In this post, you will find out why image sizes are so important when posting on social media and what resources there are to help you.
Why Do You Need To Use Cover Photos?
Social media cover photos are great for communicating your products and services, highlighting a current campaign or simply your brand’s values. If you don’t have the right tools to create your cover photos it’s probably easier said than done, so you may find you either have to struggle to design a professional-looking cover photo for each social network on your own, ask a design competent colleague or friend to do it for you, or hire a designer or agency to do it.
To make things easier, I’ve put together a list of tools that can help you create your own cover photos without the use of expensive image editing software used by many professionals. I’ll also give you the correct dimensions needed for the most frequently used social platforms; Facebook, Twitter, Google + and Linkedin.
Free Online Image Editing Tools
Free Image Editing Software
(Installation required)
