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Get the perfect banner size for your YouTube channel.
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JPG, PNG, WebP supported · Max recommended 25MB
Resize your image to the perfect YouTube channel banner size online for free with ResizerPhoto. A professional YouTube channel banner improves your channel's appearance and brand identity across devices.
A YouTube channel banner appears across the top of your channel page and needs to display cleanly across a wide range of devices — desktop browsers, mobile phones, tablets, and even smart TVs, each of which crops the same banner image differently to fit its own layout. This tool crops any photo to YouTube's recommended banner dimensions, giving you the correct starting canvas size, though it's still worth keeping your most essential branding elements within YouTube's known safe area so nothing important gets cut off on smaller screens.
Because a channel banner is typically only updated occasionally rather than with every upload, it's worth spending a little extra care getting the composition and safe-area placement right the first time, since a well-designed banner continues to represent the channel's branding consistently across every visit to the channel page for months or years afterward.
Many channels use their banner to display their upload schedule, cross-promote a second channel or social account, or simply reinforce their visual branding with consistent colors and a logo, all of which depend on the design remaining legible across the very different screen shapes and sizes YouTube supports.
The tool locks your crop selection to YouTube's banner aspect ratio and exports the result at 2560 by 1440 pixels, the exact resolution YouTube recommends for channel art to ensure crisp display even on large desktop monitors and television screens. Because YouTube crops different portions of this full banner depending on the viewer's device, with only the center safe area guaranteed to be visible everywhere, positioning your logo, channel name, or key visual elements within that central region rather than near the outer edges ensures they remain visible across desktop, mobile, and TV views alike.
It's worth previewing your uploaded banner on both a mobile device and a desktop browser after publishing, since YouTube's device-specific cropping means a banner that looks perfectly framed on one screen size can still end up with important text or logos cut off on another if it wasn't composed with the safe area in mind from the start.
Many creators use their channel banner to communicate their upload schedule, showcase their branding, or list links to other social profiles, and all of this information needs to remain legible across every device type YouTube supports. Because the platform's cropping behavior differs meaningfully between a widescreen desktop monitor and a narrow mobile phone screen, designing with the safe area in mind from the very first draft avoids the frustrating experience of publishing a banner only to discover key text is invisible to a large portion of your mobile audience.
YouTube recommends 2560x1440 px for channel banner art. Our tool outputs this size.
YouTube displays different areas of the banner on different screen sizes. Keep your main content in the safe area (1546x423 px centered) to ensure it is visible on all devices.
JPG or PNG both work. Maximum file size is 6MB.
Go to your YouTube channel page, click Customize Channel, then go to Branding to upload your banner image.
No. Thumbnails and channel banners have different sizes and purposes. Use our YouTube Thumbnail tool for video thumbnails.
Using the exact recommended size reduces the chance of an automatic crop, but always preview before posting.
Sizes are platform-specific, so check the exact requirement for each platform rather than reusing one size everywhere.
No, this tool runs entirely in your browser, so no software installation is needed.
YouTube recommends a banner (channel art) size of 2560x1440 pixels for the full canvas, with a safe area of 1546x423 pixels that displays consistently across devices; a smaller working size like 1024x576 is sometimes used as a scaled-down reference for the same 16:9 safe-area proportions.