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Cake Faice:
(kthnxtowhomovedeet)

Wanna be a coolfag and have one of those fancy, youtube channel's with gradients and graphics and shit you wouldn't normally get with just the repeating background image?

You're still going to use the background aspect part but...I has a little template you guys can use and build your own custom youtube userpage backgrounds. Here's how it works:

HOW TO SET-UP:

I'd goto your channel, hit the settings button, and goto themes and colors and select "grey". And then hit advance options.

1. Change the font to your choice
2. Change background color to grey (or what ever looks nice with your template)
3. Wrapper color, text, and link color should contrast to your theme. So it wont be eye rape reading everything
4. THIS IS IMPORTANT: Set Wrapper Transparency to 100%
5. Goto the color palettes section
6. Change background color to black
7. Change the title, link, and body text color to contrast with your theme
8. IMPORTANT: Change transparency to 100%
9. Open up Photoshop or something and read this color coordination guide so you know what to fill in and what graphics to go where and what not (I made this template on a 1280x1024 res screen, so I'm not sure if it will screw everything up from your point of view):


Red = Background space. Like what's behind all of the top layers like the description, comment section, ect. Ideal if you keep all of the main layers...on the top layer and leave out that background layer for the bottom layer of your program. So you can add some graphics that stick out from the background

Light Blue = Channel Activity and Comments section. If you have channel comments and activities enabled, this is what we will see behind all the main text.

Blue = Profile information. Like where you age, profile views, total video views and bio and crap.

Green = Profile information header. Contains your avatar and subscribe button n' stuff.

Pink = Video description. Like how many views it has, the name of it, like and dislike button ect.

Orange = The video background itself. Pretty much what goes behind the video.

Yellow = Video list. Like the buttons to click to get to your videos and stuff.

White = Channel Header. With your avatar, name, and list options for your videos.

10. Download the base template

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11. Hopefully you still have your youtube channel still open with advance options on

12. Goto background image, upload you're new background, and disable "Repeat Background Image"

13. Stare at the new changes to see if you need to change any color settings to fit your background

14. Finally hit "Save Changes" and go whore off your new background

15. Example Channel

Nid post link to your channel so we can see the eyerapeepicness you've created.

jimonions:
I guess this deserves a sticky

Also take a look at my channel for another reference of a custom bg I made in gimp: http://www.youtube.com/user/Jimonions?feature=mhum

Pryvisee:
Yep and mine:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pryvisee

Made in Fireworks.

Shawn:
I'll stick with my Black and gold theme thanks anyways Lol

http://www.youtube.com/user/Shawnchapp

ursus:

--- Quote from: Shawn on March 05, 2011, 07:27:02 AM ---I'll stick with my Black and gold theme thanks anyways Lol

http://www.youtube.com/user/Shawnchapp

--- End quote ---

black and gold are my school colors, argument is valid

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