YouTube pfp and channel logo maker, with AI
YouTube Profile Picture Maker
A YouTube profile picture maker that starts from one sentence about your channel. Describe an emblem, a mascot, an object or your initials: ThumbnailMaker paints it centred for the circle YouTube shows, checks it at 98 pixels and downloads it at 800 × 800.
YouTube shows a channel's profile picture as a circle 98 pixels across. Its help page asks for a JPG, GIF, BMP or PNG of 15 MB or less, and says a square or round image works best. At that size one subject reads: a mascot, an emblem, an object or two initials, centred on a plain background, with nothing important in the corners the circle cuts off. ThumbnailMaker frames every profile picture that way, reads any letters back, grades it at the size YouTube draws it and saves an 800 × 800 file.
Made for a 98 pixel circle
Six profile pictures for invented channels, each made from one sentence. Full size, then at the size YouTube draws it beside a channel name.
At 98 px, as YouTube shows it
At 98 px, as YouTube shows it
At 98 px, as YouTube shows it
At 98 px, as YouTube shows it
At 98 px, as YouTube shows it
At 98 px, as YouTube shows it
What reads at 98 pixels
One subject
A helmet, a mascot, a moon, two letters. A scene with three things in it turns into a blur at that size.
The middle of the square
The circle cuts the four corners. The subject sits in the centre and fills most of it.
A plain background
One colour or a soft gradient that contrasts with the subject, so the edge of the circle stays clean.
Initials, not a name
Two or three letters read in a circle that small; a full channel name rarely does. Put them in Text.
BV
Profile picture ideas by channel
Gaming
A gear emblem
A helmet, a controller or a weapon of an original world, front on, in the channel's light.
A glowing cyan and magenta visor helmet, front on, on a dark background
Food
A mascot
A friendly character holding the tool of the trade reads at any size and works on merch.
A cartoon pig mascot in a chef's hat holding tongs, on orange
Art and anime
An original character
Your own character, shoulders up, never one from a series.
An original anime girl with violet hair, shoulders up, cherry blossom petals behind her
Tech
A monogram
Initials drawn in the material of the niche: circuit traces, neon, chrome.
The initials BV in glowing copper circuit traces on a circuit board
Music
An object with a mood
One object and one colour say the genre before the name does.
Headphones resting on a crescent moon, soft purple night sky
Outdoors
A flat emblem
A simple badge of the place the channel goes, in two or three colours.
A mountain peak and a small tent under the sunrise, flat illustration
YouTube profile picture maker questions
Guides: YouTube banner maker · Twitter header maker
Start with one sentence
Your channel, in one small circle.
The banner goes with it: the YouTube banner maker paints it from your channel's link, on the same credits.
Videos need thumbnails too: the AI thumbnail maker makes them from a video's link.
ThumbnailMaker is an independent product and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by YouTube or Google. Their names are used here only to describe where the picture goes.