Cover photo and banner maker

Platforms change their layouts from time to time, so preview your cover after uploading and adjust if something is cut off. Upload sizes larger than the display size are normal: they keep the image sharp on high-resolution phone and laptop screens.

Covers are cropped differently on desktop, phone and TV. The YouTube banner is the extreme case: a TV shows the whole 2560 × 1440 image, while a phone shows only a strip in the middle. The editor marks the 1546 × 423 px safe area on the YouTube banner size, so you can keep your channel name and tagline inside it while the background fills the whole image.

For Facebook, keep text near the center, since phones show less of the left and right edges. On X and LinkedIn, the round profile photo covers part of the lower left, so put text toward the center or the right.

The editor opens with a cover template, and the gallery has more designs for personal profiles, businesses, creators and events. Change anything:

• Text: 40+ free fonts, gradient fills, outline, shadow and highlight background.
• Photos: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or iPhone HEIC; crop and zoom inside the frame; filters and brightness, contrast, saturation and blur. A blurred photo makes a calm background behind text.
• Graphics: shapes, lines, recolorable stickers, and gradient or pattern backgrounds.

Every design switches to any other size and the layout adapts automatically, so a Facebook cover becomes a LinkedIn banner, an X header and a YouTube banner in a few clicks.

• Keep text short: your name or business, one line about what you do, maybe a website. Covers are seen for a second.
• Leave room for the profile photo, especially on X and LinkedIn.
• Use high contrast between text and background.
• Be consistent across platforms. Save your colors, fonts and logo in the brand kit, then apply them to each cover in one click.
• Use a wide photo. Covers are very wide; a tall portrait photo will be cropped heavily.
• Check on a phone after uploading; that is where many visitors will see it first.

• Personal profile: a favorite landscape or a wide photo with a short quote. Keep it simple; your profile photo does the introducing.
• Small business: your logo, what you do in a few words and your website or phone number, on a photo of your work or your storefront.
• Creator or YouTube channel: your channel name, the upload schedule (New videos every Friday) and a few faces or frames from your videos.
• Job seeker on LinkedIn: your field and a short value line, such as Data analyst helping retail teams forecast demand, on a calm background.
• Event or campaign: the date, place and a call to action, updated as the event gets closer.
• Seasonal refresh: duplicate your cover and swap the background for holidays or a sale, keeping the same text and layout.

Whatever the type, one message and one image work better than a crowded collage on such a wide, short space.

Download a PNG for crisp text, logos and flat graphics, or a JPG for photo-heavy covers and smaller files. Then upload it in your profile or channel settings. The cover is created in your browser; your photo and text are never uploaded here, there is no watermark, and you do not need an account. For YouTube video thumbnails, use the YouTube thumbnail maker; for display ads, the banner maker.