How to set the Cover Photo

The cover photo is the background image on the Home tab (the cover screen) of your guides.

There is a default image that you can easily change to your own image.

Desktop Cover Photo

Go to Guides and click guide name to open the Guide details page. Click 'Edit desktop photo'. Your cover photo must be a jpg or png format in landscape orientation with a minimum of 1920 pixels wide.

This photo will automatically be resized to fit the mobile view, but you can upload another portrait orientation photo for the mobile view if you wish.

Mobile Cover Photo

If you prefer to set a specific image for when your guide is viewed on mobile (e.g. because you don’t like the automatic cropping of your desktop cover photo) then you can set a specific mobile cover photo. This needs to be in portrait orientation and a minimum size of 1080 px high.

knowFor more general information about photo format and size requirements, head over to this article.

Want to Use Your Airbnb Lead Photo?

If you’d like your Airbnb lead photo (or any Airbnb photo) to be your cover photo, there’s an easy way…

1. Click ‘Edit desktop photo’ on your chosen guide
2. Choose ‘New photo from URL’
3. On the Airbnb listing, right click on the image you want to use and select ‘copy image address’
4. Paste that image address (the URL) into the box that appears in step 2
5. Now a small quirk… at the end of the URL in the box you’ll see w=1200 (it might be w= another number). Change it to w=1920
6. Click ‘Submit’

Why do you have to change it to w=1920? Simply because our minimum size is a width of 1920px so this little hack will ensure it works!