How To Create Podcast Cover Art

[00:00:00] Your podcast cover image is the visual branding for your show. And nailing this is super important in creating a successful podcast. In this video, we're going to walk through how to create a stunning cover image for your podcast. Do this with an entirely free tool we call Dynamo. Hey there, I'm Craig Hewitt from Kastos. Let's create a beautiful cover image for our podcast. You know, as we're getting started with a new show, creating the brand around it is really important. And a brand is a lot more than just a pretty logo. It's kind of who we are. Who our essence is, is as a podcast. But we do need to represent that externally, which is where our cover image comes in. You can do this in a lot of tools. You can use something like Photoshop if you're really advanced, or canva. And we've made this really simple with our own visual creation tool that we call Dynamo. So let's dive in and create a stunning cover image for our podcast using dynamo entirely for free. Here at dynamo dot castos.com. we will select podcast cover generator, and this comes populated with some kind of placeholder information. We'll give our show a name and you can select the font you want.

[00:01:10] I'm kind of fond of this one, so we'll stick with that. I'm going to get make the font kind of a darker color and we're going to change the background in a minute. So that looks good. I like it on the left and I'll drop my name in here and I'll keep this font the same. And I like the little lighter gray color here. Great. So now let's go to background here. You can have a solid color, a gradient, or you can choose an image. So if you wanted to use a gradient, maybe like this. So if we're castos and these are our colors, we use something like this. But I want to use an integration to pull in a cover image. So I've already searched for audio here. I like this one quite a bit. So we're going to use this image as the background with the text we have here. Now, I'm noticing that this color really isn't great. So I'll select this, come back and change the sub head or subtitle to make it a little bit darker color. So if we wanted to do things like a color overlay, we could do that. Oh, that's cool. So that applies kind of a purple overlay to this. And this really matches the brand of us here at Kastos. So I'm going to go with that. And I like this. I think this stands out. You could say, hey, the color or the font could be a little bit bigger, so we'll make this just a little bigger. Maybe move both of these down a little bit. You want the wording to be quite large on these images because you're looking at this on like an iPhone or an Android phone. And this, this image actually is quite small. So as big as we can get, the lettering, the better here. But I also like the image a lot and it conveys the brand. So we're done. This is it. In, you know, just a few seconds. We've created a really great looking cover image. I'm going to go ahead and download this onto my machine and you can upload it to your castos dashboard and your rss feed to publish to places like Apple podcasts and Spotify. Okay? So that is creating a stunning cover image for your show with dynamo. Head over to dynamo castos.com to get started. Link in the description below.

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