- Trying to figure out the Facebook cover photo size
on new Facebook?
In this video, I'll break down the dimensions you need
for Facebook business pages, personal profiles,
as well as Facebook groups.
And I'll show you which parts of the cover photo
will get covered up or cropped off
on certain devices like smartphones, all right?
Let's get into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter,
yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard, and in this video,
I'm gonna show you the proper Facebook cover photo size
for new Facebook.
Now Facebook cover photo is so powerful
if you use it the right way.
In fact, inside of my programs,
like my Five Minute Social Method signature course,
I show our students
and members how to optimize them perfectly,
and some of them get results from them in a couple of days.
But of course, if you put up a photo
and the people in your photo are beheaded
or your most important words get covered up
on another device or chopped off on the sides,
yeah, it was all for nothing, right?
So here are the exact dimensions that you wanna use
when you're creating your Facebook cover photos.
And if you've never created
a custom Facebook cover photo before,
I'll show you how easy it is
using nothing more than your computer.
So I create my Facebook cover photos in Canva Pro,
and I've got a link in the description of this video
where you can get 45 days of Canva Pro for free,
and you won't find that deal on their website.
But you can just start here at the top
and you can put in Facebook cover photo.
There it is, you click on it, and it brings it right up
and it is already the right size to fit on Facebook.
Now you can see there's a bunch of templates
that you can use if you are looking
for something just as a starting place.
I usually start with something blank.
And the size of this in pixels is 2050 by 780.
Now this isn't a full Canva tutorial,
but there is one linked in the description of this video
if you're interested.
But you can search their photos
or you can upload your own photos right here,
and I've got a bunch of mine already uploaded.
And it might be as simple as dragging an image in
if you've just got the right image
and you just need to have it the right size.
I'll double-click on that, drag it down
so that I'm not chopped off in an awkward way there.
Or it might be something like this
where you wanna add text or a logo to it.
And all of this, if you've never used Canva,
is easy drag and drop, pop it in there.
Then when I'm ready,
I can download it and upload it to Facebook.
But a couple of things to know,
and I've made this easy for you by giving you a template
that you can download in the description of this video.
Parts of this are gonna get cropped off,
so this top one here is a Facebook business page
and it's 2050 by 780 to start, like I told you,
but about 325 pixels are gonna get cropped off on each side.
So you can get this template that I've made down below
and import it into Canva
or do it in your own graphics program.
And then on a personal profile, same thing,
2050 by 780 to start
but 350 pixels are gonna get cropped off on each side.
And on a personal profile, as you can see here,
the profile photo covers part of your cover photo.
And so through experimentation,
'cause Facebook still hasn't announced
official sizes for these,
I found that about 417 pixels are gonna get cropped off
there on the bottom.
So if you want these templates,
you can download them; they're free.
You don't have to put your email in or anything like that.
Get the link in the description of this video.
Next up, we'll look at Facebook group cover photos,
and Facebook hasn't released updated numbers
for new Facebook for this yet,
but the old numbers are 1640 by 856 pixels.
And then the top and the bottom get cropped off
a little bit on mobile.
Here's what I'm using though.
I'm starting with the same size I used on my business page,
which is 2050 by 780.
And if we look at this,
you can see that the bottom is cut off on desktop.
Meanwhile, on mobile,
you can see that both edges are cropped off,
but that space is still there at the bottom.
So I know that's a little bit frustrating, but as of now,
you just kinda have to design with some space
that you know is gonna get cropped off
on the left and right sides on mobile,
and then also some space is gonna get cropped off
either at the top or the bottom or both,
'cause you can reposition your cover photo,
on a desktop device.
So those are the Facebook cover photo sizes.
If you're looking for the rest of the proper image sizes,
I've linked to a training that has all of them
right here on the screen.
If for some reason the link doesn't show up on your device,
you can also find the link in the description of this video.
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