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YouTube channel banner size: 2560 × 1440 px

Channel art at the full 2560 × 1440 upload, with the safe area that survives every screen.

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YouTube channel banner size at a glance

One image, four different crops

YouTube channel art is the most aggressively cropped image on any major platform. You upload one 2560 × 1440 file and YouTube shows a different rectangle out of it on every device: the full width on a television, roughly 2560 × 423 on a desktop browser, about 1855 × 423 on a tablet, and only the middle 1546 × 423 on a phone.

That last figure is the one that matters. The centred 1546 × 423 region is the only part guaranteed to be visible everywhere, so the channel name, the logo and the upload schedule all have to live inside it. Everything outside is background that only some visitors ever see — which is fine, as long as nothing there is load-bearing.

Because a television can display the whole 2560 × 1440, the outer area still needs to look deliberate rather than like an accident of cropping. The usual approach is a plain or gradient background across the full canvas with the content grouped in the safe rectangle. Keep the export under the 6 MB limit; at this size a JPEG is the sensible choice unless the art is flat colour.

How to resize an image to 2560 × 1440

  1. Drop your image on the panel above — or paste it, or drop several at once to do a batch.
  2. The width and height are already set to 2560 × 1440, and the aspect lock is off so both numbers are honoured exactly.
  3. If your source is a different shape, crop it to 16:9 first — resizing a different ratio straight to these numbers stretches it.
  4. Pick an output format. JPEG for photographs, PNG for flat colour, text and anything needing transparency.
  5. Download. Nothing was uploaded at any point — the resize ran on your own machine, in this tab.

Questions

Why is my banner cut off on mobile?

Because the phone view shows only the central 1546 × 423 pixels. Anything outside that rectangle is cropped away on the device most of your viewers use.

Can I upload something smaller than 2560 × 1440?

YouTube requires at least 2048 × 1152. Going below the recommended size means the television view is upscaled, which is the one place a banner is seen large.

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