Видеоинструменты IT Market
Создайте простое превью 1280×720 для YouTube: фон, крупный заголовок, badge, акцентный цвет и экспорт в JPG.
Tool guide
This builds a static video cover at YouTube's native 1280×720 (16:9): your own photo or the dark IT Market backdrop sits underneath, with a headline, a subtitle, a small badge and a stripe of your chosen accent colour layered on top. Rendering happens in a canvas element inside the tab, so a frame from an unreleased video never leaves your machine. Handy when a thumbnail is due in five minutes and there is no Photoshop on the laptop you happen to be using. See also: download someone else's preview for reference, crop the frame to the right proportions, squeeze the finished cover before upload.
YouTube asks for a 16:9 ratio and at least 640 pixels of width for a normal video, ideally 3840×2160. The weight cap depends on where you upload from: 50 MB from a desktop, 2 MB from the mobile app. The canvas here is fixed at 1280×720 — 16:9, and twice the minimum width — and exports JPG in the low hundreds of kilobytes, so both caps are met with room to spare.
A thumbnail is a photographic background with type over it, and JPG handles that at a fraction of the size with no visible penalty. PNG wins on flat colour and transparency, neither of which applies here — and YouTube re-encodes whatever you upload anyway.
Feed and sidebar placements render the image around 240 pixels wide, five times smaller than the file. Cut the headline to three or four words, do not rely on the subtitle at all, and choose an accent colour that fights the background instead of blending into it.
No. The browser reads the file locally and draws it straight into the canvas; no request carries the picture anywhere. That matters when the background is a frame from an unreleased video or a screenshot with real data in it.
The page opens in mobile browsers and the background picker uses the normal file dialog, so gallery and camera both work. Typing headlines and judging composition on a small screen is awkward, and Safari on iOS sometimes drops the download into Files rather than Photos.
Not for Shorts — those are vertical 9:16 and a landscape cover gets cropped. But 1280×720 is the generic widescreen size, so the same file fits Rutube, VK Video and Telegram post covers without any rework.
Before: Headline: THUMBNAIL IN 5 MIN Subtitle: no photoshop Badge: NEW Background: screenshot of an editing app Accent: #FA551E
After: 1280×720 JPG: the screenshot dimmed, THUMBNAIL IN 5 MIN in large white type, "no photoshop" beneath it, an orange NEW badge in the corner
Before: Headline: OBS FROM SCRATCH Subtitle: audio setup Badge: PART 2 Background: none, dark backdrop Accent: #2E8BFF
After: 1280×720 JPG on the dark backdrop with a blue PART 2 badge — a repeatable series look where only the number changes
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