We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don’t. Doesn’t really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it!
Since Timeline adds a big, splashy picture to your profile page, you can easily hack that big picture with your original profile picture to give your Facebook page some character (and make all your friends Like you). Here’s how.
Nico, a clever little Facebook tweaker, cooked up a super easy photoshop template to get you started on your very own personal cover picture. According to Nico, the dimensions of the Timeline image is 851×314 pixels and the profile image is 180×180 (though reduced to 125×125). Basically, you download the template here and then follow the instructions:
• After the download unzip the file and open fb_timeline_template.psd
• In the layers folder “personalization” do your personalization
• Then hide the layer “overlay” and create two separate pictures (use the guides or the layers “avatar” and “header” for the sizes of the pictures)
• Upload them and choose it as avatar and title picture.
With any luck, you can cook up a neat Timeline profile page that’ll put all the blurry, off centre ones to shame. Check out the following Facebook pages for inspiration and show us your creations in the comments. [Ausgetrock via Geekosystem]
Image: Ekkapong
Floating heads are always cool in my book Ivan.
Sune Adler Miltersen wins Facebook by creating a Tom MySpace page. Sune’s website also has other imaginative ideas if you need some help. [Miltersen]
Gordon
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:22 PMYeah… How is this a hack?
Jono
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:42 PMYou’re a hack.
Gordon
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:11 PMOh snap. You sure showed me.
Sarah
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:24 PMI dont think they are forcing everyone to switch, there has been a huge backlash to it. Anyway I gave up on FB long ago, life is better without it.
Rob
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 5:04 PMThere’s a huge backlash any time anything gets changed, I bet there’d be a massive backlash if they just changed the shade of blue used in the logo by a fraction. People don’t like change but they get over it pretty fast.
Everyone will end up using Timeline and in a few months no one will remember or care that it was otherwise, unless the try to change it again in which case just re-read this post.
Richard
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6:42 PMThere has been backlash every time something has changed. Hasn’t stopped them eventually rolling the changes out everywhere.
John
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 9:59 PMIt is quite funny to sit on the sidelines and watch these people whinge about the changes and do nothing about it. If they want to see change, then abandon the network! No one needs FB anyway, its a waste of time and quitting is well worth it. Obviously though like many FB users they lack willpower and just follow like mindless sheep. I am glad to have a group of friends that actually enjoy each others company, not spend hours infront of a computer screen “socialising”, yeah, right.
Sketchy
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:36 AMClearly you don’t have friends overseas or interstate that you like to stay in touch with.
Mindless sheep? For most people FB is simply a tool that offers a centralised way to stay in touch with people you don’t get to see in person on a regular basis. You’re entitled to your opinion, but I can guarantee there are many aspects of your own life that could label you a follower or sheep.
Ozoneocean
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:30 PMClever idea.
Now if there was a way to improve privacy and maybe get it up to the standard of Google+…
Nithin K
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6:22 PMhttp://www.Facebook.com/Nithin.Kuriakose
Ciqe
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 9:53 PMhttp://www.facebook.com/hensby
anonymous
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 7:15 AMobligatory pokemon one:
https://www.facebook.com/opiejay
Chris
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 9:39 AMSorry Giz, but these all suck! Here is a post with actual creative and funny timeline headers: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-facebook-timeline-covers/#fb_timeline_template
john
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 8:24 PMhttp://facebooktimelinebanner.com/ has thousands of great timeline covers for your profile