WEBVTT 00:00.220 --> 00:02.360 Our brand new channel looks kind of boring. 00:02.370 --> 00:08.020 So let's spice it up first let's add our channel art and our profile picture. 00:08.040 --> 00:12.270 So if you're on your channel remember if you don't see your channel just click on the option menu and 00:12.270 --> 00:18.950 go to my channel and then go over your profile picture and click the edit channel icon button. 00:19.140 --> 00:24.560 If you're using a brand account it's going to ask you to edit the brand image from that brand account 00:24.570 --> 00:30.810 which is actually a Google account itself it's not just your YouTube channel account it's your whole 00:30.990 --> 00:31.950 Google account. 00:32.190 --> 00:34.040 I'll just click that upload video. 00:34.050 --> 00:36.560 I have some photos already that I'll use. 00:36.780 --> 00:43.950 I typically recommend using a picture of yourself if you are the main brand if you are part of the brand 00:44.400 --> 00:47.670 or if you have a logo use a logo. 00:47.670 --> 00:53.250 So this is my brand account it's not my youtube account so you see this option for channel art for the 00:53.250 --> 00:53.940 brand account. 00:53.970 --> 00:55.380 You can go ahead and change this. 00:55.400 --> 00:57.420 But let's go back to YouTube. 00:57.540 --> 00:59.010 And so now we're back on YouTube. 00:59.010 --> 01:04.910 It might take a few minutes or a few hours to update your actual channel icon here. 01:05.100 --> 01:11.520 In the meantime let's edit our channel art to add channel or just click the Add channel button and choose 01:11.700 --> 01:13.050 a photo upload. 01:13.080 --> 01:17.310 Here you see the recommended channel are size 25 60 by 14 40. 01:17.340 --> 01:20.160 Let's go ahead and create it using Kanva dot com. 01:20.190 --> 01:23.470 It taught you how to use Kanva before you can use whatever tool you want. 01:23.550 --> 01:29.220 They actually have a YouTube channel art and the popular designs or this would be under social media 01:29.220 --> 01:38.730 section a camera saw just click that and the channel is interesting because it's a big image 25 60 by 01:38.750 --> 01:46.320 440 but only what's in the little middle part is actually seen if you go back to channel art and if 01:46.320 --> 01:51.900 you clicked this how to create channel art button down here you can actually get more tips. 01:51.900 --> 01:57.990 Also image size and file guidelines and templates for creating your channel art. 01:58.220 --> 02:03.360 If you click on the channel art templates you can download these templates and actually create has an 02:03.450 --> 02:08.430 overlay so you can know where the text and logo safe area is. 02:08.590 --> 02:12.820 But let's just go back to Canberra and try to design it ourself. 02:12.900 --> 02:16.200 So I'm going to start with one of these templates over here. 02:16.200 --> 02:21.080 I want to find something that has text in the center already maybe something like this. 02:21.270 --> 02:25.900 I'm going to have to make this smaller so I know that it appears we can also test it out just to see. 02:26.250 --> 02:36.010 So I can just go in here change up the text and then under here all say new new videos every week. 02:36.180 --> 02:39.600 Let me change the color because this is not my brand color. 02:39.600 --> 02:43.660 So I would of course find my brand color or come up with something new. 02:43.780 --> 02:48.120 I think something like Green might work good because finances. 02:48.120 --> 02:55.520 I'm actually going to download this channel our template so that I can overlay it and I hope this works 02:55.610 --> 02:56.830 on my Kanva. 02:57.050 --> 03:07.550 So if I go to upload upload my own images then go to the Binjie overlay that's uploading just because 03:07.550 --> 03:11.240 I want to make sure that the text and everything looks good. 03:11.240 --> 03:18.140 This whole image will appear when people view your YouTube channel on the light Apple TV apps and other 03:18.230 --> 03:19.900 types of app like that. 03:19.910 --> 03:21.130 So let me take this image. 03:21.140 --> 03:28.210 I'm just going to drag it onto the page just like so and now I have a better idea of where the logo 03:28.210 --> 03:31.300 is safe area is 03:34.320 --> 03:34.700 cool. 03:34.700 --> 03:36.110 That looks pretty good. 03:36.140 --> 03:43.330 Now I can delete this image behind if I want which now leaves this blank image box. 03:43.430 --> 03:49.520 And so let me go to element's free photos and let's find something let's just search and see if there's 03:49.530 --> 03:51.220 something related to money. 03:51.330 --> 03:52.560 There's these icons here. 03:52.560 --> 03:53.550 Dollar bills here. 03:53.850 --> 03:57.930 It might take a little bit of time to find the right image within camera. 03:57.940 --> 04:04.040 So let's go to splash dot com and see if there's any money images that might be better. 04:04.230 --> 04:05.830 So let's type in money. 04:05.890 --> 04:06.440 Cool. 04:06.450 --> 04:09.190 So these are a bit better. 04:09.250 --> 04:10.570 I kind of like this one. 04:10.650 --> 04:14.140 So I'm going to download this and see if that would work. 04:14.160 --> 04:21.110 Again going to upload uploading my image and I hope this kind of lesson helps you just get the mindset 04:21.150 --> 04:23.710 that I have for creating channel are. 04:23.730 --> 04:26.340 I know some of you this might be a little bit Borean. 04:26.340 --> 04:28.850 Go ahead and skip this lesson if you want. 04:28.860 --> 04:30.960 You can also speed up these lessons. 04:31.110 --> 04:36.540 Typically Wherever you're watching this in the video player if you want to kind of speed it up I'm going 04:36.540 --> 04:37.490 to drag on there. 04:37.500 --> 04:40.510 And so this is good to know where the dollar bill shows up. 04:40.530 --> 04:44.380 So I can actually increase the size if I want. 04:44.700 --> 04:46.250 I can move it up and down. 04:46.380 --> 04:49.280 So it looks like this actually has somewhat of a filter. 04:49.320 --> 04:52.850 So I can change the transparency up here if I want. 04:53.040 --> 04:59.850 And the background is sort of this blue collar so I can change the transparency or I could add sort 04:59.850 --> 05:00.820 of a filter. 05:01.080 --> 05:08.660 I can make it darker make it brighter or use one of these filters up here I kind of like the grayscale 05:08.670 --> 05:09.350 look. 05:09.810 --> 05:15.290 But when I do that the film finance hecks doesn't appear. 05:15.290 --> 05:24.070 So if I drop opacity that kind of looks cool if I want to change the color of the background let me 05:24.070 --> 05:29.800 just make this image really small first and then choose the background and maybe just choose a black 05:29.800 --> 05:32.740 background or a gray or something like that. 05:32.860 --> 05:35.760 And that gives a totally different sort of effect. 05:35.770 --> 05:38.730 This is of course where you could also put your logo. 05:38.740 --> 05:46.970 One idea I have is just changing the S to a dollar sign of unique kind of creative I want to see it 05:46.970 --> 05:48.350 without that line. 05:48.350 --> 05:48.880 Ok cool. 05:48.890 --> 05:49.700 This is looking pretty good. 05:49.700 --> 05:51.410 I don't want to spend too much time on this. 05:51.410 --> 05:53.270 I could spend hours tweaking this. 05:53.270 --> 05:55.800 Let me just change the color of the hit subscribe. 05:55.880 --> 06:03.650 So let's download this download the PNB download and what I like to do is make a new folder on my computer 06:03.650 --> 06:08.710 to make sure that all my assets for my YouTube channel are in one place. 06:08.870 --> 06:14.270 All my logos images that I use when I start creating videos I'll put those in a folder when I create 06:14.300 --> 06:16.920 thumbnails or put those within those folders as well. 06:18.140 --> 06:19.010 So I save that. 06:19.010 --> 06:21.050 Now let's go back to our channel. 06:21.230 --> 06:24.100 Go back to channel Artois seems like a while since we were here. 06:24.230 --> 06:30.740 Select the photo and now you can actually see a preview of what it's going to look like on desktop TV 06:30.740 --> 06:35.440 and mobile so you can see here this is what it looks like on a TV. 06:35.450 --> 06:39.490 You can adjust the crop by clicking a just crop you can zoom in zoom out. 06:39.490 --> 06:40.730 Move this around. 06:40.730 --> 06:46.490 I would definitely prefer if you didn't do that because that might pixelate your image because it might 06:46.490 --> 06:47.860 not be the right size. 06:47.930 --> 06:50.480 And then just select click select and OK. 06:50.660 --> 06:53.810 Now I just wanted to double check so I refresh. 06:53.810 --> 06:56.270 I also zoomed out for recording these lessons. 06:56.270 --> 07:00.920 I usually zoom in so the text is a little bit easier to see and that looks pretty darn good. 07:00.920 --> 07:04.670 I actually think that's pretty pretty clean and pretty classy. 07:04.670 --> 07:11.630 I might go and make some tweaks but you see that our channel icon is not loading it will ultimately 07:11.990 --> 07:15.290 show up in our channel after a few minutes. 07:15.290 --> 07:17.090 So don't worry sit tight. 07:17.090 --> 07:20.960 In the meantime we're going to move forward and talk about how you can make your channel even better 07:20.960 --> 07:23.330 with things like a description and adding links.