How to make a Banner?

[capitalP]

I know this question sounds simple enough, but I've been ripping my hair out for the last month trying to figure out how to do this, I've finally folded and posting this, hope someone can help.

Basically I want to make this poster into a nice Horizontal banner to put in my Sig, like that Lovefest Banner.

Everytime I try to do it, the images just stretches,

http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/500/The_City_is_mine_Poster.jpg

I know this could be done, a friend of mind turn the second Poster into the Banner below it... I had no idea how he did it, he's too busy right now to do another one for me so I want to try and do it myself.

Any help would be appreciated.

and oh yeah, I search for Banners before I started the thread and nothing came up...


http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/500/Release_Poster_354x500.jpg
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/500/Mike_Carmen_Banner.jpg

[mikkowilson]

You need to create a new image in photoshop the size of your banner (there are actualy banner sized presents in the "new image" dialog box).

Then build the banner up from scratch there as a totally new image.


Of course most of this will involve copying the various layers over from the original photoshop file of the poster.

If all you have of the poster is a single layer image, like a .JPG, then you wil have to do some classic photo-shopping to seperate the parts out and re-arange them to fit the banner format as you wish.

- Mikko

[capitalP]

If all you have of the poster is a single layer image, like a .JPG, then you wil have to do some classic photo-shopping to seperate the parts out and re-arange them to fit the banner format as you wish.

- Mikko

This is what I was afraid off!

Thanks Mikko, I will try my best, I guess practice makes perfect.