Free Twitch Panel Maker: Build a Full Set in 20 Minutes

A Twitch panel maker solves the two problems that make most streamers put panels off for months: getting the dimensions right, and making six or more images look like they belong to the same channel. The design part was never actually the hard part. The fiddly setup was.

This is the practical walkthrough: what a panel maker needs to do, how the free Twitch Panels editor in Pulz works step by step, and when a freeform tool like Canva is the better choice. If you are still deciding what panels to make, start with the stream panels guide for sizing and content, or the 20 panel ideas list for the menu.

What a good Twitch panel maker does

• Start at 320px wide. Twitch displays every panel 320 pixels wide. A tool that starts from that artboard removes the most common upload surprise: text that looked fine on a big canvas and turns unreadable at real size.
• Show the whole set together. Panels are read as a strip, not as individual images. If you design them one at a time in separate files, they drift apart - different padding, different font sizes, slightly different shades of the same color.
• Apply one style across everything. Changing your accent color should update six panels, not require six manual edits.
• Export sharp, transparent PNGs. Panels with a transparent background sit naturally on Twitch's dark theme, and a file exported at twice the display size keeps type crisp on high-density screens.

Making panels with Twitch Panels in Pulz

Twitch Panels is the free panel editor in the Pulz dashboard. It is the same canvas editor Pulz uses for OBS scenes, and it lays your whole set out in one column at the real 320px width, so what you see while editing is what viewers get.

How to make Twitch panels in Canva

When Canva or Figma is the better tool

A dedicated panel maker is the fast path for the standard case: clean, consistent, text-and-icon panels. A freeform design tool wins when your panels are not the standard case:

• Illustrated or photographic panels. If your panels are built around commissioned art, mascots, or photos, you need freeform layering. Use Canva, Figma, or Photopea.
• Assets beyond panels. If you are building the full brand kit in one sitting - banner, overlays, social headers - one Figma or Canva project for everything keeps it coherent.
• Animated panels. Pulz exports PNGs. If you want motion, make a GIF in a tool that supports it.
• An existing PSD template. Photopea opens Photoshop files free in the browser. No reason to rebuild what you already own.

If you go freeform, set the canvas to 640px wide, design at double size and export the 2x PNG - Twitch scales it down to 320. Keep every panel in one project file so the set stays consistent.

Mistakes that survive any tool

• Text too small. At 320px wide there is room for a title and a line or two. If you squint at your own panel at 100% zoom, viewers will too.
• Designing on white. A panel that looks crisp on a white artboard can wash out on Twitch's near-black dark theme. Preview it on dark before uploading.
• No link behind the panel. The image is half the job. A Socials or Donate panel without a clickable link behind it is decoration. Viewers will not copy-paste a handle from an image.
• One-off styling. A new panel added six months later in a different font undoes the set. Open the saved design, duplicate a panel, edit it and download again.