How to Easily Make a YouTube Banner in Canva for Free

Create a 2560 x 1440 px Document or Select one of Canva's Youtube Channel Art Templates.

In the right-hand corner of the screen, there is a purple button that says "Create a design." You can click on that triggering a small pop-up window where you can enter the dimensions for a Youtube banner 2560 x 1440 px.

Or a second way to create a document is to use one of Canva's pre-designed templates that are already scaled to 2560 x 1440 px. This is the option most people will select and that we demonstrate in our video tutorial. When selecting a pre-designed Youtube banner you have to be very careful about which one you select. Some templates may look great on TV, but will not look good on mobile devices or vice versa. You want to look for templates that have the most important text and logo pieces in the safe zone/center of the template.

In the graphic below in the red rectangles, we highlighted a few templates that would look great on multiple devices. The templates not in the red rectangles may look good on one device like a TV but would cut off the text and not look so good on mobile devices and tablets.

Knowing this, choose a template that you like and think might look good on multiple devices.