Whenever I used Photoshop to create featured images for blog posts—like this one—the cropped thumbnail doesn’t always turn out right. While some WordPress plugins and social media spaces won’t crop an image, others will.
Popular post plugins, related post plugins, social media shares, etc… will sometimes grabbed the tiny cropped image that WordPress produces. The default is usually 150×150, an Instagram square style.
Using Photoshop’s built-in guides, you can quickly and easily add some guides to help keep this cropping in mind, so you don’t risk having vital verbiage, logos or images cropped in awkward places.
Here’s how to do it:
Quick Photoshop Tip: Using Guides for Images
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How much you follow this guide is really up to you, but as I’ve seen old blog posts using old cropped square images, I wish I had thought about this long ago. I’ve also noticed that I like how it keeps text and logos at the focus of custom headers, too.
Do you use Photoshop guides?
I would love to hear about other ways these can be used with Photoshop! Talk to me, yo! 😀
Dustin W. Stout says
Oh, you like guides? How about this: The Only Social Media Image Dimensions You Need
Published that 3 days before this post– for shame Eric! lol JK!
Also, you might like: http://guideguide.me/
Eric Dye says
Well, this post was written and scheduled a week before it dropped. Were you looking in the ChurchMag drafts again? ;P