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In this video you're going to learn how to create a professional looking YouTube banner just like the

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one that you see on screen.

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It's absolutely free to do.

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It's going to take you less than five minutes.

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And I'm also going to show you a little tip to make sure that you get the dimensions perfect first time

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to create your youtube banner.

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Firstly head over to Kanva dot com.

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Just create a free account and sign up.

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Then once inside you want to come across and click on more.

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Here what we want to do is really use one of the YouTube channel art templates in order to make our

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YouTube Boehner.

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You can see on the left here there are a lot of different banners that you can just use as templates

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to really get you started.

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So here's one that I like and all that to do is drag and drop it in.

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And now I can edit this really suited to my own YouTube channel.

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Now you may see as in this example there's a background image that is a paid image but it's very easy

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to remove that or to replace it.

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What I'm going to do is actually go ahead and use one of my uploaded images.

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You can upload these from Facebook or you can upload them from your computer and you use one to really

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drag and drop that in in place of the paid image and the paid image will be removed if it is there.

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Now I want to go ahead and start to edit this text so my YouTube channel is not going to be about gaming.

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It's just imagine it's a bad photography and I go ahead and change the name as well.

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So it's very easy to edit the text.

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You can edit the colors as well just by clicking on it and clicking to any colors that you want like

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the orange.

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Looks pretty good so I'm just going to keep that click on the text once again to remove it or to edit

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it as you want.

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I was going to remove this word because I don't think it really is necessary.

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You can reposition the text if I want.

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Just click on us.

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Move it up if I want to darken the background image a little bit.

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Just click on the image come up make the transparency a little bit less.

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So that text is really popping now just a little bit more.

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One thing that you do have to be careful with with YouTube banners is the dimensions you need to make

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sure it's going to fit across all different devices desktop immobile TV etc. to test the dimensions.

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What I recommend you do is to download the image that I've linked in the description of this video uploaded

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here into Kanva.

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It'll appear once the uploaded like this here and then you just want to take it and move it across and

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hovered over the banner that you've created.

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It's a little bit hard to see here but you'll notice that there is a darker section to this template

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when I hovered over and that's really where I want to get all of my text into.

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So it's going to be shown properly.

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Now I recommend you don't actually put it on the image because it can be hard to get rid of it but just

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hovering it like this is the quick tests so I can see that that definitely is not going to fit.

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So what I'm going to do is just select the text on all this and really bring it to an a much smaller

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size.

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Reposition it in the center and I can hover over again still a little bit too big.

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So I'm going to take this again move this down center once again.

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And the final tests.

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It looks like we're all good although I may even just do one more time.

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There we go.

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Once you're happy with that you just want to click on download the file and then upload that into YouTube.

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Now it's your turn heading to combat dot com and use one of the templates to create your youtube banner

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for free in less than five minutes.