How to make a Twitter header in Photoshop. Category: Designing Twitter. Update your Twitter header regularly to draw attention to your profile.

Twitter continues to gain momentum both as an advertising platform and as a website promotion tool for webmasters. Not long ago it became possible to design your Twitter account with a new header. You can download the hat or make it yourself using Photoshop.

Previously, on Twitter you could only change the background, but now, with the opportunity to insert your original header, it opens up the opportunity to make your website or services more visible to Twitter users. A header is a kind of background on which your photo, name and account status are placed. It is better to make the header on Twitter original and memorable, capable of hooking the user.

If this is a corporate account, try to ensure that the header displays your product or service, displays the company logo and contains contact numbers. The size of the header image for a tweeter is recommended to be 1252×626 px and the file size is no more than 5 MB. To change the header image, you need to go to the Settings-Profile-Change header image section. Upload images (samples of headers are presented below) and click save.

Download Twitter headers

More original headers for Twitter allow you to combine the avatar and the background of the header as much as possible; here you already need to upload the avatar image and the background of the header in order to get full compatibility of the avatar and the background. These wallpapers look something like this:

Greetings, dear reader! Almost each of us in life strives to show our individuality - this is expressed in clothes, hairstyle, car, apartment and, of course, on the Internet, on social networks! If you have a Twitter page, then you can also embellish it a little and add a little personality!

Especially for this, I’m posting a cool selection: headers, backgrounds and avatars for Twitter.

Twitter backgrounds

In general, for the background on Twitter, you can use any picture you like, the main thing is that the quality of the picture is good. If your computer does not have a suitable beautiful picture for the future background, then you have two options:

Choose your favorite background from those offered on this blog (see below).
Find on the Internet, fortunately there are now a huge number of sites with wallpapers for desktops; to do this, just type the search query “desktop wallpaper” and select the picture you like, which will be your background on Twitter.

You can download pictures (large size) from the collections on the article source page - see at the end of the post.

A selection of backgrounds for Twitter “Abstraction”

A selection of backgrounds for Twitter “Nature”

Headers and avatars for Twitter

Relatively recently, it became possible to set a header image on Twitter. How to change the header with your avatar on Twitter? Everything is extremely simple! We go to settings - profile - and then click on the “Change header image” button or to change the avatar - on the “Change photo” button. After it became possible to change the header on Twitter to any picture, users came up with, so to speak, “paired” headers with avatars.

Agree, it's beautiful! Would you like something similar for yourself? If yes, then especially for you - a selection of “paired” hats and avatars, look below.

We spend a considerable amount of time on our beloved Twitter and, of course, it is more pleasant to spend time on your page, reading, tweeting, when it is stylish and beautifully designed. Moreover, the stylish design of our microblog will have a positive effect on increasing the number of followers, who will be attracted not only by your style of tweets, but by the style of your blog. More subscribers means more popularity, retweets and comments on your microblog. Unless, of course, you use .

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Twitter has its own functionality for changing and personalizing your microblog to suit your wishes. What can be changed on your page?

This is first of all:

Place a header at the top of the page.
Upload your personal avatar.
Change the color of block borders, the color of links and hashtags.

So, one of the possible options for decorating a tweet microblog is to install a header with an unusual design. They look especially harmonious if they are combined in style and design with the picture of the logo (avatar).

Let's see what the Twitter accounts of some of the most popular people look like.

Of course, we won’t ignore the most popular Twitter user of the Runet – Dmitry Medvedev. He changes his hats often; they are mostly made from his photographs. Fortunately, for work I often have to travel around the country.

The microblog header of the famous presenter Tina Kandelaki looks quite stylish in shades of gray. How beautifully the logo and photo header combine.

And here’s how stylishly literary the hat of the famous writer and humorist Mikhail Zadornov looks, who deserves 7th place in the ranking thanks to his regular funny tweets.

Well, finally, I would like to give an example of what the header of a corporate community or enterprise should look like. Let's turn to the microblog of the Russian representative of Google.

Please note that the color of links and block borders is also different for each stylized microblog.

Twitter header size

Now, you are probably asking questions: where to find beautiful and suitable hats in good quality, what quality should it be and how to install it? If you do not know photo/image processing editors, then the easiest option is to find and download suitable photos or pictures on the Internet that you like. You can find pictures in excellent quality by searching for pictures on popular search engines (Google, Yandex) or on photo stocks, such as flickr.com, freeimages.com or free Russian photo stock firestock.ru. You can find many similar free photo stocks.

What size should the hat be? Until 2014, the Twitter header aspect ratio was 2:1 and the minimum recommended image resolution was 1252x626. Since February 2014, there have been changes in the design of the caps and the aspect ratios have changed to 3:1, and the minimum resolution of the caps is now required to be 1500x500, that is, the caps have become wider.

How to make a header for Twitter

Now we come to the practical implementation of the question -.

There are at least 4 methods for creating headers, let's look at them all briefly.

After you have created or downloaded the header. Installing it is very simple with just a couple of clicks. On the main profile page, click on the camera icon in the header block, select your header from your computer, upload it, and save it. Ready!

Background on Twitter profile design. Free template with markup and ready-made profile header image design from Pauline Cabrera

Background

In February 2014 at twitter.com We started testing a new profile design. It was very reminiscent of the design of Facebook or even Google+. The main feature was its adaptability to different screen sizes.

In April 2015, Twitter officially unveiled the new design to the public. Now we will have to work on our profile again.

Twitter header image template

I don't know how to create, but I know how to use what others create. In this article, I invite you to get acquainted with the Twitter header image template proposed by Pauline Cabrera(Pauline Cabrera) and slightly modified by me to standard.

A special feature of the Twitter header image is the adaptability of its size and proportions to the devices used by the user. It is important for us to know what the user will and will not see.

The following was determined by trial and error: Twitter header image template.

This is also a rather conventional, but close to reality, version of the markup. You may need to customize your design or use the ready-made design I added to the template.

The proposed ZIP archive (1.4 MB) contains a PSD (Photoshop) file. The layer with markings is placed in a folder Templates. Examples in a folder Example. My version of a header image for Twitter in a folder Design. The Design folder contains several subfolders:

In this case, you will need to give access to the settings of your Twitter account. Everything else will happen automatically.

Not long ago, Twitter developers pleased us with another interesting innovation. Now you can customize the header design on your profile. An original effect is obtained by combining an avatar and a picture in the header. In today's lesson we will try to do just that. To do this, first select a beautiful picture for the avatar and at the same time for the header. After this, we’ll create a new document in Photoshop and set guidelines to designate the avatar’s area. Next, save the header image and avatar separately. And finally, we upload it all to Twitter and get our own profile design.

Step 1.
Create a new document in Photoshop measuring 1252x626 pixels.

Step 2.
In the upper left corner, create a rectangle measuring 540x60 pixels.

Step 3.
Then we create a square 175x175 pixels in size and lean it against the lower right corner of the white rectangle, as in the image below. We install guides on all sides of the square.

Step 4.
Now we take any picture that we want to install in the header. It is advisable that the image size is no less than 1252x626 pixels. At the intersection of the guides we set a part of the picture that will be the avatar on Twitter.

Step 5.
After this, save the first image in its entirety, 1252x626 pixels in size. Then we crop the image to the size of the avatar and save the second image with a size of 175x175 pixels.

Step 6.
Go to your Twitter account and select “Settings”.

Step 7
Update 11/22/12: The developers have moved the block for changing the image in the header to the “Profile” menu item. Next, in the menu on the left, select “Design” and click on the “Change header image” button. In the dialog box that opens, select the first image on your computer and upload it.