Banner Getting Scaled on YouTube

cmasupra

cmasupra

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I was not aware of this before switching to the new YouTube layout myself. Apparently banners get scaled to half their size in each dimension when viewed on YouTube. The image you create has a 350px height for the desktop view, but when viewed on YouTube, those 350px only take up 175px on the screen. The width is also scaled down by half.

The result of this scaling is banners look blurry compared to how they look before uploading. Does anyone know a way to prevent YouTube from scaling the banner image? I don't like the blur, and it has thrown off my pixel-perfect imaging (although that can be fixed, blur can't).
 
This is intentional - it renders in double the resolution on retina displays. So be sure to set up the banner to fit the full resolution, but ensure it's readable at 50%
 
gisikw said:
This is intentional - it renders in double the resolution on retina displays. So be sure to set up the banner to fit the full resolution, but ensure it's readable at 50%
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Does that mean it's impossible to do a pixel-perfect banner? For example, I want the horizontal bar at the bottom of my banner to be the same size as the clickable links at the bottom of the banner. If I made my horizontal bar look like it's the same height as the clickable links on a low-res monitor, would the bar not line up with the links on a hi-res monitor?
 
cmasupra said:
Does that mean it's impossible to do a pixel-perfect banner? For example, I want the horizontal bar at the bottom of my banner to be the same size as the clickable links at the bottom of the banner. If I made my horizontal bar look like it's the same height as the clickable links on a low-res monitor, would the bar not line up with the links on a hi-res monitor?
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That's correct. The banner is designed to be adaptive.
 
I'm curious what they even consider a Retina display. Would a 2560x1440 monitor count as a Retina display? Do you have to actually have a Mac with a screen coined with the name "Retina Display" to be considered having a Retina display on YouTube? What if I had 3 2560x1440 monitors stacked on top of each other and I was viewing YouTube in a single browser window on all 3 monitors?
 
cmasupra said:
I'm curious what they even consider a Retina display. Would a 2560x1440 monitor count as a Retina display? Do you have to actually have a Mac with a screen coined with the name "Retina Display" to be considered having a Retina display on YouTube? What if I had 3 2560x1440 monitors stacked on top of each other and I was viewing YouTube in a single browser window on all 3 monitors?
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Retina display is any device which has a device-pixel-density of 2 (on retina devices, the size of the screen is not different - the pixels-per-square-inch are double).
 
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