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How to create a twitter banner

I want to show step by step you how to create custom  twitter banner using Photoshop. See on the right panel. I use it myself.

1. Create a sketch (drawing)

Scan your drawing

Find any photograph of bird and copy or trace it.  Once you’re done,  scan and export it to Photoshop.

2. Trace it

Use Pen Tool

Choose Pen Tool (see above) to create shape or path of the body, beak, eye, wings, and both legs.

Create Path or Shape

Decrease the filled colour to less than 100% – so you can see the illustration behind your path.

3. Let’s colour it

Select Overlay

Use Gradient Overlay to add gradient colour for the shapes.

Gradient Overlay of The Body

It looks like this.

Gradien Overlay Of The Wing

Do the wings.

Gradient Overlay of The Legs

Then the legs (not perfect legs but..  we don’t need to draw it in details here)

Gradient Overly of The Beak

Then,  the beak.  ( so it can twit )

Gradient Overlay of The Eye

The big eye, finally.

Zoom out

Let’s see it first ( Zoom out (Press CTRL + -) Not bad huh?
Let’s continue.

4. Add background

addbackground

I used dark choco brown colour as the back ground and added another shape with gradient overlayed colour.

5. Add Text

Add text

Now we can add ‘wording’- in this illustration – you can use any font

Yiiipiii it's done

That’s it, we’re done. So I want to know what you think..

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How to create a twitter banner
Posted September 19th, 2009 in How To. Tagged: , .

3 comments:

  1. lot vekemans:

    would like to use your twitter banner!

  2. Cha Cahyadi:

    Link is sent to you my friend :)

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