Medium Writing Tips
How to Choose the Perfect Featured Image for Your Medium Article
Medium story featured image
1. Unsplash Vs. Your Own Image
The first step in selecting the cover perfect picture for your Medium article is to consider whether you want to utilize a stock photo from Unsplash or choose a picture took and own the rights to.
Unsplash provides beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. I would suggest checking out their images, unless you are writing about an event or some process that cannot be broadly characterized by one of their stock photos.
Remember — if you are using a photo of your own, you should credit the author and provide a direct link to their work in your caption.
2. Make Sure the Image is High Resolution
There are many articles that are overlooked because of a low resolution or low quality cover photo. There are countless articles added each day to Medium so it is key that readers are drawn toward your article. Take the two example images below:
