Our brand new channel looks kind of boring.
So let's spice it up first let's add our channel art and our profile picture.
So if you're on your channel remember if you don't see your channel just click on the option menu and
go to my channel and then go over your profile picture and click the edit channel icon button.
If you're using a brand account it's going to ask you to edit the brand image from that brand account
which is actually a Google account itself it's not just your YouTube channel account it's your whole
Google account.
I'll just click that upload video.
I have some photos already that I'll use.
I typically recommend using a picture of yourself if you are the main brand if you are part of the brand
or if you have a logo use a logo.
So this is my brand account it's not my youtube account so you see this option for channel art for the
brand account.
You can go ahead and change this.
But let's go back to YouTube.
And so now we're back on YouTube.
It might take a few minutes or a few hours to update your actual channel icon here.
In the meantime let's edit our channel art to add channel or just click the Add channel button and choose
a photo upload.
Here you see the recommended channel are size 25 60 by 14 40.
Let's go ahead and create it using Kanva dot com.
It taught you how to use Kanva before you can use whatever tool you want.
They actually have a YouTube channel art and the popular designs or this would be under social media
section a camera saw just click that and the channel is interesting because it's a big image 25 60 by
440 but only what's in the little middle part is actually seen if you go back to channel art and if
you clicked this how to create channel art button down here you can actually get more tips.
Also image size and file guidelines and templates for creating your channel art.
If you click on the channel art templates you can download these templates and actually create has an
overlay so you can know where the text and logo safe area is.
But let's just go back to Canberra and try to design it ourself.
So I'm going to start with one of these templates over here.
I want to find something that has text in the center already maybe something like this.
I'm going to have to make this smaller so I know that it appears we can also test it out just to see.
So I can just go in here change up the text and then under here all say new new videos every week.
Let me change the color because this is not my brand color.
So I would of course find my brand color or come up with something new.
I think something like Green might work good because finances.
I'm actually going to download this channel our template so that I can overlay it and I hope this works
on my Kanva.
So if I go to upload upload my own images then go to the Binjie overlay that's uploading just because
I want to make sure that the text and everything looks good.
This whole image will appear when people view your YouTube channel on the light Apple TV apps and other
types of app like that.
So let me take this image.
I'm just going to drag it onto the page just like so and now I have a better idea of where the logo
is safe area is
cool.
That looks pretty good.
Now I can delete this image behind if I want which now leaves this blank image box.
And so let me go to element's free photos and let's find something let's just search and see if there's
something related to money.
There's these icons here.
Dollar bills here.
It might take a little bit of time to find the right image within camera.
So let's go to splash dot com and see if there's any money images that might be better.
So let's type in money.
Cool.
So these are a bit better.
I kind of like this one.
So I'm going to download this and see if that would work.
Again going to upload uploading my image and I hope this kind of lesson helps you just get the mindset
that I have for creating channel are.
I know some of you this might be a little bit Borean.
Go ahead and skip this lesson if you want.
You can also speed up these lessons.
Typically Wherever you're watching this in the video player if you want to kind of speed it up I'm going
to drag on there.
And so this is good to know where the dollar bill shows up.
So I can actually increase the size if I want.
I can move it up and down.
So it looks like this actually has somewhat of a filter.
So I can change the transparency up here if I want.
And the background is sort of this blue collar so I can change the transparency or I could add sort
of a filter.
I can make it darker make it brighter or use one of these filters up here I kind of like the grayscale
look.
But when I do that the film finance hecks doesn't appear.
So if I drop opacity that kind of looks cool if I want to change the color of the background let me
just make this image really small first and then choose the background and maybe just choose a black
background or a gray or something like that.
And that gives a totally different sort of effect.
This is of course where you could also put your logo.
One idea I have is just changing the S to a dollar sign of unique kind of creative I want to see it
without that line.
Ok cool.
This is looking pretty good.
I don't want to spend too much time on this.
I could spend hours tweaking this.
Let me just change the color of the hit subscribe.
So let's download this download the PNB download and what I like to do is make a new folder on my computer
to make sure that all my assets for my YouTube channel are in one place.
All my logos images that I use when I start creating videos I'll put those in a folder when I create
thumbnails or put those within those folders as well.
So I save that.
Now let's go back to our channel.
Go back to channel Artois seems like a while since we were here.
Select the photo and now you can actually see a preview of what it's going to look like on desktop TV
and mobile so you can see here this is what it looks like on a TV.
You can adjust the crop by clicking a just crop you can zoom in zoom out.
Move this around.
I would definitely prefer if you didn't do that because that might pixelate your image because it might
not be the right size.
And then just select click select and OK.
Now I just wanted to double check so I refresh.
I also zoomed out for recording these lessons.
I usually zoom in so the text is a little bit easier to see and that looks pretty darn good.
I actually think that's pretty pretty clean and pretty classy.
I might go and make some tweaks but you see that our channel icon is not loading it will ultimately
show up in our channel after a few minutes.
So don't worry sit tight.
In the meantime we're going to move forward and talk about how you can make your channel even better
with things like a description and adding links.