could any one help me do my banner for my site, well its not really a banner its just got my name in it really and need to have one. Would adobe photoshop be my best piece of software to use to edit my content.
Could anyone give me a few tips on how to do colour fade and make layers different colour as i really want to get cracking on learning .psd and graphics
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And how does this qualify as a tutorial, may I know ? Next time be a little more careful about where you are posting. Topic moved.
you can make a banner on http://cooltext.com/, it isn't really professional but they have nice templates, an example: for other sites you can search on goolge.
If you want to do it with a photoshop, yiou can download trialversions (paintshop pro v9.0, or adobe photoshop, (one month to try them each))
The easiest way to go about making a banner is to hop over to one of the free online banner making websites... these usually offer banners, buttons, and other gifs...
The next way ofcourse is to design your own banner from scratch... If you're on a windows platform, I'd suggest using Photoshop or Corel Draw; however if you're on a Linux machine.. then use Gimp... Gimp and Photoshop are nearly identical, although Gimp allows you most functions through a right click.
At present my own computer is down and I'm going to have to buy a new one... (trying to visit a cyber cafe a much as possible to make my posts..lol... ); otherwise I'd have offered to help you out with you banner....
It depends what kind of banner you want to create. If you just want a plain banner, any graphics program will work. Just get an image and your text and put the pieces together. Now if you want an animated banner, I suggest that you download an animator if you have one. Me, I'm still using Gif Animator 1.0 from 5-7 years ago. I know, sad, but it works and it works well enough for me so I'm not complaining. If you would prefer to use templates that other sites provide do a google search on "Free Banner Making" or "Free Banner Templates" and you're bound to find something that you like. Hope this helps and good luck.
Gif Animator may be out of date, but I recommend it to everyone that asks about making gifs, and banners. Not only is it really, really simple to use but it's compatible with .bmp files and since Paint was my first image editing program I instantly fell in love with how easy I could make banners. Sure the sizing can blur the pictures a big but generally for any rough copy of a banner it's stupendous. Then all you really need to do is send that file to a professional or a friend with photoshop and order them to do a better job. lol
Image Ready works really well, as does Adobe After Effects for anything effects related. You can do some amazing stuff with those programs, not to mention using PhotoShop in conjunction wtih either. But I must admit the programs are confusing if you don't take a course or have the manual, and the Help Tutorials are daunting usually in length, so I suggest editing with something like PhotoShop, saving the files individually in .jpeg or .gif format, then placing them into Gif Animator and doing frame by frame banner creation. It's not the best quality sometimes, but considering how high quality the images are after Photoshop, you on gain normalcy in the quality department. And they are a good way to have atleast something until you can figure out and learn the workings of Image Ready.
Most banners need to be themed though, if your site is gray and black, it's a bad idea to make a red and blue banner that flashes. Or if your site it Orange and Black it's really bad to have a banner pink and purple. lol If you color code your banner, and make it match your website you can come up with some really neat things. A really good way is going frame by frame in gif Animator and making images that create the alusions of an effect. So have a frame by frame movement that seems to be destroying the letters of your website, or slowly have a face moving into the picture from one side. It'd tedious and a little time consuming, but it can look cool.
I knew a friend that made a Stick-Man dancing banner using Gif Animator, just because he wanted a challenge. It was frame by frame but it was really awesome. He had technicolored circles randomly flashes at different points of the frames, so it looked similar to a strobe light. And at one point he had the screen go black and the stickman got inverted from black on white, to white on black, it made him look like he was glowing in the dark.
I don't know if that's what you'd want to do, but I think that it's just proof that even the simplest things can turn out to be really really good.
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this is the first animated banner i have made so maybe its not so good? please give feedback on
it, and be honest if you think its really bad say it! i dont want to have a banner on my site that
people dont like thats why you have to be honest lol....
I am new to making banners or headers or whatever they are called and would like some feedback on
the one I made for my new website. Please keep in mind, I'm not that great with photoshop, and
don't know how to do alot of fancy tricks. So here it is: Please be honest, and
straight-forward. I can take the criticizim.....
My friends and I are making a game using the RPG Maker XP for PC. The thing is, we need a pixel
artist or someone that can make sprites for our game. We need ninja sprites, samurai sprites,
Japanese people sprites, and a large panda sprite. Any of your help would be accepted.
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it myself or about how bad rpgmaker is.....
It may look pretty dumb here, but please have a look at http://www.WiseTome.com Well, in
the begining I used simple text as logo and banner for my site. Then, I went to some banner
generator and got the banner for my site. I never was satisfied with it. So, I sat down and
designed the logo-banner for my website, WiseTome. It is a vector art done in Microsoft Word. I
know, that is the unlikliest tool, but I chose that because the driving aim during the design was
simplicity. The logo was desigined as follows: - only 4 basic shapes: earlier I had gone for more c....
i tossed this review into the designing forum because i dont want it looked at as a website
review...i want the comments to be based on the design of the site and not the content or speed or
w/e...lol...anyways...here is my newest creation... finally got the stupid nav to work
right...couldnt get a cell background to work, then duh...i created a third table to get it to work
/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> ...cheap but w/e
anyways...any and all comments are welcomed...good or bad thanks here the site link...
/biggrin.g....
AT the moment im at school and in technology class we are designing our own packaging and a brand
name. I think that its quite cool that we get to do these things in class.....
Hello folks, Well as the title says i am in need of ideas. I tried all i had but i cant get the
best of ideas out and i have a weeks time. Its like running to the finish line without strenght left
to run. I would be glad if some of you guys gave me serious ideas on a poster for college.
Situation: College Week of Welcome Time: 1 week Theme: none now i have a list of stuff happening
like desert safari, bands, stage shows, djz, student flee market etc... Thats all the info i have
as of now, and i have to make a poster based on all this. I was thinking of something like....
here is a picture of my banner, i think it needs more but i dont no what, if any one would like to
edit it they can, but i would like to see what sort of designs you can come up with. The best design
will be put on my site with your name in the banner at the corner and a link to your site if you
have one /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
Links Will be visible ....
hi, i from argentina, im making a website, and this is the baner /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
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Hahahaa the naive style web iste banner I will put it into my sister personal homepage all guys
would give me some opinion /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" />....
well,i was toying around in photoshop, tryin to come up with banner for my new site and i came up
with this. i used a chrome layer style on top of a red textured layer, then used the eraser to make
the bulletholes around the name, as well as the X. used the type mask to create the name and then
just deleted so the bottom red layer showed thorugh. used low opacity brush to make the blood. i
like it. the site is pretty much black, shades of gray, and red. crits? -----I switched
around your topic title and description. Your description was more descriptive of y....
hey all on my links-section on my site, i would like to post a link to astahost.com, too. just for
more visitors here, and to thank. at other hosting sites, i would never do this, even if i had to.
is there any i can use, or could someone make it?'just a 88*31 pixels thing, because that's
the normal size for these things. i would say just the logo and name, maybe 'the best you can
find on the left' or 'powered by' kinda like the topleftbanner, posted below. if there
is anyone who knows what font is used for 'astahost', i would like to kno....
Hy all i don't really fancy graphics so ... i request a banner /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> SO can anyone make me a
cool bannere (with a stargate theme /or not if it's really good) with SGater Thanks P.S.
whomever makes a cool banner will get a moderator account on my forum site with 500 posts in ur
profile /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />....
Hi all, I just started making my own website, and i plan to make it as cool as possible, without
spending any money /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" /> I think I'll start with making a nice template, and then I'll see
what I'll do. Just a question for you guys: how to make a nice template? without spending money
that is, because I'd like to see how cool a site can get without spending a thing. And I
don't use things I *should* pay for, either /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
emoid=":D....
I always use programs to do the work for me, I think a "creative mind" is important too, you can
learn how to program or design things, but that doesn't mean you'll create great things...
/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />....
i was not asked to make banners but i needed some for my site as i like to show my love feel free to
use them if its ok with admin Just created this one ....
for other sites you can search on goolge.
