Store Banner

[zebracrossing]

hey guys,

does anyone have any tips for how to design a banner?

I've checked out the new website and everyones looks great and i'm not sure how to go about doing mine.

Any help would be appreciated!

[thelittleorchard]

You can create something in powerpoint by adding images and text in a band across the piece, its mighty fiddly tho...

Then take a screenie (the prtscn/sysrq key), open up Paint and go to edit then paste, your screenie will appear....

Then save a jpeg and open up the screenie up in whatever image software you have...

The cut out your banner...i use irfanview and it has a crop image thing.

Then put it into madeit...we are lucky that madeit is quite flexible with its banner stuff.

I just did the screenie of my old banner on the original madeit, lazy I know but I could not be stuffed fiddling in powerpoint at the moment. I just used one of my images as the logo for now. I will prob talk to my partner about creating some sort of awesome banner for me.

Or maybe do a trade with an awesome banner maker.

[Smooch]

Hi Samm,

I dont know if you created your banner yet?
I've been meaning to try and create a banner as well but Im completely useless when it comes to technical computer stuff.

I have found this site today and have had a muck around on it and it was easy to use. It's all free and they have templates to choose from or you can upload your own images to it.

http://www.bannersketch.com

Im going to have a bit more of a play around on it in the hope I can create something fabulous for my shop. I ended up doing a quick rush job for the new madeit site and photographed a piece of un-ironed fabric which looks terrible!

[thelittleorchard]

I am having a play with the banner maker now...thanks for the link smooch...

BTW your new banner is cute!

[Smerleygirl]

Ive just had the fun of adding a banner to my store front..

I was amazed at how easy this was to do.. Once i found a free banner site..

For those who are new and would like one too.. here is the link to the site that i found..

http://mybannermaker.com

Hope this helps.. :)

[*onewiseowl*]

i just took a photo that i really liked and stretched and cropped it on 'paint' and then added some text. its pretty basic, but exactly what i wanted.

[shelle]

Hi, I created a Photoshop document 335mm wide by 44mm high with Resolution 72dpi (pixels/inch). I just placed 2 of my images into the document typed some text and saved a .jpg file. Hope that helps ... Goodluck!!! Michelle :)

[ChallenCharms]

I found a royalty free image to go with my store's name, cropped and pasted it a couple of times as background and then added text using Illustrator. It was a lot of fun. :)

[LoveBird]

There are quite a few good free programs around.

I like Photoscape for easy editing:
http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

And I used Picnik to create my logos:
http://www.picnik.com

[billy boy & mia]

i love irfanview (free) and i also use fireworks (similar to photoshop) - so if anyone needs help with these, let me know!
:)

[eclectic moi]

Thanks so much for sharing everyone!
I've just used your suggested site Merlene :)

I'm off on holidays at the end of this week, and have just made a 'holiday banner' using http://mybannermaker.com

it was so easy to use :)