How to Create an Etsy Banner or Facebook Cover Photo {Plus Free Clipart}

*Giveaway* – Comment on this blog post for a chance to win a commercial {unlimited use} license to one of my premium pieces of illustrated clipart {choose from any one of these in my shop; Etsy banners excluded}. The winner will be announced/contacted on October 2nd! An integral part of starting a new business or organization is image. The more put-together you look, the more people are going to respect your product or mission. This blog post is dedicated to walking you through how to create a good Etsy banner and/or Facebook cover photo to represent your entity. We’ll start by discussing Etsy banners. For a long time, I sold banners on Etsy for fellow sellers who wanted a banner that reflected their personalities or product. Through working with these clients, I realized that many of them were limited by simply not understanding where to start in creating an Etsy banner. The first, and most important, thing to remember when creating an Etsy banner is this: Etsy banner dimensions are 760 pixels by 100 pixels. That’s a long, skinny horizontal rectangle. It’s going to be a bit easier to create your Etsy banner if you have a program like Photoshop {not free} or paint.net {free, but not compatible with Macs}. You can, however, download a free trial version of Photoshop. I apologize in advance for this being a Mac-centric post. I am not super-familiar with working with PCs. If you’re a PC person, accept my apologies with some free, hand-drawn clipart {perfect for banner making} at the bottom of this post! This post is divided into two sections: one for those who are not in the least bit familiar with Photoshop, and one for those who are somewhat familiar to fluent in Photoshop. Creating an Etsy Banner: If You are Not Familiar with Photoshop It’s not as hard as you think to make a banner. If you have Microsoft Word {or a program like Open Office}, you can piece together a good banner using your word processing program. I will be using Word today — here you can see the simple chevron background with a text overlay {the font is “Angel Tears” [please note this font requires a license for commercial use]} that I have created: I dragged the chevron background into the document and formatted the image to appear behind the text {right click the image, click “Format Picture”, and choose the orientation “Behind Text”}. Be sure you are zoomed to 200%. My font size is 48, but the size of your font will vary by the type of your font.

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