"How do I set my profile picture? What about my cover photo? How do I edit my profile information?" These are the kinds of questions that I've been asked more and more often lately, since I started to bring more of my friends onto Steemit. As much as I love helping my friends out individually, on a one-on-one basis, this kind of information is clearly beneficial to all new users on Steemit, so I decided to make a tutorial for everyone.
Once your account gets approved, your "header bar" will look empty, like the one seen in this image below. By default, it will only display your user name, the number of your followers, posts, and following, as well as the date you joined Steemit.
In order to change how your header bar appears, as well as what information is displayed, you'll have to click on the circle in the upper right-hand corner of your Steemit window, in between the three horizontal lines and the Post button. This will bring up the drop-down menu that you see below. Click on Settings to get started.
This will take you to the Settings page, which you see below. From here, you will have to paste the URLs to the images you would like to use for your Profile Picture and Cover Image in their respective boxes.
For quick image hosting, you can open a new Steemit window and click on the Post button to open up the Posting screen. From the posting screen, you will have to drag the images you would like to use for your profile picture and cover image into the main body text box seen below, highlighted with a red rectangle.
Links will pop up for those images, along with a preview of the images in the Preview section. In the image below, the part in brackets is simply the filename of the image you dropped into the window, and you can completely ignore that part. The part you'll want to highlight and copy is in the parentheses, as seen highlighted in red below.
Go back to the window with your Settings screen, and paste the link to the picture you want to use for your profile picture in the appropriate field, and then do the same with the link for the picture you want to use for your cover image. Once the URLs have been pasted, you can go back to the window with the new post, click on Clear, and exit out of that window.
Now you can proceed to updating the rest of your profile. You can change your display name, it doesn't have to be the same as your Steemit username. For example, my Steemit username is @rodeo670, but I have set my display name to KAOZ. Add some quick information about yourself in the About section, add your location if you would like people to know where you're from, and a link to your website or other main social media profile, if you have one.
When you finish, click on the Update button at the bottom to save the changes you've made to your profile.
If you've followed these instructions, your profile header bar should now look something like the one you see below, populated with more information than just the number of followers, posts, and following, and you should see your profile picture and cover image.
I hope this has been a helpful tutorial for you all! Setting these things is really important, in my opinion, because it allows visitors to your profile a really quick glance at who you are and what you're all about. It's prime real estate on Steemit where you can let your creativity show and give other Steemians a taste of what to expect from your future posts.
Welcome to Steemit! I hope you have fun and enjoy being a part of this amazing community. To increase your chances of success on Steemit, come check out the @MinnowSupport Project on Discord! Click here to join us. Let's STEEM together!
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