How To Personalize Your Twitter Background with Free Twitter Designer
Posted by Ching Ya | Posted in How To, Social Media Tool, Twitter | Posted on 16-04-2009
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Why you should have a personalized twitter background?
To catch attention
To leave an impression. Help people to remember you.
To let your personality shines through – ‘Personal Branding’!
To gain publicity (businessmen, designers, photographers, artists…)
And more…
It’s time for a makeover!
There are websites that provide free templates for download, like Twitter Patterns; service such as Twitbacks that allows you to customize background while include all your business/contact details you wish to display as reviewed by Darren Rowse; softwares like Adobe Photoshop or some even using PowerPoint to workout the magic. However, after my trial with Free Twitter Designer yesterday, I was impressed for its simplicity, easily customized, non-complexed Twitter background/image generator.
Firstly, you’ll be greeted by some cool-looking themes. Make a selection if you wish, or if you prefer to start from scratch, select‘blank’. No worries, you could always change your mind and add them in later.
Now, here’s the overview of your work space. The tools are arranged neatly at your side bars. The middle page enabling preview of your artwork as you progressed.
Click the image to Enlarge
Step By Step…
1. Here you need to decide: either add a photo from your computer as background via ‘Add Image‘,
or create a template of your own by adding Text/Shapes to your work space.
2. Try out several arrangements, such as:
Resizing your shape/image by dragging the sides;
Rotate it ;
Fade the image for a watermark effect ;
Tryout several Blending Modes to add depths or effects to your artwork;
Or apply emboss, inner/drop shadow effects etc with Styles.
3. Everything seems intact. How about a little general preview by toggling on/off the visibility of the Twitter example page. (Ghosted = semi-transparent)
Satisfied? Let’s save your masterpiece shall we?
4. Click ‘Generate Image’(C).
A- Reapply or change the twitter theme.
B- “Click & Destroy”. if you wish to restart everything.
5. After the image has done loading, click ‘Save Image’ to download your work.
6. Log in to your Twitter profile.
7. Go to Settings > Design > Change background Image.
8. Upload your previously saved design to your Twitter profile page. Click Browse > locate your file.
* untick tile background – for a static design as you scroll down the page
* tick tile background – follow your mouse-scrolling, and repeating tile-effect
9. Mission accomplished! Here’s the sample of my amateurish work.
Now It’s Your Turn…
Make a difference with your Twitter background. Have you being using other web tools? Which is your favourite? Share with us your thoughts, and don’t forget to show off your creation by leaving a comment below. Enjoy!
Please Retweet if You Find This Post Useful,thanks!
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This is a great tutorial for Twitter backgrounds. You posted it one day after I created my first custom one!
I think custom backgrounds are a great way to separate your Twitter from the rest that are out there, and shows that you are a valuable member to follow.
~ Kristi
Dear Kristi,
Thank you for dropping by, and for leaving such an encouraging comment.
You’re right, once I never bother too much about Twitter backgrounds, until I realized it does have potential to attract, and leave impression. This is particularly important if we wish to extend our network, while being noticed in a crowd.
Hope to see you again sometimes. Take care.
You’re welcome.
Considering there is only so little space to make an appropriate about me, creating the custom background gives you a world of extra space to do so.
I have my new one up and running. It is pretty simple, just text on top of an image. But it also allows me to write a little more stuff about myself that stands out, and include many more links to my other social profiles.
@kikolani~ Kristi
I’ll try this method for FTT twitter account. Easy to follow step-by-step tutorial. Thanks for posting.
Okay, okay, sweet tutorial and now I don’t have any excuses!
Stumbled and shared! 
I hear the birds calling me tweet tweet.
-Mig
Very nice and the site looks user friendly too. I changed my background a while ago through Twitbacks and I haven’t been overly happy with it. When I get the time, I am going to work on the freetwitterdesigner. Its in my bookmarks. Thank you for sharing.
I’m very happy to find this. I’ll be starting fresh on Twitter again soon and a sweet background is one of the things I want to have right from the jump.
Kristy, I’ve noticed that instantly when I was in your Twitter profile page. There are A LOT of them, how you manage them I’m totally amazed!
Still, I think that’s a fabulous idea to expand your network. To make use whatever space/opportunity we have. Thanks for the add in Digg, you really encouraged me with that. ^^ Truly appreciate it.
Miguel,
Thanks so much for the stumble. ^^ I’m very interested to see how’s the end result, must be impressive I predict. Now you better inform me once it’s done, or tweet about it.
Hi Rajeev,
I’m glad you find this tutorial helpful. The tools are quite straight forward, I’m sure you’re gonna enjoy it as much.
FTT?
I am going to try this. And these steps seems to be pretty easy to follow. Thanks for sharing.
Very very cool! That will be fun to do.
After May 10th I believe I shall dive into Twitter more than I have.
I got so many ineresting tips from my recent post. Thank you for YOUR input.
Lilymom, you’re most welcome. I’ll be expecting your new twitter page soon. Give me a tweet once it’s done. ^^
Hi Dennis, welcome, always great to see somebody new. I hope you’ve enjoyed your stay so far. Great to see you’ve decided to re-join Twitter, I have a feeling you’re going to have fun with it while building up a strong network. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Dear Salute, welcome, I’m enjoying the writing process too so,glad that everyone find this post useful. That means so much to me. Thank you for your frequent visit. Take care.
FTT – My tech blog (http://www.freshtechtips.com/)
Hi Jannie,
Glad to hear that. No problem, take your time, and get adapt with it. I’m just worry you’re going to get hooked on it instead. lol.. It’s always fun to try new things. If you have any enquiries, do email me at: messagecy@gmail.com
Rajeev,
Oh yeah! Now that makes perfect sense. FTT twitter page.. will be on the look out for that. ^^ Very productive blogger, you are.
As you say, lots of options exist for anyone enthusiastic and truly willing to dabble into them. Found your blog as the result of your comment on Jannie Funster. Keep sending those positive vibes into the world. Love and uplifting thoughts make the world a warm and inviting place for continued learning.
Hi Ching Ya!
It’s been a long time huh?
Great tutorial you have here.. but unfortunately, I don’t have Twitter..
Great to be back here!
XX
An excellent and very in-depth tutorial Ching Ya -)
Welcome, Liara,
It’s a pleasure to see you here. You’ve conveyed an important message indeed, to not forgetting to share the love, and thoughfulness while handling our daily tasks. I should always bear that in mind.
Hi Cashmere,
Great to have you back. Yeah, it has really been awhile, isn’t it? It’s alright, no Twitter, but at least we still have our blogs to work on right? And that matters the most. ^^ Keep the passion going for your blog, and what you love to do. Thanks for your visit!
p/s:
Great to start off the day with much encouraging words from you all. To blog or to tweet, most importantly is the relationship building among people that makes the world seems a lot smaller these days.
Hi Sue,
It’s great to see you here again. Thank you for sparing your busy schedule and drop me a comment here. Wish you have a fruitful weekend ahead.
Take care.
Ching Ya, what a great site you have! I’m so glad your comment on my blog brought me here…
I was signed up with Twitter but resisting the Twitter craze for quite a while until I started getting followers and then reading what a good thing Twitter might be!
Now I am really tempted by your excellent layout for creating a Twitter background… I have a lot of writing to do today so I’ll have to come back to see if I could
make one of the great backgrounds you describe…
Have a great day,
Fran
Hi Fran,
A great pleasure, and warm welcome to you. That’s ok, this post isn’t going anywhere. ^^ No worries, I’ll be right here if you need any assistance. Do let us know when your Twitter page it’s ready so we could have a look.
Have a great day too!
Wow u r really a Twitter guru, I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet but guess I will at some stage. BTW thanks for stopping by my blog
Hi Horizon,
So nice of you to drop by. ^^
I appreciate your visit and nice comment. No trouble, I enjoyed my visit at your site as well. Whenever you wish to hop on the Twitter-wagon and get some tips, I’ll be glad to assist you, as a user/friend instead of a guru though since I’m no where near the title yet. See you around.
This is really good! I’m going to use your info to change my twitter background. Thanks for sharing this!
Hi Charles,
Welcome, and thank you for visiting. I’m glad that the post could help even just the tiny bit. Hopefully by now your Twitter background is up and running. ^^ Hope to see you again sometimes.
Thanks for the info and links. I want to do my own design and make my page unique. This info is very helpful and I appreciate you sharing it
Hi George,
The pleasure is all mine. ^^ Do inform us when you've done customizing your new Twitter page. Best wishes. And thank you for your continuous support.
Thanks for a great article – I love your Twitter background and want to further customise the one at @npc. Unfortunately it seems this tool won't do what I want – I want to fade the image but also tilt it so the "squares" effect are slightly higher on the right than the left, still letting it tile. I can't seem to find a tool anywhere that will let me take an image and do that to it, unfortunately. I may have to eventually give in and learn to use GIMP!
Nevertheless, having the instructions here has saved me lots of searching around to see if this will do what I need, and saved energy is always good
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Welcome Ricky,
Pleasure to have you here. ^^
I think I kinda got an idea what you need. Let me work on the piece and see if we could make it happen somehow. I'll tweet you about it right away.
Thanks so much for your comment.
yes! i did it!
sweet!
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just a question, is it safe to allow these sites to access your twitter account like in free twitter design? that means they have access to my profile?
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Sernan,
For Free Twitter Designer the entire process is carried out ‘outside’ your profile, no login is needed. The created piece will be an independent .jpg or .png file. You only need to login in your Twitter account to upload the image so no harm at all.
As for other third party apps, it’s always better to be careful before allowing access. Ask yourself is this service required? Are there any complaints from other users so far? Remain skeptic is good so not to regret later. Not all of them are unsafe, we just try to prevent.
But you write the clearest and most coherent tutorial! There’s no reason why anyone can’t follow the step by step instructions you’ve beautifully interpersed with great screen shots. Well done, my friend.
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All you need is a little creativity and the right tool to make your Twitter page look professional or simply stand out with the rest of the pack. This tutorial is certainly the right way to do just that and coupled with the fact that the application is free, it is absolutely unbeatable. As usual Ching, great job. will put my creativity in motion and see what I can come up with, lol
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