When you show playlists on your official artist profile on Spotify, you need these playlists to make an impression. And meaning a superb playlist identify, an excellent theme, and putting cowl art work! In any other case nobody goes to to be enticed to pay attention, proper?
Playlist covers run the gamut. On the one excessive is that terrible default playlist “cowl” — ya know, the place Spotify simply grabs 4 items of cowl art work from the added tracks, and makes a little bit collage?
On the opposite excessive is you having to enter Photoshop or Canva, and spending minutes or hours designing your personal unique playlist cowl art work.
Can’t there be one thing within the center? Now there’s! I simply tried it out for one in every of my very own playlists, and it actually took 2 minutes.
Spotify’s customized playlist cowl generator
Spotify has enabled a characteristic for customers the place you possibly can generate customized playlist covers throughout the Spotify app. And to make clear, I’m not speaking about Spotify for Artists right here. It is a characteristic for ANYONE who makes and shares playlists, so that you wish to open Spotify itself.
Spotify explains:
Rolling out in beta on the Spotify cell app right this moment, the brand new characteristic provides each Free and Premium customers the power to create their very own cowl artwork with distinctive pictures, colours and textual content results, graphic components, and extra, permitting them to make their music playlists extra distinctive and customized than ever earlier than.
How one can create customized covers on your Spotify playlists:
- Be sure to have the newest model of Spotify on cell
- Open Spotify
- Go to a playlist you’ve already created
- Faucet the ellipses
- Choose “Create cowl artwork”
You’ll then have numerous design choices. It’s time to:
- Select a shade background and gradient
- Add a photograph
- Customise the textual content
- Add results or picture masking
- Browse the enjoyable stickers
- After which share your new playlist cowl
For some examples and inspiration, take a look at Spotify’s announcement web page.
What do you suppose? Will you employ it? Is that this characteristic useful?
You should still wish to design your personal covers from scratch for high-priority playlists. However in the event you’re an artist who creates a number of playlists (for every present on a tour, as an illustration) this new Spotify device must be a giant time-saver!
