How to Make a Party Flyer in Adobe Photoshop
If you want to create a party flyer in Adobe Photoshop, you can proceed in several different directions. This article focuses on designing a simple party flyer using royalty free clip art, photographs or your own digital photographs. Follow the instructions below and by the time you've finished, you will know how to create a simple flyer in Photoshop. Then, if you wish, you can move yourself into the more complex areas of designing in Photoshop.
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Things You'll Need
- Pencil or pen
- Paper
- Computer with Photoshop installed
- Royalty free clip art or photographs
Instructions
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Making Your Flyer
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Use your pencil or pen to sketch out a rough design of your flyer. Don't try to create "finished" art, just decide how you want the flyer to look and indicate in a general way where you will place the various elements you want to include. All you're really looking for is a place to start.
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Create a new directory on your computer to hold the various elements of your project.
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Open a text editor or your word processor and key in the copy. Don't worry about formatting, just key in the words and save the file.
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Find digital clip art or photographs you think could work in your design and collect them in your new project directory.
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Open each of the artwork files you have collected in Photoshop and resize them to fit the area where you plan to use them (see tips).
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Open a new document in Photoshop, and copy and paste the text and the art you've selected into separate layers of the document.
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Moving from layer to layer, arrange the elements as you want them. Save your work and you have completed your flyer.
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Tips & Warnings
Photoshop files grow expediently as you place artwork onto your page. You can keep the file size down by sizing your images to fit and saving them as JPEG files, unless your flyer will be professionally published.
Each time you paste or create text, or "place" artwork, Photoshop creates a new layer for it. You must have the appropriate layer selected in the layers drop-down to work with that layer's contents.
Before you "flatten" your layout, save a copy of your work. Otherwise, you will have to recreate the flyer in order to change it.
When you first place artwork onto a Photoshop layout, a bounding box surrounds it. This represents your only opportunity to resize the art. When you "place" the art, the bounding box disappears.
