How to create a twitter banner

Cha Cahyadi — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:49:13 +0000

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)

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

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

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

Use Gradient Overlay to add gradient colour for the shapes.

It looks like this.

Do the wings.

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

Then, the beak. ( so it can twit )

The big eye, finally.

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

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

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

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