PicMonkey YouTube Banner Maker

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PicMonkey's YouTube banner maker tools let you make stunning banner designs, no matter your skill level. Start fast with designer-made templates, or DIY with a pre-sized canvas. Customize to match your channel and tout your brand. Start creating for free today!

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Make YouTube banners quickly with our pro templates

Pair a designer-crafted template with our YouTube maker tools for fast design time and stunning results. Customize to your heart's content.

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1. Pick a template

Choose a design you like from PicMonkey’s pre-sized YouTube banner templates to start creating your cover quickly. Otherwise, you can start from scratch with a blank canvas.

2. Customize your template

Now's the time to customize your design to match your brand. Swap out our images with your own (or pull from our stock photo library). Add graphics, text, colors — whatever best spells Y-O-U.

3. Add effects

Take your YouTube banner to the next level with trendy effects and eye-catching textures. Apply them to images, graphics, and/or text, then fine-tune your look with easy-to-use sliders.

Once your banner is all set, upload to YouTube directly from PicMonkey. You can also download to your desktop; no matter what, your design autosaves in our cloud storage for quick access at any time.

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When you're creating a YouTube banner, you want a large pegboard of tools at hand for modifying your design to get a unique look. PicMonkey's no slouch in the tools department.

• Remove backgrounds behind your photo subject instantaneously.

• Make a photo, texture, or gradient appear inside graphics or text.

• Dozens of effects you can paint on where you want 'em.

• Color shift the tones in your photo.

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Create with graphics

We’ve got thousands of awesome graphics in a multitude of styles, shapes, and sizes that you can use to create YouTube banners that will get noticed.

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Make YouTube channel art in the PicMonkey app

Good news! Our YouTube banner maker tools extend to the small screen. Make what you want whenever you need it in PicMonkey mobile.

Just like on desktop, you can easily edit images, graphics, and text for one heck of a YouTube design.

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FAQs about making YouTube banners

Good YouTube banners are eye-catching, organized and, most importantly, cohesive. This means keeping your channel art on-brand and working to make sure it gels with your other visual assets, like video thumbnails. Match colors, fonts, and other design elements — whatever best creates cohesion and says “This is me.”

Download the PicMonkey mobile app and start with a YouTube cover canvas. Customize with your own images, colors, graphics, and fonts. Save to your camera roll and upload to YouTube directly from your phone! Or email the image to yourself and then hop onto your desktop.

YouTube's recommended size for a YouTube banner is 2560 x 1140 pixels. However, your banner displays differently across devices, so it's important to be aware of the "safe zone" as you design. Check out our YouTube banner sizing guide for an example of what this looks like.