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by ES Ivy
This is test 9 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
So far, I’ve found that with longer images, in a 1:2 ration, Facebook has smart cropping to a landscape image that centers on eyes. Twitter always takes a square image from the center of the longer image, no matter what is in the image.
However, …
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This is test 8 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is the second test to see how photos without faces affect where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?
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by ES Ivy
This is test 7 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is the second test to see how photos with faces affect where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?
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by ES Ivy
This is test 6 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is the second test to see how photos with faces affect where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?
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by ES Ivy
This is test 5 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is a test to see how photos with faces affect where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?
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This is test 4 of trying to find the best social media image size, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is a test to see how contrast affects where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?…
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This is test 3 of trying to find the best social media image size, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is a test to see how contrast affects where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?…
by ES Ivy
In my reading I’ve noticed a lot of anecdotes about people who achieve outstanding success, and they usually don’t get there by the normal academic route. There’s Steve Jobs, of course, who I covered in this series of posts. Then there are several mentions of successful people in Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. The idea that college isn’t needed for success came up again in How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough.
As a former top performing student, I wonder how much to encourage my kids to stay top performing. (That’s where my kids are now.) Because I’m starting to think that being a stellar student actually teaches out (or un-learns) some skills you need. I’m still collecting data. So, I’m also going to start taking note when I hear of someone who is a success who was a stellar student….
by ES Ivy
This is test 2 of trying to find the best social media image size, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
I am currently trying uploading big images to WordPress, but displaying them smaller so that on a laptop they are not annoyingly big, but they are still full width on a phone so you can see them. So, how does that work out for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?
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by ES Ivy
This is test 1 of trying to find the best social media image size, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
The minimum width for a Facebook image to share is 600 pixels, I’ll use that as my starting width.
The maximum length for Pinterest then is 1680, but I’m not going to go that long. …