How to Create a Banner for Etsy with Microsoft Paint Program

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By Stephanie Gellepes
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Create a Banner for Etsy with Microsoft Paint Program

For the visionary artist the world of Etsy, a wonderful site made accessible for the crafty guy or gal selling hand made products and creations. In fact, every aspect of ones etsy page is a single reflection of the artist's talents. I found Microsoft Paint Program to be loads of entertainment for the creative personality. If you want to remain involved in creating, your very own etsy banners for your etsy home page follow the steps below.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Microsoft paint program
Creative talent or desire

Step 1

Example of Microsoft Paint Program

Paint program offers various options for creating the perfect banner. Paint offers text with different fonts for which to choose. Drawing, paintbrush options, spray paint options, or you can pick a favorite color and use that as the back round for the banner. If you wish to use a singular picture or cut and paste three different, pictures to produce the back round you can make that, too. There is a lot to cover with the paint program.
Step 2

Start menu

Begin by going to the start menu on your computer and scrolling to paint program. Double click on paint icon to open new paint document.
Step 3

From start menu

Using images from pictures you have taken of your design work, seems to work great for back round setting for the banner, simply go (my pictures) also found on your computer from the start menu. Choose the photo you would want to utilize as back round setting. Right click the photo scroll to (open with) and choose paint.
Step 4

Banner photo used for back round

The etsy banner requires the pixels be at least 760 pixels wide, by 100 pixels high for uploading. The photo sent into the paint program is probably considerably larger then this, so you will want to trim it in size. I have found the ideal approach to minimize the photo is to apply the cut option in the paint program. Cut out the precise portion of the photo you want to use in the banner. Example: Look at the image to the left here; to use the best portion for the banner, I will use the cut feature to remove the section I will like to use.
Step 5

Options to the left

Paint program will involve a little time and preparation to learn about what is handy for creating the perfect banner. When cutting out a section of an image. Look for a perforated square to the left. Left click the mouse utilize the pointer to define the portion of the photo you like for the banner.
Step 6

Right click to cut the image and move it over to a new paint document, when you do this a pop up menu will ask if you want to save changes to the image you have cut. Click on no.(this will save the original image untouched.)
Step 7

Attributes from image menu

Once you have pasted the image into a new paint document, check the image by using the mouse over the top menu to click (IMAGE) then scroll back down to (ATTRIBUTES) click attributes.
Step 8

Change pixels for banner size

Attributes box will appear with the attributes of the current image or banner. To change them simply clear out the numbers and change the numbers which will be 760 wide and 100 high. This will reduce the image to the size needed for uploading the banner.
Step 9

Example of banner

I hope that the steps provided here would help get you started in creating a perfect etsy banner for your Etsy shop. Once you have completed the banner to your satisfaction, make sure to save it in a folder labeled for Etsy so you will know where to find it when uploading it to the etsy page.