There are elements within a pot that can make the difference between them stopping to read you or not and most probably it can also be the one that allows a whale or some healing project with voting power to decide to cure your content. Two days ago I started to develop one by one those that from, my point of view are the elements of a publication which I listed here, the purpose of this series of publications is to continue providing tools so that both newcomers to Hive and those of us who have been here for some time can polish our publications more and more.

Thus, today we will talk about the Photo of the cover of the post, of that first impression that can be attractive or not in the eyes of whoever sees it, which plays a very important role together with the title, which we already talked about in a publication, we all know that magazines and newspapers make use of some photo that is attractive enough in their front pages or covers with the purpose of obtaining readers who must acquire the newspaper or magazine in question if they want to know more in depth about what the article is about or perhaps see more images on the mentioned topic. Something similar happens with books. As I already indicated I am a very visual person and if the cover image of a post is striking, it is very, very likely that I will stop and read, comment and vote on the publication, in short, cure.

Now, how do you choose the cover photo? Well, you have several options, the first and most recommended is that the image is your own, either a photo taken with your cell phone or digital camera this would be the best because it would be unique, if so put as a cover photo the best the most beautiful or rather aesthetics, you can cut it, you can edit it with a filter, many phones currently have that option, in order to be very attractive to the eye, I remember that one of the most voted post so far in my account has as a cover image a photo of Akiles, which I took with a camera that I downloaded to my cell phone and used an effect on it, the photo just looked great and I got very good results here I share with you a capture of that post, the combination of title and cover photo did its thing. You can also scan some old photo you have at home, if your post is from some event of years ago like my son's childhood.

I presume you are thinking what if I don't have a picture related to the topic I'm dealing with, because here two things come into play, one is the free image banks you can look for a list on the internet, but I recommend these three that are the ones I have used the most and believe me they won't disappoint you at all

1. pixabay https://pixabay.com/
2. pexels https://www.pexels.com/
3. unsplash https://unsplash.com/

There are others and other colleagues have made very good publications about it, the second possibility is to create your own image for example with Canva which is an extremely versatile tool with thousands of resources and whose finish is impeccable in its free version, I do not want to imagine if I could pay a subscription, I have friends who are graphic designers and use this fabulous tool for many of their works, you also have other options such as Photo Grid, PicsArt, among others, which can help you not only with your cover photo also with some other image of your publication.

I put as an example of creating cover photos to our partner @universoperdido, always delights us with a new image created for each of its publications, has created its own style and that makes it unmistakable.

Before concluding I share part of this article where they explain the importance of a good cover in a magazine, so important is the image or photo you decide to put as a cover in your publication

The magazine cover is something extremely important when printing magazines and putting them on sale, since it is the main way we have to reach our potential customers. Basically we could say that it is the first thing readers see when they come across our magazine, and depending on the design of the cover (especially if it is or is not eye-catching, and if its contents interest them), they will finally take it in their hands and increase the probability that they will or will not be able to buy it.

Source

I say goodbye, hoping that this publication will serve as a guide, if you have any comments that may enrich it is welcome, greetings and hugs for all.

Separadores de texto creados por @byn / Text separators created by @byn

Miembro de las comunidades / Community member