If you didn’t follow Example 1 and are starting here, scroll up to the short paragraph and image from the Photoshop document setup.Ĭhange the colour of your background to whatever you want, I used pink (Hex Code: FBCCCB) in this example. To begin, create a new document or use your existing document you created in Example 1. Adjust the final design to fit your brand. This design can be used for making an announcement about a new YouTube video or a blog post on your website. In our next example, we’ll create a promotional Instagram Story for a beauty blogger. Features such as your username and picture at the top of the screen and the comment button at the bottom of the screen. When you upload your Instagram Story, the platform’s UI will occupy this space. It’s important to note that you should leave space at the top and bottom of the document, 250 pixels to be exact. Mess around with the design and add more elements to create something to fit your brand. Your document should look like Screenshot 2 above. Make sure this text layer is above the shape layer otherwise the text will be hidden behind it. Add another text layer to your document and write, Episode 2 and place the text over the shape. Set the colour to yellow (Hex Code: FFDE00) or whatever colour you choose. Next, add a rectangle and place it above the text. Align the text in the lower half of the document. Write the text, Sneaker Haul on two lines and set the colour to white. The keyboard shortcut is ‘T’ to access this option. Your document should like Screenshot 1 below.Īdd text using the Horizontal Type Tool. The reason for adding the shape layer is to make your text easily visible regardless of what image is used in the background. Make the shape the colour black and set the opacity of the shape to 40%. The keyboard shortcut is ‘U’ to access this option. Next, add a shape over the entire image using the Rectangle Tool from your toolbar. Center the shoes and move them to the higher half of the document to make space for our text later. Format the background image to fit the document using the Free Transform tool. The reason I do this is to allow flexibility when formatting images for cross-platform marketing campaigns.Ĭlick and drag the image into our Photoshop document from your Finder (Mac) or your Explorer (Windows). Personally, I like to download all of my stock images in the highest resolution possible so choose ‘Original Size’ when downloading from UnSplash. The image I’m using for this example can be found here. Now that we have our document created, first let’s add our background image.
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