Tools for Designing Twitter Backgrounds
As an advocate of being consistent at every point of contact, I began taking a better look at my digital properties this week. And I started with Twitter. Sure I did the normal tweaking the color palette a little and uploaded a custom backdrop but it really didn’t jive all that much with the look of my website. And so, l tooled around a little to get my hands on a Twitter background template or something that could give me a better springboard for sizing and live area.
I did find a couple but by far the easiest to use was freetwitterdesigner.com. It is important to remember that while the tool is called “freetwitterdesigner” and it is pretty darn cool, it is a tool through which you can apply a design to a Twitter background. Sorry, no magic bullet. But you will be happy to know that if you have a working knowledge of placing digital images and simple graphic editors, you can put a background design together in minutes.
It’s all done through a simple graphical interface that allows you to easily add text, shapes, images, choose color palettes and a whole lot more.
All while having a Twitter overlay in the center that you can work around. Here is one I put together quick for mine in Free Twitter Designer that matches my website a little more:
When you’re done compositing, simply choose “Generate Image” and the application strips off the Twitter interface and allows you to save the background image to your computer. From there, simply login to your Twitter account, click on “Settings” from the links on the top right. Click on the “Design” tab. Then click on “Change Image Background” link in the lower left.
And simply browse and find the file you created in the background designer then upload.
That’s it. I did bring mine into Photoshop to do some touch up but it is a nice tool that is easy to use.
Here are additional resources I found along the way that you might find helpful.
Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices
(You can download a handy dandy PSD to start from and tutorialize along)
Create A Twitter Background Using PowerPoint
Prettytweet – Twitter Background with their Visual Designer
