Your cover is the first thing people see: on your event page, in the preview when you share its link, and as a small thumbnail in lists. A few simple choices make it look good at every size.
Size and shape
- Event covers are square. Choose a photo or design that works as a square, or plan to crop it when you upload.
- Use an image at least 800 × 800 pixels. Bigger is fine, but anything wider than 1600 pixels is scaled down to 1600 when you upload it, so there is nothing to gain beyond that.
- JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF files up to 10MB are accepted. Your upload is saved as a compressed image, so even a large photo loads quickly.
- Transparent areas are filled with white.
Frame your cover
After you choose an image, a window opens to frame it. Drag the image to move it, and use the slider to zoom; pinching works too. Whatever falls in the darker area outside the frame is cut off. If the whole image already fits the frame, the button says Upload rather than Crop & upload.
Zooming in uses fewer of the image’s pixels: at 2× zoom, an 800-pixel photo gives a 400-pixel cover. If the result might look blurry, the window says so. Zoom out, or start from a bigger image.
Where your cover appears
- Your event page, beside the details. On a phone it fills the width of the screen.
- The preview shown when you share the event’s link in a message or on social media.
- Smaller copies: your organiser page, events embedded on your website, guests’ My Events, the confirmation after someone registers, and your own dashboard and events list.
- Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes, when guests add their tickets.
Design tips
- Keep text to a minimum. As a thumbnail the cover can be smaller than a fingertip, and words become unreadable. Put the details in the title and description instead.
- Keep the corners clear. Covers are shown with rounded corners, and the smaller the cover, the more the rounding takes, so a logo or date tucked into a corner can be clipped.
- Leave some space around the edges, so the image does not feel cramped.
- One clear subject reads better at a glance than a busy collage.
GIFs
You can upload a GIF, but a still image usually works better. A GIF skips the framing step, so one that is not square is cut to a square from its centre. Link previews and wallet passes show only its first frame. And a GIF is kept exactly as you uploaded it, without the compression other images get, so keep it small.
Animated WebP and PNG files are saved as a still image.