YouTube Channel Banner
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Topic: YouTube Channel Banner
Posted By: Zubb
Subject: YouTube Channel Banner
Date Posted: 21 November 2017 at 6:37pm
A friend of mine wanted me to make a banner for a YouTube channel he's setting up (the channel itself is not done yet). This is the result; how can I make it better? |
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Posted By: Omegan's Domain
Date Posted: 21 November 2017 at 10:48pm
Soon I also gonna work on that  About your work, like for me you should try to fill the emptiness and I don't know if the isometric view will be good idea for that. |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 22 November 2017 at 6:37am
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I think for a banner of any kind the most important is readability. The text "Gray Tunes" is hard to read, because of the rotation, the high contrast blocks it consists of, the weird "R", and the little spacing around it and between the two lines of text. Other iconic parts should probably be the little character, the drumkit, etc, but they are nearly lost within the high contrasting floor pattern. What is the channel about? Music stuff it seems? Make the music stuff the focus of the image by making them large and easy to read. |
Posted By: Zubb
Date Posted: 22 November 2017 at 8:24am
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Great advice Hapiel! Do you think I could rework this banner to include your suggestions, or should I start from scratch? |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 22 November 2017 at 8:45am
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Depends on what you want to do. You could modify the room to have a less distracting floor pattern, larger walls so there is space for a larger logo text, etc. You could take the drum kit and other attributes and scale them up to 2x or 3x. But most effective will be if you consider your design from the start, sketch out the main elements and try out different compositions of them, and then bit by bit fill in the rest. |
Posted By: Zubb
Date Posted: 22 November 2017 at 8:58am
Actually, there is something I forgot to mention. Due to how YouTube works, only part of this banner will show on most devices , so most users will see something closer to this:  . Of course, now that I'm looking at this version, I should probably add more detail to this region as well... |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 22 November 2017 at 11:42am
Quick (way too quick) edit showing what it could be: |
Posted By: NancyGold
Date Posted: 22 November 2017 at 1:45pm
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That specular on the LCD screen implies that it is not flat, but convex. |