September 2018 – Mikayla's Com Blog

My main topic for the course is the process of creating a youtube channel. There are many steps involved in creating a channel but one of the most important things about your channel is your page. It will be what your subscribers or viewers will see when they click on your profile picture. The creativity of the header behind the profile picture can help draw more attention and curiosity to your page. My graphic design project will be the creation of my thumbnail/header for my youtube page.

My photo collection turned into a thumbnail/header for the youtube i will be creating throughout this course. On youtube, it is known for youtubers to have a header filled with a collage of cutouts of themselves. In my rough draft, there were three photos of me in front of a light purple background. Once i finished the draft, I realized how much i didn’t like how the pictures or the words were placed together. I knew i wanted to delete one picture to make space for the words, that are the topic for ht my blog, to sit closer together so it didn’t look thrown on there. I also changed my background to a darker purple background.

The main commnet i noticed from my peers was to change my fonts and to make my name bigger. I didn’t want my name and the other words to be in two different fonts like someone suggested so I just changed it to a more bold font to make everything look interesting. My name is now bigger and at the center top of the header.

All of the pictures except for the background are my selfies that I took myself so I have rights to them. The new purple background picture came from pexels.com. It is a website that holds thousands of downloadable pictures for anyone.

My photo collection turned into a thumbnail/header for the youtube i will be creating throughout this course. On youtube, it is known for youtubers to have a header filled with a collage of cutouts of themselves. I have attempted that here as I have three cutouts of myself. After I placed all three photos next to each other, i I looked at it and decided that I am not a huge fan of two out of three photos so I will probably take new pictures to replace some for the final draft. The background I chose is a kind of like a champagne purple. I chose this background because one my favorite color is purple and two i thought the bubbles were a fun bob of action rather than just a plain color. The words in the background are important because it tells my viewers what content I will be mostly posting about. I put my name on there too so it can show that I created the image and it is all of my work and dedication put into this image.

All of the pictures except for the background are my selfies that I took myself so I have rights to them. The purple background picture came from Istock.com by getty images. It is a website that holds thousands of downloadable pictures for anyone.