How to change theme on youtube. Customizing the design of YouTube. How to change the background of your channel and upload an avatar to the YouTube page

I continue to transfer and update my entries from other blogs. Today I will combine two messages and remember how to set up your page or channel on the YouTube website.

Millions of users most want to customize appearance your page on YouTube.com - set your background or upload your avatar picture. YouTube has a large number of settings and now I’ll briefly talk about them using the example of appearance design, channel design (uploading your own avatar and setting your YouTube page background).

To enter settings YouTube channel (including its design), you need to click in the upper right corner on your link-account name. To go to the channel, click on the link "Channel" in the menu that appears.

Now at the top of the page under the search box appeared YouTube channel menu buttons:"Post a message", "Settings" and so on (highlighted in the picture with a green frame).

When you click on the buttons, the corresponding sections of the settings open. There is nothing complicated in them, so I will not paint.

Straightaway go to the "Themes and colors" section(green frame at the top of the picture) for YouTube channel design settings and, in particular, the page background. There are several default themes in this section, each of which can be applied to your YouTube page by simply clicking on its picture.

To create your own theme or change the settings of an existing one, you need to click on the link at the bottom of this settings block: “new theme” or “display advanced options”, respectively.

For background settings and background image there are relevant links (circled in green in the picture).

In general, design settings are more than enough. You can change or set the fonts and colors for almost everything on your YouTube channel.

At the bottom left of these settings there is a form for uploading your YouTube page background image. Background image file size.

You can also specify that the background will be repeated (check the box).

After setting all YouTube channel design settings, don't forget to click on the "Save Changes" button.

Avatars have long become one of the hallmarks by which Internet users judge each other. Therefore, on YouTube I want to upload my coolest avatar.

It is very easy to do this. For setting your avatar to YouTube account, click on the already familiar link in the upper right corner of the page and select the menu item "Settings".

To download or install a YouTube user picture, you can click on the link on the left "Profile Setup" or on the link under the "change" avatar.

In both cases, one page will open. To change the avatar image, click on the button "Change image".

There is three options for setting the image:"Use Default Image", "Select Video Frame" (setting the frame of one of your uploaded videos), and "Add Image".

For adding your YouTube channel picture, press the "Choose file" button - images of JPG formats, non-animated GIF, BMP and PNG formats no more than 2 MB and a recommended size of 800 by 800 pixels are allowed for uploading. Of course, much less is possible.

After uploading or selecting a picture, do not forget to save changes to the avatar settings of your YouTube channel.

Next time we'll talk about how to paste the code youtube video to a website or blog, as well as, but most easy way get this HTML code.

Until then look video on how NOT to take profile photos: 5 most stupid avatar poses.

They want to customize the appearance of their own channel or just a page. You can set a background and upload your own avatar image. Video hosting has a number of settings, so you should talk in more detail about how you can design the page.

How to change the design of a YouTube channel?

First you need to go through authorization under your own name. You will need to enter your username and password. How to do it? In the upper right area, you need to click on your own name link. In order to go to the main settings, click on "Channel" in the pop-up menu.

Let's start changing the background In the upper half of the page, under the search box, buttons appeared in the YouTube menu: "Post a message", "Settings" and many others. Of course, when you press the keys presented, various categories will open, where you can configure whatever your heart desires. There should be no difficulty here, if you wish, you can experiment.

To change the background on YouTube, go to the "Themes and colors" category. Here you can customize the design of the channel, and in particular, the background of the page. There are several default themes in the presented category. If you wish, you can install each of them and see the result. How to do it? You just need to click on the picture.

Create your own theme

Many users love originality, so they will want to create their own page design. What needs to be done for this? It is necessary in the "Themes and colors" section to click on the link located below: "New theme" or "Demonstrate some features".

The “Show some features” option will give you access to two dozen video hosting account design changes. For settings, there are a huge number of relevant links. Each person can change the font in the text or the color of each element of the channel, one has only to start experimenting.

In the lower left half of the presented settings, there is a form that will allow you to upload your own background image to the channel. By the way, the file size must not exceed the maximum mark of 256 KB. Also, if desired, you can check the box that the background should be repeated.

After the entire design of the channel is set up, do not forget to click on "Save Changes" and you can watch the result of painstaking work.

Set an avatar or just a picture

Avatars are the hallmarks of each user. Often it is by them that users judge each other. That is why YouTube should also upload your own original and interesting avatar.

How to do it? Everything is simply banal. In order to set an avatar on your YouTube account, you need to click on the link located in the upper right area of the page and select "Settings". To directly download or install the image, click on the link located on the left "Profile settings" or you can click on the link under the "Edit" avatar. In all cases, one page will open in front of you. To change the avatar, click on the "Change image" link.

Three options for installing avatars will come up before the user:

"Use default image";
"Add image";
"Select video frame".

Would you like to add your avatar to the channel? Then select the "Choose File" button. For uploading, you can select pictures only in JPG format, animation is prohibited here. In addition, the file size must not exceed the maximum mark of 2 MB and the picture must be of the same size - 800 x 800 pixels. Of course, smaller parameters are acceptable.

findings

Is this a simple way to create your own YouTube channel? Why do it? If you want to become a successful video blogger, then a beautifully designed page will help a lot. And, of course, interesting videos should be recorded.

Nothing complicated, right? Try it, you will succeed!

I, like many people in our time, have my own channel on youtube. My channel has existed since January 8, 2011 and today my channel has 300 subscribers. Of course, this is not much, but not zero 🙂 I have been actively developing the channel since 2013, i.e. since I started going to the gym regularly again. There are currently about 40 videos posted on my channel, there are several viral videos about . Thanks to them, the channel already has over half a million views!

Very often, people shoot in "domestic conditions" (against the background of carpet, wallpaper, etc.). I also shot my first video for the blog against the background of wallpaper “with elements of light makeup” 😆