An Itsy Tip on Etsy Banner-Making

I realize that we have many talented and skilled team members who probably create and offer their designs for Etsy banners. However, there are some Etsy shop owners who might want to do their own, for any of a number of reasons.

I posted on my own blog tonight, about my first effort at my own Etsy banner. For over two years, I used a very nice professionally designed banner, but it did not show my shop items. I wanted that type of banner so badly.

For those two years, every time I tried to find a way to do it, the instructions all used Photoshop as the tool. I did not have it, I probably never will.

Today, however, I finally became frustrated enough to do some serious cyber-searching. One small link said that it could be done in PowerPoint. Well, I took that and ran with it. You can see my new banner here...

My post, about my experiences with it, and with PowerPoint 2003, my antiquated old version, is here:

http://prayersncrafts.blogspot.com/2011/08/making-etsy-banner-finally.html

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Hopefully, some of you will try your hand at banner-making, and will be even better at it than I am, whether with Photoshop or PowerPoint or another tool. Have fun and good luck.