Personaliza tu Portada, Perfil y Banner para PeakD usando Canva [Es-En]

Hello dear friends, I greet you as always with great affection. In this opportunity I want to share a new instructional tutorial to customize our cover, profile and banner for PeakD, using the Canva platform. In this publication I will not show in detail the creation of the design, I will focus specifically on showing you how to have the exact size for all of them.

Many times we spend a lot of time looking for the ideal image for our cover, and when we finally find one, it turns out that it does not look as we expected, the size does not match, what to do, how to have a customized cover that looks good?

In the configuration section of PeakD we will find a recommended size. Once inside the configuration, click on the profile picture where it says edit, and a window for the configuration opens; if we go to the section where we load the cover image we will see at the top a recommended size for the background, in this case it is 1920 x 240 pixels, this value has served us to create the size of our design in Canva.

However, according to my personal experience, I want to share with you a more accurate measurement, after all, what PeakD provides is a recommended measurement. In this case and for greater accuracy we will use the measures 1270 x 245 pixels. With these measurements in mind we go to the Canva platform.

In the Canva page, we go to the option "Create a design":

And then to the "Custom Size" option:

In this tab that opened, we are going to place the dimensions that we want our cover to have, in this case it will be, Width: 1270 and Height: 245 in px (pixels), but we can also change it to in, mm or cm, according to our preference; in this case the recommended size is in pixels for that reason we will leave it this way.

Once the measurements are set, click on the "Create a new design" option.

There we will open the editing mode with the size we create, in this section you can make a design to your preference, with elements that identify you. If you still do not know how to use the tools to create a design, I invite you to review my publication: Learning to use Canva, there you will learn how to use the Canva tools for your designs.

In my case, I am going to create any cover so that you can see the result of using the measurements. I recommend you to respect the margins that comes with the format so that your design is not so stuck to the ends, however this is a personal decision.

Once you have it ready, click on the download option. This is the design I created as an example, using only the elements I found in Canva:

Now if we place it as a cover in PeakD, we can see the results and notice how the edges were not lost:

Basically we will repeat the same steps. We go to the configuration section to see the recommended size, in this case it is 512 x 512 pixels, with these measures we will obtain a square where to design our profile, in case it is an image, an avatar with elements or simply to have the ideal size of a photo.

In Canva we repeat the steps, but now with the new measures, Width: 512 x 512 px.

In the case of the banner that we add to our publications to give it color and presentation, we will not find a recommended size in PeakD, since it is something of personal taste. The size we use could also be a matter of personal taste. The Canva platform comes with a template for the creation of banners, with the measures of 72 x 36 in (inches), but for my taste it is too big, so I will share with you the measures of 25 x 7 cm.

This size seems acceptable to me, however, personal taste may vary with the size. You can see an example of the size at the end of the post. As for the banner design, if you still don't know how to design one in Canva, you can see my post: Learn how to make your Custom Banner.

Well friends, I hope this tutorial will be helpful for you to create your designs with the measures of your preference.