So now it's time to create a hero image.
But first things first what exactly is a hero image?
Well, as you can see, I'm over here on my site and the hero image is this image here.
At the moment it's kind of a placeholder image in this example, with a couple of people gazing out
on some kind of view.
What we want to do here is to change this placeholder image for a really fantastic image that says exactly
what our story is about, while giving a really good first impression and enticing our customers into
our store.
And so to find a really great hero image, once again, we're going to use Canva.
So I'm going to head over to Canva, and this time I'm going to go down to a website.
Last time we were over here on logo.
Now we're on a website, so click on website and it brings up once again an editor, which is very similar
to the one that we were just using to create a logo.
And in fact, the process is almost exactly the same, because what I want you to do is to come up here
where it says search website templates, click in it, and then of course, in my example, I'll be
typing in dog and then hitting return.
And it presents me with a load of fantastic hero images that I can use on my site for free.
Much like the logos, we do have some paying ones, but as I said before, you don't need these.
You have everything that you need for free.
So amongst all these various images here, the one I think I'm going to take is this top one here.
So I'll click in this.
It then actually presents me with six different options that I could choose from, but I'm going to
take the first one.
So clicking on the first one it adds it to the editor.
Now what I want here is the image.
I don't actually want any of the text or the buttons that come with it.
And so what I'm going to do now is simply delete them.
So if I go up to the top one here, just basically highlight it, click on delete.
Come down to the text here highlight again click on delete and then the button remove that.
And then there's actually a little bit of text here as well.
Let's take that out.
And now I have a nice clean image.
In fact an amazing hero image as I hope you would agree.
So this has been saved automatically.
So exactly like the logo.
To download this onto my laptop, all I need to do is to come up here to the top button, click on share,
click once again on download and then on the download button.
And that has now been downloaded to my laptop.
So now just to complete this process, let's head back to Shopify Admin and add it into our file section,
just like we did previously with the logo.
So going back to admin this time I'm already in the files section.
And so therefore to upload my new hero image I just click on Upload files.
Here is my hero image.
I click on open and when the page refreshes it's been added to my list of files.
So now I have two images of course my logo and my hero image.
Two incredible images created in a very short time, completely for free.
So now of course we actually want to add those to the site.
But in order to do that, I now need to teach you about themes.
And as you're about to see, themes have the ability to completely transform your store.