How to Design an Etsy Store Banner in Pixelmator

This is a tutorial that offers advice on how to design an Etsy store banner in Pixelmator. Etsy has become a massively popular online global market place that has opened up opportunities for crafters and artisan makers to sell their goods to customers across the world.

Etsy's popularity can make it hard for sellers to stand out. For that reason it is important that Etsy sellers give some consideration to producing an Etsy store banner that is recognizable and helps to present their store in an attractive and positive manner.

However, if you're creative enough to be selling your goods on Etsy, I'm sure that with your knowledge of your products and creative eye, you're well placed to be able to design the best possible banner for your Etsy store.

In the following steps, I'll take you through the basic framework of designing your own store banner using Pixelmator, the popular and well featured image editor for Apple Macs running OS X. If you use an Apple Mac and haven't heard of Pixelmator, you may want to read our introduction to Pixelmator to find out a bit more about the application and whether it might be suitable for your needs.

In this tutorial I'm not going to hand hold you through the creative process of making the aesthetic decisions. As I've said, if you're selling on Etsy then you're almost certainly creative enough to cover this aspect of the process. I'm just concerned with showing you how to use Pixelmator and its various tools and features to design an Etsy store banner that you can start to use immediately. If you continue to use Pixelmator and understand how to get the most from it's tools, you will be able to return to your banner and add more advanced touches to make it further stand out from the crowd.

• How to Design an Etsy Store Banner in Pixelmator
• Open a New Document
• Set the Background Color
• Add an Image to Your Etsy Store Banner
• Scale the Image to Fit Your Banner
• Add Some Text to Your Etsy Store Banner
• Export Your Etsy Store Banner