Facebook cover photo design is a crucial component when it comes to building your brand online as in many ways your Facebook page is one of the many faces of your business.

Lucky for you in this day and age there is an incredible amount of fantastic graphic design software out there to help you develop that perfect Facebook cover photo design.

Today we are going to take a look at Canva perhaps one of the most popular online design software’s out there.

Facebook cover photo

When you jump on over to the Canva website and log in you will be presented with a page that looks like this.

There is a vast array of graphical templates to choose from but for the sake of this post, we are going to focus on Facebook cover photo design.

The old saying goes you never judge a book by its cover unfortunately that saying doesn’t hold much weight when it comes to Facebook cover photo design as its quite often the first thing that majority of users will see when first arriving at your Facebook page.

Lucky for you Canva had a nifty drag and drop option for creating Facebook covers.

Designing a fantastic cover photo is as simple as picking a design template and navigating over to the uploads section to upload the images for your design.

From here simply drag them into your template and resize them accordingly to suit your design. Canva also provides the functionality to add text, backgrounds, and objects to your designs. Once you have finished with your design click the button in the top right-hand corner to export it is a jpeg.

Make sure that you take your time crafting your facebook cover photo as it will serve as a vital piece of visual real estate for your business.