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Tool 533 · Local thumbnail design studio

YouTube Thumbnail Maker

Build a 4K YouTube thumbnail from your own image, add high-impact title and badge layers, upload a channel logo, grade the background, test tiny-card readability, and export against YouTube’s current mobile or desktop upload limits.

Current 4K canvas3840×2160 · 16:9, matching YouTube’s current recommended video thumbnail resolution.

Small-card firstSee 320 px and 168 px previews while editing so giant-canvas text does not fool you.

Readability coachScores text size, title length, contrast styling and timestamp collision risk.

No account or cloud uploadBackground, logo, rendering and compression all stay in your browser.

1. Background image

local only

Drop or paste a backgroundJPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or GIF · max 80 MB

Choose image

Image focus X 50%

Image focus Y 50%

Background zoom 100%

Blur 0

Brightness 100%

Contrast 100%

Dark gradient overlay 25%

2. Style recipes

starting points, fully editable

3. Layers

Title text

Font

Size 330

Fill

Stroke

Stroke width 18

Alignment

Position X 9%

Position Y 48%

Max text width 58%

Text background box Shadow

Badge / hook

Badge color

Text color

Position X 9%

Position Y 25%

Badge size 100%

Show badge

Optional channel logoPNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF · transparent PNG works best

Choose logo

Position X 88%

Position Y 14%

Logo size 14%

4. Preview guides

Rule of thirds Timestamp pressure

Conservative edge-safe guide

5. Export

Format

JPEG quality 92%

Upload target

Card duration

Auto-compress JPEG to selected YouTube limit

Filename

Engine diagnostics · running…

Image and logo decoding, composition, rendering and compression run locally. Export re-encoding strips source EXIF/GPS metadata.

4K YouTube thumbnail canvas

3840 × 2160 · 16:9 · drag the title or badge directly on the canvas

Drag title / badge · guides never export

Canvas3840 × 2160

Aspect ratio16:9

Upload ceiling2 MB

Last export—

Small-card titleChecking…