The Best Twitch Panel Size Guide For Beginners – 2023

Below is our chart showing the recommended size for all the Twitch graphics you should have on your channel, including Twitch panel sizes! Every channel should have these Twitch images in place, they will give your channel a professional look and provide valuable information to new or existing viewers.

With there being so many free resources out there like Canva or Photopea, you don’t need a graphic designer to make an engaging Twitch overlay or panels for your stream. In this guide we’ll go over not only panel sizes, but also the different types of panels you could have and some easy resources for creating your own. And a friendly reminder, all offline banners must always have a 16:9 aspect ratio and 1920x1080p if possible. This is to ensure the image is the correct size for Twitch’s video player and doesn’t squished or stretched out!

*Side note – While we have 320px By 600px listed, this is the MAX dimensions Twitch allows. You can still choose a shorter height than 600px when creating panels.

What Good Twitch Panels Show About You

Have you ever wondered into a smaller stream, then out of curiosity, went to their “about” section to see what their channel is about. Only to be met with this singular panel?

This one sad Twitch panel doesn’t really do a good job of showing new viewers what their channel is about right? Shows they only care about money and haven’t invested time into showing why their channel is worth stick around. If this is you, than this guide is for you.

A good set of Twitch panels is a great way to communicate to potential viewers what your channel is about. Panels can hold some of the most important information about your channel and is another amazing way to promote other social media accounts.

What Size Should My Twitch Panels Be?

Twitch Panels can have a maximum size of 320px by 600px which is pretty big, while most would consider the ideal Twitch panel size to be 320x by 120px.

Twitch accepts both JPEG and PNG formats with a maximum file size of 2.9MB, both should offer the best quality image regardless of file format. They just need to look good across different devices as viewers can be watching from a desktop, tablet or phone.

While your panels image size doesn’t technically matter, its up to you the content creator on how you want them to look. Lets look at the different ways you can stylize panels so you can determine what is the right size and shape that work best for your channel!

Twitch Panel Examples

Here is what the ideal size looks like, a 320px by 120px panel is more like a button and is what you often see in most channels. These are the easiest panel to manage, because if you ever need to update the text just simply click the “edit panels” button and rewrite what needs to be changed.

This is an an example of a panel using built in a verticle fashion with all the channels rules listed inside of it,  with the dimensions 320px by 400px. Looks more like an info-graphic than a button and can still have all the necessary Twitch channel info inside.

Only part that is a pain, is if you have any changes to make you have to edit the photo in whatever photo editor you used to create it. So always keep the template saved and somewhere handy!

Last kind of style you can use are Twitch panels with a transparent background. Giving you the option to style the panel to match the branding or theme of your channel.

Do you exclusively play racing sims? Have the panel be the outline of a race car, or if you are into first person shooters you can have the panels be the shape of a bullet or weapon from your main game. Really a lot of options to make something unique when using a transparent background!

What Kind of Twitch Panels should I have?

There is no real fast and hard rule of what exactly the best practices are for Twitch panels, but at minimum we’ve included what we feel are panels every channel should have.

About or FAQ 

An about of FAQ section is a great way to introduce yourself to viewers passing by who may be interested knowing more about you, but may be too shy to ask questions in chat. These often include the streamers name, age, and any other fun facts you may want to share!

We’ve seen everything from streamers favorite colors, to what their preferred pizza toppings are (which should always include pineapple). The sky is the limit to what fun or interesting info you can share on here.

Rules

We’ve talked about Rules on this site previously, showcasing all the best rules every channel should have and how to updated them. While Twitch does require viewers to agree to the channels rules before chatting, viewers may want to know the rules before even clicking on the empty chat box.

So having a Rules panel with a bulleted list of the chat rules gives new viewers visibility before they even engage with your community.

Stream Schedule

What better way to share with viewers when you are going live than having your stream schedule right in the panel section on your channel!

While this was the normal way of posting your schedule, Twitch has introduced many other ways of sharing this info. Either from the built in scheduler in your creator dashboard settings, or by using a stream schedule Twitch Extension.

Other Social Media Platforms 

Twitch isn’t the only platform in town for content creation. Get viewers engaged with your other social media handles by creating either one panel, or multiple for each social media account your post content other

Not everyone spends their entire day on Twitch, so creating regular short form content on places like TikTok or Shorts on your YouTube channel can be the best way to keep viewers invested in your overall brand. Not just your Twitch Stream.

Subscribe

While we wouldn’t suggest creating a panel solely asking viewers to subscribe, it can be used as a way to show viewers WHY they should subscribe.

List all the sub perks subscribers get, showing viewers the value that comes with their sub. You can even use this Twitch extension to showcase your emotes they unlock by subscribing!

Tip or Donate

While some may view this as taboo, nothing wrong with a Tip or Donate panel as long as its done tastefully. Although with all the monetization built into Twitch’s ecosystem, there are plenty of other ways to generate revenue on Twitch other than tips or donations.

Business contact

As your channel continues to grow, there may be other streamers or even brands that may want to reach out! Having a static business email is a great thing to have so any collaboration or business deals don’t happen in chat.

They amount of graphic designers we see coming into streamers chats asking for commissioned work could easily be remedied by pointing them to your email address. Then you can flag them as spam and never hear from them again! Haha

How to Make Twitch Panels – FREE!

Making stream panels is a pretty easy process, even if you have no experience using any photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop. Thankfully there are good free options out there, we tend to favor Photopea as it is the closest you can get to Photoshop and doesn’t require any software to download.

First thing, open your browser and go to photopea.com. At the home page click on New Project before moving on to the next steps.

A box will pop up, in the top left enter the dimensions you want the panels to be.

For width, enter 320px. For the height, put 120px. For the DPI you can leave it at 120. Make sure to select a transparent background. After entering that in, click create,

The small rectangular box we created is where we’ll be creating our Twitch Panel. Now to style it to our liking!

We’ll keep this on simple, with a basic background and border. Click on the paint bucket tool on the left hand side, pick a color and click on the canvas (the checkered box).

Now that we have our background, next lets add a border. Right click on the layer, selecting Blending Options.

The layer style box will pop up, check the stroke box (stroke is what adds the border the panel). Play with the size and select what you feel looks the best.

For position, select inside. Then at the bottom, select the color you want to border to be. Once done, click OK.

Now that we have our Panel with its border, lets add text! Select to text tool from the left hand side.

Simply click on the corner of your canvas, holding the click, drag it to the opposite corner. This gives us our text box where we can type whatever we want.

Select the color you want to text to be at the top, along with any other customization you would like to add to the text. This will be an About panel.

Now that we have our panel completed,  we need to export the image. Click on File, then scroll down and hover over Export As.

Select the PNG format, then this box will appear. If everything looks great then just click save, your browser will then download the image locally for you upload to Twitch!

You can obviously get more detailed than what we show above, like adding a background image to the panel or using the blending options to add shadows or lighting to the text.

If you are looking for some free background images, we would always suggest Pexels or Pixabay as they are the two best sites for royalty free images that are super high quality.

Conclusion

And with that! You should have all the tool necessary to build some easy and great looking panels to put on your Twitch channel.

Remember its not always about how good they look, but whats more important is the content they display. Now get out there, make some cool looking panels to show off to those potential new followers!