{"id":979,"date":"2015-08-26T04:48:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pixlr.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2015-08-26T04:48:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T04:48:27","slug":"free-downloadable-youtube-banner-template-for-pixlr-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixlr.com\/blog\/free-downloadable-youtube-banner-template-for-pixlr-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Downloadable YouTube Banner Template for Pixlr Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf your goal is to become the next YouTube superstar, you know that taking advantage of all of the features of YouTube is vital \u2014\u00a0and creating a channel art banner is the most vital detail of them all. Even if your goal is more modest than total world domination, you should still make custom art for your YouTube channel.
\nTo make it easy for you to create compelling YouTube banner art, we\u2019ve created this handy\u00a0Pixlr YouTube Banner Template<\/a>. It\u2019s designed to be used with our free Pixlr Editor online web app, which has full layer support and lots of graphic design options. Creating a banner is as easy as copying and pasting an image into this template and saving it out as a JPG. In fact, we\u2019ve used this exact same template to create art for our own YouTube channel<\/a>. The template is designed so you can preview how your banner will look on multiple devices. Simply turn down the opacity of your main image and move your art into place so that it looks great on any device. We chose to put the focus on the eyes and use the very horizontal space YouTube offers.
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How to create your own custom YouTube banner art<\/h3>\n
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  1. Download the\u00a0Pixlr YouTube Banner Template<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Open up Pixlr Editor<\/a>, our online graphic design editing program. Open the .pxd template you just downloaded.<\/li>\n
  3. Open up a second image that you want to use for the actual art. Copy (Edit > Copy) the image and then paste (Edit > Paste) the image into the .pxd template.<\/li>\n
  4. Want to resize this new layer you just pasted in? Choose the Free Transform option (Edit > Free transform), and you\u2019ll see a bounding box appear around the layer. You can drag the corners of this box to resize. Hold down the Shift key when dragging from a corner to have your image retain it\u2019s proportion as you resize (i.e., to not stretch the image).<\/li>\n
  5. Once you\u2019ve positioned the image so that it looks good on every device, hide any layers you don\u2019t need by un-checking the boxes next to those layers in the Layers window.
    \nSave your image as a JPG at the highest quality you can achieve. Note that YouTube has a 4MB file size limit, so just make sure you stay under 4MB in size.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That\u2019s it. Once you\u2019ve created you art you can start working on more important things \u2014\u00a0like creating great YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

    A few things\u00a0to consider<\/h3>\n