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From Twitter Support: Here are basic instructions for changing your Twitter background and uploading any custom Twitter background.
From E-How: Tidbits provides a step by step guide to creating a Twitter background.
From Musings of a Housewife: Rundown on how to create a Twitter background in 7 easy steps
From E-How: CandisLynn provides a step by step tutorial for using the service Twitbacks to create a personalized twitter background.
From Mashable: This guide goes step-by-step into the rationale for creating a personalized Twitter background, takes a look at some amazing Twitter designers, and provides a list of useful Twitter design tools and resources.
- How To Create Your Own Twitter Background
From Sitepoint: Web designer Jennifer Farley offers up some guidelines regarding dimensions and other design considerations for creating your own Twitter background. - TwitArt – Custom Twitter Backgrounds – Review
From Twitips: Review by Dave Rigotti of TwitArt, a custom Twitter background and avatar website run by Chris Kaufman (@kauf), an award-winning interaction designer.
A Custom Twitter Background can make a real impression and enhance your brand – but how do you make one? In this guest post post Hugh Briss from Twitter Image (a service that offers custom Twitter backgrounds) shares some tips on how to make your own.
- Custom Twitter Backgrounds: Tips for Better Readability From Twitips: In this tutorial Hendry Lee from BlogBuildingU shares some tips on getting Twitter Backgrounds that are optimized for better readability.
MORE HARD CORE:
From Design Reviver: Collection of links to tutorials on making Twitter backgrounds. Includes Twitter background guidelines, making Twitter backgrounds with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Powerpoint and more.
From Blog.Spoon Graphics: This article takes a look at some of the best practices around in Twitter background design and offers a step-by-step approach for designing your own Twitter background.
From The Closet Entrepreneur: Tutorial on creating your own Twitter background using powerpoint.
From Twitips: Advice from David Sommers of COLOURlovers offers a few suggestions you might want to consider for choosing a great color theme for your twitter profile.
TWITTER BACKGROUND SERVICES, TOOLS AND RESOURCES:
From Design Reviver: Collection of links to tutorials on making Twitter backgrounds. Includes Twitter background guidelines, making Twitter backgrounds with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Powerpoint and more.
From Make Use Of: Review of PrettyTweet.com, an online Twitter profile background designer that allows you to place three elements in your background – an avatar, description text, and vertical caption.
A large selection of free Twitter backgrounds as well as completely custom Twitter backgrounds for a fee. TwitterBackgrounds is offering IIG blog readers a $10 discount off the $79 price for a custom design. Use coupon code “iig” to receive the discount.
Service that allows you to create a custom Twitter background. In addition to creating FREE professional Twitter backgrounds, they also advertise your services and Twitter Profile all over the web for a small fee.
On this site, Jim Kukral provides free, customizable Twitter backgrounds that you can download (Photoshop files) and customize. Also shows examples of how these templates have been used by others. Here’s a video explaining how Twitterbacks work:
Choose from 100+ unique themes and backgrounds, brand the profile with a custom badge including name, logo, website and more. Once design is finished, just enter your Twitter login details and it updates instantly.
Downloadable background Patterns for your Twitter page
From Agglom: Great list of links to resources for Twitter backgrounds.
Wide range of wallpapers, backgrounds, and icons you can download and use for your custom Twitter background.
From the Positive Space Blog: Free Twitter themes that you can download for Twitter background.
Wide range of patterns that you can download and use for your Twitter background.
This site is a billed as a “showcase, inspiration and resource for all Twitter fans willing to express their individuality, creativity and professionalism not only through their Twitterstream but via their profile background as well. Look around and get inspired!”
OTHER BACKGROUND, PATTERN AND TEXTURE RESOURCES:
From Smashing Magazine: 100 different beautiful textures in various categories that are available for free online.
From Mashable: Nice rundown of background image resources and tools online
From Beeex Net: Large collection of background patterns, background tiles and free textures that can be downloaded.
I’ve only been making textures for a while now, but everyone seems to love them. I know I can’t ever get enough textures either. So I’ve been surfing and made a list of sites that offer free textures to download. Some have more than others, and some sites have higher resolution images than others, but they all have one thing in common, free downloads.
- Here’s a list of sites with large pattern/texture collections or online generators that allow you to create and download your own patterns:
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