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How can I generate an engaging cover image for sharing my crop online?
Social Media Tiles can be created for your crop, consisting of a background, cover images, and some optional text and graphic elements. This page can be accessed from the garden screen by tapping your crop and selecting “Social Tile”. When the page first opens a default tile will be generated. You can generate a new random tile from this screen, or select from the templates available in the current garden. If you’d like to configure your own social tile, select “create new” to walk through each step in the process.
Step 1: Aspect Ratio
Select an aspect ratio for your image. There are some general options like Square/Portrait/Landscape, or some more social media specific options.
Step 2: Background
Select a background for your image, either a gradient or image. For gradient background, colour steps can be added and a gradient direction selected, image background can be updated form your device.
Step 3: Cover Images
Select cover images to include in your social media tile. You can select a grid or scattered layout with a preset number of covers, then select or unselect specific covers
Step 4: Cover Style
Select a frame style for cover images. Some preset options are available like “classic” and “polaroid”. Additional options can be configured like border thickness/intensity, corner rounding, and cover size.
Step 5: Text and Branding
A Title, subtitle, and icon can optionally be added to the tile. These can be dragged and dropped in the display to position them, or there are some specific position and size controls available in the side panel. You may wish to add a custom icon for your library service to use instead of the default options.
Step 6: Draw
Some basic drawing controls are provided to add graphic elements to the tiles. These allow for free drawing, drawing and filling shapes (circle, rectangle, arrow) and adding emojis.
Step 7: Preview
Finally, the preview displays the outcome of the previously configured steps. This is where we started, except now we’ve configured the tile ourselves rather than accepting one of the preset options. You can press “Save as template” if you’d like, so that these options can be applied to other crops in the future (template will be saved to garden, and available to other users).