Free tool
Crop photos for YouTube
Frame a 1280 × 720 thumbnail, a 2560 × 1440 channel banner or your profile picture in its circle. Nothing uploaded, no location kept. Free.
Arrow keys move it, + and − zoom.
Nothing is uploaded. Your photos are cropped on this device and never leave it.
No location in your JPGs. Where and when a photo was taken is left out.
On photos made in Luala
Zoom in crops close, at full size
A tight crop keeps only the pixels inside the frame, so it comes out small. Zoom in cuts the frame from a photo Luala made and rebuilds it at full size.
It works on photos you make in Luala, not on the photos you crop here.
Try it on a photo of you
made from a few selfies
Personal brand photos
Add a few selfies. Luala makes photos of you on stage, in the office, at a café laptop and on a website hero, whenever the feed needs new ones.
See AI personal branding photos
The image sizes YouTube uses
A video thumbnail is 1280 × 720, the 16:9 shape of the video. Frame the photo in it and the thumbnail fills its slot with no bars at the sides.
The channel banner is 2560 × 1440, but only TVs show all of it: computers and phones show a strip across the middle, so keep words and faces there. The profile picture is an 800 × 800 square shown as a circle, and the circle on the frame is the part that shows.
Questions
What size is a YouTube thumbnail?
1280 × 720 pixels, the 16:9 shape of the video.
What size is a channel banner?
2560 × 1440 pixels. TVs show all of it; computers and phones show a strip across the middle.
What if my photo is smaller than that?
It's kept at the size the frame holds, in the right shape. A photo is never made bigger: enlarging adds pixels but no detail.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Your browser crops them on this device. They aren't sent to Luala or anywhere else.