Facebook Coverphoto
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Ever ask yourself why some Facebook cover pictures look far better than others on mobile? The answer is constantly a fantastic designer (not that I'm prejudiced or anything), yet I recently discovered a great technique to help much less of your effort obtain cut off when seeing from a mobile device-- as well as still look terrific on desktop computer.
Awful as I am at keeping in mind numbers, I'm always googling "FB cover photo dimension" (or watching our quick-reference infographic), and the very first solution that constantly pops up is 851 × 315, which is what the cover picture presents at on a desktop browser. If your only issue is desktop, this is a great dimension to submit your cover image. Regrettably, we could not ignore the 798 million users that access Facebook daily via their smart phones.
Before I located this technique, choices for enhancing a cover image for both desktop & mobile were really restricted: either make the centerpiece extremely tiny to present effectively on mobile, or make it look great on desktop as well as give up the mobile experience.
Ugh.
OK, I'll cut to the chase. Post a photo that is 851 × 475. With cover pictures taller than desktop computer programs, 2 things happen:.
Desktop removes the leading & bottom of the picture (fortunately, it removes an equivalent quantity from both).
Mobile will certainly still remove a few of the sides of the photo, however we have a substantially bigger viewable area.
Facebook Coverphoto
This gives us a far more versatile canvas to work with, and a richer experience on both desktop computer as well as mobile. Anything within the "Safe Location" over will certainly present correctly!