How to make a pro looking banner for forums and sites?

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Posted by Richard Butler on May-06-2010 09:57:

How to make a pro looking banner for forums and sites?

How does one make a banner using say the background image from thier myspace page and add text and have a graduated dark top section so it blends into a dark background like that used on this forum?

All I have on my net connected PC is 'PAINT' - would I use that somehow - surely not - I cant even find how you type in text over an image - so I hand draw it - all shakey n shit

Any simple tools out there?

Must be able to add such a banner to a forum like this - are there size / pixel restriction implications?

Nooooooooooob

Posted by Storyteller on May-06-2010 10:04:

Make it in PNG format and use a transparent background. Unfortunately paint doesn't do transparent backgrounds. Adobe Photoshop does. Surely some other packages as well...

Posted by tehlord on May-06-2010 12:18:

It's pretty much a 'learn Photoshop or something similar' answer I think.

There's a load of tutorials out there, and it's something i've been meaning to do for a decade too

Posted by TranceLover007 on May-06-2010 15:47:

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Originally posted by tehlord
It's pretty much a 'learn Photoshop

Yes, this is what I'm using at the moment, but the best person to talk to is Kysora - expert in Photoshop (designed cover for our TA Album - amazing work).

Cheers