YouTube image sizes and editors
Banner safe zones that survive TV, desktop and phone, plus thumbnails that stay readable at search-result size.
YouTube is the platform where a single asset is cropped the most ways. The channel banner alone has four distinct crops — TV, desktop, tablet and phone — and only the innermost one is guaranteed. Thumbnails are designed at 1280 × 720 and judged at 168. Profile pictures are squares that are always shown as circles.
Every tool below opens the same editor with the right preset loaded, marks the regions that get covered or cropped, and exports a compliant file from your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.
Runs on your device. Your image is decoded, cropped and encoded by this browser tab. It is never uploaded, and there is no image-processing service behind this page.
Channel artwork
The two assets on your channel header, with every device crop shown at once.
- Banner size2560 × 1440 · 16:9YouTube banner size is 2560 × 1440 with a 1546 × 423 safe area. Upload an image, see the TV, desktop and mobile crops, and export a compliant banner in your browser.checked 31 July 2026
- Profile picture size800 × 800 · 1:1YouTube profile picture size is 800 × 800, displayed as a circle at 98 px. Crop, preview the circular mask at comment size, and export in your browser.checked 31 July 2026
Video artwork
Thumbnails and Shorts frames, checked at the sizes viewers actually see them.
- Thumbnail size1280 × 720 · 16:9YouTube thumbnail size is 1280 × 720 at 16:9, under 2 MB. Crop any image to an exact thumbnail, check it at search-result size, and export locally.checked 31 July 2026
- Thumbnail compressor1280 × 720 · 16:9Compress a YouTube thumbnail under the 2 MB limit without leaving 1280 × 720. Set a target size and the tool finds the highest quality that fits, locally.checked 31 July 2026
- Shorts safe zone1080 × 1920 · 9:16See the YouTube Shorts safe zone on your own frame: action rail, title row and progress bar mapped onto 1080 × 1920. Export a clean frame or a guide proof.checked 31 July 2026
YouTube questions
What are the current YouTube image sizes?
Channel banner 2560 × 1440 with a 1546 × 423 safe area and a 6 MB limit; thumbnail 1280 × 720 at 16:9 under 2 MB on mobile; profile picture 800 × 800 shown as a 98 × 98 circle; Shorts 1080 × 1920. Each tool page carries the source link and the date the figure was last checked.
Do I need a YouTube account to use these tools?
No. Nothing here connects to YouTube. These are local image editors — you download the file and upload it in YouTube Studio yourself.
Doing more than one platform?
The One Image to Social Pack applies a single focal point across every destination you pick and gives you one ZIP with a manifest listing each size, its source and the date it was checked.