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PicMonkey is perfect for designing YouTube thumbnails, banners, and more. And you can export directly to YouTube from PicMonkey.

• 1000s of pre-sized design templates

• Tons of graphics, fonts, and textures

• Text effects like Outline and Drop Shadow

• Background Remover for on-trend YouTube thumbnails

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YouTube design templates

Our designer-crafted templates are all style — and all substance, too. Use our click-and-replace templates to make YouTube Thumbnails and YouTube Covers. Then export directly to your YouTube channel.

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How to use YouTube templates

1Choose a template

Select a stylin’ design template from our ginormous library.

2Replace images

Simply click and replace our pics with yours.

3Add words & graphics

Replace our text with yours, add a logo or other graphics.

4Export to YouTube

When your design is ready to go, export directly to YouTube.

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Make a YouTube thumbnail in 4 steps

1. Open a thumbnail template in the editor, or start from scratch with a pre-sized blank canvas. 

2. Customize your template or blank canvas by adding text and a background color or pattern. 

3. Choose from our graphics, or add your logo to your thumbnail.

4. When your design is ready to go, export directly to YouTube. 

Make YouTube thumbnails YouTube thumbnail tutorial

Make branded thumbnails easily with this easy-to-follow guide.

Make thumbnails Fresh ideas for thumbnails

Design ideas for creating your best thumbnails ever. Plus, proper sizing.

Get inspired

YouTube thumbnail templates

Make your YouTube channel stand out in style by organizing your vids with great thumbnail images. Try a designer-crafted template to create YouTube thumbnails quickly.

Browse all YouTube thumbnail templates

Graphics for YouTube

• Travel - Planes, passport stamps, and palm trees

• Social Media - Like and subscribe stickers

• Business Icons - Smart phones to pie charts

• Brush Strokes - For adding artistic flourish

• Plants - Succulents and palm leaves

+ So much more! Browse all the graphics

How to make a YouTube Banner

1. Open Templates from the left toolbar.

2. Type “YouTube Banner” in the search field.

3. Click a template to preview it in the editor.

4. Customize with your own photos, graphics, or text.

Make YouTube bannersGuide to creating banners

We walk you through designing stellar channel art, step-by-step. Plus, safe areas, guidelines, and design tips for perfect banners.

See tutorialsRight sizes + direct exporting

It’s the nitty-gritty details for making and exporting perfect YouTube channel art. See sizes and steps for directly sharing your designs to YouTube.

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Share directly to YouTube

When you’re done designing the perfect thumbnail or banner, you can export them directly to your YouTube channel from PicMonkey.

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Make a YouTube logo in 4 steps

1. Click Create New to open a blank canvas or logo template.

2. Add graphics and style your text. Drop shadow? Outline? Curved text? Brand colors? Up to you!

3. Make your background transparent so it looks good over any image or video, and be sure to save as a PNG.

4. Add your logo to your channel art and videos. Boom! Your channel is uniquely branded.

See YouTube Logo Maker

Want more YouTube insights? Check out:

Thumbnail maker tips

Our in-depth tutorial on making eye-popping thumbnails will teach you all you need to know. Easy instructions will help your channel go from ordinary to organized in moments.

Make thumbnails YouTube for your business

Tips and info for optimizing your YouTube channel for business—whether YouTubing is your biz, or you use it as a marketing tool, we can help you with all the details.

Get bizzyAdd graphics to your videos

Give your videos more flare and visual interest by adding attention-grabbing title cards and gorgeous graphics. We’ll show you how them specifically for your videos.

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