FIELD NOTES / TOOL GUIDE
YouTube Thumbnail Resizer
01
Resize without guessing
ThumbPull keeps familiar 1280 × 720 output available for compatibility and lets you enter any custom pixel size. You can also use inches, centimetres, millimetres, percentage and DPI from More Options.
When the source does not match the target ratio, Fill covers the frame, Fit preserves the whole image, Crop lets you frame it manually, and Stretch forces the exact dimensions.
02
Current YouTube guidance
YouTube's current help documentation recommends uploading video thumbnails as large as possible and lists 3840 × 2160 for videos with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The public thumbnail file you download from a YouTube video is a different thing: MAX RES from the public thumbnail CDN is commonly 1280 × 720. ThumbPull keeps those two workflows separate so a downloaded thumbnail is not mislabeled as a 4K source.