tutorials #1 fb cover pic monkey
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How to Create Clean Facebook Cover Photo Using PicMonkey
Classic Tutorial #2014-001
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Things you need to know first:
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You don’t have to create an account to use Pic
Monkey.
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But if you want to create an account, you can
upgrade.
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You can use it for free or with fee (upgrade).
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You can use photos from your hard drive or directly
from Facebook.
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Ok, we start now.
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First
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This is the start up page.11
Second
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Click the Collage icon.
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Click the Collage icon.14
This is the Collage icon. Click it.
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Your Windows/Mac hard drive will pop up.
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Choose your photo.
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You may want to choose 3 or 4 photos.
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Click Open/Choose.
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Click open or choose.22
The Collage page appears.
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This is the Collage page.
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The Collage page is your working page.
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Got it? Ok.
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You can see your chosen photos here.
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These are your
photos.
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In this tutorial we want a Facebook cover photo.
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So, we need a collage with same size as the FB
cover photo.
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Here’s how:
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Click the Layout icon.
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This is the Layout icon. Click it.33
Click this.
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The Layout panel appears.
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This is the Layout panel.
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Click the FB cover button.
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Click the FB Cover button.
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The FB Cover button.
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And then hover buttons appear just below the FB
Cover button.
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Hover buttons revealed.
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If you have chosen 4 photos, you may want to choose the
four-box lay out.
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The four-box layout.43
After choosing your desired layout,
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Click Images icon.
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The image icon. Click it.
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The image icon. Click it.
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The page goes back to your photos.
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Drag the photos to your desired position in the layout.
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Drag photos.
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You can always change the photos on the layout.
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Photos change and repositioned.
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Then, click the background icon.
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The background icon Click it.
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The background panel is shown.
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This is the background panel
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Adjust you spacing and corners.
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Adjust spacing
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Adjust spacing
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Adjust corners
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Adjust corners
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Choose your background colour
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Choose colour
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If you are ok with your masterpiece, save it.
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But I decided to change the picture on the first box.
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You wanna know why?
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Notice that there is a text on the first picture?
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The texts on the first picture will not be readable at all
because…
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Because of your profile pic.
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So please use another image with not so important details on it, that it’s ok to be blocked by your profile pic.
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Here, I changed mine.
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Now, if you are ready, hit “Save” button.
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Click save.75
The “Save to my computer” page appears.
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Enter the filename of your masterpiece.
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Enter filename here.79
Choose the quality of your image.
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This is the quality options. Choose.
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Roger: Poor quality, tiny file size. Pierce: Great quality, good file size. Sean: Gorgeous but large file size.
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You may want to choose “Pierce”.
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Pierce’s quality of image and file size is just right.
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You can also change the dimension of the image.
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Change the dimension here.
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If you are ready click on “Save to my computer”.
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Click on “Save to my computer”.
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A dialogue box appears.
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Windows or Mac dialogue box will appear.
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Specify the location where you want to keep your image.
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Specify the location where you want to keep the image.
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Click Save.
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Click the Save button.
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Wait for the message:
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“Masterpiece save”
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Now you can upload your customised FB Cover photo.
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From your hard drive to your FB profile.
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Go to your profile.
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Hover on your current FB Cover picture.
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Hover means point the mouse into but do not click.
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The “Change Cover” button will appear.
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Click it.
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Click the Change Cover button.
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Choose “Upload Photo”.
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Choose “Upload photo”.
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Locate where you save your image and choose it.
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Facebook will upload your photo.
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Wait until you see your new FB Cover photo.
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Note that you don’t need to “reposition” your photo.
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You do not need to reposition.
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because the image fits perfectly on the cover.
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Now, save the changes.
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Click “Save Changes”.114
And it’s done.
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My new FB Cover photo.
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Thank you! :)
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