Free Canva Stream Overlay Tutorial

[00:00] Let's upgrade your stream by creating

[00:01] this completely free stream overlay

[00:03] using Canva. I do have several other

[00:05] tutorials for different kinds of YouTube

[00:07] intros or even stream overlays that you

[00:09] can create with Canva, but a lot of

[00:11] people have been asking how you can

[00:12] create one with a free account. For

[00:14] that, I created an entirely new account

[00:16] that does not have Canva Pro so that I

[00:18] can use all the elements that I know you

[00:20] would be able to. Once you have created

[00:21] your Canva account, if you haven't

[00:23] already, you want to create a new

[00:25] project and make sure it's a video. Of

[00:27] course, you'd want to name your project

[00:28] so that when you save it, you can find

[00:29] it easily. I just named it Twitch

[00:32] stream. I always recommend your first

[00:33] step being to find your background. You

[00:35] can always look at the elements first

[00:36] and see what kind of vibe you want to go

[00:38] for, but I always select the background

[00:40] first because then after that, I can

[00:42] then choose the elements that go well

[00:43] with the background. I am going for a

[00:45] more floral kind of look. I searched up

[00:47] floral. You can either choose a photo as

[00:49] a background or a video. It's up to you.

[00:51] I couldn't find anything that caught my

[00:52] eye, so I searched up gradient cloud and

[00:55] picked something that I thought was

[00:56] cute. Canva also has an option for if

[00:58] you pick a video or a photo or an

[01:00] element, you can change the settings so

[01:02] that the colors look different. You just

[01:04] hit the edit button at the top tab and

[01:07] adjust. From there, you can adjust the

[01:09] temperature or the saturation. Sometimes

[01:12] they give you the color edit where you

[01:13] can choose a specific color in the

[01:15] element and change that. I also made

[01:16] sure that the video settings were on

[01:18] repeat. So it would automatically start

[01:20] at the beginning again once the video is

[01:22] over for the overlay. Set the video or

[01:24] photo as your background. You just right

[01:25] click on it and at the bottom it says

[01:27] set video as background. It should size

[01:29] it automatically to fill the screen.

[01:31] After you have chosen your background

[01:33] and are satisfied with it, this is the

[01:34] fun part in my opinion. You click

[01:36] elements, go to the graphics or photos

[01:39] and you just pick whatever elements you

[01:41] think would go best as fillers, kind of

[01:43] like stickers. The good news is if you

[01:45] want yours to look exactly like mine,

[01:47] all of these elements are free. So, you

[01:49] don't need a pro account to use these. I

[01:51] honestly forgot what I searched, but you

[01:53] can always search up watercolor flowers

[01:55] or flowers and they should pop

[02:35] Now, to really bring your overlay to

[02:37] life, you want to animate all of these

[02:38] elements. You select the ones that you

[02:40] want to animate, click the animate

[02:41] button, and there's a bunch of different

[02:43] kinds of animations you can choose from.

[02:45] My go-to animation is always breathe or

[02:47] pan or baseline. Those are what I

[02:50] usually use for almost all of my intros

[02:52] and stream overlays.

[02:55] After

[03:06] your background, your elements, and

[03:08] animating your elements, click on text.

[03:10] This is where you'll add stream starting

[03:12] soon. Things easier. We are going to use

[03:14] one of their font combinations that they

[03:16] already have set for us. There are some

[03:18] for pro users as well, but we are of

[03:20] course using the free version. I thought

[03:22] the glow option went really well with

[03:24] the overlay. This font combination is

[03:27] also just a template. You can change the

[03:29] font if you want to or change the color

[03:31] of the text or even the effect if you

[03:33] want the glow to be more intense. You

[03:35] just want to play around with the

[03:36] settings until you get something that

[03:37] looks exactly like how you want it to.

[03:48] Now for the stream starting soon text, I

[03:51] am using the sparkle font combination. I

[03:53] think this goes well with the glow name.

[04:08] Finally, once again, you want to choose

[04:10] an animation for both text and see what

[04:12] looks best for you.

[04:34] You are finally done. All you have to do

[04:36] is hit share and download it and it is

[04:38] ready to go. I also have a ton of intro

[04:41] and stream overlay templates that you

[04:43] can grab on my Etsy shop. They are all

[04:45] 100% editable. You just have to download

[04:47] them and edit anything you like using

[04:49] this tutorial. saves you a lot of time

[04:51] and money all while upgrading your

[04:53] content. The link will be down below for

[04:54] anybody who's interested. I'll also have

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