Banner Making 101, What Are Your Tips, Tricks & Resources? Options

[Guest_Anonymous_*]

There was talk of banners as a form of advertising in another thread.

I'd like to learn how to make some decent ones.

My knowledge is quite limited.

Say I have Paint Shop Pro.

Say I want a nice, glossy background.

Say I want to use a fun font.


What is my best bet to learn fast?

Does anyone have any tutorials handy?

Or advice that you'd like to share?

Or resources to give for the tools needed (such as free fonts, backgrounds, clipart, forums, guides, how-tos)?


I think a lot of people here would love to put together some nice banners for themselves to promote their various websites.

And even some nice web graphics.


Anyone willing to give us 'noobs' some tips and tricks and guidance?

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This post has been edited by Mystical2000: Nov 20 2005, 05:10 PM

[charmeyn]

Hi Anon,

I would love to teach you if your interested PM me , I hae tons of resources, maybe even share some with you, I use PSP 8 and Photo Impact 8

Edited to ad: You want some Tut's try this site, it has an awesome list of every catagory imaginable

www.psplinks.com

It can be a bit slow loading but well worth it

This post has been edited by charmeyn: Sep 14 2004, 09:16 AM

[Guest_Anonymous_*]

And I'll start off the contributions!

I've noted and marked these as I was ripping through info awhile back.

Never had time to fully go through it all.

Probably doubles and triples in here sorry, but I thought there would be stuff in here for newbies and graphic pros alike:

http://forums.devshed.com/t86567/s.html
lists of photoshop tutorials

http://www.thinkdan.com/tutorials/photoshop.html
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/ps.php
http://www.eyeball-design.com/fxzone/frames01.htm
http://www.colorconceptsdesign.com
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html
http://www.metamorephosis.com/menututorials.html
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/pho...-downloads.html
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.sitebuilder.ws/photoshop/pstutorials.htm
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/
http://www.tutorgig.com/
http://biorust.com/
http://biorust.com
http://www.noiz22.com/
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.impactdesign.org

http://www.purephotoshop.net/showthread.php?t=156

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.asp
http://fantasyinspirations.8m.com/tutorials.html
http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP.html
http://psptips.com/
http://www.pspiz.com/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pla.../6606/text.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/armani/268/tutindex/
http://www.aestheticweb.com/tutorials.html
http://www.psplinks.com/
http://www.photofoolery.com/tutorials_all.php
http://www.pegaweb.com/tutorials/web-desig...p-tutorials.htm
http://www.sketchpad.net/photoshp.htm



http://www.easyrgb.com/

http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/combining.asp

www.vbrush.com - Good site with a lot of brushes and a brush search
engine. It has a lot of down time sometimes but one of the best sites.

www.misprintedtype.com - Very nice original fonts and also some very nice
brushes. Hard to navigate, but i love the fonts.

http://studio.adobe.com/ - Adobe Studio lots of resources for photoshop
and any Adobe products. Theres tutorials, brushes, shapes anything you
can import to photoshop they have.

www.deviant-art.com - they have a buggy brushes section but they have a
lot of good stock photography.

http://www.webpage-tools.com/


http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.asp
http://fantasyinspirations.8m.com/tutorials.html
http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP.html
http://psptips.com/
http://www.pspiz.com/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pla.../6606/text.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/armani/268/tutindex/
http://www.aestheticweb.com/tutorials.html
http://www.psplinks.com/

http://www.internetclipart.com/contents.htm

http://www.graphicschat.com/ubbthreads.php?Cat=



Sorry if there are doubles and triples in here - just mass copied and pasted from my notes.


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I just don't wanna go through all that stuff to pick out the info that I need to start a basic banner.

:lol: :lol:

Anyone have firm direction for me?

And the rest of us noobs?

[Guest_Anonymous_*]

Woohoo charmeyn beat me!!

:lol: :lol:


Thanks charmeyn - I just may take you up on your offer so BEWARE!

:lol:

[trubrit]

And my tiny contribution:


www.searchfreefonts.com



Please don't take this private. We'd all like to know!!! PWEASE????
So this should be something like

BANNERS FOR DUMMIES :lol: :lol: :lol:

[charmeyn]

Here's some sites to add to yoour Bookmarks that I find quite resourceful:

http://www.prestigiousdames.com/dee/expres...orialIndex.html

http://www.jumbo-psp.com/PSP.htm

http://groups.msn.com/KatKorner/populartutlist.msnw

http://groups.msn.com/MadisonAveTutorials/avesiteindex2.msnw

http://www.udraw2.com/

http://www.psplinks.com/

http://groups.msn.com/SpotlightDesigns/tutorial.msnw

http://www.prestigiousdames.com/Di/tut.htm

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/butto...ials/link2g.htm

Free Fonts:

http://www.fontage.com/

http://www.codemicro.com/shareware.html

http://www.maryforrest.com/fonts/fonts.html

http://simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html

http://www.fontpool.com/

http://www.fontfiles.com/


Clipart:

http://www.barrysclipart.com/

http://www.free-clip-images.com/

http://www.designedtoat.com/index.htm

http://www.fg-a.com/gifs.html

http://reallybig.com/reallybig.php3

http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/

http://webclipart.miningco.com/

http://www.gograph.com/

http://www.ausmall.com.au/freegraf/freegrfa.htm

http://scc.pinehurst.net/graphics.html

This site is cool, it has samples of real stained glass , I use these for my "Fills" in PSP, go to the samples section, it's changed since I last visited the site , so you may have to hunt around a bit

Well I hope this wets your whistle a bit, heck I'm giving away my trade secrets :), maybe one day I'll be competing with you in selling banner's and web design's :)

[charmeyn]

well Anon, In making a baner, first off you need to make sure you start with an image size of 468Wx 60H, sometimes I start out large and re-size later but this isn't always such a good idea as this tends to make your design lose it's image quality.
Don't use fonts that are hard to read, such as really fancy script fonts or Caligriphy type fonts.
it's a good Idea to work with a transparent "new image" and ad your background color using "layers" in PSP; Also you should use "new layers" for each element you wish to add to your design, this way they can be moved about without affecting the other elements of the design, then when you like what you see you can then merge all these layers and save your design. It's also a good Idea to save a working copy of your design in .PSP format so that you can use it for a template, if you decide to make your banner an animation

[charmeyn]

And I'll start off the contributions!

I've noted and marked these as I was ripping through info awhile back.

Never had time to fully go through it all.

Probably doubles and triples in here sorry, but I thought there would be stuff in here for newbies and graphic pros alike:

http://forums.devshed.com/t86567/s.html
lists of photoshop tutorials

http://www.thinkdan.com/tutorials/photoshop.html
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/ps.php
http://www.eyeball-design.com/fxzone/frames01.htm
http://www.colorconceptsdesign.com
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html
http://www.metamorephosis.com/menututorials.html
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/pho...-downloads.html
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.sitebuilder.ws/photoshop/pstutorials.htm
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/
http://www.tutorgig.com/
http://biorust.com/
http://biorust.com
http://www.noiz22.com/
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.impactdesign.org

http://www.purephotoshop.net/showthread.php?t=156

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.asp
http://fantasyinspirations.8m.com/tutorials.html
http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP.html
http://psptips.com/
http://www.pspiz.com/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pla.../6606/text.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/armani/268/tutindex/
http://www.aestheticweb.com/tutorials.html
http://www.psplinks.com/
http://www.photofoolery.com/tutorials_all.php
http://www.pegaweb.com/tutorials/web-desig...p-tutorials.htm
http://www.sketchpad.net/photoshp.htm
http://www.easyrgb.com/

http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/combining.asp

www.vbrush.com - Good site with a lot of brushes and a brush search
engine. It has a lot of down time sometimes but one of the best sites.

www.misprintedtype.com - Very nice original fonts and also some very nice
brushes. Hard to navigate, but i love the fonts.

http://studio.adobe.com/ - Adobe Studio lots of resources for photoshop
and any Adobe products. Theres tutorials, brushes, shapes anything you
can import to photoshop they have.

www.deviant-art.com - they have a buggy brushes section but they have a
lot of good stock photography.

http://www.webpage-tools.com/
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials.asp
http://fantasyinspirations.8m.com/tutorials.html
http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/PSP.html
http://psptips.com/
http://www.pspiz.com/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pla.../6606/text.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/armani/268/tutindex/
http://www.aestheticweb.com/tutorials.html
http://www.psplinks.com/

http://www.internetclipart.com/contents.htm

http://www.graphicschat.com/ubbthreads.php?Cat=
Sorry if there are doubles and triples in here - just mass copied and pasted from my notes.
=============================
I just don't wanna go through all that stuff to pick out the info that I need to start a basic banner.

:lol: :lol:

Anyone have firm direction for me?

And the rest of us noobs?
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Well it looks like you beat me in your list of links :0 , but I'm asuming your referring to the PSPlinks site when you said I beat you to it ?
I like this site you listed, I'll have to chek it out, has some cool texture's, gonna grab a few :) Hee hee

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-downloads

This post has been edited by charmeyn: Sep 14 2004, 10:29 AM

[Guest_wagdoll_*]

They have a lot of nice fonts here

1001freefonts.com

[abukaka]

check this out : http://www.good-tutorials.com

[LadyFlame]

an insane amount of photoshop tutorial sites ;)


http://geda-online.com/
http://gliebster.com/tutorials/
http://links.gfx-forum.de/photoshop.php
http://noxcel.com/root/tutorials.htm
http://psworkshop.net/psworkshop/
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/index.php
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redire...photoshop.shtml
http://www.3031-designs.com/tutorials.html
http://www.absolutecross.com/
http://www.actionfx.com/
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/
http://www.aovs02.dsl.pipex.com/
http://www.art4eye.com
http://www.bluesfear.com/
http://www.b-man.dk
http://www.boonism.com/?page=ps_tutorials
http://www.carbonfour.com/
http://www.cbtcafe.com/photoshop/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/
http://www.creativecow.net/
http://www.cyberinkdesign.com/tutor.htm
http://www.deaddreamer.com/
http://www.designsbymark.com/
http://www.developingwebs.net
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.digital-creativity.org.uk/
http://www.dubtastic.com
http://www.effectlab.com/
http://www.entensity.net
http://www.eternalgfx.homestead.com/
http://www.eyeball-design.com/fxzone
http://www.eyesondesign.net
http://www.eyewire.com/tips/photoshop/
http://www.fresherimage.com
http://www.gifart.com/graphictips5.shtml
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.graphics-world.com/
http://www.guistuff.com/
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/
http://www.handson.nu/
http://www.imanimetions.net/main.php
http://www.jermexpress.com
http://www.mlhotw.com
http://www.myjanee.com/
http://na3k.net
http://www.newtutorials.com
http://www.n-sane.net/tutorials.php
http://www.opticnurve.com/index.aspx
http://www.perfectpixels.com/index.cfm?method=photoshop
http://www.phasegfx.com
http://www.phong.com
http://www.photoshopcafe.com
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/
http://www.photoshopuser.com/
http://www.pixel2life.com
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
http://www.poidesign.com/
http://www.proeffect.com
http://www.pslover.com
http://www.psworkshop.net/psworkshop
http://www.shadowness.com/tutorial.php
http://www.sketchpad.net/photoshp.htm
http://www.skinsntemplates.com/
http://www.snecx.com
http://www.spoono.com
http://www.steeldolphin.com
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/
http://www.thewebmachine.com/
http://www.thinkdan.com
http://www.totaltutorials.com
http://www.toxicbug.com/index2.html
http://www.tutorialfind.com
http://www.tutorialseek.com
http://www.voidix.com
http://www.wastedyouth.org
http://www.webclass.ru/
http://www.worth100.com
http://www.zymic.com/
http://wwwebmasters.net/tutorials/Photoshop/

[charmeyn]

Here's some sites to add to yoour Bookmarks that I find quite resourceful:

http://www.prestigiousdames.com/dee/expres...orialIndex.html

http://www.jumbo-psp.com/PSP.htm

http://groups.msn.com/KatKorner/populartutlist.msnw

http://groups.msn.com/MadisonAveTutorials/avesiteindex2.msnw

http://www.udraw2.com/

http://www.psplinks.com/

http://groups.msn.com/SpotlightDesigns/tutorial.msnw

http://www.prestigiousdames.com/Di/tut.htm

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/butto...ials/link2g.htm

Free Fonts:

http://www.fontage.com/

http://www.codemicro.com/shareware.html

http://www.maryforrest.com/fonts/fonts.html

http://simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html

http://www.fontpool.com/

http://www.fontfiles.com/
Clipart:

http://www.barrysclipart.com/

http://www.free-clip-images.com/

http://www.designedtoat.com/index.htm

http://www.fg-a.com/gifs.html

http://reallybig.com/reallybig.php3

http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/

http://webclipart.miningco.com/

http://www.gograph.com/

http://www.ausmall.com.au/freegraf/freegrfa.htm

http://scc.pinehurst.net/graphics.html

This site is cool, it has samples of real stained glass , I use these for my "Fills" in PSP, go to the samples section, it's changed since I last visited the site , so you may have to hunt around a bit

Well I hope this wets your whistle a bit, heck I'm giving away my trade secrets  :), maybe one day I'll be competing with you  in  selling banner's and web design's  :)
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Sorry I forgot to add the link to the stained glass site I mentioned above

http://www.kog.com/index.html

[Guest_ncghosthunter_*]

**** runs in and does a quick copy/paste nab and runnzzzzzz *****


LOL

Actually, thannk you for sharing everyone. I was looking for some good resources cause I'm gonna have to learn how to make nice looking banners for a new site I'm creating (non-ptr).....

Thank you!!!!

[Guest_Anonymous_*]

Hey we got the big old boot & moved!!!!!!!

:lol: :lol:

THANK YOU THANK YOU EVERYONE

For posting your goodies.


I can't do this tonight, but I'm gonna sit myself down and force myself to learn how to do this stuff properly.

I made the odd crapola banner using a freebie program (banner maker pro - got it back in the day when it was really free), and I'm really spoiled with just easily adding the little bits of graphics and backgrounds and stuff.

However the end product is low quality and cheesey (IMO).

I wanna know how the big boys do it!

:lol: :lol:


I think it would be real nice to be able to whip up some header graphics or banner graphics that even look somewhat good!

Thanks peeps!

[keep posting goodies if you have any - this is fun! :lol:]

[Guest_Anonymous_*]

OMG LadyFlame

That is one KICKIN MEGA LIST!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Charmeyn did we lose ya in LadyFlame's mega list?

Can you find your way back??


:lol: