How to Make a Digital Background for Twitter
by admin on Jul.21, 2010, under Digital Backgrounds
Digital backgrounds are easy to make with Photoshop filters. Once this is done, you can use your backgrounds for Twitter, Myspace, blogs, and your own portraits. This is not rocket science. Digital backgrounds can easily be made in under five minutes.
What Filters Work Best For Creating Digital Backgrounds?
The ‘motion blur’ filter is an excellent choice for making a digital background. The concept is really simple. Take any picture and load it into Photoshop, then apply the ‘motion blur’ filter to your photo by clicking …
Filter/Blur/Motion Blur
When the ‘motion blur window opens, you can adjust the angle of the motion and the amount of blur by moving the bottom slider to the right. If you are working with a high resolution image, you will need to move the slider to the very far right to see any results.
You can also chose a filter from the ‘filter gallery’ by clicking…
Filter/Filter Gallery
When the ‘filter gallery’ windows opens, you will be given a choice of filters to use from the drop down menu on the top right corner of the window. There are plenty of filters to use and work with so don’t limit yourself to just one or two. Experiment with the others as well. Just remember that you don’t have to accept the default settings for each filter. Every filter will have it’s own unique tool adjustments, especially for the amount of strength to be applied.
How to Upload Your Digital Background to Twitter
To upload your background to Twitter you simply need to…
1. Log into your Twitter account
2. Click on ‘Settings’ then ‘Design’
3. Click on ‘Change Background Image’ at the bottom
4. Click ‘Choose’ to search your computer for the background you wish to upload.
Just remember that images must not exceed 800k and must be in GIF, JPG, or PNG format.
