How to Synchronize a Facebook Cover Photo
with a Facebook Profile Photo

Photo-Composition Section: Composing a Photograph or Image for the Synchronized “Cover-Profile Photo” Format

Let’s say that you want to photograph a cat sitting on the roof of a house, and another cat sitting in the driveway of the house, for a “Personal” Facebook page.

Using the olive-colored “perimeter border template” added to the “1260x1260” work area (“1260x1260-work-area.png”), downloadable from Page Ten, you can compose your photograph, through trial-and-error, so that all of the components in the area-of-interest in your photograph are within the area of the “perimeter border template,” such as the two cats. (There is also a lime-colored “perimeter border template” for “Business-Oriented” Facebook pages that has been added to the “3000x1200-work-area.png” file, also available from Page Ten, that can be used for this purpose.)

Now, it’s time to go outside and take a photograph.

Two Cats and a House

[Irfanview Screenshot] - Two Cats and a House

You take a photograph of the cat on the roof and the cat in the driveway with your digital camera, then go back inside and “download” the photograph to your computer.

You open the photograph in your Image Editor, and place the olive-colored “perimeter border template” on top of the photograph, making sure to include the cat on the roof within the template...

Photograph and Imaginary Grey Perimeter

[Irfanview Screenshot] - Photograph and Imaginary Olive Perimeter

Although the cat on the roof is safely within the olive-colored “perimeter border template,” you notice that the cat in the driveway has only her head showing in the lower-left section of the template, where the lower part of the “Profile photo” gets cropped from.

You can see that in order for the cat on the roof to fit within the “perimeter border template,” the lower section of the house will get “cropped” from the Cover photo area, and the lower section of the cat sitting in the driveway will not be seen in the “Personal” Profile photo area.

A possible solution is to go back outside, and have the cat on the roof sit on the garage instead...

Second Photograph, with Cat Repositioned

[Irfanview Screenshot] - Second Photograph, with Cat Repositioned

Now the olive-colored “perimeter border template” can be moved down a bit on the photograph, such that the cat on the garage, the entire house, and the entire cat sitting in the driveway are within the template.

It only took taking two photographs to compose a perfect area-of-interest on the second photograph (that will now display in full in a synchronized “Cover-Profile photo” format) thanks to the olive-colored “perimeter border template.”

Second Photograph and “1260x1260-pixels” Work Area

[Irfanview Screenshot] - Second Photograph and “1260x1260-pixels” Work Area

You are ready to place the photograph onto your “1260x1260-work-area.png” file, and, following the procedures explained on Page One through Page Seven of this tutorial, create the following synchronized “Personal” Facebook Cover and Profile photos.

“Screenshot” of Synchronized Facebook Cover and Profile Photos

[Irfanview Screenshot] - “Screenshot” of Synchronized “Personal” Facebook Cover
and Profile Photos