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Once you've set up your page, the very next thing is let's create your cover photo, which is going

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to be the big banner here.

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And when you create this banner image, obviously you need to have something happy, welcoming and on

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brand and also professional.

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Now that's for design.

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But what about the dimensions?

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Luckily, the Facebook tells you the dimensions.

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So if you mouse over this little, I hear this image 16 40 pixels by 856 pixels.

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That's the ideal size of the image, with some caveats.

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Of course, this image cannot be the same size if it's on mobile and desktop.

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On mobile, it will get shrunk a little bit.

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So what you want to create is a safe space, a safe zone inside the image.

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For example, if I upload an image, any image, really, for now, this is just a test, something

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like this.

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You see how the original image had this little clock on the left side of me and it wasn't cut off,

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but in the actual image, it was cut off.

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And you see at the top of my head here, it's cut off.

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That doesn't look good.

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And this gets worse on mobile.

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So the takeaway is take 90 pixels to the left and the right and don't put anything important there and

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take about 50 pixels or 100 pixels on top and bottom.

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And I'm putting you in there.

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And then when you upload the image quickly, look at it on your desktop like, I'm looking now and I

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see everything is cut off and on your phone and check, are you happy with it?

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If you're happy with it, great.

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Nothing's cut off.

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If something's cut off in your image editor or whoever is designing your image, you have to make sure

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that the important elements of the banner are more centered.

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So no matter what the device is, where people are looking at your page, the vital parts of the image

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don't look weird because they're cut off.

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For now, we're just going to use this banner image just because it's a test.

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But in your case, make sure nothing is cut off.

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You just press save like I did.

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And.

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You get actually taken to your page.

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You can always edit things from here, you can edit the banner, you can edit other things and actually

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we're going to keep adding and editing because we're not done here.

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But for now, I just wanted to show you how to set up your banner because the banner is very, very

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visible creates the first impression about your page.

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Very important.