YouTube Profile Picture Resizer
Create a channel picture that looks sharp and well centred inside YouTube’s circle. Frame your face or logo with a circular guide, and make a matching branding watermark for your videos at the same time.
- Files stay on your device
- No sign-up
- Free to use
Sizes to create
Tick the sizes to download; select a size to adjust its framing.
Fill the frame
Output
How to use YouTube Profile Picture Resizer
- Drop a photo or logo onto the upload area.
- Position the circular frame so your face or logo sits in the middle with a little space around it.
- Tick the 150 × 150 watermark too if you want branding on your videos.
- Select Create picture and upload it in YouTube Studio under Customisation → Branding.
YouTube Profile Picture Resizer features
Recommended size
800 × 800 pixels, YouTube’s recommended channel picture size.
Circle preview
The frame shows the circle YouTube displays, so nothing important is cut off at the corners.
Branding watermark
A 150 × 150 version for the watermark YouTube can show on your videos.
PNG for logos
Keep logos crisp with PNG output; use JPG for photos.
Fit option
Place a wide logo on a solid colour so the whole mark fits inside the circle.
Local processing
Your image is never uploaded to our servers.
When to use YouTube Profile Picture Resizer
- Setting up the profile picture for a new channel.
- Turning a wide logo into a centred square channel icon.
- Making a matching video watermark for brand recognition.
- Updating a creator photo so it reads well at tiny sizes.
- Preparing consistent avatars across YouTube and other platforms.
YouTube Profile Picture Resizer FAQ
What size should a YouTube profile picture be?
YouTube recommends 800 × 800 pixels, under 4 MB, as JPG, PNG, GIF (without animation), BMP or WebP. It is displayed as a circle, as small as 98 × 98 pixels.
Why does my logo look cut off?
The circle hides the corners of the square image. Use Fit + colour to shrink a wide logo inside the circle with a background colour, or leave margin around a centred mark.
What is the video watermark?
YouTube can show a small image in the corner of your videos that viewers can click to subscribe. It should be a square image of at least 150 × 150 pixels, ideally a simple logo with a transparent background.
Does a face or a logo work better?
Personal channels usually do better with a clear face shot, which builds recognition. Brands should use a simplified logo mark; detailed wordmarks become unreadable at small sizes.
Can I preview how it looks small?
Zoom out in your browser or view the downloaded image at a small size. If it is still recognisable at around 40 pixels, it will work in comments and on mobile.
Designing for a small circle
A channel picture appears in far more places than the channel page: next to every video in search results, under your videos, in comments, in subscription lists and on TV apps. Most of those are tiny, often less than a centimetre across. The design that works best is simple, high-contrast and centred, with one recognisable element.
Because the picture is cropped to a circle, the corners of the square image are never seen. A face should fill roughly the central two thirds of the frame, with the eyes slightly above the middle. A logo should be a compact symbol rather than a long wordmark; if your brand is a word, consider using its initial letter in your brand colours.
Resolution matters even though the display is small. High-density phone screens use several physical pixels for each displayed pixel, and YouTube generates many smaller versions from your upload. Starting from 800 × 800 gives each of those versions enough detail to stay sharp.
Consistency across platforms helps people recognise you. Using the same picture on YouTube, Instagram, X and other networks, each resized to the platform’s preferred size, builds a recognisable identity without needing different designs.