In this lecture we're going to be creating a channel banner from absolute scratch and we're going to
create it by ourselves from the very beginning to the very end.
So in the previous modules we'll learn how to make not up to me.
How to find out the good templates for the different banners etc. etc. all use different services but
always the best way to do is to make the banner yourself because it will this will be completely unique
for you you'll not be repeated by anyone and this thing will be completely completely completely for
you and right now we're going to create this from the very scratch.
So I'm going to be creating this on my iPad.
As always I do my editing on my iPad with the affinity photo and if you have a vintage photo on a Mac
you can do practically the same thing.
The layout will be a bit more different but not by much.
And we feel want to do on Photoshop you can do it on photoshop as well.
This will be practically the same things.
They're not going to be a bunch of different new things that you could do I think.
If you want you can do it even in Canada or any other software because we're not gonna do very complicated
stuff.
Only thing that we're going to do is probably adding some effects like shadows jets etc. So first thing
that we'll need is the camera.
This is a transparent canvas and the size of the canvas is 25 60 by 14 40.
That's the canvas size that you want.
This will be the entire canvas size.
The next thing that you want is you want to understand that this canvas will not be your entire banner.
It will not be visible everywhere and every single device that you have or that my your users will have
will see the banner in a different way in a different sizes and to help you with that.
I have downloaded this photo.
This is not.
This will not created by me.
This was created by the individual and I downloaded it from Google.
This shows you the different polices visible on your banner.
Depending on where it is open for example if someone will open your channel on TV entirety of the banner
will be visible and I think it's visible because it's used as your background like background for your
channel so only plays where entirety of this banner is visible is on the TV.
So you actually don't need to use like this place is completely entirely you don't even need this place
as the desktop.
Max is this one is the widest place.
This is where the widescreen desktops will display this one.
This place is a bit darker.
Great places will be displayed on tablets and this darker places will be displayed everywhere.
So this is the place where you need to put white majority of the info that you want.
All these other places can be used for stuff but it varies out it's actually not necessary so you need
to use a display so what I do in many cases is that just go here and just make the opacity of this a
bit a bit low just to see the everything behind and to understand that everything is in the safe area.
So first thing that we're gonna use here is we're gonna need some some background so in my case I'm
I'm gonna use the slide overview.
I'm going to use my visa ref app and I'm gonna use this photo because this photo is kind of more in
line with my channel because I want to create this on for my game I guess I'm practically I'm recreating
the banner from my gaming channel.
So just be mindful of that.
I'm gonna put it in the very edge and I'm going to resize it just to make it as big as possible.
Because the photo is actually unconventional inside it's not 16 by an anything in 16 by 10.
When you says it years a bit more.
And I'm going to lose some space on the sides but it's it's not a big problem.
I can't increase this bit to the top because yeah I don't want to any whitespace is visible and what
I will do is I will resize this.
I like that to have it.
Approximately in the middle.
OK.
That's practically in the middle.
OK.
This will be our background.
But what's most important.
I'm gonna put the layers delay that I use on the top so it would be visible always.
As you can see this is how it will how it will look so I know that I need this space right here for
my logo for my text etc etc. And I do.
I should not put anything right on these lines because I know that they would be cut away so I will
not be using this place.
I will just make it invisible just adjusting case and what I will do right now is I will add a my logo
was all right here.
I want to have my logo.
I'm going to copy this logo and I'm going to paste it right here and I'm going to paste it like that.
I want this logo to be visible and I will position it in the middle.
I'm going to go alignment option.
Bam and bam on premise is clicked.
When I did this one so I'm not just make it a bit smaller.
I don't want this to be very very large just I'm going to check out the positioning okay.
This okay this size is pretty much fine and I'm going to go and continue with positioning it make it
in the middle okay.
This looks pretty fine.
Now I'm going to take away this layer.
Okay this looks pretty much perfect.
And the people will see only this large your logo in the middle.
So what I want afterwards is I want some text around I want in my case I what I suggest you to put on
the right side left side.
Put that type of videos that you do to explain what type of videos you do and on the on the right side.
Put how often you upload or any other additional info that you want to follow or subscribe or etc cetera
whatever you want.
I usually sketch I use schedule here.
It's again up to you 100 percent depending on what your channel is and what you do it's 100 percent
up to you.
So can go put whatever the text that you want right here.
I put in my case I put it the logos of the games that I do that I play.
I'm going to put them right here and that will do exactly that right now.
But unfortunately it's not working yet it is working.
So what I will do is I will put this Star Wars logo right here and when I copy the Star Wars logo first
I'm gonna just put some stuff and then I'm going to resize everything here.
I'm going to use this Mass Effect logo when a copy.
This one as well.
When a paste it I'm just gonna dump it there first and then I'm going to work on them and I'm going
to copy this halo logo and paste it right here.
Okay they're all here.
I'm going to make those two invisible.
I'm gonna start working on Star Wars first.
As you can see it's way too big.
So when I make it smaller of course to fit in size I'm gonna just recite the stuff so I do want to see
the entirety of the photo.
I'm gonna put it somewhere to make it a bit more aesthetically pleasing.
I'm going to put it somewhere in the middle between this logo and between this line so it's somewhere
in the middle like that.
If I take this background away it's perfectly visible but we will work on the visibility afterwards.
Then I'm gonna do the same thing with Mass Effect.
Of course I want to make it way smaller because it's way too big because I wanted to put three different
things together so yeah that's that's practically okay.
And then I'm gonna do the same thing with Halo logo right here.
When I put it like that but I think that he will always watch a stretch.
I'm going to make it a bit narrower just a bit narrower.
It looks a bit better that way better but a bit better may maybe a bit more narrow.
Yeah just like that and I'm going to put it somewhere right here.
I think it's fine position so we fire we'll make this disappear.
Yep it looks it looks OK.
It looks pretty much fine.
I like it.
I like how it looks and it it is within the borders within the safe areas which is practically amazing.
Very nice I like that very very much.
This you see that one thing that should be addressed before we're gonna continue.
And by that we will fix afterwards is that because the photo on the background is so in some places
brights and supplies is dark the logos sometimes are not visible.
Very well this in this case they're practically visible.
I like that how they're visible but we're gonna work on this a bit later now what we need afterwards
is we need text right here and what we'll do I'm gonna use a text going to put right here and first
I'm gonna choose my my font you can choose whatever font that you want.
I use Helvetica font and I use condensed Black very very often.
What I will do then I'm gonna change it with culture the color white and then I'm gonna type some text
and this will be now when the first no I have got home I want to work on the sizing a bit later.
Let's go would do this want new videos he I want to put it all caps every day.
Something like that or maybe I could do a put every single word in a different Hawaiian.
Maybe yes because you have we need to fill it up and when it increased in size.
And as you can see it is which is looking pretty much fine.
It is looking pretty much and of course we're now coloring we're going to work on the coloring on that
of the text we can make this disappear and yeah we're going to work on this but it looks pretty much
fine.
Everybody would understand that this is the types of the videos or something like that.
I would explain more stuff right here like on my banner I have like more stuff explaining right here
like the fantasy and sci fi strategy videos or some like that we could explain some things but because
people will come right here see Star Wars Mass Effect them Halo and watch like you are talking about
what you're talking about games you're talking about the movies you're talking about novels what we're
talking about then.
Well it it's not the good explanation but for this purposes I'm gonna put I'm when to leave it for now.
Just like that then it's practically done we don't need any more elements we don't need anything here
because this will be enough even on the larger screens people understand whatever is happening on the
screen and it's weird right.
Like every single element is only this small place but this is how it just it works and that's what
people usually are not doing well with their channels and what we'll do right now is we're gonna work
on some of the effects now we're going to select the text we're going to work and text and what we're
going to do is we're going to go into effects and start with an outline we want some outline we're gonna
increase because outline helps the text come out of the background it can see as soon as we did that
every single place where the background was bright enough to counteract the whiteness of the text e
to it is just just making it look the very well visible and then what we can do is we can go and put
some outer and we're going to put some order shadow because we want some shadows we're gonna increase
I'm gonna go with the fully intense shadow offset this bit just like that and increase the radius as
much as I can.
I want this to be like very precise Yeah I don't need any radius changes and I'm gonna make the offset
it's just like that and just remember one thing that if you put the shadows on the tax try to have it
on the same side like you see that's it's around 45 degrees is heat related is kind of heating from
this side and if you will you will do the same with everything else try to do the same thing with everything
else.
Now what I will do right here is I'm gonna take this text I'm going to take this logo because there's
practically nothing else that I need to do with this because otherwise it will be a bit a bit over way
too much so I'm going to copy this I'm going to select this and I'm gonna go pasteboard and paste effects
you can see in here the situation it does not looks it does not look that well so because yeah the Borders
did not look that well I'm going to decrease the borders in this case as much as I can and then I'm
going to work on a shadows as well so just as this is how we started and instead of black shadows I
will do here a white shadow now that will shadow the outline white outline it will make it look a bit
more different it's it's pink pink OK this is white now and I'm going to increase just in size to see
this and increase the radius.
Just a tiny bit.
Then work on outer shadow.
Because offset is way too much we're gonna decrease that offset and make it just like that so that the
shadow is visible but it's not that powerful.
Okay.
Very good.
And now we're going to do in this case is we're gonna take this one.
Oh okay.
We we accidentally removed all all the shadow.
Okay no problem.
We're gonna do an offset just like that and radius of.
Very very very very low.
Okay then we're gonna select.
Now we're gonna go and get selection to go and select a copy of this one and then try to paste.
Now I'm gonna we're gonna paste affects only we're gonna paste all effects.
Okay.
It looks okay.
It doesn't need any changes to be fair and do here.
The pasteboard the paste effects here as well.
Okay.
Yeah.
This is the same thing.
What we did right now with that is that we separated every single thing in the logo into a banner.
As you can see we're still in the within the borders but we're separated every single thing and a banner
from the background which makes it look kinda like it's sitting there and gives like pseudo 3D look
as well which is very very good.
We cannot do a bunch of stuff with an image as well because images comes preloaded with the shadow itself
so if you just put a shadow to have a shadow overshadow and it might look actually it looks OK we can
use this to be fair.
If you do an increase in intensity you can see it it does not look that well.
So we're gonna decrease intensity and it actually makes it look a bit more separated from the background
which is very very good.
What about an outline.
Can we do an outline.
Oh no that's absolutely impossible.
So yeah it looks OK I can say that it looks OK.
The shadow looks more or less OK.
This it's a bit stronger side and I'm gonna decrease intensity just a bit because it looks kind of way
too strong.
And now you know what I'm gonna decrease opacity instead and make it stronger and decrease opacity.
Very good.
It looks pretty pretty nice and yes this is basically the simplest banner that we could do and as you
can see it's not that difficult to make even for an advanced user and you see you make banner to convey
information about your channel.
That's what you do right here when it delayed everything and as you can see this banner looks pretty
nice.
This this this place is what your viewers will see and looks pretty good it does not look that bad.
What I would do again is put more text right here.
I just did.
Instead of this four lines right here make the text a bit more in the new videos every day and then
put on put like strategy videos strategy gaming videos and then put new videos every day on these two
lines.
That's what you could do it in my in my case.
So you can see it looks pretty okay.
It looks pretty fine.
Your viewer will be very very pleased and this might entice him to subscribe because he will understand
with this banner what this channel is all about.
And if it resonates with him he will most likely subscribe.
So yes try to create your own banners afterwards after you understand what your channel is all about
because in the beginning you usually do not understand well enough what your channel is and what it
is all about.
And but in the BE IN afterwards very soon you will understand what your channel is actually all about
and then you will start.
You will have all the knowledge needed to create something like that.
Well this will be it for this one.
Let's go to the next one.