Materials
To proudly say: “We are making a birthday poster” you will need:
- Whatman sheet;
- White and colored paper if you plan to create pockets or appliqués;
- Scissors;
- Paints and brushes, pencils and markers;
- Sequins, bows, tinsel, vinyl stickers, artificial flowers and leaves, confetti and other decorative elements.
The same materials will be useful for making wall newspapers for all other holidays.
Thematic posters
With original ideas
When congratulating colleagues, friends, acquaintances, relatives, it is enough to remember their tastes. Following in this direction, the use of landscapes, landmarks, and memorable photographs is allowed. Car lovers will love the glued car. Jokers and wits will appreciate greetings and wishes in a comic form. The vain can be pleased with their favorite phrases.
With a selection of photographs
This paper greeting is suitable for any occasion. Efforts will be required to collect the best photographs of a particular person. If this is dad, mom, elderly relatives, you need to try to find photographs from long ago, footage of family events. They will become the subject of memories. The hero of the occasion will understand your sign of attention, your efforts to please him.
To design such a congratulation you will need a lot of photographs. After collecting them, it is not difficult to decide on the topics of the photo collage: with household members, pets, among friends, among colleagues, etc.
Romantic congratulations
Shapes such as hearts, white clouds, a flying balloon are suitable for their design, add compliments, words of declaration of love. You can glue colorful butterflies.
Congratulations to the children
Of course it's for children. To create it you will need small gifts: candies and sweet surprises go well with cartoons and favorite books. The birthday boy will be pleasantly surprised by his own drawings. For an older child, forgotten photographs from different years will be a new discovery.
Yummy poster
At such a congratulation the main content will be sweets. They should be selected for their light weight to ensure they can be attached in weight. Glue, tape, and a stapler will help with this. Additional decorative elements will include candy wrappers, colorful bows, ribbons, and appliqués.
Fun poster
If the goal is to amuse the guests and the birthday person with jokes and laughter, you need to turn to making a joke stand. Extraordinary images that are appropriate in meaning to the character, life, and successes of the hero of the occasion will come to the rescue. Family photos will take their place on it.
Of course, you can’t do without a congratulatory text - it will decorate the center, humorous poems, phrases, captions under photos, funny comments. Paint the remaining empty spaces with contrasting colors.
Making a small collage with your own hands will also brighten up the holiday. You need to try to make it using original ideas. By the way, there will be small drawings and bright applications that complement the overall plot. Write funny captions under each photo.
Color spectrum
Congratulations should always be accompanied by an explosion of emotions, and they are impossible without bright colors. Therefore, do not be afraid to use elegant paints, felt-tip pens, and colored pencils.
Black and gloomy tones are best left for boring working drawings and diagrams.
Impossible triangle
For the second drawing we chose the Penrose triangle, better known as the impossible triangle. The idea was to combine the rigor of a geometric image and the lightness and spontaneity of watercolor.
1. Drawing a triangle turned out to be not too difficult. It would be possible to print it out, but then the picture would be spoiled by the contours of the figure.
2. To easily fill fairly large surfaces without fear that the paint will leak beyond the boundaries, we used latex masking liquid.
The purpose of the reserves is to protect the paper from ink. A latex mask is sold in art stores and is a tinted liquid in a bottle. As they dry, they turn into an elastic material that is easy to remove with your fingers or an elastic band. It is better to apply it with a pen or a stick; the brush will not be washed later.
3. Mix paints on the palette, remembering that you need to show the illuminated and dark sides of the figure. The main rule of watercolor is to trust the paints. First, thoroughly wet the entire surface on which you are going to paint and let the paint flow freely across the sheet. To allow yourself this ease, mix the necessary colors on your palette in advance.
Tip: do not forget that you need to convey volume - for edges that are in the shadow, choose not just a darker, but also a cooler shade.
Poster shape
Traditionally, posters are drawn on A1 paper.
But you can change these traditions a little and:
- Fold a large sheet of paper like a giant postcard;
- Cut the corners figuratively;
- Give the paper an unusual shape of clouds, a ship, a bear and other natural phenomena or toy fairy-tale characters.
By the way, the inability to draw or write calligraphy will not be a reason for refusing an unusual greeting, just like the inability to write poetry. Instead of your own drawings, you can use pictures from magazines or the Internet, and the printer will correct the most beautiful handwriting.
On the World Wide Web you can find suitable congratulations and captions for pictures, although it is better to write them yourself.
Print from the comfort of your home
Why waste time printing at a copy center? Photo COLLAGE takes care of the quality of the poster, playbill or wall newspaper. Send the result to your home printer. Select the desired paper size, set the resolution to 300 dpi
and sheet orientation, specify the number of copies, crop markers and margins.
The poster can be saved as an image and published online. This is possible in popular formats: JPEG
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TIFF
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Photo collage
The question of how to make a poster for your husband, wife, parents, sister, brother is most easily solved with the help of photographs.
Most often, a small retrospective is made with photographs of the most significant moments of life from birth to the present day, but you can also make thematic congratulations, for example, on Mother’s Day or the holiday of a tanker, teacher, or builder.
To diversify such fairly typical posters, you can pick up old newspaper or magazine clippings dedicated to the holiday. If finding a real newspaper is difficult, you can print it yourself.
Posters for official holidays are decorated with appropriate decor:
- For the New Year they draw snowmen and Christmas trees;
- By February 14, all kinds of hearts are used;
- By March 8, flowers made of paper or fabric are glued;
- At Easter, the creation is decorated with images of candles, Easter cakes, and chickens.
For a birthday, you can use whatever you want and it will be nice for the birthday person to see it.
What should the ideal poster be like?
It doesn't matter what topic you are making a poster on. The main thing is that it is colorful, bright, cheerful, original, as it should characterize a festive mood, joy and evoke only pleasant feelings.
First you need to make sketches on a regular notebook sheet in order to avoid the unfortunate event of redoing it. Some tips to take into account:
Remember that the main element, in addition to design and decor, is the semantic part (that is, if the recipient of the gift has a birthday, you need to write his name, date of birth, age and various congratulations).
If you have no talent or inclination to draw, you can find many options and materials to make a gift poster: clippings from colorful magazines, find funny pictures on the Internet and print them.
Any poster should be bright and interesting, because it is both beautiful and original; Your efforts and attempts to show imagination will be immediately noticeable, resulting in success.
With wishes
An unusual way to congratulate the hero of the day will be group photographs, next to which relatives and friends will leave their wishes.
- To do this, it is better to leave colored pens and markers next to the poster.
- During the celebration, empty seats will be filled with inscriptions that can be read at the end of the evening.
Living room solutions
A poster for a living room decorated in a high-tech style is usually chosen with an abstract pattern, with inscriptions or a photograph. Black and white interior posters with some red element fit perfectly into the minimalist design of such a room. Art posters with photographs of movie stars or posters made in the style of Alphonse Mucha are suitable. The main thing here is the desire and artistic taste of the owner. A good choice would be a copy of a painting by a fashionable contemporary artist.
For classic or Provence-style living rooms, compositions with natural landscapes, made in pastel colors, that harmoniously fit into the interior are suitable. Vintage posters with images of floral arrangements in specially aged frames look good.
With pockets
An unusual way to congratulate the hero of the occasion will be pockets in which you can put small surprises: candy, money, poems, wishes.
The following will help you answer the question of how to make a poster with pockets with your own hands:
- Regular office files;
- Postal envelopes;
- Pieces of fabric;
- Paper;
- Matchboxes.
Poster with hearts
When designing a congratulatory poster for your significant other, it is appropriate to use heart-shaped decorations, as they characterize love and are the main element for emphasizing the romantic theme.
Hearts can be drawn and cut out of colored paper, cardboard, or painted with paints or felt-tip pens. The best option would be valentines bought in a store or made by yourself.
Cool posters, made by yourself, are suitable for congratulating someone with a good sense of humor. Jokes should not be offensive to the individual; they should be neutral and easy to understand. Black humor will, of course, be inappropriate.
Sweet posters
The poster can also be tasty and edible. To do this, sweets, chocolate bars, and small packages of cookies are glued onto whatman paper.
You can use sweets to put out funny pictures in the form of a house or a car, from where the birthday boy’s face will look out, or a palm tree, under which his photos from the resorts will be located.
Intrusive advertising will help make the sweet poster easily recognizable, and for those who don’t watch TV, you can make the following inscriptions:
- "Bounty" - for heavenly pleasure;
- Skittles - share the rainbow with your friends;
- “Snickers” - don’t be sad, Snickersny;
- chocolate with liqueur - if you’re sad, eat a chocolate bar; if that doesn’t help, wash it down with cognac.
You can come up with similar inscriptions yourself or find them on the Internet.
Instead of sweets, you can attach packages of chips, cold cuts, instant noodles, and chewing gum.
Examples of posters made in Photo COLLAGE
Looking for inspiration? Look at examples of work completed in the application:
You can create a poster from family photos.
Vivid shots of people or the city go well with typography.
The poster can remind you of summer and travel.
Inspiration can be found in music or art, for example, the first poster is a quote from a Beatles song, and the second is an obvious reference to the work of Andy Warhol.
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Children's posters
The technology that answers the question of how to make a poster for children with your own hands is not much different from adult crafts. But here you can paste pictures with your favorite cartoon and comic book characters, replacing the faces of the characters with photographs of the child himself and his family.
In such posters, they are not too keen on writing texts; children will be much more pleased to receive a bright and cheerful wall newspaper.
Poster with prints
The fastest and easiest option is to make a greeting poster with your own hands depicting bright fingerprints and palm prints, but in order for everything to work out correctly, you need to follow the instructions step by step. You will need paint, markers, and whatman paper.
In the center you need to paste a photo of the person being congratulated. Around, after dipping your palm in the paint, make your own imprint and ask your friends to repeat these actions.
All photos of examples of the above homemade posters can be seen on this website.
Desire visualization posters
In addition to greeting posters for the holidays, you can make a poster for yourself. The wish fulfillment card is still quite popular and allows you to plan your life for a short and long period (but no more than a year).
If we consider the question of how to make a wish poster, then first you need to find your favorite photo. It is placed in the center of whatman paper.
Starting from the upper left corner clockwise, place the sectors:
- Wealth;
- Glory;
- Love;
- Creation;
- Trips;
- Career;
- Knowledge;
- Family.
Appropriate pictures or motivational inscriptions are placed in each sector. Dreams should have clearly defined meanings, for example, doubling your income, going on vacation to Bali, enrolling in (finishing) a tailoring or French language course.
When making a poster for visualizing desires, you cannot use denial. A wish card can be made in a solid style or be a rather bright picture that evokes joy and pleasure.
Feng Shui experts say that such visualization really helps your most cherished dreams come true.
All the necessary tools in one program
The process of creating a poster will be fun if you can realize any creative ideas. In a new project, edit any element, place several photographs on one sheet and process them. Photo COLLAGE allows you to:
- Improve the quality of pictures
. Double-click on the image to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, or apply filters. - Crop the image
. Using the tool, trim off the excess, rotate the frame, and flip it horizontally or vertically. - Stylize photos. In the "Effects and Frames" section, find the appropriate filter. You can tint a picture to match a specific color. Or decorate it in pop art or antique style. This will come in handy, for example, if you want to make a collage for May 9th.
- Replace the background of an image
. Got a bad background? Cut out the object using a special function and remove unnecessary surroundings.
Photo of a homemade poster
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Where and how to place posters on the wall
It is also important to choose the sizes of posters correctly; the size should fit the size of the room itself and the furniture located in it. If the poster will be located above the furniture, then it should be at least half the width of this furniture, because this way it will look proportionate. And not too small.
When placed on an empty wall, compliance is coordinated with the width of the wall surface. In a small room, a very wide image will look out of proportion. And in the end, it will visually make the room even smaller.
If we are talking about a piece of furniture that is not very wide, then the poster above it should be approximately the same size.
Posters influence the visual perception of the size of the room itself. To increase the length of the room, you can hang a modular picture, which will take up a lot of space across the width of the room. If you want to lengthen the room and visually make the ceilings higher, then purchase narrow, vertically located works.
To increase the length of the room, you can hang a modular picture, which will take up a lot of space across the width of the room.
The level of location also plays an important role in the correct perception of images. Experts say that the best option is to place the picture at a height so that the center is equal to eye level. The type of room is also taken into account here. For example, in the living room, it is taken into account that it is at the level of a standing person, and in the kitchen it is necessary to hang a picture lower. After all, people sit in the kitchen more often than stand.
The best option is to place the picture at a height so that the center is equal to eye level.
The article talked about the basic rules for choosing posters and their correct location. Of course, it is difficult to reveal all the nuances in one article, but this information will already be of great help in choosing a suitable poster for decorating a room. A poster can really become an excellent decorative element and play a fundamental role in the design of an apartment. You can transform a room with your own hands, you just have to take this issue seriously. Take into account all the parameters of the room and decide in advance on the place where the poster will be purchased.
DIY interior posters
A poster is not just a picture printed on paper. This is a kind of art that always carries an idea. Don’t think that posters are only suitable for decorating the interior of a teenager’s room. This decorative element will fit perfectly into any interior. Purchased posters are certainly very stylish and high quality, but a handmade product will look much more interesting.
How to make a poster from a photo on a computer?
- Step 1. Getting started
Download the photo editor distribution kit from the website and install the program on your computer.
Launch it and in the start window click “Open photo”. Select the photo from the folder that you want to use as the basis for the poster and double-click on it. It will appear in the program's working window. Select a photo to work with
- Step 2. Image processing
To make a poster, it's not enough to just take a photo and put a caption on it. First you need some processing. It is also easy to do using PhotoMASTER.
• Quality improvement. If the photograph initially had defects, then first of all you should get rid of them. You can use the Auto Enhance option or manually make the image richer and clearer. In the “Retouching” section you can find tools for professional portrait processing: a stamp, a healing brush and presets for instant automatic facial enhancement.
You can instantly transform a portrait
• Framing. Is the composition of the photo not ideal or do you want to use only part of the image as the basis for the poster? PhotoMASTER will also act as a photo cropping program. Go to the “Crop” section and trim off any excess. You can choose the desired proportions and type of grid to correctly build the composition: according to the rule of thirds, the golden ratio, etc. Simply set the frames as required and apply the changes.
• Stylization. Sometimes, to realize an idea, you need to change the mood of a photo or its color scheme. For example, you want to stylize your work as antique or make a movie poster. Go to the “Effects” section - here you will find 140+ different filters that can completely change the lighting in a photo, color it in any tone or add fog. Select the desired effect, adjust the strength of the effect and click “Apply”.
You can stylize the photo to suit any idea.
• Background replacement. To implement complex ideas, editing using several photos may be required. For example, take a portrait and instead of the original background make a plain backdrop or some unusual background like a wanted poster from the Wild West. There is a background replacement option in the Tools section that will make it easy to cut out a person or object. Mark the object and background with markers, and the program itself will find the boundaries and remove the unnecessary. All you have to do is substitute a new background.
- Step 3: Add text
Go to the "Inscriptions" section. Here you can add beautiful captions to your poster. In the panel on the right, click the “Add text” button, a frame with a basic inscription will appear on the screen. Type the desired text in the box.
The built-in catalog has about a hundred bright, original design styles that you can use to create your own poster. Choose the most optimal one.
You can add text and choose beautiful styles
If none of the proposed options matches your idea, open the “Text Settings” tab. Here you can choose an interesting font and color, add a shadow of any shade and size, enable and customize the stroke of letters. The inscription can also be made translucent.
Create your own text design
You can adjust the position of the text by dragging the frame. And if you pull its edges, the size of the inscription changes. Adjust it as the artistic intent requires.
A poster may require several text elements. Having created and configured the first one, you can similarly prepare and place the remaining inscriptions.
- Step 4. Save the poster
The finished project should be saved. To do this, click the button of the same name and specify the path to the folder in which you want to place the poster. Enter a file name. You can also print your work directly from the program.
You can save and print the finished poster
You learned how to make a poster from a photograph in the PhotoMASTER editor. In it you can easily and conveniently retouch a photo, process a photo in a vintage style and add text. Now it will be even easier to decorate your rooms and make your loved ones happy during the holidays. Download PhotoMASTER and turn your favorite photos into stunning posters!
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