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The cover for the VKontakte group is a new element of the design of the group after redesign. It seems that make one image should be easily, but at the same time finding the perfect option is quite difficult.

The cover of VKontakte is one of the first things that people will see when visiting your group. That is why it is so important to make a good impression on the visitor, to transfer a clear understanding of the topic of the group and interest.

In April 2017, the communities became available. This is absolutely new chip And the excellent opportunity to revive (in the literal sense of the word) registration of your group to increase the efficiency and return on promotion.

From this article you will get three things:

  • Cover size for group VKontakte;
  • Instructions, how to create a cover of VKontakte and how to choose an ideal picture;
  • Examples of groups with high-quality covers.

What is the cover for the VKontakte group?

The optimal size of the picture for the cover of VKontakte may vary. On computers, the cover is displayed at 795 pixels in width and 200 to height. On mobile phones, it is proportionally adjusted under the screen width. However, VKontakte recommends to upload a picture of at least 1590 × 400 pixels.

Council: If you found an image that you liked hard, but its proportions do not coincide with the recommended, you can still use it! By downloading this picture, you can choose the visible area and cut all the unnecessary internal means in VKontakte.

When developing the design of the cover, consider what mobile devicesah with a screen width of less than 400px is clipped to 196px along the edges of the image, as about 83px occupy system phone icons. Consider convenience for mobile users. Vkontakte such majority.

Make sure that the text located on the cover is quite read on the screen. mobile phoneWhen the cover adapts under its width. Also check that important items on the cover are not closed by the menu icons and private messages.

Below is a visual example, as the cover looks like on the computer, and the size of the edge is indicated active elements Groups.


VKontakte Cover Dimits on Computer

How to make a cover for group vkontakte

If you have any designer skills, create your own cover from scratch using software, such as Adobe Photoshop.. The choice of this path will create a design for your business as you imagine it.

If you buy and study Photoshop there is no desire, then use online services. Here. On the this moment This is the most popular service.

Cover templates for VKontakte Group

In order to help you with design development, we have created a group cover template in VK (1590x400px).

Let's voice a few additional details on working with our template:

  • When you open the template, you will see the appearance of your design. You do not have to upload a cover to the group to evaluate how it looks.
  • To proceed to creating your cover, click on the "Cover" layer twice. So you will get inside the smart object.
  • Next you can proceed to creativity, all sizes are indicated inside.

You can download this and other templates in the article :.

Your photos

We understand that everyone cannot be designers. But this does not mean that not everyone can have beautiful cover Community VK. Here are some places you can look to create your cap, as well as some tips showing that this approach can be justified for you and your business.

For example, if your group is dedicated to books, you can take a picture of your bookshelves and use this photo as a cover. By this you will make a hint that you are interested in books, and you can expect other book fans to take this photo well.


vk.com/best_psalterium

Stock Photos

If you do not have any personal photos that you would like to use, look for them on the photos (sites with free images), There you can find the perfect image for the cover of the VK community. My favorite sites for finding beautiful photos are Unsplash and Pixabay.

I would like to call you to change / improve all selected photos to make them more personal. You can use the online editors tools Fotor, Pablo or Canva. If you want, you can even improve your photo with these tools. For example, select one of your favorite quotes and add it over the photo.

How to choose a cover

Now, when we know how to make a cover for a group of VKontakte, the question is, what filling for it to choose? Have photos that work better than others?

Consider some important points:

  • Observe the required cover sizes (1590px in width and 400px in height);
  • Choose high quality images;
  • Do not overload the image by visual elements;
  • Choose a picture for the cover, focusing on the overall design of the VKontakte group;
  • Use images that are original and are related to your brand.

What type of image attracts people

Here are some components that make images attracting:

  • Emotions: Feelings make people act;
  • Relevance: Including what corresponds to the interests of your audience;
  • Colors: The choice of the right colors leads to an increase in conversion;
  • Typography: Choosing the right font makes your message clear;
  • Hastegi and text: Find the right words that will provoke your audience for a target action.

These components can be applied when creating a community cover VKontakte to force people to feel in a certain way or make specific actions.

For example, Coca-Cola on the cover uses the generally accepted red logo with the signature "Try ... Feel", and as a background, a happy couple with a drink in your hands. This, of course, hoping to make people carry out a certain relationship in the mind that drinking Kola means happiness. And it is effective!


vk.com/cocacola.

Where do people look?

When inventing the perfect cover, it may be interesting to look at some studies. I managed to find an entertaining on this issue. She is in English, but briefly convey the essence.

It was found that if you want to draw attention to a specific element in the image, then according to the principle of the visual queue, the eyes of a person looking at the element will be directed to the viewer to the place. This may be an interesting way to use a person's eye cover for a group of VKontakte.


More kissmetrics found that it could be effective to add an item that "pops up" in the cover. It is important that such an element should be one and one, which calls for action.

In the example below, Electronic Arts knows this and clearly gives to understand people that they can buy new game FIFA17.


vk.com/EasportsFifa.

Non-standard thinking

The covers for the VKontakte group became a great way to express themselves in the way to stand out. Here are some original ways.


Using a known personality in the design of the popular public about startups
Changes in the cover about special cases, upcoming events, stocks or holidays
Using the cover to send people to your site
Cover use to show your special offer
Request visitors to enter into a group or write a message.

Examples of groups with high-quality covers

Now that we know how to make a good cover for the VKontakte group, you can look at some pages that use high-quality and simple images. We hope that you will be able to find inspiration in them.


vk.com/adsnews.
vk.com/WBRUSSIA
vk.com/sci_one
vk.com/businessGazeta.
vk.com/cds.

Because we are now engaged in order, we can answer your questions about the design of social networks, if they appear. Feel free to send them to our mail or write right here in the comments. Together we will be able to make an ideal cover for your VKontakte group and increase the return on the accompanying efforts to promote it.

As you know, a little creating your group in VK. It is necessary to form an attractive visual design for it, fill with fascinating content, attract new and interesting people to a group. An important element of the visual design of the VKontakte group is its cover - a rectangular image at the very top of the group page. Standard are the dimensions of 1590 × 400 pixels for groups of groups in VKontakte. And below we will analyze how to make the image for the community with dimensions of 1590 to 400, and also give several examples of covers this format in VK.

Characteristic features of covers for registration of groups in VK

The cover for a group of VKontakte implies two basic variants of the sizes used:

  • Minimum - size 795x200 px;
  • Recommended 1590 × 400 px, allowing to work with detailed images that are well suitable for widescreen monitors.

Pay attention to that for mobile devices (and the owners of such devices according to statistics make up most VC visitors) the visible cover area in VK 1590 by 400 is 1196 × 400 px. The left and right edge are cut into 140 px due to the menu and messages pop-up icons, and from above 83 px takes the strip, which displays the phone charge icons, signal strength, the received calls, SMS and other icons.

Displaying Cover on Mobile Devices

In addition to standard static pictures, the "Dynamic Covers", changing and updated after a certain period of time, were embedded in the VK functionality. They allow you to significantly strengthen the visual attractiveness of the group, while their use requires connecting a special script and hosting. It is recommended to trust this business professionals.

https://youtu.be/iccpz4y3xfa.

How to create a suitable image of 1590 × 400 for the VKontakte community

For a professional designer, creating a group of VK will not be much labor. If you are not like that, in creating a cover for public vk.com you will be helped with special graphics tools. We recommend CanVA - a network resource specifically designed for graphic design purposes. Its functionality provides convenient access to a million photographs, images and fonts, work with it is not complicated, because Canva uses well-deserved popularity as newbies and professionals.

Use the CANVA service to create covers

One of the convenient features of this resource is a section dedicated to purely creating a picture for groups in VKontakte. Here is a convenient list of tools that allow you to create a cover of 1590 × 400 for the 2018 VC group.

The algorithm for working with a resource is reduced to about the following:

  1. Go to canva.com;
  2. Click on "Create a Cover for the VK group";
  3. Specify for what purposes you use canva - commercial, educational, private, etc.;
  4. Pass register on the resource (you can enter using your account in Google or Facebook);
  5. Then you will fall into a special section of the site dedicated to creating a cover for a group in VK.

On the left you will see the control panel, which shows a set of tools for creating and editing an attractive cover for your group in VK. On the right there is a field to create a picture of 1590 × 400 pixels.

Screen Editing Cover on "Canva"

There is a large selection of templates created by professional designers. You can choose any such pattern, and then adjust it to your needs, changing the color by adding text by adding new items or change the location of the already existing. To search for the desired template there is a search string, with which you can search for a template for its name.

To download your own image resources, there is a download button. If you load the logo, try to use Logo with transparent background. To insert your image in the layout of the future cover of VK in 2018, simply drag it with the mouse in the desired part of the image.

To download files to the resource, use the Download button.

If desired need element Mockup can be edited. To do this, click on it with the mouse, and the possible data will be displayed from above to configure it. You will be able to change the text and font features, background, location and number of items and so on.

The row of settings from above appears when clicking on text in the cover

To save the result received on the PC, click on the left on top to "File" - "Download".

You can also be interested in our material about.

When working with Cover in Canva, Adobe Photoshop and other similar tools, pay attention to the following:

  • Use the image only recommended (marked above);
  • For the cover, look for high quality photos;
  • Do not overload the images with visual elements;
  • The picture you choose should correspond to the direction of the group, its style and the selected color scheme (if available);
  • Try to use the original pictures, which will emphasize the unique character of your group;
  • Add to the image emotional component - such pictures will not leave anyone indifferent.

How to download a suitable picture in your group

To download the cover in the VC, go to the page, the administrator of which you are. Click on the "Management" button on the right, in the page that opens next to the "Community Cover" option, click on "Download", and download the cover file into your group.

Click to "Download" to download the cover in your group

Several examples of covers VK

We also offer you some examples of images that can be used as templates for your future group cover in social. Network VK:









Conclusion

Above, we disassembled the creation of a memorable cover for registration of PC groups with dimensions of 1590 × 400. Also led several options for images and explained how to draw a picture using the popular CANVA service. When downloading created pictures on VKontakte, remember the limitations imposed when viewing covers from mobile devices. This will help to watch your group more comfortable for numerous "mobile" users VK.

Pictures in SMM decide. If not all, then much. Do you want the cover of your group to attract attention and did not look shrub?

Registration in the service

Select format

The desired image formats for different social networks are already loaded in Canva - from covers to records. You can also specify your own layout size, but change the size of the already created layout in free version It is impossible.

Since Canva is a foreign service, it has not yet been fully adapted for the Russian audience. Therefore, to find a ready-made layout for the cover of VKontakte in a special section, and not to "create a design". The layout we need has the size of 1590x400 pixels - twice the real size of the cover to achieve best quality Displaying pictures (double the proportions are recommended by VKontakte specialists).
On the left you will see a series of ready-made layouts developed by professional designers - they can be used as blanks so as not to start creating a design from scratch. Any element of the template can be changed, so when you choose, do not focus on the original color palette and fonts. Color, text, number of items and their location on the image you can configure yourself. However, choose a style that better reflects the idea of \u200b\u200byour group: with a photo in the background, with a solid background, photocollage, strict pattern and so on. For our example, we choose a template without finished elements, which is a "grid" for a collage.

We load your own elements

Before you start editing, download your own logo or photos to the editor that you would like to use. Go to the "My" tab and select files From the computer. It is advisable to load the logo with a transparent background. Even better if you have options for a dark and light background (for example, a black and white version of the logo) so that it can be used in any illustration.
To insert a loaded image into a new layout, simply drag it to the right and place in the desired part of the mesh. Here the photo can be "crushing" - that is, to arrange inside the selected window in the right way and on the desired scale.

Fill the layout of the content

If you work with a ready-made layout, it needs to edit to make the cover of the unique and reflective style of your brand. Editing is intuitive - you need to highlight the desired element (for example, the background or text block) and the top panel of the editor will appear all available settings - the color palette, the font menu and so on. What exactly can be changed in the cover design?

  • Background color (available both solid fill and various textures and ornaments);
  • Text, font, size and color of the font;
  • The location of the elements (changes by simply "dragging" the dedicated elements on the canvas);
  • The number of elements (unnecessary parts can be deleted, and the necessary, on the contrary, insert into the layout in any quantity).

In our example, we filled four fields for photos, except the central, personnel and applied to all of them the same photo filter to bring photos to the "single denominator" - so they will be better to look together.

As for additional details, such as drawings, figures or icons - some of them are available in the menu "Elements" on the left (in our example we replaced the central photo on a solid background to insert the store name). And part can be found by keywords In the built-in catalog of cliparts and stock pictures. For example, you lack your own pictures for photos tape on travel. Enter the word "journey" in search string And get a whole set of dozens of photos or pictures on the topic of tourism (some of them are free, others are available at $ 1).

We work with text

Through the "Text" tab, you can add a text element or a ready-made block with a combination of several fonts. It should be borne in mind that the set of fonts for the Russian language is significantly less than for the Latin alphabet, but, nevertheless, there is something to choose from.
Here, in the top of the panel, you can change the size, color, centering, text transparency, line and interval intervals.

Download a ready-made cover for a group

When the design is ready, click "Download", it is in the upper right corner, and select the desired format. PNG or JPG is suitable for downloading VKontakte. In other cases, for example, when creating a postcard, a booklet or flyer, whose seal you are going to be ordered in printing houses, you need to choose "PDF for printing".

Load the cover in the group

The design of the VKontakte group is not as intuitive as I would like. To download your cover, you need to go to the "Community Management" menu - the download link is in the "Basic Information" block.
You can download the cover to the VKontakte group through the section "Community Management"

Outcome

Most Canva layouts are created in a more or less minimalistic style.

First, these are trends modern web design - Website interfaces, applications, branded channels, usually performed using a limited set of colors to save the accent on the most important thing.

Secondly, simple images are easier perceived on small mobile devices screens that make up an increasing share in the traffic of most companies and web projects.

Therefore, creating a cover for a page in a social network or YouTube channel, you should not "overload" it with additional details. Take a design sample as a basis and make it "your own", while maintaining the simplicity of perception. And the positive response of subscribers to high-quality graphics, clearly transmitting the necessary information, will not make himself wait.

Here is another couple of covers for VKontakte, which we made using canva layouts:

By the same principle, you can create a cover for pages in others. social networks or images for their content filling. And the designer you will not need.

How to work in Canva told and showed a regional service manager Oleg Burkov.

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Want to decorate your group in VK (VKontakte) and create a unique cap (cover) for it? In this article, I will tell you about what size and format it should be how to add a cap to VC, as well as post the PSD source (Photoshop format) of the desired size template.

How to make a hat (cover) for a group in VK?

What is the hat in the group in VK? It's just a picture, a size of 1590 × 400 and a format - JPG, GIF or PNG. It is located on top in the VK group, looks like this:

Step 1. Create an image of the desired size.

To begin with, we need to create a picture itself, for this I used Photoshop (download ready template In PSD format, you can). Open photoshop, select "File" -\u003e "Create" in the "File" menu -\u003e "Create").

A window will appear where you want to specify the size of the image, the width of us will be 1590 px, the height 400. The color modes can be left by default. Click "OK"

I want to note that the image can be larger, when adding an image, the VK itself is offered to trim it from the size of it yourself. Above the width of 400 px I do not advise you to add something, VC will cut off part of the picture.

As a result, we will get a blank list that we need. What do you draw what we want to see in the header and save our creation. My template looks like this:

Step 2. We change the hat in the VK group.

Next, we need to upload to the VK group our image. To do this, go to our group, in the upper right corner (under the Avatar group), press "three points" (...), select "Community Management" from the drop-down menu.

A window will appear with a proposal to download the image, click "Select File"

Choose our image and appears a window with the ability to trim the image, since we all match the desired size click "Save and continue"

As a result, we will see a message that the cover has been successfully loaded, then simply go to our group and admire the resulting effect.

You can change the header (cover) as much as you like.

So we created our header for the group in VK.

You can also take one of the proposed templates in this article:

Users of VK did not have the opportunity to set the cover for the VKontakte group. In this post we will tell you what is needed optimal vKontakte Group Cover Sizefor its optimal display on various monitors. Cover is, it can be said business card Group VK. It should display the topic of the group, that is, any network user who goes to the page must immediately determine appearanceWhat is this community. O and for avatars VKontakte can be familiar in detail by clicking on the link above. Despite this, we still remind that optimal option The size of the group's cover is a drawing of a width - 1590 pixels and a height of 400 pixels (see the picture below).

You, of course, can take any other sizes, but there is no guarantee that the cover image will be equally beautiful to look at all without exception. According to technical support, 1590: 400 pixels is the best size of the group cover. Even when loading and installing a picture, VKontakte will give recommendations on the size and format of the downloaded photo, as shown in the screenshot 3 below. To establish your unique cover, you must go to the Action menu, and more specifically to manage your community (see Figure 1 below). This section of the settings is right under the avatar (photo) of the group. On how to make an avatar for the VK group, you can get acquainted in more detail. After logging into the control page, find the cover regarding the cover, and click on the link: "Download" a little right, as shown in Picture 2 below. After that, the window opens (3 in the picture below), where you can directly load the picture.

Those of our readers who own Azami Photoshop or any other graphic Editor Will be able to make a high-quality and beautiful cover of the desired size. But there are those who do not own special graphic programs. What to do it? If you want the design of your group to be unique and, at the same time, effective. Then we will do everything for you. Well, finally, one more option is make a cover for group VKontakte onlinewith special resources. This option is suitable for those who have no skills to work with Photoshop, and for those who do not want to spend money on designers and professionals.

A rather popular site on which you can make the cover layout for the VKontakte community - this is " http://www.fotor.com"(See Picture at the top). Now many users complain about the performance of this service, but we are in Socprka. He was checked and installed that it works correctly and without any failures. If you have problems with Fotor, then try to use another equally popular resource - " https://www.canva.com." There are no complaints from novice designers. This is a pretty simple site in which everyone can figure out in a short time.

click on the link: "Use special sizes" (1 - on the screenshot at the top). After that, enter the width in the field: "1590", and in the height field: "400". By default, all values \u200b\u200bon the site in pixels. The designer of the finished size will appear in front of you. In it, you can choose a background, impose any text and fitted under the specified sizes image, which greatly simplifies the process of online creation of the CC.

Very often, users underestimate the cover value, as such. They think that you can take any picture suitable on topics and just download ready Cover for Vkontakte GroupBut it is not. All groups with dozens, hundreds of thousands and even millions of subscribers have a unique, memorable, beautiful and simply unique design, where the cover plays one of the key roles. Of course, beauty does not mean that people will go to you. The content of a group that interests and will not let follow followers is very important. If you are just at the beginning of this path, to order any number of participants in our community. In the meantime, we bring subscribers to you, you can explore the site that collected a huge set of ready-made pictures of the desired size for groups of groups. This is the site " http://vk-oblozhki.ru."(Figure below).

All covers of this resource are structured by category, so it will be easier for you to find a suitable picture. Found? In this case, click on it. A page (screen below) opens, where you can see how this cover will look like. If everything suits, click on the boot button to install it on your page.