TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

3 min

Add attractive text overlays to social videos

Discover how to create professional lower-thirds text with perfect placement on videos.

What you’ll need
Practice in the app

Note: Stock assets provided are for practice purposes only. See terms .

What you’ll learn

Create artboards sized for popular video formats

Set up artboards sized correctly for platforms like YouTube and TikTok, using landscape and portrait orientations as needed.

Gather and lay out visual elements

Assemble brand colors, graphics, and fonts on the canvas and a static image representing the video. Experiment with text layouts, and for vertical formats, use a safe-zone template to ensure visibility around platform graphics.

Save your text overlays as a template

Clear out the background graphics, save your work as an Illustrator file, and bring it to Adobe Express to confidently apply your attractive, on-brand, and highly visible text overlays to your social videos.


Instruction by

Sydney Michuda

Design by

Sydney Michuda

Adobe Stock Contributors

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February 3, 2025

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