are going to shrink together
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So I could do the same thing. I could then make sure, hey, it's aligned on the left side, and then shrink it down so that it's aligned up right here vertically
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Another thing as far as aligning different objects, If you, let's figure out where we want
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oops, I can't, why don't you tell me I didn't type this? I typed videos wrong, videos
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And then what we can do here is if we have the top and the bottom item
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more or less where we want it. Maybe logo down just a touch
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If we highlight these three things now, if you go to position
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and then you go space vertically evenly, what's going to happen is it's going to put equal space between the logo and this text
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and equals space between this text and what's below it. So this is what's going to show up on every single screen
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the FIGCO Best YouTube channel, new videos every Saturday. The one thing you're going to notice is on a computer
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you have the little icons show up right around here for your social media
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We have, for example, a free training to help you on YouTube. If you're interested in signing up for that
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I'll put a link down below in the description. But if you're on the channel page, you'll see the icons over here
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So we may want to draw attention to people, not anyone visiting our channel page just if they're on the computer
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So we would add something along the sides here. So we may want to hit T again for text Let pull the text up here So we could have YouTube Rockstar Training right something like that
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And then maybe we have an arrow pointing down to the links down here
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So one of the things that I don't really like, so if we look for lines or arrow, sorry
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I don't really like any of the options for arrows that they have. this is what we have on our banner right now but if you want to get creative here what
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if we'd use a couple triangles so if we take this triangle we can grab this
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turn it upside down 180 like that shrink it and then what if we did maybe a
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little bit then maybe we get two more of them copy control command C command C
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So now we have three. Let's line them up like that. And then again if we highlight all three of these, what we can do is go to position
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space evenly vertically. Did I already do that? It's not even letting me. I think I'd somehow align these well. Okay, and so I could say hey is white the color I want here. I don't know
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Maybe I should edit one at a time. And then so would it look better if they were green
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How does that look? That's kind of interesting. So I think that would draw attention. Maybe I want to do
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Maybe if I like how this one is on top of this one so you only see this part, but this one is behind
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So what I could do here is go to position and then I could say forward
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And then I have something like that YouTube Rockstar training and that's going to point down to the training right there
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So now you're gonna know that this is what shows up to everyone. There's nothing new that someone's gonna see if they're on a tablet. It's gonna look pretty much the same and then if someone's on their computer
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that are going to see our YouTube Rockstar training, and an arrow down to the links here
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So that's really the YouTube banner. Let's see what it looks like on YouTube
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Then click on download, download. And to upload your banner, let me walk you through that really quickly
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You want to go to your YouTube channel, click on customized channel, and then go to branding
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From branding, so you see here is your profile picture. Don't forget to add a YouTube watermark
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We have a tutorial for that as well that I'll link to up above. And to change the banner, you're just going to
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going to click on change right here. Best YouTube channel. There we go
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And then if I click on open, so here we go. Viewable on all devices is this right here
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And then you can see on a desktop, you have the entire width
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And then viewable on TV is this entire image, which, come on, who really goes to visit
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a YouTube channel on a TV is going to be mostly mobile and a little bit on a computer
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If you're done, click on done right here, and you're good to go
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So if you're looking to grow your YouTube channel, we have a ton of videos to help you with that i'll link to our playlist right here hope to see you in those
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and future videos bye-bye
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