How to Create a Banner in a Photoshop PSD
- 1). Create a new file in Photoshop by clicking on the "File" menu and choosing "New." If you will be printing the banner, choose "Inches" as your dimension measurement and enter the number of inches wide and high you want your banner to be. If your banner will be for digital use only, leave the dimension measurement in "Pixels" and enter the size in pixels of your banner. Click "OK."
- 2). Create a background for your banner. Click on the "Fill" tool. This tool will allow you to cover your background either with a solid color (choose your color and click on the image file), a gradient (choose two or more colors, then click and drag in the direction of your gradient) or a texture (choose the texture and click on the image file).
- 3). Create a new layer above the background layer by clicking the "Create a new layer" button in the Layers pane. This will allow you to add text or images to your banner that can be edited and moved around without disrupting any other part of the image.
- 4). Enter text using the "Text type" tool, paste a graphic from another image into the layer or design your own graphic using whatever tools are appropriate. When you are done with a specific element of the image---such as a line of text or a single graphic---click the "Create a new layer" button before adding any other features.
- 5). Click on any part of the banner to move, resize or delete a specific element. No other part of the image (provided each element is on a separate layer) will be affected.
- 6). Save the finalized image or a version of the image that is not yet complete as a PSD by opening the "File" menu and choosing "Save As." PSD will be the default file extension. Enter a filename for your banner, choose a location for it that you will remember and click "Save."
- 7). Open the PSD file at a later date by clicking the "File" menu and choosing "Open." When the PSD file loads, you will find all of the layers intact. If you were to save the banner as a JPG or GIF, the layers would not be visible and the entire image would be contained on one layer. This would mean that you could no longer individually move or edit each element of the banner without affecting the rest of the image.
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