It痴 really easy to make a banner in Photoshop. Just enter the
online standard for a banner of 728 X 90 at 72 dpi. There are other
banner sizes but this is the one I知 going to use now. Skyscraper
web banners are generally 120 X 600. You can create banner ads to
promote your own products and services or design them for a client.
You can then network or exchange your banners with other websites,
pay for advertising or join a banner ad network.
Here you値l just see the process of creating a fictional banner so
you get a good idea of how it痴 done and how you can make your own.
Once again, I知 creating this tutorial with only an idea of where
I want to take it.
My mind is kind of cramped after doing 30 of
these full grown tutorials in 8 days so bear with me.
Drag in a person/model who can be your spokesperson or the image
that can help represent your product. Ctrl T to free transform and
hold shift to scale down. You will notice that I知 in full screen
mode (FF and Tab toggles the toolbars on and off).
Use the magic wand tool (in this case) to select the
blue areas and Ctrl X to cut to leave the model.
Here I知 pressing FF (exit full screen) and File: Browse to find
a Photos.com stock image and dragging it in with the moVe tool.
Pressing FF again to enter full screen (perrty) mode, I知 scaling it
down once again and moving it to a location that looks ok.
Now enter some text that will be the name of your
product. I知 using Minion pro with these settings. I almost always
have the character palette available (from the View menu) to allow
for typography production.
Now find another image that could work well with
your banner ad production. It痴 up to you (and your client) to think
of what kind of theme and look you want it to have. You値l also have
to take into consideration what tools you have available (everything
as long as you have the knowledge) and your library of source
material to work with (often clients will supply).
Here I知 just using the magic wand tool on a
tolerance of 20 to close in around the selection. Note that I have
it on subtract from selection. This will cause it to keep closing in
around the birthday nose. For more doofiness check out my complete
design
training program here.
If you go to far you can keep making other selection
adjustments such as Add to selection with the lasso tool. Simply
circle around the area that you want to be part of the selection.
There are two examples right here.
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