Resize an image for a YouTube thumbnail
Fit any photo into YouTube's 1280×720 thumbnail box without cropping — exact canvas, your image whole, converted in your browser for free.
Drop an image to resize it
or click to choose — output lands at exactly 1280×720 with padding, never cropped
Resizing in your browser…
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YouTube thumbnails are 1280×720 and every image you could upload is not — thumbnails made from screenshots or portrait photos arrive as compromised crops with titles half visible. This page fits your image whole inside the 1280×720 canvas with clean padding where the platform would have cropped.
At 1280×720 you are at YouTube’s exact upload dimension, so no platform-side resize happens at all: the thumbnail you download is the image viewers see on the results page and in sidebar suggestions. Processed in your browser, free.
Frequently asked questions
- Is 1280×720 the minimum or maximum for thumbnails?
- It is the recommended dimension — anything larger than 2MB gets refused, and anything smaller is upscaled by YouTube. Uploading exact-size avoids both problems.
- Does the padding colour matter for click-through rate?
- A clean white border makes room for your own text later in an editor, and flat padding keeps the file inside YouTube’s 2MB ceiling — handy when your source is a busy photo.