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1. Intro: Hey there, my name is
Daniel and welcome to my Skillshare class where
I'm gonna be showing you how to use Canva to create some amazing templates
for YouTube channel. So I've been making
YouTube videos now for over five years and I
actually have been using camel for the past three
years to make a lot of my YouTube thumbnails because it's just a really
powerful platform, is free to use. And there's a lot of
great features already available in Canvas
they can use to create some amazing
thumbnails for your YouTube channel
that will get some eye-catching and clicks as well. So let's just start the course.
2. Paid or free: So do you need to
use paid can't, but for this course
the answer is no. You can't use the
free version of kava. Kava is pretty US is a really powerful application that you're going
to use for free. And a lot of features that canceled makes available
or actually for free. And you'll know the difference
between free and paid when the little crown
or star that it has. That means that it is a pro feature and that you
need to pay to use it. But all of the
features that weren't will be checking out
our free to use. And you'll just know the
difference, of course.
3. Tools: So before we start designing
our own YouTube thumbnails, I just wanted to give you guys a quick overview and show you around Canvas about the
future state using Canva. So we already talked about
templates of course. So now we're gonna go to
check out the elements page. So the element page here
is just a tough graphics. They use photos to
make your Tamil, although they're much more
better and stand out as well. So from here you can choose
r lot babies to eat. So as you see here, was that I used in
my recent videos, is used, but you
can actually use a ton of great design changes. So if you want to make a chart, Q at charts as well, the cat photos graphics as well. Here, depending on
the charged area as well or whatever you want. So if you want to write
coffee and then copy, and in graphics, there's a ton of graphic says about coffee. If you took them, they
are scopy about coffee. Then you can just add
coffee icons as well, right within here and an x,
of course we have photos. So here, just like Unsplash, a popular site, they could go
and get free stock photos. Camera has also a stock
photos as well right here the ketone use to make you to tunnel much more better stand out if you
need stock follows, then the septum they
get choose from right here without
having to leave Canva, which is always really,
really fantastic. Next is we have to text area, text area cores here, Here's
where you get changed. The title, tags, everything, which makes it really
fun in different. So there's a ton of different
types of texts they could go and download here
and use for free. Of course, like I said, you will not have different
between pro and free here. So a lot of these texts
right now are showing free, free and pro here, but you'll see that
little crown rate there is will tell
you that it's Pro. So if you have the pro feature of Canvas and you can use those, you don't have to pro
then that midtone, use the free ones
right here like these, which still look
really, really amazing. But yeah, there's just a
ton of text I could choose from depending on
whatever you took down, no design you're going
for and typography that you want for that
thumbnail design as well. And then of course
we have styles. So here's where you want your thumbnail to have some
colors and everything. Then here you get to learn and see what colors work
together as well. And they can actually work as
well, really, really nice. So as you can see, it changes the color and I can just make it fixed because
I didn't really like that. But yeah, just a really,
really fun thing. And then background. So background is here's
where you get choose for you that Tom knows picture. So let me show you
an example here. Occasionally you blank. So here and here,
so we click this, then we have a nice
background picture right now right here, rate to be used and changed up. A lot more different
depending on whatever type of P2P thumbnail that you
want to go for as well. So those are auto
features pretty much that we'll talk in
detail right now. And then we'll get into the niches and crackers when we're designing our
thumbnail using Canva.
4. Templates: Welcome to Part 3
of this course. So in this part 3 we'll be talking about
templates in Canva. So what I really
like about Canvas.
5. Creating: Now we're going to
finally start designing our own templates using Canva. So let's start. So what we're gonna do is actually go to template section. And so for this video, we're going to be showing
you different types of styles of templates to
choose from a course. And visual you so
much I feel like using and we'll get
designed and make it our own so that you'll be unique when you're designing these
templates for yourself. So what we're gonna
do is just choose any random template
that you really like. So I'm going to just choose, I know there was one
I really like here. They will just choose this one, just close this one's popping because of the retina
in the yellow, the big black sites,
the yellow sign. Everything about this is like, you know, you kinda
want to click. So already do is make
this a little bit different and make
it our own as well. So we're going to
delete this picture. We're going to add this, my own picture right here, which looks really nice. And then what we're going
to do is go into edit. So when you go to Edit here, there's a lot more
features they could do for that photo right now. So what we're gonna do is go in, click on the background remover. And here of course, like I said, this
is a pro feature. So there are some
features that are prone where a visual you bought this or there's just no
the guy could do about it. But this one is about
Kant doesn't all alone. So in Photoshop, you have to go carefully to delete
the background. Nothing bothers by here. It kind of uses machine learning to do all this in
the background. So I just have to wait and hope it works and it
came out pretty decent. So after that, just click apply, and we're going
to add this right here and make this a
little bit smaller. So, or maybe bigger to
smaller. There we go. Delete this and we're going to make this picture even a
little bit much more better. So we're going to add shadow. So this is the Globe
part here of the photo. So if you see some YouTube
channels where they have that white outline around
the person or an object. We're going to do exactly that right within globe right here. So we're treated to white. And then they changed it to
transparency to there we go. And then let's change it to
transparency there, Erica. And there's the outline
rate their fees yet. And we're good. I like it. And I don't know if I want
to change anything else. You get changed a lot
more. Stop right here, but like, I don't really want to cause it
looks really nice. The picture right there and
I like the outliner thing. But amount of fan
of this whitespace with Nissan have to make a
little bit bigger so that, you know, I kinda pop there. So there we go. We're going to pop you, change this and just
change the texts or lake, how to make, how to make
passive income with a rate. Secrets. Finally, secret is finally revealed and given
away at the end. I might keep this actually because you never know
that my big giveaway, that might not be a giveaway. So yeah, I'm just gonna
keep it because it makes it much more
do so there you go. We just made a YouTube
thumbnail using a, already, a custom-made
already done the template using Canva and you can just
play around with it. So as you can see right here, I made a ton of
other ones as well. So you can actually keep
using it a lot more. There's a lot of problems I
will show you right now more. So we're going to click
here and maybe we don't want to change the
text or the text looks nice. But maybe we want to
change your weight now the texts, or
you can go here, wake and close this one I
really like about Canvas, seriously catchy,
change all the texts that's included two way
as well right here. Even this one, which of
course we did not want. So then I just change it color, liturgical back to that. There we go. So it looks pretty decent. Nitrate there will get
changed to yellow blocks now. And kinda little bit
different as well. Let's see if we can do that. And effects. And we'll add some shadow to it. There we go. The
different urban areas. So now we're making
it really pop because the whole point of
the YouTube Daniel course, YouTube panels are
one of the most important parts of making YouTube videos is making
people click on your dumbbell, iambic, a really eye-catching. And so this is just one way they could do it, eye-catching. And there's a ton of templates to choose from as well here. So right here, and maybe we don't make this one
a little bit different. So there's one, just
delete the person. And we're gonna delete this and I'm going to make it, oops. Let's see if I can
make this work. So I'll go to my uploads
here they choose to my here. So here we're going to
position this to go backwards one and
backward another one. Could we wanted to go all
the way behind the purple. There we go. Last behind the purple. So now I have to worry
about it too much. I can just delete this picture and just continue and very low. So let's look at this and
we're going to delete this. And how we make money
from home will nutritious color to something
different between the two. Maybe not that color. That one looks good,
such as green. So there's keep it to
that is really nice. And I will just change
some stuff around. So like the tags, as with actual texts, you know, to make it really pop. And we really want to
stand out attacks as well. And there you go. You just made your
own little change to the picture right here. They changed his new
to a darker green. Now, it doesn't look like it's changed back
to where it was. Cool that looks at
me and there you go. So you just have your own
YouTube custom thumbnail as well as making a
default template. So just play around with this and share it on
this course right here, so that we can all see what
you've been making a CBC. I've been using just
this to make it by default template
right here using the default templates
on Canvas as well.
6. Export: For this video, I'm
visually you how to export your YouTube templates
or that it looks really, really nice and it's
of course the YouTube. When you upload it, when you're, when you upload your
videos and you upload your video on YouTube uploader. So it's fairly simple. So let go and
download right here. And we're gonna do
is keep it to PNG, which is suggested you
don't have to change AND continue to
paint if you want, but you want high-quality
on your thumbnail. So pink PNG will be
perfect for this. And then psi. So you're going to
want to keep it to one because YouTube for some reason, if you go over to
31, are accepted, it will say it's
too big of a file and so just keep it to one. And then transparent background. You don't want to
have your background. You can keep these unchecking. Have to worry about this because I have six thumbnails right now. I can just choose which ones
I want to upload to export. So I'm going to choose number 6, which is this one which
we did on the last video. So click done and then just
click download and you'll be ready to download and
just click Download. And so it's doing all
the work by itself. I don't have to worry
about anything else. And it's already exporting
where I can just have it ready to be uploaded to my YouTube video for
my next YouTube video.
7. The end: So you made it to the
end of the course. That's really, really cool. So all I ask is
pretty much to share your work is to share
the YouTube thumbnails, so you create it using
everything that I taught in this course and the shared
class project area, ClustalW, be really cool just
to show off and see the different YouTube thumbnails styles that everybody has created for their own
YouTube videos as well. And so I hope you guys
enjoyed this class. And if you guys did
enjoy the class, then there's other
classes that I have there you go and
check out as well, right here in Skillshare. So I will see you guys later.
Daniel R, Hi! I'm Daniel. I make content.
