As you might know, Google just recently launched their version of ‘Facebook Pages’. I had a look and created one for kooaba. The first (and so far only) thing I did was adding 6 images to the profile in order to make it look flashy. Next to your profile picture (200 x 200 pixels), you can add 5 small images (125 x 125 pixels) in a row to ‘brand’ your page… This is the result.
Pretty nice for a first try. I think our logo looks great, but the letters in my G+ creation are just a little too far away from each other. I have to come up with something better in the future but it’s okay for now.
It’s easy to create this, but it takes some fiddling around with images… While doing that in Photoshop, I thought, how nice it would be if there was a template with the right slices to make my future efforts in pimping the page a bit easier. I couldn’t find one, so I created one myself, and I would like to share it with you. It makes playing with those images a lot more fun. I promise.
Download the PSD file here. Open it, and you will see something like this:
Now, the blue blocks obviously outline your space. Import your images and start placing them within the blue blocks on new layers. (Under ‘view > show extras’ you can choose to see the guidelines / grid). I put all my images in a new folder that is still available in the template. For each version, you could create a new folder to keep your PSD file nice and clean.
You don’t need to put your images exactly in the blue blocks. The template automtically crops everything that is to big when you save the image. You can upload one big image or do something like this:
It will end up looking like this:
When you are happy with your creation, simply hide the layers ‘Image Grid’ and ‘Google+’ to prepare the export.
When done, choose “File > Save for Web & Devices”.
A screen pops up with rectangles all over your image. Choose a location where you want your image to be saved and do so. Now here is where the nice stuff happens. Your image will be divided in 5 separate images, ready to import directly to your Google+ page.
Visit your Google+ page and press ‘edit profile’ somewhere top right in order start uploading your images. Click here to create a Google+ page if you don’t have one yet.
When you’re finished with uploading your images, press ‘Done Editing’ and here you go! Your fresh and cool looking Google+ brand page… Now post something on it worth while and start filling up those circles 
Good luck, and if you created something nice with the help of my template, please let me know by leaving a comment! Or even better, send me a screenshot and I will add it to this blogpost 
And don’t forget to put us in your circles!
Cheers
