So you want to make a banner for your shop but you don’t have photoshop. Or you are like me and find photo shop to be the most confusing program out there. But paint has become a little too limiting for you? Then you will love this..
I found this idea for a quick way to make a banner for your shop over on the Etsy forums.
You can use PowerPoint to create some quick graphics. Yes - PowerPoint! And it is super easy. I have been testing it out myself and I LOVE it. I think I will be using PowerPoint to do quick cropping of photos and pictures from no on.
You can make your banner or avatar in PowerPoint. That’s right, PowerPoint!
It can do just about everything that design programs can do - it’s just a little clunkier. You can cut out shapes, add shadows, place type etc.
And most of you will have it on your computer.
Now I’m certainly no computer expert (I’m over 30 for God’s sake), and I hope I’m not teaching you how to suck eggs, but here’s a few steps to get started if you’ve never used PowerPoint before:
1. Go the PAGE SETUP and change the size to: width 3.55cm and height 37cm.
2. Go to VIEW and make sure you the FORMATTING PALETTE is open
3. Make your banner. The formatting palette has all sorts of shapes and functions and type options.You can drag or import images and toy with them etc. If you’re stuck, go to PowerPoint Help or post in this thread. I’ll check it every so often and try to help if I can.
4. When you’re done go to SAVE AS and for ‘format’ select JPEG.
I like this method because it is really easy to crop photos in PowerPoint - and it is easy to add multiple photos to the same graphic.
Lindsay Patross
Dave
0 Responses to “Easy Banner Idea”