From the course: A Systematic Creative Process for Designers
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Social media images
From the course: A Systematic Creative Process for Designers
Social media images
- [Instructor] One thing I've been doing for my clients is creating social media images they can use on their own accounts. They never request this on their own for the most part, but I like to provide it as part of my final design deliverables. In this movie, I want to show you how to easily set up and quickly create them using asset export in Illustrator. So let's get started. Now, the first thing I want to mention is the color mode of your file. You want to work in RGB, everything you're posting on social media should be RGB, and about two years ago, I was posting some images on LinkedIn, and the colors just looked off. They didn't look like what they looked like on my desktop, and I couldn't figure out why. And then I found out you can actually save out an image as a CMYK JPEG. I didn't even know those existed until two years ago. So you might not be aware of this, but I wasn't aware of it. And so the color looked…
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