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How To Guides: Advertisement

Context

Need to create an advertisement but not sure where to start?

This guide includes links to tools and resources that can help you

including free graphic design websites such as

Adobe Spark, Canva, Piktochart and MS Publisher.

Logo Makers

 

Need a logo for your website? Use one of these free logo designers:

Canva Free Logo Maker

Free Logo Design 

Logo Maker 

Looka 

 

Copyright Free Images

Are you looking for images to use in your assessment, but worried about that pesky copyright issue? 

There are a number of websites you can use to source images which are available for use privately and commercially for free, such as the following:

Pixabay

✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images.

Pexels

Free stock photos you can use everywhere. ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required.

Free images

Free, high quality stock images ✓ Free for personal use ✓ Free for commercial use

The following websites allow you to search for images licensed under the Creative Commons license. For more information about the Creative Commons visit https://creativecommons.org/ 

Adobe Spark

 

Learn how to make a movie poster for your favourite film.. All you need is a phone, tablet, or desktop, Adobe Spark and some creative ideas.

Dom Traynor Creative Tutorials

 

Canva

 

Create a screenplay or film poster with the Canva Poster Maker!

 

Piktochart

In this video tutorial, we show you how you can easily create professionally-looking visuals in any format: infographic, report, presentation, social media graphic, poster, or flyer. No previous design experience is required.

 

Publisher

MS Publisher

Learn how to create a poster in Microsoft Publisher.

References

References 

Dom Traynor Creative Tutorials. (2020, May 19). How to make a movie poster with Adobe Spark [Video]. YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvttyQrykd8&t=97s

Fair, M. (2020, June 10). Create a movie poster with Canva [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waT1Ev_6Nd4&t=166s

Good Good Good. (2017). The Good Newspaper [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/rqIfy1UyIzE

Piktochart. (2021, April 27). Piktochart Tutorial: How To Get Started With Piktochart For Beginners (2021 Version) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAcD5Y8pNmM&t=0s

Scarantino, N. (2016, April 22). How to create a poster in Publisher [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFDn5zSS5A&t=45s

Cover Image Credit

Good Good Good. (2017). [Person holding a newspaper] [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/rqIfy1UyIzE