How to Design Banner Advertisements With Rotating Content
With the growth of the Internet, banner ads have become one of the most often used advertising methods. Many people make money selling space on their websites to advertisers, while others make money creating the ads. If you would like to design a rotating banner ad for your site (with each advertiser getting a given amount of time) you might have thought that you would have to turn to a professional graphics designer. But you can create the banner yourself using the freeware program GIMP.
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Instructions
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Go to the GIMP.org website and get the latest version of the GIMP graphics program. Then install it on your computer.
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Decide how large you want your banner ad to be, since you will need to produce the pixel width and height to potential customers so they can produce the appropriate sized graphic. For example, If the banner is 600 pixels 100 pixels and the client supplies an image 500 pixels by 100 pixels you will have a blank area.
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Get the images your clients produce onto your computer. You can download them from emailed attachments or from a digital medium like a CD or flash drive.
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Open GIMP. Select "File" and click "New." In the dialog box that pops up enter the pixel width and height numbers then click on the "Advanced" tab and change the background to "Transparent." Then click "OK."
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Select "File" and click "Open." Browse to the images you loaded in Step 3. Select the first one and open it.
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Select "Edit" and click "Copy." Now go back to the banner document, select "Edit" and click "Paste into Layer."
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Repeat steps 5 and 6 to add all the ads to the banner. Then select the bottom layer and delete it.
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Select "File" and click "Save." In the dialog box that opens name the file and make the File Type .gif. In the next dialog select "Make Animation." A find dialog box will open. Set the "Duration" for the frames and for the "Disposal" select "Replace." Click "Export."
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