Personalise your Facebook cover photo with Windows Phone
Chris Finlay, web developer at PokerStars, has created something special for those Windows Phone users who are avid Facebook fans. The Timeline cover photo is a perfect way to show off some interesting photos, but why don't we take it a step further with a personalised "I love Windows Phone" graphic?
Finlay has provided the tools and means to do just that, should you have the right software for the job of course. We've got a .PSD template, which will enable anyone (regardless of photo editing skills) to create an images similar to the above. So how do you go about achieving the above result?
- Download the .PSD template (we'll use Photoshop as the software of choice for this walkthrough).
- Edit the network placeholder text and add your own image for the "Pictures" tile, using the red rectangle as a guide for dimensions.
- Change / personalise other aspects of the template as you see fit.
- Hide the "Guides" group to remove Facebook template and disable the guide lines (View > Show > Guides).
- Select "cover" from the Load Selection dialogue (Select > Load Selection).
- "Copy Merged" (Edit > Copy Merged) and then paste into a new document.
- Save and upload to Facebook.
Remember that this is just a template, only your imagination is the limit. Take the design and add your own touches. Do let us know in the comments should you take a few minutes to create your own cover photo to further promote Windows Phone. As for Chris Finlay, be sure to follow him on Twitter.
Thanks Chris for sending in the .PSD!
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pizzalovinhulk says:
Lol
bono5112 says:
Whaaaaaaat
IamDefiler says:
Did mine a few days ago. :)
https://www.facebook.com/IamDefiler
quicoli says:
very cool!
Agent-P says:
That's really cool. Could I get a photoshop template for this? I want to experiment between a few different designs.
monthigos says:
Clever!
MakuJones says:
I made something with tiles too some days ago.
https://www.facebook.com/marc.scholl
On Twitter I made it a little bit more different. Looks like more the "Nokia Lumia theme".
http://twitter.com/#!/Mr_Maku_Jones
Ticomfreak says:
Update the IE icon to the ie9 one
Winterfang says:
Meh, Nokia uploaded a superior one a long time ago.
quicoli says:
I just did it :D
see at: http://www.facebook.com/pauloquicoli
PS.: You can edit the PSD template using Expression Design too.
Rancorbeast says:
Very good work, but what would make it even better would be to release a version in GIMP native file format for the photoshop hate... umm challenged among us :)
schlubadub says:
I reckon Paint.Net is better than GIMP. GIMP used to crash all the time so I gave up on it. The Windows version that is...
JonnieLasVegas says:
Agreed, need it for Gimp. Gimp on windows is awesome.
chrisjfinlay says:
Hey, thanks for hosting it! And thanks guys for downloading it. I wasn't aware Nokia had made one too, I did this in the middle of the night. Just to clarify the instructions, you don't need to hide the guides (view > show/hide guides), rather the layer group called "guides" that contains the Facebook header and profile picture border etc.
Edit: if someone wants to make a format for other imaging software, feel free. I don't have GIMP etc on my machine, otherwise I would do it.
Edit #2: The font required is Segoe WP. It comes with Visual Studio 2010, or you can find it lurking about the internet if you don't have it.
Rich Edmonds says:
The hiding guides part is a habit of mine :-)
silverdoe says:
Thanks for the tip. Just made mine, added my phone behind it as well! LOL
https://www.facebook.com/silver.doe
HD7guy says:
How about a .JPG version, so everyone can take advantage using whatever image editing tool they have on hand?
rikkit says:
That's not how anything works.
topleya says:
Doing this tonight
dakranii says:
Sweet template, thanks! I put it up on my facebook
The Hire says:
Where can I find artwork for different tiles, like the people tile etc, and in different colours?
Great job BTW! Thanks!
travis_valkyrie says:
Thanks for sharing! Absolutely love WP and Xbox so I figured I stay away from the blackness since really it doesn't look appealing to me, so here's mine to share back.http://i44.tinypic.com/2hh2g5c.png
doomasala says:
I spent some time today to create mine https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=62db35aa002b880d&resid=62DB35AA002B880D!1293&parid=62DB35AA002B880D!1291
ChrisLynch says:
Also, it would help to know that you need to crop the PICTURES image you want to place to 272x134 pixels. Took me a while to do it, but worth it. Thanks!!!
chrisjfinlay says:
It appears that Facebook has changed the size of the profile photo box on the timeline, so it doesn't line up as a tile anymore. Bugger. =/
