So Facebook is finally rolling out the new Timeline feature for personal pages. It's very exciting and I am sure will piss off a few people. The people over at Facebook have a nice tutorial here - Introducing Timeline - on how it all works.So I moved my profile over today and one of the neat features is the cover photo. In addition to your profile picture, which stays as your avatar around the site, you have a large photo at the top. It's a neat feature that I have been playing with but I think it will still need some tweaking from the Facebook folks. You can't resize your photo in Facebook, just drag it to move it. So if it is a large picture you will end up cutting some of the picture off... which led me to edit some pictures to fit nicely. Another challenge is that it seems that no matter how high quality your picture is, it still comes out a bit grainy and pixelated.Okay, back to the size issue. So the size for the cover photo is 840 x 310 pixels. It's short and long but you can do it. I made a few examples of how to utilize this new feature. Currently, I have one up for the holidays... in fact, it is the image I used for my holiday cards. I made another to promote my blog. I made two more from cool pictures that I took in Israel. Some people have been getting very crafty with theirs and maybe I will try that out as well.Here is a great blog for Photoshop users on how to layout your cover photo and integrate your profile picture - TechXT .Also Mashable offers a great tutorial and ideas on this new option as well - Mashable.Below are a few of my new cover photos for Facebook. If you want to get Timeline before the major roll out on December 22, find a friend with it and it gives you the option to switch over. Do be aware, Timeline does change some of the privacy settings. Check the activity log and other places for your settings and ENJOY!
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