How to Create A Facebook Cover Art

Thanks to Techxt we got a cool tutorial to Share with you on how to Create a Face book Cover art.

Step 1: Download the attached PSD file and open it in Photoshop

To ease the process we have already created a PSD file that will come handy for you to create your unique design.

Link: Download PSD
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Step 2: Get your cover image

In this tutorial I will try to replicate the first timeline cover above. For that I will be using the below image.

I hope you have downloaded the PSD and the above image by now.

Step 3: Open the PSD in Photoshop and click the Slice tool on the Toolbar to see all the slice markers

Step 4: Copy your cover image in this PSD

Open the image that you want to be your cover image and copy the image to this file (simply select all > copy > paste ). For the time being you can open the above cat and fish image.

Step 5: Adjust and resize the image

Adjust and resize image in such a way that the portion of the image that is going to be your profile image falls inside the 3rd slice box. Check the image below. I want to make to two swimming fishes inside the bowl as my profile image. After adjusting the image color rest of the image to match your image background. You may crop the image from bottom and right, but make sure that the image is not less than (851 x 352) px.

Step 6: Save images

Well you need to save twice

1. File > Save as > Select format as PNG > Save [I will refer this as Image 1]
2. File > Save for Web and Devices.. > Save [I will refer this as Image 2]

Go to the directory where you saved your Image 2, you will see that there are in fact 5 slices of the above image. Only the 3rd image slice is required. You may delete the rest.

Step 7: Almost done just one more step and you can upload the images

The 3rd image [Image 2] which we will be setting as our profile pic is of dimension (125 x 125)px. But Facebook won’t let you add any image as profile pic which is less than (180 x 180)px. Well its not at all a problem. Just open the 3rd Slice in Photoshop and from menu goto Image > Image Size  and resize the image from (125×125) to (180×180)px and save it.

Step 8: Upload the images to your Facebook account

Login to Facebook and click on your name. Then click on Change cover > Upload a Photo. UploadImage 1 here.

Click on your Edit Profile Picture > Upload a photo. Upload the resized image.

For those who don’t have photoshop

The logic is very simple. You need to cut out that part of the cover image which when place as your profile image will perfectly supplement the background cover. So what is that part.

• From Left ( X coordinate of the image) – 28px
• From Top ( Y coordinate of the image) – 227px
• Width – 125px
• Height -125px

After you cut out this part of the image, you need to resize the image to at least 180×180 px or else Facebook won’t let you upload the image to your profile.