This describes the process to make a typical YouTube thumbnail for the Sunday morning AM service live stream. Reference the current YouTube thumbnail example above. For special occurrences it may be desired to use a different design, i.e. for Christmas, Easter, etc.
- Open http://www.canva.com.
- Login using Calvary’s Google Acct:
- Username: webmaster@calvaryvc.org
- Password: Calvaryvc
- Click on “All your designs”
- Select a previous YouTube thumbnail design.
- When it opens in another tab revise the title at the top right to the date you are creating one for.
- Click on sermon title text and highlight text to change.
- Change text to match current sermon title.
- Click on mm-dd-yy AM SERVICE text and change date as required.
- Click on download.
- Make sure file type is png.
- Click on download again.
- Browse to \documents\my webs\calvaryvc\images\YouTube Thumbnail Files
- Click on Save.
- The picture is now ready to use for the live stream YouTube thumbnail.