What are the Dimensions for the Facebook Cover Photo
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MUFY UJASH
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
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Cover Photo Dimension
What Are The Dimensions For The Facebook Cover Photo
When I was making our graphics for the All Up in Your Lady Organisation podcast, I developed a group cover image for our Facebook group with all the "normal" specs I made use of-- the right size, the best layout, etc as well as it was STILL resembling a hot mess. There were pieces of the solid color blocks that were pixelating and also "feathering" around contrasting letters and it was driving me BATTY. Yet, presume just what? I learned ways to repair it as well as I wished to share it with you!
Alright, so, you NEED TO ensure the photo is the right dimension; if it is even 1 pixel off Facebook will press it and your high quality will go down-the-tube. So, what size should it be?
For a business page (as well as your personal cover image): 851 x 315 pixels [WxH] For a Facebook team page: 801 x 250 pixels
The "normal" way to save anything for internet usage is to "save for web use" as a PNG data type BUT, in the case of our podcast FB group image, it had not been functioning, it was appearing like this [look close, you'll see pixelation particularly around the message on the left-hand side of the photo]
So, I did a little study and also understood that Facebook compress ANYTHING over 100KB's in size-- even if your picture is 101KB it will be pressed and also resemble poo.
Just how do you repair that? Well, you wait as a JPG and also manage the data dimension [see below]
These are some screenshots from Photoshop of how I dimension and save my pictures (this example is a Facebook Organisation page Cover Image).
Start with the correct dimension.
Produce the photo.
Conserve as a JPG.
In a lot of modifying programs, you'll see just what dimension the JPG will certainly be, in my case it was 202.6 kb, so I dragged the top quality slider till I got it the closest to 100KB without looking at [ya understand, kind of like the Cost is Right, ha!]
Alright, I reduced the documents size to 99KB and below is the brand-new screenshot of exactly what our group photo looked like ... BETTER!
In full disclosure, we really changed our brand name around a little bit after this all decreased, so this is the actual existing photos on our group page-- but still, no pixelation.
There you have it! Exactly how you can prevent the ever-so-present pixelation in Facebook cover images.