How the ideal Facebook event photo size improves your page

Setting up a Facebook event page? Learn the ideal Facebook event photo size for your event page.

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Key quotes:

  • "To use the same image for all, you must optimize photo size for each platform as they all have different aspect ratios."
  • "This article contains the image size specifications of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, and Snapchat."
  • "Optimizing images for different media platforms is one thing, creating suitable content is another."
  • "Uploading a Facebook post image size correctly, Facebook profile, Facebook ads can improve the engagement rate on your posts."
  • "Facebook boasts of 1.5 million active daily users, and being able to reach a good amount of these users is the goal of every online marketer."
  • "Facebook events and users interact more with photos, infographics, and videos."
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Key quotes:

  • "Want your Facebook Profile Cover Photo size to look good on both desktop and mobile? I’ve written about (and am constantly updating) the sizes for: THIS post is only about the Facebook Personal Profile Cover Photo size."
  • "Designing profile and cover photos for social media platforms can become quite challenging when it comes to guessing what your design will look like on mobile devices."
  • "The social media profile mockup files from Feingold Design Agency can be used to preview a profile for desktop, tablet and phone during its creation in Photoshop."
  • "Up-to-date profile and cover photo sizes are already prepared inside the Photoshop documents Smart Objects, so you don’t have to worry about resolution and color profiles."
  • "In this case the Smart Object layers enclose our profile and cover photo."
  • "Working on a new social media profile design will immediately feel quicker, as you will have the extra benefit of neat, ready-made previews for desktop, tablet and phone right inside Photoshop."
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Key quotes:

  • "What the heck is social media image aspect ratio? You will no longer have to stress over every pixel in your social media image sizes! Problems that may arise aren’t about the pixel size, but the aspect ratio (or shape, or proportions)."
  • "On each of these Facebook cover photos, the aspect ratio differs for desktop or mobile view."
  • "The easiest way to deal with the Facebook cover photo size dilemma is to start with a 16:9 aspect ratio horizontal image and be prepared for plenty of cropping at the top and bottom once uploaded to Facebook."
  • "From most horizontal to most vertical, here are the aspect ratios and suggested sizes that work across social media."
  • "Multiply your width times 1, 1.5, or up to 2.1 to get a Pinterest-optimal image shape."
  • "Facebook ratio recommendations For video ads on Facebook without links, full portrait (9:16) is best."
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Key quotes:

  • "We made it very simple to create a Facebook cover image with Crello."
  • "Now, let’s dive into the secret of eye-catching Facebook cover images, the most essential information to get you started and exceptional examples for a little inspiration."
  • "If you don’t want your page to be taken down over a cover photo, follow the guidelines: The proper Facebook cover size is 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall."
  • "If the cover photo you want to use doesn’t fit the requirements, don’t worry! Keep this difference in mind when choosing and designing your cover and don’t place important text or objects on the sides of the photo."
  • "With a Facebook photo cover, this is the ultimate opportunity to engage your audience even before they read the page title, see buttons or post text."
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Transcript: Hi everyone thanks for joining me for those of you who don't know me my name is Ali Koster I'm a full-time social media consultant and manager here to share helpful tips for you to improve your outreach online right now this video is going to show you a demo of how you can update your Facebook banner on a business page it's a great thing to do maybe monthly quarterly update your followers with a new special or highlight a service or product that you have I'll go ahead and share and we can get right to it so to change your Facebook banner you first obviously log into Facebook you can select your page by going to the side where your pages are listed or click the drop down menu to see the page as you manage I'm going to show you on my page for an example you can change your profile picture by clicking the little camera and change the picture there but we're talking about the Facebook banner so same thing click the little camera pops up with a bar change cover you can choose from photos that you may have already uploaded onto your... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "The Facebook event image size differs from both the Fan Page and the personal profile! Checked and verified January 2, 2018: The recommended Facebook event cover photo size is 1200 x 628, same as a link share."
  • "This template will help if you don’t have software that lets you set a specific pixel size — or you’re using a video cover photo! Please leave a comment if you’re still having problems with the new Facebook event size."
  • "From May 2017: The correct Facebook event cover photo size is 1920 x 1080 pixels."
  • "A reader’s comments: On April 30th, 2017, I did some tests on multiple devices and apps for Facebook’s event image headers crop dimensions."
  • "If you do a lot of FB Events like Stephen does, and use text on your Cover Image, you might play around to see what works best for your needs."
  • "If you’re on desktop and want to see what your event, page, or profile looks like on mobile, just replace the “www.” in the URL before Facebook.com with an “m.” Voila! Share this post if these updated tips helped you with the correct Facebook event image size!."
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Transcript: In this video I came up with 5 essential tipsthat you need to know before uploading your next photo on Facebook, because you need totake care of a few details besides the guidelines offered by the platform. I will also give you the best settings touse when you upload a new cover for your business page or personal profile, so let's start. There’s a constant discussion about theFacebook compression for images. Before doing this tutorial I made lots oftests, by uploading the same image at different resolutions and compression values tryingto find a good balance between all the settings. Also, I tried to respect the Facebook guidelinesto create the perfect cover for pages and personal profiles, trying to avoid compressionissues and artifacts, especially when using text on a solid background. So here are my 5 tips: TIP number 1 you need to resize your image. If you do this at the recommended Facebookvalues you will honor the system and the compression will not kick in so hardly. Facebook recommends a resolution of 720pxor 960px or 2048px on the width of the photo. Do this proportionally, by making sure thisicon is active and you’re good to go. If you upload your... See more →

Transcript: Gotta love it when Facebook makes a change right the good thing is is we can usually roll with the punches we can we can pivot we can make stuff work right so look at what happened to groups you can see here is one of my Facebook groups here's another one of my Facebook groups the covers are not right they're not the way they're supposed to be they're not the way we designed them to look the words are literally falling off the screen so we they change this yesterday and we've tweaked we've tested we've found that the new size of image that Facebook wants for their images is it is 1500 by 783 so this is the new cover that we've just designed for the Facebook group so you guys get to watch a long as we're gonna upload this into our Facebook groups update the photo and then we're gonna go back and change all of the photos that we've got for all of our groups so that the covers are updated and they look right again okay so we're just gonna go in here and again the dimensions now are 1505 783 so here... See more →

Transcript: In this video we're going to talk about the best size and settings for uploading your facebook cover photo or any other photo to facebook without undergoing any compression or any kind of prick relations without any further ado let's get started so first off let's search google for facebook cover dimensions now if you go ahead and type facebook cover dimensions what appears is is 851 into 3 1 5 pixels right now that might seem alright but when you make pictures in this dimension in Photoshop what happens is when you upload them and when you refresh your page you see that's kind of big 3 so let me quickly show what actually happens so I just uploaded this code over the same dimensions that I put into Photoshop when I saved the image the image was kind of good and there were no pixels or any kind of compression but when I uploaded it to Facebook you can see that there are pixels right beside the letters K EEP I'll show you let's zoom in ok as you can see that it has turned a little bit pixel II and the quality is not that good what... See more →

Transcript: Okay in this video I'm going to talk about how to create a Facebook page cover image from an image that you found online so let's say you know you creating a new Facebook page and you find an image that you really like but Facebook has you know their specific parameters of you know how big of a cover image should be and when you try to put your image in there it just doesn't look good so how can you fix that so in this video I'm just going to show you how to do that with Photoshop it's pretty simple and I think it you'll find this helpful so the first thing that you can do is when you open a Photoshop if you click on new and you're going to see here this preset and the preset is actually really handy because what it can do is you can have like if you're going to be making a few cover images or a few ads or a few profile photos you can you can kind of have preset pixel dimensions and that way you don't have to remember what it is each time and it'll automatically... See more →

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