The difference between your cover image and profile image is that your profile picture reveals up in user's feeds, whereas your cover picture only exists on your Facebook page. When your fans visit your page, you have a possibility to interact something essential. So what should your cover photo look like, then? Change out that trite band pic with one of these six imaginative (and effective!) ideas.
Facebook Book Cover Photos
1. Put your tour dates front and center
Your timeline picture is a terrific location to display what you're currently dealing with in a billboard-style picture. If you're exploring a new album, develop a compelling background with pieces of your cover art, and sprawl your tour dates throughout in a clean, readable design.
The key is to make it visually appealing with traces of your music connected into the design. Simply having the dates won't suffice. When Los Angeles-based singer BANKS went on tour with The Weeknd, she took fragments of her London EP cover and created a minimal, branded cover image with her trip dates spread out across her signature monochromatic image. The result is her EP art work being extended into her trip promotions through her cover photo.
2. Create a collage.
The measurements for of a cover image are perfect for developing a collage of your band's experiences and successes. When Sigur Ros launched their 2012 world trip, they used fan photos discovered on Instagram through their hashtag #sigurroslive and made a spectacular collage of different shots from their live programs around the world.
Their cover picture was especially creative due to the fact that it took fan art and exposed it to their around the world following. Other collage ideas could be all your albums to this day or photos of the band on the road.
3. Incorporate your profile photo.
This is a popular pattern, primarily due to the fact that it's clever and visually pleasing. Social media users produce a scene with their cover photo and use their profile photo to connect to the scene.
It might be your diva holding a microphone in the profile photo, and the mic stand and the rest of the band carrying out in your cover image. The secret to this technique is a smooth connection. The colors should be the exact same, and the sizing should be exact. This might take a little trial and error, so make sure to create it and evaluate it out initially.
4. Have a call-to-action.
Your cover picture is a fantastic location to ask your fans to engage with your music. Sam Smith utilized his cover picture to ask his fans to elect him at the 2015 Brit Awards. He used the photograph from his debut album with a clear call-to-action for his fans to vote for the album. And obviously, he put the link in the description.
Like I said in the past, your cover photo resembles your very own social networks signboard. Do you have something to ask of your fans? Create an imaginative design with minimal text, ask them through your cover image, and constantly put further directions in the description.
5. Promote a hashtag.
Hashtags are the linking points we follow to engage with fans. If you're hosting a live-stream of your brand-new album, produce a hashtag for followers to utilize while they stream. They can tag their images and listening experience. Your cover image is a terrific place to encourage your follows to utilize a trending hashtag that relates to your music.
Perhaps it's the title of your new album or your band's name with 2015 attached. In any case, come up with an appealing hashtag that will bring brand-new people to your music, as well as permit you to see who your fans are and how they engage with your music.
6. Showcase your audience.
Your cover picture is a fantastic place to showcase your audience. This is specifically efficient if the image is from behind the stage, so the audience can see what you see while you're playing live. One Direction took a photo from behind the stage at an enormous arena show; the whole crowd was lit up, and fans tagged themselves in the image. Offer your fans an opportunity to tag themselves so they can document their memories through your cover picture.
Find one of the finest live photos from behind the stage-- and even an image you took from the stage yourself-- and create it to fit your cover picture's measurements (851x315). Showcasing your audience and the excitement of your live program is always positive.