The Facebook timeline profile is not even a full week old — for developers — but those who’ve have made the switch can see the need for serious bling in the cover image that takes up half of the screen.
So Facebook Covers offers Facebook users who have the timeline profile the options of creating their own cover images, choosing from already-created images in several categories, or creating a photo collage of people on their friends lists selected by the user. Facebook Covers allows users to choose their own image and resize, flip, or rotate it to create their cover images.
Here we reviewed 3 Best Online Tools To Modify Or Hack The Cover Image In Facebook’s Timeline
The myFBCovers.com site and Cover Creator app were created byGraphicFlash, which was also responsible for Facebook banner creator myFBBanners.com. Banners will no longer be part of Facebook profiles after the switch to timeline, so the company turned its attention to cover images.
Coverize.me allows users to create a cover image using existing photos, or to choose from a collection of premade cover images that just might be recycled screensavers, banners or Twitters backgrounds — most likely all three.
Some of the premade covers require you to manually upload them, and all have Coverize.me’s logo at the bottom (if you’re handy with PhotoShop, you can get rid of the vendor’s brand, but we probably shouldn’t endorse that practice).
The categories include: abstract, adult (this one has drug references, rather than anything X-rated), animals, anime, athletes, awareness, cars, cartoons, celebrities, collages, cute, emo, fashion, flags, flowers, for guys, funny, games, girly, Gothic (nothing’s in this one ye!), hearts, holidays, logos, love, military, miscellaneous, movies, music, nature, patterns, professions, quotes, religion, sports, technology, video games and welcome.
FacebookCovers.org contains 50 cover images and lists 16 categories, some of which don’t yet have anything in them.
These groups are labeled: abstract, animals, awareness, awesome, cute, funny, hearts, life, love, movies, music, people, quotes, sports, TV shows and video games.
To the right of each image on FacebookCovers.org there’s a button labeled “add to profile.”
Clicking on the link fires up a permission window asking your permission for access to your profile, but all that does is upload the chosen graphic to your photo albums. You still have to click on “change cover.”
Also, like the others we’ve covered (pun intended if you want), all of the images available on FacebookCovers.org bear the site’s brand name in the lower-right-hand corner.
It’s easy to erase that branding in any graphics editor, although it would be impolite of us to recommend that practice.
So, dear readers, have you tried out any of the applications for tricking out your cover image in Facebook’s timeline?