A banner is, first of all, advertising, promotion of a particular type of service or product via the Internet. It is quite easy to create an ordinary static banner. If you have Photoshop skills and are an advanced PC user, then this will not be difficult for you, and we will help you with it.
Instructions
Step 1
You should immediately understand that a banner is just a GIF-picture that is created in the true color palette. Typically, the size of a banner is taken at 468 by 60 pixels and its weight is about 20 KB. However, the weight depends on the number of colors and the brightness of the banner, so it can be more or less than the specified one.
Step 2
So, how to create a banner yourself.
Install, if you do not have an Adobe Photoshop graphic editor on your computer, and launch it.
Select File - New, fill in the fields in accordance with the lower figure.
Save the picture to your computer under the name banner.psd. To do this, select File - Save As - specify the save path.
Step 3
Click on the Window - Show Colors menu. From the presented palette, select the colors that will be the background of the banner.
Set your chosen background. To do this, click on the Fill tool and apply an action. Now before this transparent banner has a greenish background.
Save actions (Ctrl + S).
Step 4
Find the desired image and by pressing Ctrl + O place it in Adobe Photoshop.
Select the picture (Ctrl + A) and copy (Ctrl + C).
Step 5
Paste the image into our banner (Ctrl + V). At the same time, note that the program has automatically created a new layer in the layers palette.
Use simultaneously pressing Ctrl + T.
Hold the Shift key and resize our image to the desired size.
Click Enter.
Step 6
Create another banner layer, next.
Left-click on the icon.
Create a new layer using an elliptical selection, fill the resulting circle, for example, with black.
Step 7
Use a rectangular selection to create a rectangle and fill it with the desired color as well.
Save (Ctrl + S).
Select the eyedropper tool.
Step 8
Select the desired color from the color picker.
Select print from the tool palette.
Click anywhere on the banner, set the desired font in the window that appears.
Click ok.
Step 9
Type the text, resize it (Ctrl + T and holding Shift), press Enter, hold down Ctrl and drag the text, for example, to our circle or another place. Save (Ctrl + S).
Step 10
Turning to the layers palette. Click on the menu Image - Image Size.
Fill in the required fields, click ok. This changed our image from 400 DPI to 72 DPI.
Step 11
Select File - Export to GIF89a. Fill in the fields, click ok.
In the ExportGIF89 window that appears, in the place where File name enter the name of the file, that is, our banner and click on ok.
