Been admiring those cool artistic collage Facebook Timeline Cover Photos? You can create your own fabulous Timeline cover collage photo in minutes with CoverCanvas, one of my favorite FREE online Facebook Cover Photo makers.
CoverCanvas offers three Custom Facebook Timeline Cover Photo Maker options:
- Your Photos: a photo montage collage created with your profile photos
- Your Name: a text collage created with your name
- Photos and Name: a combo collage created with your name and profile photos
Each Custom Cover maker features a large of selection of designer templates with a great range of styles from artsy to rustic. Love the effect of a stack of Polaroid photos frames? CoverCanvas has a template for that!
Cover Maker Basics: Cover makers require you have the new Facebook Timeline. You will have to approve their Facebook app and be logged in to create covers from your Facebook photo albums and to upload your finished cover photo.
How to Use CoverCanvas
Step 1. Click the Get Started button. Login into your Facebook account in the popup.
Allow CoverCanvas Request for Permission. Now you are ready to create!
Step 2. By default CoverCanvas opens in the Your Photos cover maker.
Tip: You will need at least three Facebook Profile photos to generate the best covers.
Step 2. Select a template. Hover over the template strip above the preview cover photo to Browse the template thumbnails.
Click the thumbnail to make your selected template the preview cover photo.
Step 3. Try different photo combinations by Clicking the Remix Photos button.
Tip: You can’t drag or move images or manually select images so it might take a few clicks until you get the perfect photo combination for your collage.
Step 4. Click the Make My Cover button to upload your finished cover. It may take up to one minute to complete the upload due to heavy traffic.
Tip: The CoverCanvas Uploading popup has basic instructions to change your cover.
Change Your Cover Photo in 4 basic steps:
1. Click Change Cover 2. Click Choose from Photos 3. Click your selected photo 4. Click Save Changes.
Here is my new custom Facebook Timeline cover photo made with my profile photos using the Your Photos cover maker option.
Tip: CoverCanvas creates a CoverCanvas Photos album that makes finding your cover photos easy.
Why stop with just one great cover? Follow the basic steps to create another cover with the Your Name or Photos and Name options.
Tip: A nice bonus to the cover makers is a selection of Facebook Timeline ready cover pictures you will find under the Static Covers category.
As Rick would say, “There you have it in less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee…” you have a great new cover photo. Will you be making a cover photo on your next coffee break?
More Social Media 101 Timeline Articles
- Change Your Profile How to Get the New Facebook Timeline
- How to Make Your Facebook Timeline Cover Photo: The Basics
- Your New Facebook Timeline Cover Photo: Free Cover Picture Sources
- Free Facebook Timeline Cover Photo Makers: How to Use Pic Scatter
- New Facebook Timeline: Important Privacy Setting to Check
Timeline Guides
- Facebook Help Center’s Timeline Guide: A New Kind of Profile
- Inside Facebook’s How to Use the Facebook Timeline: A Complete Walk-Through of the Redesigned Profile
- Mashable’s: Facebook Timeline: The Complete Guide
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