Discover how to create professional lower-thirds text with perfect placement on videos.
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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.
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February 3, 2025