Earlier today I caught wind of the safety pin movement that’s come up as a result of the USA’s presidential election results. I’ve already heard stories of minorities being attacks for their appearance, religion, sexuality and place of origin. I want to do my part in extending my compassion and love for these groups. I feel like the safety pin movement is an easy way to jump start my support for their safety.  So I sought out to add a safety pin to my profile picture on Facebook. At this time there is no filter or temporary overlay being offered. So this is how I made one and thought you may want to know, too.

I did all of this from my phone. No special apps or downloads required- Yay!

First, you’ll need a safety pin image. Either one on a transparent background or one on a white background.

You can get a free safety pin image with a transparent background on pixabay. I use pixabay all the time so I’m comfortable recommending it.

I’ll take you through the steps of making a background transparent should you rather go that route, too.

How To Download A Free Safety Pin With Transparent Background Image

(Using pixabay.com because it’s free and the images are copyright free)

How To Make A Transparent Background

(Using www194.lunapic.com since I use it all the time because it doesn’t require you download anything)

Now that we have a safety pin image with a transparent background through the steps above or because we’very downloaded one with a transparent background already, let’s put in on a picture we want to use as our profile picture.

(These steps will look different from phone to phone. I’m using a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge)

Mark 12:30-31New International Version (NIV)

³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”