How To Create Profile Banner In Facebook

You have probably seen the new Facebook profile layout, where there are five small pictures on the top of every profile page. And you have probably also been seeing that people use these five pictures to make quite awesome banners for their pages. Note: This post is about Facebook profile banners for personal profiles. If you want to see the post about Facebook profile banners for pages, click here. There are some Facebook apps that helps you with making the Facebook profile banner from one of your pictures. (I have tested this profile banner creator). But everyone has the skills to do that, here we want to step it up a little and use the four white lines that comes between images to our favor. It is impossible to get rid of, or delete the white lines, so let's use them in this tutorial.

I am locked in to Facebook and can not get out

Sometimes it feels like I am locked in to Facebook and can not get out, I spend so much time there, because I need it in work, and you know, it is quite addicting. So let's make a profile banner that also shows that we are in the social media prison and can't get out.

In this tutorial we make this kind of banner:

Step by step:

Start with shooting a photo. Nothing fancy is needed, Facebook strips down the photo quality anyway.
Open it in photoshop or gimp or some other program that supports layers.
Download this image: (for getting proportions and seeing where the white stripes are by default.)

default Facebook profile banner

Put this picture on top of your photo in photoshop.

Place the default image over your photo
Crop your photo so that it is the same proportions as the default photo. You can add some opacity to the default banner photo so that you see through it, it makes it a little easier.
When your photo is cropped and the same size as the default one, add some extra white lines between every white line that is already there. This will confuse people, "What, how did he make that?"
I also bended the stripes that was in my hand a little, for making it more weird.
When your image looks good, hide the "default banner image" so that you only see you own white painted lines. The default lines do not need to be there, the Facebook app will make them anyway.

This is the ready image that I made. I am trapped in Facebook!
When your photo is ready, go to this app: profile banner creator and upload it. The app will then do the rest for you. It will make an album for you and tag you in the pictures in the right order, so that it will look right when you go back to your profile.
Check out your profile and wait for comments.

This is the ready profile banner I have made

I made this prison-picture. You can probably find out something funnier or more cREaTiVe, I just like the possibility to use the white lines as a favor. You can also make a banner for a Facebook fan page, but then you have to cut the wide image into five small ones and upload them manually to Facebook, in reverse order. Create something awesome and post a link to your creation in the comment field below!

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Jonathan Björkskog is a marketer / Growth Hacker from Finland, that has been working full time with marketing for big corporations and some of the largest e-commerce sites in Northern Europe. With a passion for organic search, content, and growth, and a background in tech and coding, he has a broad overview of the strategies and tactics of online marketing.
Having started up an agency with over 100 employees also helps to get a broad overview of what any kind of business could do to be successful online.