Resize for youtube channel banner (2560×1440)
YouTube channel art is uploaded at 2560 × 1440 pixels. Keep important content inside the central 1546 × 423 “safe area”, which is the only part guaranteed to show on every device.
Updated · Published by Novpix LLC
Drop images here
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Images are processed on your device and never uploaded.
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Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
How it works
- 1Drop your artwork in. The upload size is 2560 × 1440, far larger than any single device shows.
- 2It is scaled and center-cropped to those dimensions, then compressed for upload.
- 3Check that your channel name, logo and any text sit inside the central 1546 × 423 region — that rectangle is the only part every device displays.
Frequently asked questions
- Why upload 2560 × 1440 when only a strip of it is visible?
- Because YouTube crops the same file differently for every device. A television shows nearly the whole 2560 × 1440 image, a desktop browser shows a wide band across the middle, and a phone shows only the central 1546 × 423 rectangle. The large upload gives the platform enough image to cut from in each case.
- What is the safe area and how strict is it?
- The central 1546 × 423 pixels — the only region guaranteed to appear on every device, mobile included. Treat it as strict. Anything outside it is a bonus that television and desktop viewers get, which makes it the right place for decorative artwork and the wrong place for your channel name.
- My banner looks empty on a TV. What went wrong?
- Usually nothing — it is the trade-off of designing to the safe area. A layout built for the central strip leaves the outer regions bare on large screens. The fix is a background that extends meaningfully to the full 2560 × 1440 canvas, with the essential elements still confined to the middle.
- Is there a file size limit for channel art?
- Yes, and it is generous — several megabytes — so it is rarely the constraint. Compression still helps: a 2560-pixel-wide image straight out of a design tool can be very large, and a compressed version uploads faster and looks identical after YouTube re-encodes it anyway.
About this tool
Channel art is the only social image where the file you upload and the image anyone sees are substantially different things. YouTube takes one 2560 × 1440 upload and crops it per device: close to the full canvas on a television, a wide band across the middle in a desktop browser, and just the central 1546 × 423 rectangle on a phone. One file, three very different framings.
That makes the safe area the governing constraint. Your channel name, logo and any text must sit inside the central 1546 × 423 region, because it is the only part of the canvas guaranteed to survive every crop. Everything outside it should be treated as atmosphere — a background that rewards viewers on larger screens without carrying information that mobile viewers would miss.
The common failure runs in the other direction too: a design built tightly around the safe area leaves the outer canvas empty, so the banner looks sparse on a television. A background that extends convincingly to the full 2560 × 1440, with the essentials kept in the middle, satisfies both. This tool handles the resize and the compression locally in your browser, so the artwork is never uploaded here and the file is ready for YouTube straight away.