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

Basically put a background image, and then put the html visual elements (edges, etc.) transparent

This was my channel:

http://www.youtube.com/crystian77

An important point 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, you just 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 without repeat ( in this mode focuses the image to the channel), and also has a rather interesting choice of transparency, which we will exploit. Lets get started

STRUCTURE:

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

Then locate and arrange them as you want (using the arrows) in the mobile panels.

In my case I organized in the following way:

Now we need to extract the skeleton of this structure to begin to design, to create a new topic that deploy "themes and colors" then "new topic", we put a name like "model" and modify the colors to highlight the structure of the site promptly and we know we're 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 build.

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

Since firefox can use 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 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. It is clear that at this point one can do whatever you want (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 the hand to make it more realistic.

It is good practice once you have minimal structure to see how they go up, tune and resolve any problem before proceeding.

Then I put a newspaper-type paper background, below and above this add things on my desk today, "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, you set the colors according to the style he took, and how important, we clear the structure:

And with this we have our custom channel, but 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 terms of resolution, but if "weight" must not exceed the 256k, as the resolution size is usually large, it is necessary to compress in exchange for sacrificing quality jpg format using, I am using more or less as 45% according to the "save for web & devices" in photoshop.

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If you liked this post, retwitealo, pass it to your friends, and give it to your mom on her birthday to improve channel , Je post, if you like forward it

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 play lists have the same background, barely noticeable, but bueh.

Just started using Photoshop (8 years easy), try trucar photos

There were retouched many, but unfortunately at some point I broke a disc had lots laburo (They obviously had no corresponding backup) and I lost everything, I just left them:

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The idea of ​​this tutorial is to show the steps from a picture showing how to make use as texture maps games and other applications (written two years or more, when I went to create a map with the Plaza de Mayo for counter strike 2).

Requirements: Photoshop 7 or higher.

Photos

First we have the photographs of the building in question, for example I chose the nation's bank (the one in front of the Casa Rosada in Plaza de Mayo) (to download images click here )

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