How to Make a YouTube Banner (UPDATED YouTube Channel Art Tutorial!)

UPDATED TUTORIAL: Learn how to make a UA-cam banner template, FREE! Complete UA-cam channel art tutorial, including the optimal UA-cam banner size & everything you need to know to make a custom banner for your channel.
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Timestamps:
00:00 How to Make a UA-cam Banner
00:54 How to Create a UA-cam Banner on Snappa
10:24 How to add a Banner Image on UA-cam
10:55 How to add Links to a UA-cam Channel
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-- How to Make a UA-cam Banner without Photoshop (UA-cam Channel Art Tutorial!) --
(UPDATE of our previous video, now using the latest tools and sizing!)
A custom UA-cam banner (or Channel Art) is one of the first things potential subscribers see when they check out your UA-cam channel, and a key point of branding you definitely need to take advantage of.
But because UA-cam uses the ONE banner background image for all screen formats (TV, desktop, mobile and tablet), it can take a little tweaking to make channel art fit on all devices…
In this video we cover the recommended UA-cam banner size, and how to make channel art that looks professional easily using just free software!
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I wish every teacher I've had in life explained things as well as you do!!!

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I like that they have the YT template guidelines. I was pulling my hair out over at Canva trying to size the banner correctly. Ill try Snappa. Thanks for the video.

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This video was extremely helpful, now I can make pretty much any channel art I want even more easily than what I was used to in the past, Thank you!!!

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Great to hear that, thanks! 😃 - Hazel, PV Team

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Thanks, awesome video as awlays! Updated the banner on my channel and it would never have looked as good if it weren't for your great tips. Tack! 😁
Best,
Viktoria

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Thanks - glad you enjoyed it! 😊

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Thank you so much!! I just made my own banner , because of your help.

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You are a master at your craft, keep us engaged beautifully, Great channel

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Thanks for this! Updating my banner is on my list of to do’s!

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Have been waiying for this for a while now thanks

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Thanks for the prompt! Updating my banner has been on my list for a while, but I always find I'm focused on creating new videos. I've not used Snappa before and followed along. One note was the neither of the PNG options gave me a file size below the 6 MB limit. The jpeg worked but is not great resolution. I'll try making something similar in Photoshop!

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This is a great tutorial! I struggled with the safe zone, but now after watching this my banner looks great!

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Great tutorial. Got my banner made and posted up on my new channel. Day by day, Im getting there...

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I recently updated my banner and this will help me amplify it!!

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I used this video to make my YT banner. Excellent teacher. Could have made it better but Justin is a pro. Thanks.

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Another great learning tool. Thank you, between you and tube Buddy I wouldn't be were I am now. I love editing, If you were not my instructor, not sure I would still have a channel.

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Great - all the best for your channel, Cory! 😊

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This video helped me create and publish our YT channel banner for our church in 20 minutes! Thanks Justin!

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Awesome! Well done! 😃

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Thank you,
I learned new one

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You're welcome, Jennifer - keep learning! 👍

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Thank you. I just used your tips to create my banner on my channel.

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Great tutorial. I launched a UA-cam channel myself and your video made me realize my banner might need some more work

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Thanks - good luck with your banner update! 👍

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This video walked me through step by step in 20 minutes to create and publish our church YT banner. Thanks Justin!

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Great video as always, thank you. How do you get the link icons to be transparent background. I'm getting a grey box around mine...?

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I love this thumbnail! It caught my eye!🦋

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I'm going to watch this later, but I just LOVE the thumbnail 😍

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Thanks - glad you liked it! 😊

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for us new youtuber we will get there. its ot easy, but lets stay committed, patient and don't give up, eventually we will get there 🙏

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Thank you!

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You're welcome! - Hazel, PV team

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My goal is to just START !!
I have spent way too much time waiting for the "RIGHT TIME” and realised you don't have to have everything figured out to START
So my goal is to Learn as I go!

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Thx for helping

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You're welcome!

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Fabulous ⭐

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Thanks!

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You're welcome - have a great day!

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My thanks again.

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You’re welcome!

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Awesome Video Mate

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Thanks - Hazel, PV Team

[@AJ-Lohinska]

​@@PrimalVideo Hi there, someone called madness productions asked a good question of you 3 days ago, that I'd love to see an answer to as well, because I always seem to get problems trying to upload stuff to one of my new YT channels I'm trying to create. This vid info of yours is excellent, btw 👍

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Thx brother! Greetings from Poland.

[@PrimalVideo]

Hey, you're welcome 👋 - Hazel, PV Team

[@LIFE_in_118_SCALE]

Hey Justin, I have a question. When you upload a video on youtube, where do you go to put the hashtag on? Great videos you have on your channel! You're the reason I'm a creator now. Great work, thanks.

[@Sunnysynthenticfx]

U put the hashtags after the title i.e #videomarketing

[@GameIT.]

In the description

[@TheBeardedHefner]

Hey sir. New creator myself. You enter the hastags anywhere in the description box after you upload and the first 3 will display under the video as you see in Justin's video. Hope this helps.

[@LIFE_in_118_SCALE]

Thank you everyone. That helps a lot!

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@@LIFE_in_118_SCALE welcome

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I began my UA-cam channel lately . I depend on you to create a good channel for me , thanks so much

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You're welcome - all the best with your channel 👍