Hot: Now you can create your own snazzy cover on Steemit page.
You need not be a great Photoshop artist for that.
Instead of the drab blue cover page header like earlier, now you can paint a pretty picture on your cover page.
A recent change appears to have been introduced on Steemit today/yesterday that has started showing a background image suddenly as cover image. I am not aware if this feature was available earlier. I suddenly noticed it because the image I had set in ESteem App as cover image started showing up on my blog page as cover image. This has happened on most of the blog pages I have seen.
Of course - the images most people have are not appropriately sized and therefore, on many blog pages, images look ugly. For some pages, where the image showed people, due to the peculiar crop size of the Steemit cover image, people are appearing headless!!
Here is how we can create a fairly interesting cover image simply using free web based apps.
- Step 1: Navigate to the collage maker page of free web based app BeFunky here
- Step 2: Set image size of 1320 pixel width and 168 pixel height in the image settings by clicking second icon from top on the left.
- Step 3: Make a 3 x 1 collage configuration by deleting extra collage boxes (from the 3 x 3 default grid) by clicking on an unwanted box and selecting delete:
- Step 4: This is how your collage box will look in a 3x1 configuration suitable for cover image. Now you are ready to add images.
- Step 5: Select and upload images you need from your computer to BeFunky collagemaker by clicking on the Image manager button on the top left in BeFunky window. Click on 'Computer' and then, navigate to the location of your images on your computer in the dialog box that opens. Upload the 3 images you want to use on the cover image. Ensure that the middle image has dark background so that the text of your username, follows etc, which Steemit puts in the middle of the cover image will be visible.
- Step 6: Click on each of the uploaded images and Drag them each to one collage box.
- Step 7: Click on an image if you wish to edit it (adjust size or flip it)
- Step 8: Final result ...
- Step 9: Click on Save to computer and save the image on your computer.
- Step 10: Upload the image to an image hosting site such as imageBB. You can even click open a 'Submit Story' page on Steemit itself, drag the image in the blog creation space and copy the URL (as shown in highlights in the image below) as the picture URL:
- Step 11: Click on Settings (on the right hand side of your Steemit blog main page) and paste the URL in the Cover image box. Click on Update and save.
Tadaaaaaaaa. You will now see your cover image changed to the one you created!
Please create your own Cover images and share them in comments. It will be fun to see everyone's creative effort. Thanks
Note: First image created by me by mixing a screenshot of my Cover image, image credit 1 and image credit 2.
