Channel Art/Banner Quality Downscaled?

[gabrielkipp]

I've created a few high-res channel art banners, but once uploaded, they look as though they've been downscaled in terms of quality, I create and export them with 5 scans in Photoshop ending up with an almost 1mb file, and they look great! But once uploaded, it's not the case.

Is it me, or does this usually happen?

Thanks!!

 

[ConnersCraft]

YouTube compresses the file so they can fit their mass amounts of data on the server. It should not look that significantly worse. What file format are you using?

 

[gabrielkipp]

YouTube compresses the file so they can fit their mass amounts of data on the server. It should not look that significantly worse. What file format are you using?

JPG.

 

[ConnersCraft]

JPG.

The art on your channel looks fine to me, but you could try a png, but the file size may be too big. JPG is the best you can do most likely. Make sure that you have the quality all the way up in the Photoshop settings.

 

[Lilikoi Juice]

PNG doesn't always work--even when it's within the size limit--but you can give that a try. It will make your banner quality look better. If the regular PNG is too big, try PNG-8.
If you must to do it as JPG, put it on the highest quality format possible.

 

[gabrielkipp]

Yes!! Saved it as PNG and the quality was much better!! Thanks for the help guys!!!