Resize
Make a YouTube channel picture
YouTube's recommended channel picture is 800 pixels square, which is far larger than anywhere it is actually displayed - a circle on the channel page, much smaller beside a video or a comment.
The large recommendation exists so the small renderings stay clean, which means the useful test is whether your picture still reads when it is shrunk to the size of a comment avatar.
How to make a YouTube channel picture
- Drop in your photograph. It is cropped in this page, not uploaded.
- Pick a size. 800 x 800 is the recommendation; the larger option stays sharper on a high-density screen.
- Let it crop square and centre. Check the result before you download it.
- Download, and upload that copy to your profile.
Supported formats
This tool accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF files. Everything is decoded by your own browser, so the formats available depend on what your browser can open - which for HEIC in particular varies between Safari and other browsers.
Frequently asked questions
What size should a YouTube profile picture be?
800 x 800 is the size independent references consistently report for YouTube, and this page defaults to it with a larger option beside it. Platforms change display sizes without announcing it and re-encode what they receive, so treat it as the size that works rather than a specification YouTube is bound to.
Why does YouTube want 800 x 800 for something shown so small?
Because it renders the same file at many sizes, and downscaling from a large clean original gives better small versions than upscaling a small one. The recommendation is about the worst case rather than the largest one.
Why is my face cut off in the circle?
YouTube masks the square to a circle, and because 800 x 800 is far larger than anywhere it is shown, the corner loss matters less than on the smaller platforms. What matters more is whether the centre still reads when the same picture is drawn beside a comment at a fraction of that size.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The resize runs in your browser and the download is stripped of metadata. Nothing about the photograph reaches a server here.
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