How to Make an Achievement Certificate

Certificate of Achievement

Achievement certificates can be a very effective tool for motivating people to succeed and want to achieve goals. Whether it is sporting or academic, when you award achievement certificates to people who have been successful, you are not only recognizing their performance, you are also helping to motivate them to continue to strive for excellence. The process to make these certificates is simple and this technique can be used to make a wide variety of achievement certificates for various achievements.

Instructions

1. Open the graphics program and open a new raster layer. A raster layer is the basic foundational layer for a graphics project.

2. Size the raster layer to an 11-inch width and 8 1/2-inch height.

3. Fill in the background color with whatever color you'd like; typically it would be white, but this is your choice).

4. Open the preset shape tool and select a frame that you like to put around the certificate. Place the frame in place around the border.

5. Choose a font to use for the text; typically in certificates, this would be a script or fancy font.

6. Enter "Certificate of Achievement" into the text box. Center the text along the top of the raster layer and experiment with the size of the text until it looks the way you desire.

7. Open the picture tube tool and select a star shape or some other kind of appropriate picture and place several of these pictures under the "Certificate of Achievement" text. Center the pictures.

8. Add the text body of the certificate. Make blank lines to fill in the individual information, including the recipient's name and the nature of the achievement. Add a place to enter the date and another line for the signature of the person rewarding the certificate.

9. Make sure everything looks the way you want it to look, and then save your certificate onto your hard drive.

10. Print out as many copies as needed and fill in the missing information into the blanks by hand.

11. Award the certificates.