Use Your Youtube Channel Fine Art Equally Your Google+ Page Comprehend Photo

By ahlikom 26 Mar, 2020

Update Jan 2019: With the shutdown of consumer Google+ on Apr 2, 2019, all Google+ Pages volition hold upward deleted. Backup a re-create of your Google+ Page data, including the encompass art.

Update August 2016: You tin at nowadays notice your Google+ images (and images uploaded via other Google products) inward your Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive)

Update 11/13/13: Google+ has updated the await of the Profile or Page encompass image, thus that at nowadays the entire picture is displayed when y'all persuasion a profile on a desktop computer. The article is inward the procedure of beingness updated amongst novel screenshots.

When y'all link your YouTube channel to a Google+ Profile or Google+ Page, y'all may desire to give your channel together with Google+ presence a like look. Just every bit y'all tin use your YouTube channel icon every bit your Google+ profile photo, y'all tin supersede the default Google+ encompass photograph amongst your YouTube channel's banner image.

What to consider:

What are the Google+ encompass photograph requirements?

Your Google+ encompass photo must hold upward at to the lowest degree 480 pixels broad yesteryear 270 pixels tall, together with it tin hold upward every bit large every bit 2120 x 1192 pixels. It is recommended that your picture hold upward at to the lowest degree 1080 x 608 pixels.

YouTube channel art must hold upward at to the lowest degree 2048 x 1152 pixels together with the recommended size is 2560 x 1440 pixels (file size upward to 2MB).

So spell your YouTube channel fine art volition for sure hold upward large plenty to role every bit a Google+ encompass photo, if y'all are using an picture that is the recommended size for YouTube it may hold upward also large to role every bit a Google+ banner without either cropping or scaling your picture first.

Complicating things further, Google+ together with YouTube encompass images may hold upward cropped together with positioned a flake differently on dissimilar devices together with when viewed nether dissimilar circumstances (such every bit your profile page together with hovercard).

So fifty-fifty if y'all are perfectly happy amongst your YouTube channel's banner, y'all may desire to modify it thus that it looks only every bit skilful on Google+. Here are about guides to to instruct y'all started:

Where tin I notice my YouTube channel fine art if I no longer receive got the master copy picture file?

If y'all no longer receive got a re-create of the file y'all used for your YouTube channel's encompass fine art y'all tin either notice a re-create inward your Google+ Photos or Picasa spider web albums or y'all tin download the re-create stored yesteryear YouTube to upload to Google+.

If y'all already receive got a Google+ account, your YouTube channel fine art picture should hold upward uploaded to an album inward your Google+ Photos (plus.google.com/photos) titled amongst the appointment y'all uploaded the image. If y'all produce non nevertheless receive got a Google+ account, your channel fine art picture should hold upward stored inward a Picasa spider web album (picasaweb.google.com) instead. Note that every bit shortly every bit y'all create a Google+ account, your Picasa spider web albums are converted into Google+ Photo albums. (Note that every bit of August 2016, these images are inward your Album Archive)

If y'all tin notice your YouTube channel fine art inward your Google+ Photos y'all tin add together the picture straight every bit your personal Google+ Profile encompass photograph yesteryear selecting the picture from your Albums during the encompass photograph improver process.

If y'all are adding a encompass photograph to a Google+ Page, rather than a Google+ Profile, y'all volition receive got to outset download your YouTube channel's encompass fine art picture from your Google+ Photo album, together with thus upload it every bit your Page's encompass photo.

To download your channel fine art from Google+ Photos, either select your picture or click to enlarge the image, together with thus select the "Download" selection from the "More" menu:

But what if your YouTube channel fine art is missing from your online photograph albums?

If y'all cannot notice your channel fine art picture inward your Google+ Photos or Picasa spider web albums, all is non lost. You tin download the re-create stored yesteryear YouTube instead. Note that YouTube's re-create may hold upward cropped or smaller than your master copy image.

The outset affair y'all necessitate to produce is notice your YouTube channel user ID. You tin notice that information on your channel's advanced settings page (www.youtube.com/account_advanced):

YouTube stores a dissimilar file for the mobile, tablet, TV together with desktop versions of your channel art. The largest version is the 1 used for display on TVs. You tin notice your TV channel fine art picture at this link:

http://i4.ytimg.com/u/scGi8k1I_2B9wtipYig-gA/channels4_tv_banner.jpg

The bold ruby component should hold upward replaced amongst your ain YouTube channel's user ID.

Paste the link to your YouTube encompass fine art inward your spider web browser's address bar together with charge the image. You tin together with thus salve it to your calculator to upload to Google+.

How to upload a encompass photograph a to a Google+ Page

Uploading a encompass photograph to a Google+ Page involves a few to a greater extent than steps than uploading an picture to your Google+ Profile, but the procedure is effectively the same:

Sign into your Google+ Page together with select to "change cover"

You tin easily navigate straight from your YouTube channel to the linked Google+ Page.

Just sign into YouTube together with click your channel icon inward the upper right-hand corner. From the carte du jour click "Page" together with that volition accept y'all to your Google+ Page directly:

That volition accept y'all to your Google+ Page's profile. Just click "Change cover" to add together or alter your encompass photo:

You tin also add together a encompass photograph from your Google+ Page's settings overview

If y'all are signed into Google+ directly, y'all tin become to your Google+ Pages dashboard (plus.google.com/dashboard) together with select to create out your YouTube channel's Google+ Page:

That volition accept y'all to your Google+ Page's settings overview:

Click "Add a encompass photo" together with y'all volition hold upward walked through the procedure of adding a encompass image:

You tin select a encompass photograph from the gallery images offered yesteryear Google+, from your ain photograph albums, or upload a novel image.

To upload your ain picture select the "Upload" tab.

You volition hold upward able to crop your uploaded image:

See Mike Blumenthal's tips and Steve Hovnanian's guide* for a amend thought of what component of your picture volition display on dissimilar devices together with inward dissimilar places on Google+. [*Note: the encompass picture display was updated 11/13/2013 thus this guide may no longer hold upward accurate]

Of course of written report it would hold upward much also slow if YouTube together with Google+ encompass images were formatted the same way!

Are y'all sure desire to reuse your YouTube channel's encompass fine art on Google+?

Does your YouTube channel fine art include your channel's title? Google+ encompass fine art isn't necessarily good suited to a banner that includes your YouTube channel championship or text, because of the different ways that Google+ may display your image. Consider using a large photograph or graphic on Google+, rather than an picture focused on the championship of your YouTube channel.

Take a await at how about of the pop YouTube channels receive got their Google+ Pages ready for an thought of what looks skilful together with what doesn't.

Here's an representative where a dissimilar banner picture is used for YouTube together with Google+ that gives y'all an thought of how the formats compare: