Customize Your Youtube Channel – Add A Background Image

Having a Youtube video channel is now an asset that you should customize and tend to like a website. Branding or customizing your Youtube channel will make you look professional and gain more views and subscribers. Lets face it, anything is better than the normal boring themes that everyone else has. You can add a picture of yourself, arrows pointing to links, messages to visitors, and what ever else you can think of.

What are the specifications for a Youtube background image?

As you can see from the screen shot below, my Youtube video channel background is 1598×1636 and is 214KB. Of course yours does not have to be this exact size. You can experiment and try different sizes.

Can a Youtube background have links embedded into it?

At the moment you cannot put any code into your Youtube channel background. However if you are a Youtube partner (by invitation only) you can place a banner with links in it and a few boxes into the channel itself. You still cannot put clickable links on a Youtube channel background. People have their website address on the background image but you cannot click on it.

How to make your own Youtube video Channel background image?

There are two ways to create your own channel background image. You can download mine and use this as a template, or start from scratch and make your own.

To download my Youtube channel background using Internet Explorer:

1. Go to my Youtube channel. Tips4pc Youtube Channel.
2. Right click on the background image and a menu will appear.
3. Choose save background as from the menu.

To download my Youtube channel background using Mozilla Firefox:

1. Go to my Youtube channel. Tips4pc Youtube Channel.
2. Right click on the background image and a menu will appear.
3. Choose view background image from the menu. See the screen shot below.
4. The image only will appear. Right click on the image and choose save image as.

You will be able to choose where to save the Youtube background image. then you can open this image in your favorite image editing program. In the video below I use Photoshop, however you can also just use Ms Paint, which most computers have by default.

Watch the video tutorial below to see how I download the Youtube background image, edit it, and upload it to Youtube again.

If you have a cool Youtube channel background, post a link to it below so we can check it out!