Hey guys Gael Level here and today I’m gonna show you how to customize your twitch channel but I’m also gonna give you all my tips and tricks and techniques in order to optimize your channel I’m gonna go in depth into the reasoning behind every single decision on Your twitch customization you wanna know what types of avatars gets more clicks you want to know what information to put on your offline image you want to know why is the banner so important you want to know in which order should you put your panels while keep watching so High I have my camera kind of transparent just in case I go over something bottom left and I’m covering it so you’ll still be able to see it we’re here on my twitch page this is my Bot page keep in mind in this video I’m going to be referring to other videos that I’ve made that are more in-depth when it comes to specific things right so let’s start as you can see this is my bad Channel it’s all over the place it’s a channel that I use when I’m testing stuff and when I’m creating tutorials so this is perfect so the first thing to know if you’re watching this video in and At this point you’re like oh my god wait a second I’m gonna watch a video on how to customize my twitch channel but I am NOT an artist I don’t use Photoshop I don’t have any money to pay an artist Do not fear if you get a Gumroad.com/gaellevel you will see that I have a bunch of free overlay packs and they include avatar banners panels offline image on top of overlays and camera overlays and all of that so there’s really really no excuse as a smaller streamer or a beginner to not have A good looking front page basically and that’s the goal behind it all it’s to have beginners be able to have a good-looking page without the oh I’m not good with Photoshop or I don’t have Any money excuse as you can see they’re not all free but those that are not for your like $0.99 there literally cheaper than water so for example for this fortnight pack its animated you get of Over a hundred files for $0.99 that’s less than a cent per file try asking an artist to do anything for less than a cent anyway so what we’re gonna be using for an example at this moment is going to be The latest Wraith apex legends free twitch overlay pack that’s on gumroad.com/gaellevel it’s this one if you’re watching this sort of future there might be other new overlays but this is the one we’re gonna be using as an example so what is the first thing you need to think about when you are setting Up your twitch channel design is your color scheme obviously I made a video about that a whole video about it where I explain why it’s important and how it will help you in the long run so the key Here is to get everything to match to find a color palette or color scheme whatever you want to call it and to embed that into everything you pretty much display so that people will assimilate this color palette with you and your personality and your stream and your content for example right now We have a very colorful offline image and then we have this green this is from a different pack this is not a good look for a viewer the human brain is a pattern detecting machine so when everything matches perfectly it somehow is very satisfying to the average human being so let’s start uploading Stuff so in order to access your banner you have to click on your name while you’re in your page also you make sure that you are logged in with the right account and when you hover here you Can just click and update the banner same thing for the profile image the avatar if you will but if that is not working for you you can always go to settings and it’s the first thing you can also Update from your settings here so you click top right you go to settings and then you can come back to channel so let’s go from top to bottom okay the banner what is important about the banner I’m gonna upload the Wraiths pack banner there’s a pigeon outside my window okay as you can see this is coming from the pack so it’s not customized but what is important about the banner on top Of having well the same color as the rest of your overlay packs what you need to know is that your banner is the only thing that will appear aside your avatar when users are on mobile when they’re Using their phones to watch your stream or to watch streams in general so if you don’t have a banner it will look super empty for a mobile user there is a ton of mobile users out there so you Really need to cover that ground when it comes to the information there will be some sort of direct layer overlaid on top of it when people are on your profile on mobile so you don’t want to put Too much information there but mostly you really really want to show your colors now if you were to put some information like social media or anything you wouldn’t want that to be in towards the middle and slightly up top keeping in mind that that’s where your avatar will be and then your follower Number your view count and then your bio so it’s completely fine to not put anything when it comes to information in your banner let’s move on to the avatar I want to come see the avatar there is One simple tip that you will find throughout the whole Internet as I said before the human brain is a pattern detecting machine if there’s one thing that the human brain likes to detect more then than just random patterns is the human face this is why you will find faces and thumbnails if You check out your favorite youtuber and check out their thumbnails you will most likely see a lot of faces PewDiePie Philip DeFranco anyone who has a large following there’s a reason why there there are faces in thumbnails I’m gonna open up a incognito YouTube page and I’m gonna click on Trending so face face this guy has 1 million views face face face face face face face losses football doesn’t count face face face face face not from the Wraith pack what you get is not it’s not a Face you should be using your face but as I said since you want everything to still match your color scheme the avatar is actually a template that you can drag and drop on a picture of your Face so I have Photoshop open right now I’m just gonna show you how easy it is I’m just creating a new file that’s gonna be a thousand by a thousand pixels I’m gonna drag and drop a picture of my Face gonna scale it to size keeping in mind that the avatar on Twitch is very very small right now so you really need to zoom in in order for people to recognize what they’re looking at now I’m gonna Grab the Avatar to from the overlay pack drop it press enter and I’m done now I can save as and upload it to twitch sometimes you get that error upload time out please try again you can just Close it and refresh oh look they lied to us and now it’s up there but that’s the most important information about avatars it means to be cropped in a way that you can still understand what you’re looking at I’ve seen people with logos with text and stuff like that that’s just unreadable it’s It’s useless if you put something that people cannot see it just brings confusion and usually the human brain is not happy with that so try to put a human face but also somehow try to integrate your color scheme into the profile picture since the overlay pack is mostly purple I could also Just add a purple filter in Photoshop on the whole profile picture if you do decide to go with a logo same thing really crop it to just scale it up in order for people to understand what they’re looking at but mostly really really show the colors okay let’s talk about the offline Image where do I change the offline image because you can’t change it from here so where do you find it it used to be in settings but now it moved to the dashboard and here to the left you can Click on settings channel and you’ll find video player banner right here if you scroll down so click update it says upload time out I’m gonna refresh it actually update it okay let’s go back to the channel okay so this is sort of a template because it’s coming from an overlay pack but let Me list all the information that you actually want to show on your offline image and how important it is now I’ve never streamed from this channel so I don’t have any vods but something that you need to Keep in mind is that when you go on the channel and it’s offline twitch will often give you suggestions to watch vod’s and those suggestions will show up top right and in top left it will Ask you if you want notification let me try to see if I can find an example so this is the Overwatch contenders Channel as you can see here top left we have the notification suggestion right there and this is something that we need to take into account when you’re creating your offline image Or when you’re just customizing it if you were to put let’s say social media links top left then they wouldn’t be visible another thing to take into account when designing offline images is that twitch also adds a small gradient on top but also a bigger one at the bottom for the video Player basically so if you put any information all the way to the bottom or all the way to the top it might be obscured by those gradients this is my good friend Viking trash I actually made this Offline image for her and as you can see in the middle you’ll see the logo you’ll see the name of the stream but most importantly you need offline to actually be written and big offline should be The biggest thing that shows up on your offline image now you might be thinking why if someone’s on Twitch they can understand they can just click and see that I’m not live the problem is that if You think like that then if someone clicks on your link to support you for example I don’t know you post it on your personal Facebook and someone who has never been to twitch they won’t understand that you’re offline so you don’t know how people who have never been to twitch think so You really wanted to make it clear that you are currently offline especially when there’s a play button right there even though you’re offline that might throw them off what happens if you click on it that literally just gave me a black screen okay so you’re offline image is pretty Much your front page it’s it’s the first page is the first thing people are going to see if they click on your link while you’re offline so the to graphic design elements people will see when they click on your link while your offline is your avatar and then you’re offline image so From there you want to share as much information as possible while keeping everything super clean you really want them to know that you’re not live right now and then this is where you could also Slip in some social media links or your schedule to let them know I’m not life right now but this is when you can catch me but keep it clean keep it clear off the top left top right extreme bottom or Extreme top keep it in the middle so left side right side as I showed you with the Viking trash Channel really small you can put some social media links you don’t need to type the whole social media name you don’t need to type Facebook if you put the little blue logo people understand That it’s Facebook even old people do when it comes to schedules you don’t need to type the full days like Mondays if type Emmong people understand that you mean Monday you don’t need to state the days that you’re off I’ve seen people do that where they type every single day of the week And then they put o this day I’m off this day I’m resting people understand that if the days don’t figure in the schedule that means you don’t scream during those days optimize your design as I said all that extra information should be very very small compared to the currently offline or I’m not live right now obviously this is where you really really need to show the main colors of your color scheme here you’ll have the purple and in the dark gray if you have a good photo of yourself It’s also good honestly like this as I said the human brain loves the human face so if you can plaster your face all over here it’s good but if you don’t want to that’s completely fine but there Are no excuses to not have your main colors show up on your offline image because this is where people will base their first impression all right now let’s talk about the panels how to edit them if you’re logged in with your right account and you’re you’re on your own channel click Edit Panels and from there you can add panels it will ask you what kind of panels if it’s text and image click text an image something that I’ve seen people do a lot is type a title basically they Will type about me and then also upload an image that says about me when you’re uploading pictures do not crop them especially if they’re coming from my packs if your panels look weird I don’t want people saying oh that’s bad graphic design because you crop them don’t crop them then and basically What that does if you type the title and also upload an image that has the title in it I’m gonna turn off the edit it’s gonna look like that this is extra information that looks really bad there’s No reason why you should have a title and an image that says the same thing as the title it looks so so bad looks so amateur and people usually hate it now the cool thing is that you don’t need to add A title you can just delete this and then submit just adding an image will work see way better so let’s upload a couple of panels keep in mind that if you want to move the panels you can just click And then just drag them okay so now we uploaded our panels obviously the pattern thing you want to keep an even number you want to make everything match as much as you can it doesn’t have to be Perfectly symmetrical but try so first thing when it comes to text cuz you’re gonna need some text especially for the about panel you’re gonna type a bunch of text and basically it’s gonna show up underneath it which is going to throw off or our symmetrical thing there you go now when you here You can see it says description supports markdown click on this and read this this is very important because this is how your format your paragraph this is where you can add links inside your text clickable links this is where you can make stuff bold you can make stuff bigger and all of that We can add lists and it’s very important that you read this page and that you understand it if you’re going to write a paragraph now talking about paragraph the about me panel is the most important panel I’m gonna talk to you about the order of panels and which order should your Panels be but the about panel when you’re talking about yourself something I’ve seen a lot by doing stream reviews is that some people will introduce themselves as a as a list form like a like name This favorite color this games I played this never introduce yourself as if you were a robot not only the about panel is the most important panel but this is where you have the chance to establish a human connection with whoever is reading it this is where you want to introduce yourself As human as possible think about it like this if I introduce myself by saying name Gael Level age 28 favorite past-time doing YouTube and twitch compared to hi guys welcome to my channel my name is Gael Level and I’m a passionate youtuber and twitch streamer the second one is gonna be more Welcoming it’s gonna feel more human and by the end of the paragraph when you really give all the information you want to give about yourself people will feel a certain bond sorry in connection with You that will drive them to want to learn more about you but they will feel like they need they just read and they know a part of you now and this is what you want if you introduce yourself as if You were a robot it’s like oh where’s Sarah Connor named Terminator it doesn’t establish any form of human connection at all okay I’m gonna leave this make sure everything looks good now let’s talk about the order in general the average human being will read from left to right from top to Bottom now this is why you need to push basically if you have a panel that is top left that means that this panel should be the most important panel it should be the thing that people are most likely Looking for when they scroll down to look at your panels and usually when people scroll down look at your panels that means they want to learn more about you so the about me should be absolutely Should be the first panel on every twitch channel if I click on your link and you’re not online and it’s my first time watching you twitch channel and I scroll down and for example I see that This word is your first panel now I know I need to look for your about me panel because I’m not gonna join you this quit if I have no idea who you are maybe in your about Me section you’re Gonna say stuff that’s gonna make me realize that we don’t have anything in common and I don’t want to join your discord so why should you have your discord panel first even worse is if you have your Donate panel first I’m not gonna donate to you if I don’t even know what to call you if I don’t know anything about you so introduce yourself and in an order of things you can let people support you you Can let people join your social media and all of that so what I generally advise this top left has to be the about me panel there’s no questions about it there’s nothing more important than introducing yourself then if you have something that is important such as if you’re like an active Youtuber but you also stream on Twitch you would want your youtube channel to be the second panel basically whatever you have to promote that has to be on your second panel if you don’t have anything to promote you put your schedule for example and important information about the stream and then I generally advise to have the donate panel top right because if someone has this impulse where they really want to support you and they really want to do a gesture it’s really good to not have Them scroll by and have to read all of your panels to find it so if I want to scroll to know more about you it’s the first panel if I want to scroll to donate it’s the third panel But it’s on top so that’s fine for example right now we have discord discord is is sort of like a community platform I wouldn’t put it on top here it’s usually about me important information donate and then important information in order your social media usually should be last I guess you Have affiliate links I see people will use like fade grips a player one coffee or even stream labs obvious affiliate links that should be all the way to the bottom why because most likely your viewers really don’t care people who are rarely scrolling down your page to find your fatal grips affiliate Code so let let’s move things around in a better order but this is a pretty good order about me is the first panel scheduled important information about your stream donate if someone wants to do A generous gesture and enrolls to let people know hey those are my roles this is how it goes here spec’s if that’s something that people ask you a lot I honestly just randomly uploaded those panels so depending on your stream the but it’s very personal basically which panels are gonna Show up then discord as a community platform as in oh I have a following this is where you can join to be part of us and then merge this is where you start advertising other content and hopefully Make some money and YouTube in Twitter that is if you’re mostly like a twitch streamer if you are if you have a very good youtube and you upload frequently to youtube obviously you would want your youtube TV before merch but yeah depending on how active you are on those other platforms They will they will shift like from top to bottom when it comes to the order of your panels anyways when it comes to the links you don’t need a link for your about panel just add promote anything Cuz I like it when like when images are clickable but it really doesn’t matter what you link it to for the donation if you want to know how to get donations from PayPal by clicking on this link I have a video on that so I’m gonna refer you to that and not go into it right now basically once you get your link you can just add it here when it says image links to always test your Link after you put them there there’s nothing worse than scrolling down to find someone’s Twitter and then you click on the image and then it’s it’s not clickable or it’s a broken link so this is basically the thought process behind the customization of a twitch frontpage basically it’s Really optimizing everything so that is clickable a 40 avatar if you link your twitch on a site like Facebook the automatically generated thumbnail is going to be your avatar so you really want it to look nice and clean now once you’re live streaming for example in this pack you’re gonna Have stuff like sweating soon screen this is a whole other subject that I already covered if you want to know step by step how to how to make that happen with your broadcasting software I have a video on that but obviously you want the colors to still match those are the two camera Overlays that’s an intermission screen that’s a labels bar it’s semi-transparent also with the panels there’s like 18 panels including a blank one so if you want to customize it yourself any editing software any image editing software or website will allow you to customize your own Panel also I always link to the custom font use so if you’re wondering what’s fun to use I always link towards the font in a product description so that’s pretty much it when it comes to the mentality behind customizing a twitch frontpage if you guys have any more questions about specific Parts of your customization please leave them in the comment section below if you guys have any more insight into why you should go with a certain type of avatar of banner offline image or panel compared to others I would also love for you to leave that in the comment section below for The Instagram shout out I want to shout out that weird Hylian I hope that’s how you pronounce it for being active on my Instagram if you want a shout-out on the next video all you have to do Is follow me it’s at Gael.level so keep in mind that this video is mostly to show you that there could be a reasoning behind things that you upload to your front page to how you present your twitch Channel that means that the things that I say in this video will not necessarily match everyone’s channel everyone’s content and all of that it’s just an example if you’re a streamer that doesn’t want to show your face for example while you’re not gonna use your face as the avatar if you’re Too young and your parents don’t want you to handle money well you’re not gonna have a donate button or if you have then it’s gonna be their PayPal account etc just like all of the advice Videos just try to take the advice and apply it to your situation and if it doesn’t match your situation well just just don’t take the advice but anyways hopefully you guys will come up with Some tips and tricks – I’m really excited to read the comments on this one and I will see you guys next time thank you so so much for watching the video go out there make me proud Gael Level out Video Information
This video, titled ‘Customize your Twitch Channel like a PRO! (in depth step by step tutorial)’, was uploaded by Gael LEVEL on 2019-02-21 20:00:02. It has garnered 959061 views and 25731 likes. The duration of the video is 00:23:25 or 1405 seconds.
this video shows how to customize your new Twitch channel. From uploading your avatar to your description panels, everything you need to know is included.
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