If you have been wondering how to add a circle like this around your profile photo on LinkedIn,
you are in the right place, because today I'm going to walk you through step by step
of how you can achieve the very same effect.
Before we dive in, please make my day by giving this video a thumbs
up and subscribing to my channel.
Once that's done, I'm going to walk you through the five steps you need to take to
create a ring around your profile photo.
Are you ready?
If so, let's do this together.
Step number one, download my template.
Now this may come as a surprise for some of you, but I'm a no graphic designer.
I have no idea how to use Photoshop, but I still end up with pretty neat
designs, or so I think at least.
Now if you've been wondering, how am I able to do this?
I have a one secret for you and that is Canva.
It is my go-to tool for anything and everything design wise.
And I have created a template for you to download, so we could add a ring
around your profile photo together.
So pause this video right now, grab the template from the description box below and
come back to meet once you have it open.
Now that you have your template open, I want me to change the colors for the outside circle.
So you're simply going to click on the circle and then hover over here to change the colors.
So for example, let's click on this color and then you have some existing colors provided,
but ideally you want to click over here and actually use the specific hex codes of
the colors you want to use for your circle.
Now, obviously, if you have brand colors in place, these would be the brand colors
that you would be using for your circle.
However, if you don't have brand colors available right now, what I want you to do is go over
to the coolers website and I'm going link to it in the description below, but basically
we're going to open up the coolers website.
Once you're here would I want you to do is click on the explore tab in the upper
right-hand side corner and here very soon, you're going to see so many color
pellets available for you to choose from.
This is a great way to find colors that you resonate with and you
can use them in the Canvas circle.
So for example, you might like these colors, for example, right?
So I'm just going to copy this hex code, go back to Canva and I'm gonna change one of the
colors to be that, here we go to me that orange.
Now, I actually think this looks very, very lovely together, but if you wanted to
play around with this more, you could again go back to it and see, um, what happened.
What would happen if we use the darker orange, for example, in, for one of the colors.
So using the darker orange over here, and then the letter orange, I'm going
again, copping the hex code over here.
So let's see, now, overall for me, this feels too dark.
So I'm actually going revert back to what we had, so I am actually progressing, come
on Z and I'm reverting back to what it was.
So here we go, now we have chosen all colors.
Step number three, add your profile photo.
Now, what I want you to do is head over to the upload section of Canva and upload your pictures.
Now, as you can see, I have plenty of my pictures available here, so I could choose
any of these and just drag them in that circle, so that's what I'm going to do.
So I'm going to take this picture and just drag it in.
Now, obviously what you can see right now it doesn't quite fit, so I'm going to double
click the picture to maneuver it a little bit and I'm gonna increase the size of it,
because obviously this is a profile photo, so my face should be visible a lot more.
So over here, here we go, now this should look good.
Let's take a look.
Yeah, this is nice, but I might actually make it even bigger, here
we go, and that should be perfect.
All right?
And I'm going, I'm going to write a little bit over here and dragging it like this.
Here we go.
That's my picture done and you should do the very same thing by dragging
your profile photo within that circle.
So step number four is for you to export this profile photo.
So, what you're going to do is click on the download button in the upper right.
Then what I want you to do is select transparent background because you do not want this white
background appearing, and then you just don't click on the download icon, and that is going to
download your picture in the folder you selected.
So final step is for you to go to LinkedIn and actually change your photo.
So let's do that together.
All right, so you want to open up your LinkedIn profile and as you can see right
now, actually my cover story is playing.
If by the way, you want to learn how to add a cover story to your profile and what
should you actually say in the cover story?
Be sure to check out this video next, but for now, let's click on your profile picture, click, edit
profile photo and then, add new photo over here.
From here you can upload your profile photo.
That's perfect.
There you have it.
That's how you add a circle around your profile photo on LinkedIn.
Now, if you've been wondering, how can you change the background for your photos?
Be sure to check out the video, I'm going to link in the description below.
If you want more tips of how to improve your LinkedIn profile, take
a look at the playlist below as well.
That's it for today.
Please be sure to give this video a like, and subscribe to the channel and I'm
going to see you in the next episode.