Best program to make banners........

[---MAD---]

Whats the best program to use to make good banners?
(doesnt have to be animated)
Also, how do you make the backgorund pictures blend with the font?

thanks for reading, i hope you can help :)

[Max]

I personally think Photoshop is the best program.
It has many options. I can name them all but the most important thing is: You can choose the dimensions you want your banner to be (Like 400x120 px)
MS Paint doesn't allow you to and has a big lack of tools and other stuff.
Photoshop is the best for design.
MS Paint is the best for pixel art (Habbo alts etc.) Ask the pixel artist ^^
I hope this helped you.

Oh btw you need some experience on photoshop otherwise you cant really make things with it.

Oh and another thing (lol) Photoshop can be downloaded on www.adobe.com (it isnt for free, but there is a trial)

[-JT-]

i recomend fireworks which is much better for beginers. Also, photoshop is the best, hands down. It is absolutly amazing! here are some examples of what you can do:

http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/sig.jpg
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/avatar.jpg
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/avatar1.jpg
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/avatar3.jpg
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/avatar4.jpg
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/banner1.jpg
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/banner2.gif

Also my sites template was made with it:
www.lp-revolution.com

[Mentor]

Photoshops easly the best, even thogh i still havent quite got the hang of it yet.

Athogh if the prce tags a bit (way ) to high

i suggest GIMP (its an open sorse prject from sorse forge) so compleaty free.
And also has soem pretty advanced fucntility

[Max]

Yes but because its freeware it is kinda difficult to understand, it has alot of options but photoshop is much more easy to understand, GIMP is ok though, can be downloaded at www.gimp.org
Btw you can always do the trail of photoshop..