Cover Maker
Build your TikTok cover from an image or a frame captured from your video — toggle the safe zone guide to keep text clear of the caption/buttons overlay.
The safe zone here is uneven on purpose — TikTok's own UI stacks the like/comment/share buttons down the right side and the caption near the bottom, so those two edges are cut more aggressively than the top or left. Grabbing a frame straight from your video, rather than uploading a separately designed image, also keeps the cover visually consistent with the content it's introducing.
Since a cover from a captured video frame is only as sharp as the source video's resolution at that timestamp, a low-bitrate or heavily compressed clip can produce a visibly softer cover than a purpose-designed image would — it's worth previewing the captured frame at full size before finalizing, especially for a cover meant to carry text on top of it.
- •Scrub to a frame where the subject's face or the key visual is clearly in focus — a frame mid-motion tends to look blurrier as a static cover than it does in the moving video.
- •Keep any added text left of center and away from the bottom — that's the zone the safe-zone guide above marks as most likely to sit under the caption or action buttons.