How to personalise your Spotify playlist art

Ever wanted to get rid of that less than aesthetically pleasing auto generated playlist art on your Spotify playlists? I've put together a quick how to, so now you can.

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Before we start

To do this, you have to have the Spotify desktop app, there isn't any functionality to do this on your phone yet.

Here are a few artwork pointers before we dive in:

• It has to be a .jpeg file

• The maximum file size is 4MB - no set artwork dimensions, but minimum is 300x300px

• It can’t violate copyright, trademark or personal rights. Can’t be violent, inappropriate, explicit etc. (more about that here)

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Tools I’m using: Illustrator, Photoshop, Spotify desktop app.

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Step 1

Set up your artwork document – I’m using Adobe Photoshop for this, but you can use anything really, even Microsoft Paint.

It should be square and at least 300x300 pixels. I made mine 2000x2000px (that's probably overkill but the maximum for most platforms is 2048x2048px, and I like to make sure things look crisp).

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Step 2

Create awesome artwork for your playlist – and save out as a .jpeg. Make sure it is under 4MB. I had one made that I wanted to tweak that I used for this guide.

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Step 3

Upload your artwork in Spotify – go to your playlist in the Spotify desktop app, click on the artwork square (it will have a pre-generated cover from the albums within the playlist), when you click on the artwork it will open up the title and description editor window.

Step 4

Replace the generic artwork – click on the 3 dots on the artwork in editor window and ‘replace image’, and replace with your own.

Step 5

Enjoy! That's all there is to it, now you can show off your custom playlist artwork to all of your friends.

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