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How to Make Banners in Photoshop for Complete Newbies (36)

05-14-2015 01:45 AM #1 hieu nguyen (AMC Alumnus)

The slow speed is great for me, Amy, because I'm not very good at English Thanks for your great video. Btw, if anyone want to speed up playback, YouTube has it own speed setting.

05-14-2015 01:54 AM #2 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Originally Posted by hieu nguyen

The slow speed is great for me, Amy, because I'm not very good at English

Thanks for your great video. Btw, if anyone want to speed up playback, YouTube has it own speed setting.

Thanks for the kind words my friend! And I never knew youtube had speed settings before! Learn something new everyday! Will add this info to the first post - thanks!

Amy

05-14-2015 04:15 AM #3 gilwolf (Member)

nice tutorial, someone starting out could pick up ALOT from this.

05-14-2015 08:35 PM #4 ocean25 (Member)

Good tutorial, learned a couple of new things, thanks!

As for snapping to the edge, just to to View -> Snap To and disable snap to Document Bounds and you can use mouse to move the objects freely.
Also, a cool trick is when you have the needed layer selected, press CTRL+T to bring up the resize tool quickly. This also works on text object, you can resize the text on-the-fly.

For call-to-action buttons you can use http://css3buttongenerator.com/ or any other ones which are out there, then use Snipping tool in windows to directly screenshot the button, copy/paste into photoshop and resize quickly.

05-14-2015 10:21 PM #5 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Thanks ocean25! Adding your tips to my (small) bag!

Amy

05-31-2015 04:31 AM #6 novaturient (Member)

This was super helpful thank you

06-01-2015 01:22 AM #7 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Originally Posted by kepe95

For me it's usually easier to start learning by using a template that's complete, and then playing around with it.
I created some of these templates some time ago, to easily edit and create basic banners.

Wow thanks kepe! I'm linking to your post from the first one - these templates are so much more helpful than my primitive vid LOL!

Amy

07-22-2015 06:53 PM #8 saucecode (Member)

Thanks for posting this and to ocean25 and kepe95 for their tips. Is there a compilation of button/image generators anywhere on the forum?

07-22-2015 09:56 PM #9 luker_ge (Member)

Thank you! Very helpfu!

09-01-2015 09:50 AM #10 jessevstheworld (Member)

Thanks heaps for this. With the knowledge you provide in this video anyone can start making banners right away. The learning curve is getting... less curvy?

09-01-2015 09:52 AM #11 vidivo (Member)

This is awesome, going to be using to train my VAs :P

10-23-2015 01:43 AM #12 victor s (AMC Alumnus)

Great video, learned a couple new things! Thank you for this, Amy!

10-23-2015 12:37 PM #13 MarinaKimia (Member)

Thanks for the tutorial, personally and professionally very useful! And @victor s thanks for reviving it!

Have a good weekend all!

01-04-2016 05:51 AM #14 ekentran1558 (AMC Alumnus)

Awesome tutorial, Amy! This really helps. Thanks a lot!

01-31-2016 04:17 AM #15 jeffs8914 (Member)

Do you have to pay monthly for photoshop? Is there a place you can buy this for a one-time fee?

01-31-2016 03:27 PM #16 bobliu (Member)

This is golden, picked up one or two things I didn't know and I've been PS'ing for years - great job on this! Armed with photoshop you can do many great things.

02-01-2016 05:21 PM #17 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Originally Posted by jeffs8914

Do you have to pay monthly for photoshop? Is there a place you can buy this for a one-time fee?

Apparently you can still buy CS6 as stand-alone products - see here:

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/cs6.html

The price for just PS is something like $700 I heard. It may make more sense to go with the monthly CC subscription and get free updates as well.

Amy

02-01-2016 05:24 PM #18 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Originally Posted by bobliu

This is golden, picked up one or two things I didn't know and I've been PS'ing for years - great job on this! Armed with photoshop you can do many great things.

Thanks Bob!

My PS skills are primitive at best - I know just enough to do a beginner's tutorial.

Amy

02-01-2016 05:42 PM #19 jasonaao (Member)

Thanks for the share https://www.canva.com/ is another really nice tool for photoshop newbies.

03-16-2016 06:27 PM #20 cupjava (Member)

Great tutorial Amy, helps bunches!
Thank ya ma'am

Cupjava

05-17-2016 07:50 PM #21 honestjbone (AMC Alumnus)

Thank you for this video, I know you made it a year ago but it really helps someone like me out

05-26-2016 01:10 PM #22 bin li (Member)

thanks your video，it's useful for me.

07-04-2016 11:12 PM #23 remochalaco (Member)

thanks , good video.

07-04-2016 11:33 PM #24 affpayinggao (Veteran Member)

Great tutorial. Very very useful for me! Thanks.

09-21-2016 12:04 AM #25 symba3 (AMC Alumnus)

I was following this tutorial but I am having troubles with resizing the image (mark ~4:25 in the video). I was moving the image but no matter how much I moved it, the corner that I am suppose to grab( the box that is suppose to appear) to resize it does not show up. How can I get this box to appear so I can resize the image?

EDIT: Never mind, Found the free transform function. Great tutorial by the way!

09-28-2016 12:31 AM #26 elskafreya (AMC Alumnus)

Five minutes in and you've already saved me hours of frustration trying to avoid the funhouse effect from resizing images. Sweet!

12-06-2016 12:12 PM #27 cosminbanaurs (Member)

Very good

01-12-2017 09:11 PM #28 audacious (AMC Alumnus)

Thanks Vortex, great training, saved me a bunch of time, the speed is perfect since the best way for me to learn is to actually follow along and copy the teaching,
Update : just in case this helps someone : The new version of photoshop has done away with the corner re sizing thing but there is a place to enter the re-size by entering numbers.
Training includes how to make animated gifs, which I am happy to now know how to create!

02-03-2017 02:52 PM #29 rfg77777 (Member)

Hi Amy,

I have been watching your photoshop tutorial, and it has been extremely helpful- thank you so much for posting this!

I am having a “newbie” problem with resizing images- I am lining up the image in the corner using the move tool, and the arrows are not coming up. All I can do is move the image, not resize it. I know I am doing something wrong!

I have a mac, and I understand that you have to use command + click instead of the shift key.

In canva, you just click on the image, and once you put the cursor on the corner, you can resize and move it in one go, whereas in photoshop, it seems as though you can only move it (I know I am doing something wrong).

I select the move tool, select the image on the layer, and then line it up to the left corner, keeping the scale on 100. Next, I hold down the command key as I attempt to resize it, but the only thing that happens is that I am able to move the image, not resize it.

Is there an extra step I am missing? I have been scouring the internet for answers, but it seems as though my problem is not that common (I am probably doing something majorly wrong, lol)

Thank you so much for the video!

02-03-2017 08:35 PM #30 vortex (Senior Moderator)

You're most welcome! Happy to hear the vid is useful to you!

I use windows so have no idea how different the Mac version is. All I do to resize an image is do a CTRL+T, and then drag on the corners of the image to resize.

Please try this and let me know if this doesn't work, and I'll look deeper.

Amy

02-04-2017 12:40 AM #31 platinum (Veteran Member)

@rfg77777 Photoshop on basic tasks is pretty simple once you create your suitable workspace and spent some time on it to create stuff... Get a list of things you'd like to do on it and start searching on youtube for tutorials and you'll find it a lot easier.

As for resizing just search on google
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/us...ing-image.html

I've noticed that searching skills is a must to get things done on time

02-04-2017 04:20 AM #32 rfg77777 (Member)

@platinum, thanks for the link! I have spent quite some time watching tutorials on Youtube and doing google searches before I posted this question, and I realized that the videos were for older versions of Photoshop (now it is on Creative Cloud), so I searched for tutorials for "Photoshop Adobe Creative Cloud 2017" and that did the trick

I was looking for how to resize images without manually entering the values (just like Vortex did in her tutorial with holding down the image and dragging the screen).

The good news is that I found a work around for my Mac- I added a manual wireless mouse and was able to right click (rather than hold down command and click). Hopefully this will help someone if they have the same problem. My layers keep disappearing, but I am watching the next tutorial video as we speak

Thanks for the suggestion for making a list of things I want to accomplish with Photoshop, that's a great idea- its Photoshop Speed Learning weekend for me

05-19-2017 02:23 AM #33 elem99 (Member)

Thank you. This was a very helpful video.

01-26-2018 06:42 PM #34 vikram (Member)

Very helpful video! Thank you very much!!

04-03-2018 01:05 PM #35 sunwukong (Member)

Thanks

03-24-2022 08:02 AM #36 lightning (Member)

Thank you,It's helpful for me!

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