YouTube Banner Resizer
Resize any image to YouTube's 2560×1440 banner spec with the device safe zones overlaid — position your art so it survives every screen. Free, no login, nothing uploads.
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A YouTube banner is one image displayed five different ways. TVs show all of it, desktops show a wide strip, and phones show a sliver — YouTube crops your single upload to each screen, and it doesn't warn you what gets cut. That's why so much channel art ships with the channel name half-amputated on mobile. This tool overlays the real device windows on your image so you position everything beforeyou upload, then exports at YouTube's exact spec.
What size is a YouTube banner?
The recommended upload is 2560 × 1440 pixels (16:9), with a hard minimum of 2048 × 1152 and a 6MBfile-size cap, as a JPG, PNG, BMP or GIF. YouTube rejects anything smaller than the minimum outright — and this tool's export always comes out at the full 2560 × 1440, with JPGs auto-compressed under the 6MB limit.
What is the safe area on a YouTube banner?
The 1546 × 423 center region — the only part of the image every device displays. Desktop browsers show a 2560 × 423 full-width strip, tablets about 1855 × 423, and phones crop close to the safe area itself. Keep your channel name, logo and tagline inside the violet box in the preview above; treat everything outside it as decoration that only TV viewers will ever see. If your banner looks cropped on mobile, this is always why — the art was placed outside the safe area, not sized wrong.
Banner set — the feed is where channels grow
Channel art makes the channel page look credible, but almost nobody subscribes from the channel page — they subscribe after a video earned it. Put the same care into what viewers actually click: size your thumbnails with the Thumbnail Resizer, preview them in real YouTube layouts with the Thumbnail Previewer, and check any channel's public stats with the Subscriber Tracker.
Frequently asked questions
What size should a YouTube banner be?+
2560 × 1440 pixels — YouTube's recommended channel-art size — with a minimum of 2048 × 1152 and a file-size limit of 6MB, as a JPG, PNG, BMP or GIF. But the number that actually matters is the 1546 × 423 safe area in the center: it's the only part of the banner every device shows.
What is the safe area on a YouTube banner?+
The 1546 × 423 pixel region in the center of the 2560 × 1440 image. TVs display the full image, desktop browsers crop it to a 2560 × 423 strip, and phones crop hardest — down to roughly the safe area. Anything you need visible everywhere — channel name, logo, tagline, upload schedule — has to sit inside it.
Why does my YouTube banner look cropped on mobile?+
Because every device shows a different slice of the same image. YouTube doesn't make separate banners per device — it crops your one 2560 × 1440 upload to each screen's window. If your text sits outside the 1546 × 423 center, phones will cut it off. This tool overlays the exact windows so you can position your art before uploading.
What's the file size limit for channel art?+
6MB. If your image is over, the JPG export here automatically steps the quality down until it fits — and at banner sizes the difference is invisible, since most viewers see the image scaled well below full resolution anyway.
Does my banner image get uploaded anywhere?+
No. The resizing, positioning and compression all happen in your browser with the canvas API — the image never leaves your device, and there's nothing for us to store.
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