How to Make Twitter Designs
Twitter supplies some themes you can use to make your page look different from the next person's Twitter page. But you might want a Twitter design that is uniquely yours, and the best way to get that is to make it yourself. There are two choices: make one large image that stretches across the whole background of the page, or you can make a pattern that "tiles" or repeats across the space.
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Instructions
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Make a Tileable Pattern
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Visit ColourLovers.com and log in, or create a membership if you don't have one. It's free.
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Click on "Search" in the menu at the top, and select "Pattern Templates" from the menu that drops down. You can search by keyword, such as flower or butterfly or plaid. Hold your mouse over the pattern samples to see a larger version, and click on the one you choose.
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Click on the "create pattern" button below the pattern swatch. This takes you to the "Color This Pattern" page. Click on each of the varying colored gray squares below the pattern swatch, one at a time. Once you click on one, the color chooser appears on the right. Drag the circle around until you have a color you like, or enter a hexidecimal or RGB color value in the fields at the top of the color chooser. Do this for each of the gray squares.
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Save the pattern by typing in a pattern name and other information (you can leave the other fields blank if you want). Then right-click on the pattern swatch to save the pattern to your computer. Remember where you saved it so you can upload it to your Twitter account.
Make a Large Background Image
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Create a new image that is between 1600 and 1900 pixels wide, 1200 pixels tall with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, using your image editing software.
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Fill the image with a background color using the paint bucket or fill tool, if desired. Or, if you have an image or photo that will fill the whole image, open that and paste it in as a new layer. Position the photo in the layer if you don't like the way if was placed automatically. If the photo doesn't fill the whole image, make another layer and fill it with a color similar to one of the background colors in the photo.
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Add other photos, logos or text in a narrow column on the left of the background image, keeping them to within 200 pixels of the left edge of the image.
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Save the image in the native file format used in your image editing software, a format that perserves the layers and allows you to edit the image later if necessary. Then save again or export a Jpeg or PNG file. Note where this file is saved so you can upload it to your Twitter account.
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