Canva

✨ What You Can Do with This Tool

• ✓ Starting-soon screens from templates
• ✓ Thumbnails and banners alike
• ✓ Free, and works on mobile too

📖 What is Canva?

An online design tool for creating thumbnails, stream overlays, and social media announcement banners right in your browser. Just pick a template for your purpose and drag in your own text and photos — no design experience needed to put together stream assets. The free version already covers most templates and editing features, and you can upgrade to Canva Pro (¥11,800/year per person) for premium assets, AI features, and brand management. The same designs open in the iOS and Android apps too, so you can make last-minute edits on the go before going live.

💡 When to Use It

Handy when you want to line up matching "Starting Soon," "Chatting," and "See You" screens ahead of your first stream — just swap the color and text on the same template to put together a cohesive stream layout in one go. For uploading game-streaming archives to YouTube, drop a screenshot and a bold headline into a 1280×720 thumbnail template to finish the cover art, and you can reuse the same design for your social media announcement banners too.

📋 Basic Info

🚀 How to Use

1. Step 1: Sign up for Canva (canva.com) for free with a Google account or email, and open "Create a design" from the home screen
2. Step 2: Choose "YouTube Thumbnail" (1280×720), or set a "Custom size" of 1920×1080 to create a canvas for a stream overlay
3. Step 3: Pick a design close to what you want from "Templates" in the left menu, then swap out frames, icons, and your stream title in the "Elements" and "Text" tabs
4. Step 4: Export as PNG or JPG from "Share" → "Download" in the top right
5. Step 5: Add the exported image as an "Image" source in OBS, and position it over your stream layout

🎬 Tutorial Video

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