How to Create a Professional Twitter Banner Using Canva
Twitter can be a valuable place to grow your personal brand. If you want to take a more professional approach to your Twitter presence, you’ll have heard about optimizing your profile. Your Twitter banner is a core part of that, but making one might feel overwhelming.
Creating a Twitter banner with Canva can be done quickly and easily. With only an hour or less of work, you can have a Twitter banner set up that is well-optimized for your brand. Let’s show you how to do it.
1. Sign Up and Log In to Canva
The first thing you’re going to want to do is sign up to Canva. Just follow the steps below:
You should now be on the home page of Canva where you can begin setting up a design.
2. Create a Design With the Correct Dimensions
You’ll first want to create a design with the correct dimensions. The recommended size for Twitter header images is 1500x500, so verify you choose a design with those dimensions.
Go toCreate a designand thenCustom size, then type the dimensions into theHeightandWidthfields.
3. Research the Competition
One of the keytips to growing your personal brand on social mediais to keep an eye on your competition. You want to get a basic idea of what other people who offer the same services or products as you have done for their Twitter background. Your research doesn’t have to be incredibly detailed, just enough to get a scope of what the competition is working with.
Try to find around five profiles that you deem to be competitors. There should be a range of followers between these profiles, from a few hundred to tens of thousands. Pay attention to the colors, imagery, words, and font types they use and decide whether you want to emulate that or go in a completely new direction.
4. Pick Your Favorite Template
Next, you’ll want to pick a template. Once your design has been created you’ll see that you’re on the Design tab on the side menu. Scroll through the different templates until you find something that will get your Twitter banner design off to a strong start.
Click on the template to get it onto the canvas. You can also head to theBackgroundtab and choose something to serve as the backdrop for your professional Twitter banner.
5. Add Text
Once you’ve got your template and background set, the next thing you want to do is add some text to the image explaining what you do. Use the research from your competition to ascertain how in-depth you want to go with the information you provide.
You should have one to three skills listed on the right side of the design (so that it isn’t cut off by your profile picture). Head toTextin the left panel to do this. You can also add your website link at the bottom center.
It’s commonplace for professionals to change their Twitter banner a lot as time goes on and their careers change, so you don’t need to be too attached to whatever you create now. So long as you’re listing the services you provide, and ensuring that the text is in a readable font and a readable size, then you’re good for now.
Try to get a sense of what colors you want your brand associated with and use them for the different pieces of copy in your banner.
6. Top the Banner Off With Design Elements
Once you’ve gotten the important aspects of your Twitter banner out of the way, the last thing to do is spruce it up with design elements so it doesn’t look like a stitched-together Canva design. You’ll be surprised how much a couple of tweaks can make your Twitter banner look more professional.
Adding imagery, or adding a striking element and sticking it on the corners of your design, can really make it pop. Don’t go crazy with it, just look at different effects and elements you can use that would make it look like it took more effort than it actually did. You can also simply switch up the text style and use space to create a more polished, full look.
7. Last-Minute Considerations
Are you happy with the banner or is there anything you could quickly change to make it a little better? If not, then now you just need to consider how you’re going to make the rest of your profile match up to your banner.
Your profile picture should match the colors used in your banner. First, find a photo of yourself that you like and that is professional. You canremove the image background using an online tool, then upload it to Canva on a new design using the correct dimensions, 400x400, and add a stylish background design so it matches your banner.
There’s a lot more you can do tomake your Twitter profile stand out, which will help pull everything together.
8. Upload Your Banner to Twitter
Now that you are happy with the Twitter header you’ve created, it is time to upload it! To do this:
Don’t forget to upload your profile picture too if you’ve made a new one with matching brand colors.
Level Up Your Twitter Account With a Professional Banner
Twitter can be a great platform to grow your personal brand and find work. It can be effective at community-building, which opens you and your brand up to many opportunities down the line.
verify not to overthink it and just get started with a basic professional banner. As you can see, it’s very easy to make one with Canva.
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