Quite a lot of people work on the Internet, where at every step they need new idea, fresh thoughts, as well as the desire to create. When the business begins to gain momentum, the logical continuation would be to create a group in one of social networks, where each user can contact you, learn about your product from another person, etc.

What is an avatar

VKontakte provides a wide range of services for both beginning entrepreneurs and entire organizations, so that they post some kind of advertising videos, create discussions and notify their audience about possible promotions. An avatar is the face of the group, in which you can see what you are actually trying to offer to an audience interested in a particular product.

Maybe someone doesn't give it special attention avatar, but, be that as it may, he is the main part of the created group. So, if he is too sad, then hardly anyone will want to become a subscriber here. You can often notice that well-promoted groups put on their avatar photos of young girls or images of some ordinary objects that in small format seem interesting and attractive, and when a person visits the page and sees the picture in full size, they can make them smile. This immediately creates a positive impression of the group.

But beginners often don’t know what sizes are required for a VKontakte group avatar. To help them, we will talk about this in detail and also give advice on choosing an image.

Ideal size for a VKontakte group avatar

VKontakte has its own rules that must be followed, otherwise problems may arise. This also applies to choosing an avatar. We all know that this social network has its own special style, which means that the maximum size of a VKontakte avatar is 200 pixels wide and 500 pixels high.

This is the perfect size to fit a full-length person on an image. It is within these values ​​that you need to select a picture for the community.

Which avatar to choose

If you ask the administrators of popular groups about how to choose the right avatar for the group, then everyone will certainly answer that it should be as attractive as possible and at first glance demonstrate the mood that prevails here. If you don’t follow this rule, you are unlikely to get new subscribers.

Any person who enters a community or group immediately pays attention to the avatar and, on a subconscious level, analyzes the emotional component that the cover carries. If the avatar is depicted and dark colors predominate, then it is unlikely that a person who enjoys life and came for positivity will subscribe to the community, although if the group is designed to draw attention to any problem, then this option will be just right.

There are several points to consider:

1. The avatar must have at least some meaning that is reminiscent of the community’s genre, or more precisely, its content.
2. The use of photos of celebrities on avatars or beautiful girls taking a fairly revealing pose is quite widespread. As a rule, the interest of men in this page will be quite great, and if the person in the avatar is smiling, then this already has a positive effect on a subconscious level. It's hard not to smile when your friends laugh, isn't it?
3. Don't use just one community logo. This mistake is made by fairly inexperienced group administrators. It’s better to take it and add more of everything. People will involuntarily linger, looking at the avatar and thinking about the connections between objects that you can put there.

Conclusion

It should be noted that the decision to create your own VKontakte community is correct for start-up organizations or businessmen who do not have money for a website. If you follow the rules described above, and also know suitable sizes for the avatar of the VKontakte group, then there will be no problems with creating a group or community.

". What size should the cover image be?

Cover size for VKontakte group 795x200px or 1590x400px

Why are there two image sizes available? The second size is 2 times larger so that the hat looks good and beautiful on large monitors computers.

Of course it would be better to use in the group design, a cover size of 1590x400px so that it looks great on all devices. These sizes are officially recommended technical support VK.com.

So that the quality of pictures does not deteriorate when uploading to Vk.com

Many people notice that when loading a picture in Vk.com, the image is “soapy,” that is, distorted. What to do in such cases? To prevent pictures from being distorted and color noise similar to ripples appearing on them, you should when saving the picture in photoshop choose:
Menu File -> Save for WEB -> in the settings window that appears, check the box next to "Method of loading an image using dragging pictures from the folder to the upload line in VK.

How to download/install/enable VKontakte group cover

When you have already prepared a cover for the community (template in .PSD format for the group header size 1590x400px, you can download it below from the link), in order to download and install it you will need to do the following:

• Under the group avatar, go to “Actions”
• Select "Manage Community"
• In the "Basic Information" item "Community Cover", click "Download"
• In the “Upload a new cover” window that appears, upload the designed cover for the VKontakte community by dragging it from a folder on your computer (described above)
• Save changes

Hello everyone, this is Roman Litvinov, designer of the Ardens.pro team. Today I came to you with a guide-tutorial on how to create a single block of an avatar and a VKontakte menu (as one whole). First, examples of what it will look like.

Examples:

Avatar marking for VK group

To start we need a grid. To make it, we take a screenshot of the group page and throw it into the project, in my case in Photoshop.

Then use the CTRL+R key combination to call up the rulers and place guides along the edges of the avatar and the fastener. In order to extend the guide, you need to hold LMB on the ruler and pull it towards our layout.

The size of the avatar that we see in the browser without scaling is 200x500 pixels. And fixed in this form 395x237 pixels.

cutting

We have made the markings, now let's start cutting. Why now? Yes, because this is almost the end of my guide.
For cutting we need the “Cutting” tool (in the English version “Slice tool”)

Using this tool, we make cuts along our guides, specifically inside the avatar and fastening along the edges.

It should turn out like this.
Next, we remove our screenshot from the layers and proceed to the project. We will not develop the design, but I will show you what will happen. Let's add a photo of a girl to our project. The main thing for us is to get into the area of ​​cutting the avatar and fixing it.

After working on our design, we save the cut parts using CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+S or File->Save for web...

In this window, hold down Shift, select our avatar and click save
But that's not all. In the window that appears, select fragments, select “Only selected fragments” and click save. After that, Photoshop will cut off the area with the avatar and the attachment from the entire layout.

In the folder where we saved the cutting we will see something like this.

A single block of avatar and menu for a VKontakte group

Feel free to upload our avatar and pin it to the test group to see the result

Just like that, thanks to these actions you will get a single block of avatar and menu in VKontakte groups.

Completion

I hope my mini-guide was useful and you will be able to make your groups more beautiful and memorable.

Useful articles on similar topics:

Funny video (in some places you can’t tell if it’s “photoshopped” or not)

Attention! Competition:
I will give a set of stickers to choose from for someone who repeats this lesson, and he will be able to make an avatar and attach it in one piece 😉

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If you have created your own group, then when designing it it is important to create a beautiful image that will attract subscribers. To make it unique, some community owners order it from specialists who develop a special design for this group. Without skills and special programs it will be difficult to do such a job. Therefore, ordering a community avatar will be associated with costs. If you decide to create it yourself, then it can be done easier.

First, let's pay attention to choosing a wide-format image for your community. This update was released recently and most communities are choosing this group design.

First, you need to find a beautiful picture that will match the theme of your group. An image search engine in Yandex or Google can help with this. For example, you are interested in travel topics. To do this, type in the search engine keyword“travel” or in English “traveling”. Then choose the most suitable wide-format image for you that will suit your theme. Try to choose high-resolution pictures, as a high-quality drawing will look more attractive.

Once you find a suitable drawing, save it to your computer at maximum resolution. Then go to your group, to the “community management” section. In this section, select “group settings”. Here you will be able to download a “community cover”. Click on the "upload" tab and select the drawing that you downloaded for this.

After saving, this cover will appear in the header of your group.

Setting up an old-style avatar

Although many people use new feature wide-format cover, however, some group owners are more suitable for the outdated design mode.

To do this, you also need to first find a suitable drawing on the Internet and save it on HDD. Next, go to the group, and in the place where the community avatar should be located, click on the “upload photo” tab and select the picture you downloaded.

After the picture is loaded, you can select the area in this picture that will be displayed in the Ava. Next, click on the “save and continue” tab.

Even if you are going to use the updated widescreen cover image, you will still need to add a standard cover image first, since this is the image that will appear under all your community posts.

What is the maximum and minimum size of an avatar for a VKontakte group in pixels? In order to make a cool picture in the community or in your personal VKontakte account, you need to know this.
If you are interested in the size of the horizontal ava (cover), you
Greetings, friends!
Why did I decide to write a post on the topic of VKontakte group design?
It is very important that your group should not only be informative, but also aesthetically pleasing.
What will it give?
I have one VK community, beautifully designed, the feeling that people subscribe to it not only because of the information, but also because they like the community from the point of view of design.
Do you agree that a large, rectangular ava looks much more attractive than a small square one?
By the way, the information below is suitable not only for VKontakte groups. infa is also suitable for designing your own personal account in contact with.

Avatar size for VKontakte group new design

The ideal avatar, as well as the optimal one, is standard; the size of the avatar can be considered 200x500 in pixels, where 200 is the width, 500 is the height.
If we talk about the maximum height and width, it simply doesn’t exist.
It measures in proportions of 2 to 5.
Where 2 is its width, and 5 is its height for a picture or photograph of a group or personal page in contact with.

Do you agree that this ava looks much more attractive than a regular square one?

Those. Look, let’s say you have a square size in pixels, 100×100, multiply the first digit by 2, the second by 5.
As a result, we get the same 200 by 500 pixels.
If you are not going to make it to order, but search in Yandex or Google images, look for the size 200 x 500, there are the most such pictures there.
The other width and height will simply be cut off by the contact.
If you still decide to look for pictures or photographs of other proportions, below I will leave you the optimal sizes for VKontakte groups.
200 x 500, 300 x 750, 400 x 1000, 500 x 1250, 600 x 1500, 700 x 1750.

Larger pictures will be difficult to find).
For example, 200 by 500 pixels, there are tons of pictures on the Internet.
700 to 1750 I found only 1).

That's all, bye everyone!