Enhance the experience for your audience by making unique artwork for each episode. But you need to adapt to how each app might display the image.
Even though podcasting is usually an audio-only experience, attractive images can enhance your podcast branding and help you promote your podcast better!
Speed up your blogging and podcasting workflow with these five great WordPress plugins. They’ll reduce your steps, optimize your site, and save lots of time. Resize Images Before Upload Grab & Save Shortcode Exec PHP Simple Post Template Pretty Link Pro 1. Resize Images Before Upload Digital cameras, smartphones, and images you get from the Internet (I hope legally) can easily be too big for practical use online. WordPress has a built-in tool to resize images to small (thumbnail), medium, and large images (some WordThemes or plugins will add more sizes). But WordPress still keeps the full-size file as you upload it. When your images are big, they can hog space on your server, bloat backups, and cause problems if you ever want to embed or link to a larger version of your image. Resize Images Before Upload does just what it is titled. Using HTML5 browsers, this will resize an image inside your desktop browser before the image even goes into the WordPress media library. No more need for image-editors, apps, or third-party websites to resize the image for you. Now you can drag nearly any image size into WordPress and it will automatically resize it according to the “large” dimensions under Settings > Media. Or paste and adjust the following code into your WordPress’s wp-config.php file. define( ‘RIBU_RESIZE_WIDTH’, 1000 ); //1000 px wide define( ‘RIBU_RESIZE_HEIGHT’, 900 ); //900 px high UPDATE: The plugin developers have added the resize width and height options to Settings > Media with version 1.8, so you no longer have to update your wp-config.php file! Also consider adding WP Smush.it to further optimize your new images as well as […]
[…] Compfight There are a lot of lists of free stock photography websites out there. My favorite is Compfight. They search the entire Flickr library and find all images licensed with Creative Commons and even for commercial use. Compfight even gives you the exact HTML text add the required credits on the photos. I use […]
[…] business and anyone who wants to be successful on Pinterest. What is Pinterest? Pinterest is essentially a visual bookmarking site. But beyond text and URLs, Pinterest adds images. You can organize your “pins” into different categories (called “boards”) and add descriptions to your visual bookmarks. Pinterest has been rapidly adopted by the “unlikely” group—midwestern […]
[…] down your website and cause other problems. Find better-supported and more-frequently updated plugins to do what you want. I recommend a few in my free download. 4. Remove images It may seem great to have a lot of images on your site, but these could be slowing down your website. Consider removing what you don’t […]
[…] in much the same fashion allowing you choose an audio clip from an episode you’ve already published or upload it. You can then change the font, background image and visualisation style to suit your needs and brand. My Podcast Reviews Podcast reviews don’t affect your iTunes ranking, but they can be a great way […]
[…] is designed, you may be able to go back to the master file and enlarge it while maintaining the detail. A vector format works best for this: AI, EPS, shapes, dynamic gradients, and editable text. You may also be able to upgrade a stock image or photo you purchased to a higher resolution, and simply replace it in your enlarged master file. 3. Redesign your cover art Maybe this is a good time to consider completely redesigning your podcast cover art. You or the designer you hire (like me!) can design to follow or exceed the new specs. RawVoice (parent company to Blubrry) has reported stats indicating up to a 25% jump in subscriptions when podcast cover art changes. If you’d like to hire me to design podcast cover art for you, I design at 1,400 × 1,400, but I can increase that to whatever size you want for an extra fee. How to add or change the cover art Watch this video tutorial or subscribe to the video edition of The Audacity to Podcast to see the following steps demonstrated. You need your podcast cover art in three places: 144 × 144 in the RSS2 image tag in the RSS feed. 1,400 × 1,400 in the iTunes image tag in the RSS feed. 600 × 600 – 1,400 × 1,400 in the MP3’s ID3 tags. 1. RSS2 image This 144 × 144 image may not seem important, but it’s what many non-iTunes podcast directories read. The technical location for this is under : http://path.to/image.jpg The podcast title http://podcastwebsite.com Practically, you can easily add this depending on what service you use to make your podcast feed. In PowerPress (recommended), “RSS2 Image” is under the Feed Settings tab for your default feed, channel feeds, and category feeds. You can upload your image through this interface or insert the direct link to your image. For FeedBurner’s SmartCast (only recommended if you’re not using PowerPress), first upload your image somewhere, then insert the direct link to the image under Optimize > Feed Image Burner. Also complete the other information on the page. For LibSyn-powered RSS feeds, click on the gear icon (show settings), upload a 1,400 × 1,400 image to Artwork. 2. iTunes image This is where your 1,400 × 1,400 (or larger) image must be. Some other podcast directories read this, too, but it’s most important for iTunes. The technical location for this is under : Practically, you can easily add this depending on what service you use to make your podcast feed. In PowerPress (recommended), “iTunes Image” is under the iTunes Settings tab for your default feed, channel feeds, and category feeds. You can upload your image through this interface or insert the direct link to your image. For FeedBurner’s SmartCast (only recommended if you’re not using PowerPress), first upload your image somewhere, then insert the direct link to the image under Optimize > SmartCast. For LibSyn-powered RSS feeds, click on the gear icon (show settings), upload a 1,400 × 1,400 image to Artwork (you may have already done this for the RSS2 […]
[…] cover art. Explicit or self-censored explicit language in podcast titles, subtitles, or descriptions References to illegal drugs, profanity, or violence in the title, description, or cover art Images or language that could be construed as racist, misogynist, or homophobic Images depicting sex, violence, gore, illegal drugs, or hate themes Third-party trademarks without authorization or […]
The Audacity to Podcast and the exclamation-mic RSS logo are trademarks of D.Joseph Design LLC™.
Unless otherwise indicated, all images, content, designs, and recordings © 2010–2023 D.Joseph Design LLC. All rights reserved.
This website contains links and references to products and services that may include affiliates, sponsorships, or other business relationships in which The Audacity to Podcast and D.Joseph Design LLC may receive compensation from referrals or sales actions.
