How to Make a Free Channel Background for Your Youtube Channel [Outdated] 

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Step 1 - The first step is downloading the template, and if you don't know how to use gimp or you didn't see my video "how to use gimp" then you check it out here • How To Use Gimp 2.8.2 ... . Once that is done, open up the template in gimp, and either create or download the background picture of your choice. After that align your background picture or pictures to your liking. MAKE SURE TO PUT YOUR BACKGROUND IMAGE BEHIND THE TEMPLATE!
Step 2 - If you want to make text using gimp, then look at this step, if you want to go through the website, go onto step 3. Create a new file at 640 by 480. Then create a new text box, make it as wide and big as possible. Add a new text layer. Then go into the tab layer and select auto-crop. After that right click the text LAYER and click Alpha to Selection. Then select your foreground and background colors. Click the gradient tool, and click radial, and move the gradient tool from the middle to the left corner. After that, click on filters, click on light and shadow, then click on drop shadow. Change the fifteens to 0, and then uncheck the box, then duplicate the layers as much as you want and delete the background.
Step 3 - go on cooltext.com/, and simply select a font, then make the size as big as you want. There is not much more to say about this step
Step 4 - use the measuring tool to measure how large you want to text to be, open up the text, and go onto the image tab in gimp, then click scale image, and scale it to that size in width. After that go back into image, and rotate it so it will fit on the side of your channel. Export it and put it onto your youtube channel picture.
Step 5 - go onto your youtube channel, set the picture as your channel background. Then select it so that the background is fixed, and make it so that it either doesn't repeat or it repeats vertically only. Then save the channel settings.
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