 Well now, I'm an idiot, I just recorded an entire episode without actually hitting record. Hey guys, what's up Airborne here and today we're going to be talking about graphics on your channel and how to better use them. So this is going to be part one of a lot of parts of videos on this topic because it's just so much that we have to cover when it comes to graphics on YouTube. Today specifically we're going to be talking about how your different parts on your channel should work together. Unison to create a better image for you. Now today we're going to be specifically focusing on GFX instead of VFX because VFX is while it could be technically considered in this. It's you know kind of separate and GFX is a lot easier and a lot more accessible for a lot of people and a lot of people don't even use VFX. So let's just focus on that today. The three parts that we're going to be looking at are your banner and your icon and your thumbnails. Now what tends to happen with a lot of YouTubers is they get caught up more in the content or trying to produce a lot of content and focus less on their channel look. Which is actually very important because human beings are shallow and we only care about looks. When your graphics don't match each other on your channel it just looks very messy. It looks quite bad honestly. I know because that's happened to me quite a bit. On the other hand if your graphics work together, if for example you have a white background and black text on your thumbnail, on your banner and on your icon, then it looks a lot nicer. Even if the technical aspects of your graphics, so for example having flashing colors and explosions and so on isn't necessarily at the highest level as long as everything looks in unison it'll look a lot better to newcomers and people who are visiting your channel. Let's take a look at some examples. Here we have a channel which is just going crazy. Who knows what they're doing or what they're thinking. I certainly don't. Then you look at one like this and it looks a lot nicer. Which one would you rather subscribe to just looking at the channel? And while it's true that you can get away with variety and a lot of channels who just focus on singular videos and not series do tend to do that, you can at least see a pattern in their spontaneousness. You know the same rough layout design or the same features are accentuated in each of their thumbnails for example and their banner complements that. So yeah this is going to be somewhat of a quick video and I'm going to end it right there just because like I said there's a lot to talk about when it comes to this content blah blah blah. Because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to this topic and if you guys are watching this later on in a playlist I'm sure you just want to get to the next episode. Like always if you guys like me or my hair you can follow me on twitter right here. Don't click it because it won't take you to a link but you can click the link down below and it will take you to… no, it'll take me down. Anyway guys make sure to leave a suggestion for next time and I will see you guys next time.