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YouTube channel banner size: 2560 × 1440

2560 × 1440 canvas, 1546 × 423 safe. Nothing is uploaded.

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Your files stay on your device

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and you can even turn off your internet connection before you start.

Example

Example: a 4032 × 3024 phone photo made into a 2560 × 1440 YouTube banner

A landscape photo from a phone, 4032 × 3024 pixels (4:3), is to become the channel banner. YouTube wants 16:9, so the photo is too tall — and the channel name has to land where phones still show it.

Example: a 4032 × 3024 phone photo made into a 2560 × 1440 YouTube banner — Before
Before
Example: a 4032 × 3024 phone photo made into a 2560 × 1440 YouTube banner — After
After
  1. Drop the photo. Fill and crop is already chosen, and the 16:9 frame takes the full width: 4032 × 2268 pixels, leaving out 378 pixels at the top and 378 at the bottom.
  2. Drag the frame up or down to keep more sky or more ground; the middle of the frame is what every screen shows.
  3. Press Resize for YouTube: the frame is scaled down by a factor of 1.575 to exactly 2560 × 1440.
Screen Part of the banner shown On the original photo (centred)
Television 2560 × 1440 (all of it)4032 × 2268
Desktop about 2560 × 423about 4032 × 666
Phone 1546 × 423about 2435 × 666

On a phone only a strip about 2435 × 666 pixels across the middle of the photo stays visible: that is where the subject and the channel name belong. The file itself is exactly 2560 × 1440, ready to upload in YouTube Studio.

How it works

  1. Drop the image you want as channel art.
  2. Fill and crop is already chosen and a 16:9 frame appears. Put the part that matters — your name, your face — in the middle of it.
  3. Press Resize for YouTube. The result is exactly 2560 × 1440 pixels, which is the file YouTube asks you to upload.
  4. Upload it in YouTube Studio under Customisation, and check the preview it shows for TV, desktop and mobile before saving.

Frequently asked questions

What size is a YouTube channel banner?
The YouTube channel banner size is 2560 × 1440 pixels (16:9), with the middle 1546 × 423 as the safe area every screen shows.
Why is my text cut off?
Because 2560 × 1440 is the canvas, not what people see. A television shows all of it. A desktop shows a strip about 2560 × 423 across the middle. A phone shows only the middle 1546 × 423. Anything outside that central rectangle is visible to some viewers and not others, so a name placed near the edge disappears for most of them.
So what should I put where?
Put the channel name, logo and anything that must be read inside the middle 1546 × 423 — about 60% of the width and under a third of the height, centred. Use the rest for texture that can be cut without being missed: a gradient, a photograph, a pattern.
Can I just upload a 1546 × 423 image?
You can, and it will be accepted, but YouTube stretches it to fill the wider views, so it will look soft on a desktop and worse on a television. Uploading the full 2560 × 1440 is what keeps it sharp everywhere.
How do I resize an image to 2560 × 1440?
Drop it here with Fill and crop chosen: a 16:9 frame is placed on it, you move it over the part you want, and the result is exactly 2560 × 1440. Fit inside keeps the whole picture instead: a 4032 × 3024 photo becomes 1920 × 1440 in the middle, with 320 pixels of padding each side — white in a JPG, transparent in a PNG or WebP.
Can I keep the banner file small?
Yes: choose a size under “Keep the file under”, from 20 KB to 500 KB. The banner stays 2560 × 1440 and only the quality is lowered to fit; a PNG kept in its own format is saved as JPG for this, because a PNG cannot trade quality for bytes.
Is my image uploaded here?
No. The crop and the resize happen in your browser; the file only leaves your device when you upload it to YouTube yourself.

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