As some know, I like to customize everything!, The weather gave way (try) to my home drawing www.crystian.net , now I came to do the same with twitter and youtube. I started youtube to see if I could do something, and if you can elaborate half certainly did intentionally for anyone (not just the partners) can change the look of the channel.

Basically put a background image, and then put the html visuals (borders, etc.) transparent

So I'm channel:

http://www.youtube.com/crystian77

An important clarification is that you can not change the "structure" This is usually applied as a skin . More than a modification that does not mean you can do something interesting, just you have to be more creative.

What he proposes is youtube customize colors, fonts, with preset themes, but we also have an advanced mode in which we can customize (customize in Spanglish) colors and also add a background image as a repetitive, mosaic or no repeat ( in this mode focuses the image to the channel), and also has a rather interesting choice of transparency, which we will exploit. Let's start:

STRUCTURE:

The first is to define panels and modules that will be the channel

Then locate and Order it as you want (using the arrows) in panels phones.

In my case I organized as follows:

Now we need to extract the skeleton of this structure to begin designing for this we create a new topic deploy "themes and colors" then "New Topic", we name as "demo" and modify the colors to highlight the site structure on time and we know we are seeing, for example like this:

We can clearly see the structure itself is graphically ugly but think that is the skeleton, lacks the "skin" that we will build.

Next step, full screenshot of the entire channel and take you to photoshop (or your favorite image editor)

Since you can use firefox FireShot plugin or some similar, if not with alt + print screen (this is the first key of the three keys that you used ever full of dust that are above the numeric keypad on the left)

Now in your image editor focused short the image leaving the structure, paying close attention to this point, if you go up and then not centered you should only add more pixels to one side to center.

ART:

You create a new layer and then at this, "paint" over your new skin, for example in this case we simulate freehand drawing. It is clear that at this point one can do as you like (it would be interesting to a metal) in this free your creativity to the fullest!

Explain how I did mine. Basically paint with a brush like a pen stroke, making stroke the imperfections of hand to make it more realistic.

It is good practice once you have the minimum structure to see how the upload is, adjust and resolve any problem before proceeding.

Then I put a newspaper type paper background, below and above this add things in my desk now, "links" to personal projects, things I like, or even define me, just to keep my style and be consistent with me I am sometimes

To look "real", almost everything has a shadow, it gives depth to the image and thus is more realistic. Some things, like notes and texts were scanned.

Once you have left over something like this:

Let youtube and create a new topic, we configured the colors according to the style we gave him, and importantly, we clear the structure:

And with this we have our custom channel, but do not change the basic structure, changing the way we show our channel.

MAXIMUM SIZE:

For the background image seems to have a maximum upload size in resolution, but if the "weight" must not exceed the 256k, as the resolution size is usually large, it is necessary to compress in exchange for sacrificing quality using jpg format, I am using more or less as 45% according to the "save for web & devices" in photoshop.

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If you used it or not, comments on this post and put your channel for all to see

Enjoy

NOTE: If you have an issue when you click on playlists has the same background, barely noticeable, but Oh well.

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