Resize a YouTube banner (2560×1440)
YouTube wants channel art at 2560×1440, and this resizes any image to it in your browser. Set the size, choose whether to fit or fill, and download banner-ready artwork — no upload, no account, no watermark.
Privacy-first: every image is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or transmitted to any server.
The one size YouTube actually asks for
YouTube recommends uploading channel art at 2560×1440 pixels — the largest size it uses, from which it derives the smaller crops for phones and TVs. Start here and your banner looks sharp everywhere; start too small and YouTube upscales it into a blurry mess. Enter 2560×1440 (it’s already set), drop your image in, and the resizer matches it exactly.
Mind the safe area
Only a central strip of roughly 1546×423 is guaranteed to show on every device, so keep your logo and text inside it while the rest of the 2560×1440 canvas fills the space on desktop and TV. Use “fill” to cover the whole banner with your image (cropping the overflow) or “fit” with a background color to show all of it. The resize runs locally, so your unpublished channel art never touches a server.
Frequently asked questions
- Does resizing happen on a server?
- No. Images are resized in your browser with high-quality step-down scaling for crisp results. Nothing is uploaded.
- Will resizing keep the aspect ratio?
- Yes by default. Enable “maintain aspect ratio” to fit within your target box without distortion, or turn it off to force an exact width and height.
- Are there presets for social media?
- Yes. There are presets for Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn, plus common web, avatar and thumbnail sizes.
- Can I enlarge images?
- Yes, though enlarging cannot add detail that is not there. Downscaling produces the sharpest results.
- Can I resize images in bulk?
- Yes. Resize many images at once and download them together as a ZIP.