Create Facebook Cover Photo
Just what you'll discover
How you can establish a customized image size, apply impacts or edits, and conserve your picture for use on Facebook.
Create Facebook Cover Photo
1. Establish a custom-made picture size
Open Photoshop. Select Data > New. Call the data "cover-photo." Establish the width to 851 pixels, the height to 315 pixels, and also resolution to 72 pixels/inch.
These are the minimal dimensions for a cover image on Facebook. This allows you to design your cover picture in Photoshop without guessing how it will certainly show up on Facebook.
Click OK. A new blank paper will open.
2. Open an image
Go to File > Open, and find an image or photo on your computer system that you intend to utilize as a cover picture. If you're following along with the example property, situate "make-creative-facebook-cover-photo. jpg." Click Open.
3. Duplicate your picture
With the image from Step 2 open, locate the Layers panel near the bottom appropriate corner of the Photoshop work area. If you do not see the Layers panel, go to Home window > Layers.
Right-click (PC) or control-click (Mac) the History layer and also pick Match Layer ...
4. Replicate your image (cont.).
In the Duplicate Layer dialog box, pick the "cover-photo" you developed in Step 1, for the Destination > Document choice. Click OK.
By doing this, you place your individual picture or picture (or our sample photo) within your custom-sized file from Action 1.
5. Resize your image.
Two photos are open in your work space. Click the "cover-photo" tab to continue modifying the record from Step 1.
Select Edit > Free Transform, or press control/command + "T" on your keyboard. A bounding box shows up around the sides of the image, as revealed. If you can not see the bounding box, zoom out (press command/control + "-" on your keyboard).
Scale the picture: Click and also drag among the corners of the bounding box. Constrain the proportions by pushing Change while scaling the image. Reposition the photo: Click and also drag the image in the bounding box. When you're done, press Go into.
6. Get creative!
You have resized your image. Now, attract shapes, add type, and trying out various other imaginative results to customize your image. Use the web links at the end of this web page to explore suggestions as well as strategies for artistically editing in Photoshop or Lightroom.
For this sample, I included message and also shapes, and utilized blending settings for a fading impact.
Hint: While developing, bear in mind that your profile picture will certainly cover the bottom left corner of your cover image!
7. Conserve your picture.
When you're finished, choose Documents > Conserve As ...
In the Layout menu, select a data type for your image. For an image, pick JPEG data layout; if you added text, a logo, or various other shapes, we suggest the PNG documents layout. Click Save.
A 2nd dialog box could appear, relying on the picked documents layout. If so, define your added choices as well as click OK.
Done!
Currently you're ready to submit your picture to Facebook!
By setting up a personalized picture size, you could try lots of various image modifying methods, and also regulate how your photo shows up on your Facebook wall. Make use of the links listed below to try out various ideas as well as methods for applying imaginative effects and also modifies!
