Fixing a banner that gets cut off on phones
Load your existing banner, and the guides show immediately why it fails: the channel name sits outside the innermost box. Drag or zoom until it fits inside, download, and re-upload.
YouTube Banner Maker
Make a 2560x1440 YouTube banner with live TV, desktop, and mobile safe-zone guides.
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The image is positioned and rendered on this device. The guides show exactly what each device will crop away, live, while you drag.
The safe zone is the whole jobTV viewers see the full canvas, desktop sees only the middle strip, and phones see less of that strip's width. Anything you care about - name, logo, tagline - belongs inside the innermost box, or it will be cut off for most viewers.
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The YouTube banner problem is not the size - it is the crop. You upload one 2560 by 1440 image, and YouTube then shows a different slice of it to every device: a television displays the whole canvas, a desktop browser shows only a 2560 by 423 strip through the middle, and a phone narrows that strip further, so the only region guaranteed visible everywhere is the central 1546 by 423 pixels. This is why so many channels have banners with the logo half-chopped or the channel name disappearing off the sides on mobile: the image was made at the right size but composed for the wrong slice. This tool puts the device zones on screen while you position the image. Drag and zoom your picture underneath live guides - the dimmed bands are what desktop viewers never see, the innermost box is what survives on every device - and download the exact-size file when everything that matters sits inside it.
Shape and export choices
- Choose an image. Anything 2560 by 1440 or larger looks sharpest; a smaller image still works but is stretched to fill, and the tool tells you when that is happening.
- Drag the image to position it. The guides stay fixed while the picture moves beneath them, so you are composing directly against the crops each device will make.
- Watch the zones. The full canvas is what televisions display. The horizontal strip is the desktop crop, and the dimmed bands above and below it are simply invisible on a computer. The innermost box - 1546 by 423 - is the only area every device shows, including phones.
- Zoom if the framing needs it. The slider enlarges the image from just-filling the canvas up to three times that, and the position is always kept so no background peeks out at an edge.
- Download. The file is rendered at exactly 2560 by 1440 from the original pixels, and JPG output is automatically kept under YouTube's 6MB upload limit.
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- Put nothing you care about outside the innermost box. The channel name, logo, tagline, and any social handles belong in the 1546 by 423 safe area - most of your viewers are on phones and see nothing beyond it.
- The outer regions are not wasted, but they are scenery. Texture, landscape, and background colour work in the television area; information does not.
- A source image smaller than 2560 by 1440 has to be enlarged to fill the canvas, and enlargement cannot invent detail. Start from the largest version of the artwork you have.
- The guides reflect YouTube's published safe areas, which have been stable for years, but YouTube controls its own layout and can change the crops. After uploading, YouTube's own preview screen shows the final result on each device - use it as the last check.
- JPG cannot store transparency, so a transparent PNG source is composed onto white. Choose PNG output to keep transparency, but note a detailed 2560 by 1440 PNG can exceed the 6MB upload limit, in which case the tool tells you to save as JPG.
Questions about YouTube Banner Maker
What size is a YouTube banner?
The upload is 2560 by 1440 pixels, with a 6MB file limit. But devices crop it: desktop shows a 2560 by 423 strip, and the area visible everywhere is the central 1546 by 423.
Why does my banner look cut off on mobile?
Because phones display only the central portion of the desktop strip. Anything placed outside the 1546 by 423 safe area disappears for mobile viewers - which is most viewers.
What are the dimmed bands in the preview?
The parts of the canvas desktop browsers never display. Only televisions show them, so they should carry background, not information.
What should I put in each zone?
Channel name, logo, and anything textual inside the innermost safe box; atmosphere and imagery in the strip; pure background in the television-only bands.
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