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Ever ask yourself why some Facebook cover images look far better compared to others on mobile? The response is always an excellent designer (not that I'm prejudiced or anything), yet I recently uncovered a nifty technique to assist much less of your hard work get cut off when watching from a mobile device-- as well as still look terrific on desktop.
Terrible as I go to bearing in mind numbers, I'm constantly googling "FB cover image size" (or viewing our quick-reference infographic), as well as the very first solution that always turns up is 851 × 315, which is what the cover picture presents at on a desktop computer browser. If your only problem is desktop, this is a great size to submit your cover photo. Regrettably, we could not ignore the 798 million customers that access Facebook daily via their smart phones.
Before I discovered this technique, choices for maximizing a cover photo for both desktop computer & mobile were very limited: either make the focal point extremely little to display correctly on mobile, or make it look good on desktop and give up the mobile experience.
Ugh.
OK, I'll reduce to the chase. Publish an image that is 851 × 475. With cover photos taller compared to desktop computer shows, 2 points happen:.
Desktop removes the leading & base of the image (thankfully, it removes an equal amount from both).
Mobile will still remove several of the sides of the picture, but we have a substantially bigger viewable location.
Facebook Cover Photo Site
This provides us a a lot more flexible canvas to deal with, and a richer experience on both desktop and also mobile. Anything within the "Safe Area" above will certainly show appropriately!