

You can either go to Edit > Fill > Color or use the brushes to draw on a plain layer. Create a background layer first and fill it with a color of your choice. Don’t put any important design elements on the far right or left of the image when you make a YouTube banner because those might not be seen by all viewers! As you create your document, remember that anyone using a phone will only see the middle of the banner. For a banner, YouTube recommends the dimensions of 2560 pixels wide and 1440 pixels tall. Here are some before & after examples of what you can create using a bit of Photoshop trickery. This is basically a Tim Gunn “make it work!” moment. You can totally repurpose your close-cropped and even vertical pictures that you love, and put them to use for your banners! It’s a problem I’ve run into both with my photos and my client’s photos, so I want to share the solution that I came up with. nor the time or money to plan a whole new photoshoot right away. The problem is - many of us don’t have a bunch of wide-shot, landscape-orientation pictures with plenty of negative space to work with. So you need a wide photo for a hero image, otherwise your square or portrait-orientation picture will become freakishly zoomed in and just not cute.

It takes the width of your photo and stretches it to be the full width of your site. When you upload a photo as a background for a section of your website, Squarespace will fill the whole banner area with the image you choose. One-half of that equation is having the right words ( here’s a great resource from Ashlyn Carter if you want to dive deeper into headline-writing.) The other half, though, is picking a photo that will support and display your headline beautifully and legibly.

which tells Google that your site is bueno 👍, which gets you higher on the list of search engine results, which brings in more visitors, and the cycle continues! 🙂 When you can implement a good headline as part of your strategy, it helps keep the right people on your website for a longer period of time. This means right when a visitor sees your home page, without having to scroll down, they should be able to tell what you’re offering and whether or not it’s relevant to them. When someone lands on our website, we have 0.05 seconds on average to help them decide if they’re gonna stay on our site, or bounce off to another one.
