Twitch panels allow us add information to your channel in an attractive way. When users access your channel, they will see these panels to find out more about you: to know your biography, to access your profile on Twitter or YouTube or even to know your usual broadcast times if someone has come to your channel again.
To create them we need third-party tools, extensions that we can activate by default to improve the options so that anyone who comes to see our broadcast can get to know us more. Although you can also create new panels with the content you want: adding a custom text or image panel that you have created with any tool or downloaded from a specialized website.
Add panels with extensions
To add panels we have to do it from our account. You will have to go to your profile, open the channel and access all the details of your profile, from the settings.
- Open Twitch
- Login to Twitch with email and password
- Tap on your profile icon in the upper right corner
- Display the options menu
- Choose the option “Channel”In the settings menu
Once here, you will have to go to the tab “About of”On Twitch which you will see as in the screenshot below. Once here, scroll to the end and click on the “Edit panels” switch. Flip the switch and a series of options will appear. You will see that Twitch indicates: “Interact with your community with panel extensions” and a series of extensions that you can add to your panel in the application.
Here we will see a series of outstanding extensions that we can download to use those tools. As we have explained before, they allow us a series of options such as adding tweets from our timeline or designing animated panels. It will depend on what we need to touch on “Activate” and that’s it. It is enough to move the carousel sideways to discover more extensions.
OWN3d Design panels
One option to add original and animated panels is to activate and configure OWN3D Design Panels (Free & Animated) Choose this option and tap “Activate.” Once you have activated it, tap on “Configure”. What it allows us is to add a kind of banner so that we can put our social networks or different buttons to know more about us. Here we can add a link or we can give some information about the channel to be visited, such as YouTube or Facebook.
The way OWN3D Design works is simply to choose one of the designs among which it allows us to choose. They are animated and with different themes, from Fortnite to more serious options with gaming style and in various colors. Once you have chosen the design, you can choose the words: about me, hardware, contact, regulas, schedule, subscribe, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Steam or Twitter. You choose the ones you want as you see in the screenshot below. Once you have them marked, you can add some text in the different categories. When you’re done, check “Save” at the bottom of the screen and your changes will be saved.
Add custom panels
If you want to add your own panels, you can also do it by following a few simple steps on Twitch, although we must have previously created the designs to upload them here when appropriate … The steps are the same as in the previous section until the panels are activated:
- Open Twitch
- Login to Twitch with email and password
- Tap on your profile icon in the upper right corner
- Display the options menu
- Choose the “Channel” option in the settings menu
- Here, go to the “About” tab
- Scroll and flip the switch “Edit panels”
Instead of looking for extensions, what we should do now is go to the bottom of the page where we will find a large rectangle with a symbol “+” in the middle. Tapping on this symbol will give us two different options: Add a text or image panel / Extension panel. The one that interests us now is the first. Click.
Once we have followed the previous steps, it will allow us to upload panels. We will have to fill in a series of data:
- Panel title
- Add Image (They fit 320 px wide)
- Links you want to add to the image
- Description
When you have it complete, confirm with “Send”And will be added. Repeat the process as many times as you like until you have the panels you like.
Create and download dashboards
We can make the pictures of our panels from scratch But there are also many websites or online Twitch panel generators that allow us to access a simple template and create the design without any complications.
Download
Beyond those offered by the extension, the Own3d.tv website where you can see all kinds of templates that you can download. Each set of Twitch panels has eight predefined panels that maintain the same style and a blank panel that you can use for the bottom of the channel. The web has all kinds of designs and we can filter based on what interests us the most. You can search by keyword or you can choose by colors or by games depending on what you want and there are more than 150 results in total.
Keep in mind that most of the panels (practically all) that are on this website they carry a cost and that they are not available for free if you do not bet on the previous option of the extension. Once you have it, you must follow the previous steps to adjust them as an image in your profile and be able to have the panel in your account.
The FreePik website also has a category of resources or vectors to create such panels. Each pack gives us a series of different buttons that we can customize, cut or edit with tools such as Photoshop, for example. Some of them have a cost but others are available for free. There are more than a hundred models available from which we can choose to customize.
Create
Beyond those that have already been created, some websites allow us to access templates to make Twitch panels and give us all the necessary tools to customize them to our liking. There are websites like Placeit by Evato that allow us to make the designs as we like the most using a template as a base. You simply have to go to the “Gaming” category and from there to “Twitch Templates”. Here a template will open with the specific dimensions where you can change everything
You can modify the text, the font, the background, the different colors. You can add a logo or use some of the icons that appear in the gallery and that we can add without cost although you can also upload your own. Once you have it ready, you just have to tap on “Free Download” and follow the Twitch steps above to upload the image and add the panels you want.
Canva also allows us to create panels for the gaming tool for free with the different templates available in the online tool. You just have to go to Canva.com from your browser and look for “dashboard for Twitch” at the top. Will appear to us all templates available or a blank design to create from scratch.
Choose the one you like the most and change what you need. Each of the designs is a pack with ten different pages so you can put the Twitch panels you want: about me, donations, rules, social media, calendar. You can add whatever you want or modify the texts. Once you have it, download and follow the steps above to add them to your profile one by one and linking to what corresponds.
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