Название: YouTube Channels For Dummies
Автор: Rob Ciampa
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Программы
isbn: 9781119687986
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About: This tab acts as your opportunity to tell your viewers all about yourself and/or your business. It is important that you maximize this space (up to 1,000 characters) to improve your channel’s discoverability. You can talk about your brand, the videos people should expect, and include an email address for viewers to contact you outside of YouTube. You can also include any relevant social network sites that you might be active on. Your viewers can come here to see some quick stats on your channel, such as your total view count, number of subscribers, and the date you created your YouTube channel.
Customizing and Branding Your Channel
If you’re on your My Channel page (see the previous section for more info about that page), clicking the blue Customize Channel button in the top right of your channel puts it in Edit mode, which is where you do the bulk of the customization of your channel. This is an important series of decisions you're about to make, so pay attention to what you're doing. Lots of viewers make decisions about the quality of a channel based on a glance at the My Channel page. If there's one stereotype that pretty much holds true for YouTube viewers, it's that they're highly distractible. A professional-looking front page that holds a viewer’s interest indicates to potential viewers that you've put a lot of thought, time, and effort into creating your channel. So get to it!
Creating channel art
The channel art section is in the large gray box at the top of the My Channel page when viewed on a computer. (It will look differently on other devices, like mobile phones and TVs, but a computer is the only device you can use to change your channel art, so start there.) By default, it has a few items in it, and you'll change pretty much all those items. Before getting into the steps of creating your channel art, though, you should keep some important guidelines in mind. YouTube is available on a lot of different devices. Your audience may be watching on a TV, a computer, or a mobile device. Given that fact, YouTube has gone to a lot of effort to create a system that allows your channel to look good across all kinds of delivery platforms. It has come up with some guidelines for artwork that you would be wise to follow. If you pay attention to the size of the graphics needed, you should have no trouble with your channel looking good, no matter how your audience is looking at it.
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YouTube has created a template (see Figure 3-2) that makes the creation of channel art that works across platforms much simpler. The template calls for a 2560 x 1440-pixel image that is no larger than 6MB and provides you with guidance on how to place text and logos to allow the image to work pretty much everywhere.
FIGURE 3-2: The YouTube Channel Art template.
Managing channel art
After you've created the art for your channel (or received art from the nice person you convinced to help you), it's time to add that art to your channel. YouTube has made this a pretty straightforward process; here are the steps:
1 With your Channel in Edit mode, click the Add Channel Art button.You shouldn’t have any trouble spotting this button. It’s the blue button that says Add Channel Art in the center of the placeholder banner. If you've already set your channel art and want to change it, the Add Channel Art button is no longer an option. In this case, roll the mouse pointer over the banner, and a small box with the familiar Pencil icon appears. Click this icon to edit your channel art and open the Artwork dialog box.
2 In the dialog box that appears (see Figure 3-3), choose from one of the following options to add new channel art:FIGURE 3-3: The Upload Photos dialog box.Upload Photos: This is the default option for adding photos to your channel. If you’ve created your own artwork as spelled out in the previous section, more likely than not your artwork is somewhere on your computer. To upload that artwork, click the Select a Photo from Your Computer button, use the dialog box that appears to navigate to the file's location, and then select it. Alternatively, you can just drag-and-drop the file onto this window, and it should start the upload.Your Photos: Selecting this option allows you to choose a photo from your Google Photos album. Because you've probably just created this account, you're unlikely to have photos in any Google Photos albums — the Your Photos option probably won’t be the option you choose. You can safely ignore this.Gallery: If you СКАЧАТЬ