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Make YouTube Thumbnails 1280 × 720
Crop images to a 1280 × 720 YouTube thumbnail and keep each file under YouTube's 2 MB limit. Batch process in your browser.
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YouTube recommends 1280 × 720 px custom thumbnails and rejects files over 2 MB. This workflow crops each image from the centre to exactly 1280 × 720, then picks the highest JPG quality that stays under 2 MB.
What this workflow does
- Crop to fill 1280×720
- Convert to JPEG
- Compress to under 2 MB
- Remove metadata
Why these settings
- 1280 × 720 is YouTube's recommended size and its 16:9 shape matches the player.
- Every thumbnail comes out at exactly 1280 × 720, so smaller images are scaled up to fit — start from the largest version you have.
- The 2 MB target means uploads are never rejected for size, while keeping as much quality as the limit allows.
Make it yours
Change any setting and run your own version, save it in this browser, or share the settings with a link. Links and exports carry settings only — never images.
One click for the whole batch
Drop in as many images as you need; they all get the same steps, then download as a ZIP.