subject: How To Convert Your Posters To Web 2.0 Designs [print this page] Converting your posters to look like those online web 2.0 websites is actually pretty easy. In this special tutorial in designing posters, I am going to teach you, area by area, how you can convert your poster design elements to a more web 2.0 like design. Just apply all these design tweaks to your poster printing and in just an hour or so, youll be turning out great looking color posters that look very trendy just like those web 2.0 websites.
Lighten those colors up First up, you should know that most web 2.0 sites use lighter or more vivid colors. So as an initial step, you should review your main background color, as well as the colors you use in your text and other graphic elements and then start lightening them up. Your design software should easily help you with this job. Make sure that you make your whole design brighter with more vivid colors to help add that amazing web 2.0 eye candy elements into your own color posters.
Round out and soften those graphics If you have hard line borders, text boxes or picture elements in your poster designs, you will also need to edit them to make them more in line for a web 2.0 theme. It is important that you try to add more rounded or softer edges into these elements to make them look a bit more sleek and smooth. You can try adding rounded color strokes onto them, or in the case of borders, you should try to replace them outright with more rounded types of designs. The softer, curvier and rounder things are, the more web 2.0 your color posters should become.
Use web 2.0 fonts Of course, your text will have to be changed if you want it to look like it is within a web 2.0 theme. Download some free web 2.0 fonts and try to apply all of them to your text content. There should be plenty of free serif and sans serif fonts online that are classified as web 2.0. Just look at font databases and search for the fonts that you like. The newer the font style, the better looking your posters should be.
Clean and simplify the layout Also, you should try to reassess your whole poster layout and try to clean up and simplify its design. If you adhered to the fully textured, abstract and grunge like design of old, you will have some work cut out for you. A web 2.0 design is usually clean and simple with only light texture elements or graphics to make things look interesting. So try to clean up your color posters, add some white or empty spaces and then style them a bit to make those prints look really trendy for people.
Use poster materials that gleam or shine The final piece of the puzzle to make your color posters adapt the web 2.0 theme is to use poster materials that gleam or shine. If you look at those web 2.0 designs, you will see that not all colors and spaces are set in one hue. There are lighting effects and gradient effects that makes the areas more dynamic.
So by using actual glossy materials in your color posters, you can add that natural lighting effect as those materials reflect the light towards the eyes of readers. Believe me, not only will this make your posters look web 2.0, but is also generally makes them impressive looking. So try to spend on great glossy paper materials for your poster printing.
Great! Now you know how to convert your designs to a more web 2.0 theme. Just remember to apply all these elements to make a complete conversion to that trendy design style. Good Luck!
