This is going to be a very simple tutorial teaching you, how to create a banner using Gimp. Simply follow these steps and you will gain knowledge in creating banners, editing or simply modifying using Gimp.
Step 1
Download the latest version of Gimp if you don’t already have it. By the way Gimp is open source and free. Please click on the following link http://www.gimp.org/ .
Step 2
Down load the following banner template. Open Gimp and locate your hotel-banner-template.png. The dimensions are 342 x 86 pixels and 5.88 kb in size. See image below.
Step 3
The next step is to remove the alpha channel so that we can see some white background, which makes it easy to add and edit. See image below.
Once the alpha channel has been removed you will see a white background. See image below.
Step 4
We are now going to open our image or photo, the one that will be inserted to the left hand side of the banner. See image below.
Locate your image or photo and open it. I have opened the gimp banner image and placed it side by side with the banner template for you to see. You can use any image you like. See image below.
Step 5
We are going to re-size the image so that we can insert it into the banner. Remember to keep in mind the height of the banner, which is 86 pixels. We will re-size the image to 82 pixels because we also have to compensate for the width of the border around the banner. In Gimp this is called Scale Image. See image below.
The image has been scaled to Width 97 and Height 82 pixels. See image below.
Step 6
We are going to select the image and paste it into the template image. See images below.
We select the image.
We paste the image and as you can see it is in the centre of the template image.
Step 7
We are going to select the image and use the move tool to move it to the left side of the banner. You have an option to round the image corners before you move it; this will allow the image to sit nice on the already round corners on the template. I have added round corners. See image below.
Step 8
Now we will add some text using the Text tool. See image below.
This is very important especially when you are describing what the banner is all about. In this case I am designing a banner for Gimp. Please notice that I have added the text and the settings on the right hand side for you to see. The text is aligned on the centre, the font size is 9 pixels, font type is Sans Bold and the colour is red. See image below.
Step 9
The banner is completed, the book now is for the pretend seminar coming up 
. See image below.
