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Setting up a profile image

Setting up a profile image

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Setting up a profile image

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to set up, create and update your Instagram profile image. The process is identical to LinkedIn and Twitter, so let's jump into it. We're in Illustrator once again, this is how we're going to be creating the profile image. And as I've shown you previously both with Twitter and LinkedIn, the process is identical. It's not going to change. The proportion overall will be a square. And even though Instagram recommends 110 by 110, I ignore that in this case 'cause it really doesn't matter. The size I'm using here is 720 by 720. And once again, I'm going to make a clone of this. And so I'll just command-C, command-F and I'll select the rabbit icon. I'm going to intersect with Pathfinder and we're going to go ahead, and in this case, we'll color this white and no stroke. We'll color the background our branded kind of fuchsia color, which we'll put in the fill like that. And…

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