Download this Template to make a Facebook Cover Photo that looks good on Mobiles AND Desktops

26th May 2017

I'd really really love if you posted a link to your Facebook page in the comments below, to show the cover photo that you created!

Updated for 2017. The new dimensions are 820px x 312px. The good news is that you previously made a template to 828px x 315px, then that template will still work.

Scroll to the bottom of this article for a video showing you how to use this template.

Download this Template to make a Facebook Cover Photo that looks good on Mobiles AND Desktops

It gets even more complicated then that when you realise that you have to take mobiles into dimensions into account - here's a link to Facebook's own guidelines, which I'm sure will confuse you (come back when you're finished being confused).

FYI, Online, we always say width x height, so, for example, 100px x 200px means the width is 100px and the height is 200px.

I'm making a YouTube Video that shows how to use this template in Pixlr. This video will be ready in November 2016. Please Click here and hit the red Subscribe button so that you get a notification when the video is live.

I made this template for myself, and I thought I'd share it with you too. If you use this, you no longer actually have to think about dimensions.

Just right-click, and save onto your computer;

Facebook Cover Photo Download 2016, for mobiles

... the red/wine parts show what will NOT appear on mobile devices.

Or, maybe you would prefer to use this template;

This video shows you how to make a Facebook Cover Photo using pixlr.com/editor:

If you use this template to make your Facebook cover, please share the link to your Facebook page in the comments below!

Hi, I'm Dorcas. I make websites. I lecture in Digital Marketing and related stuff in the UCD Smurfit School. I take photos (personal Insta @dorcasz). I do consultancy. I do talks. I've written a popular book on WordPress (available here).