Make a poster with Postermywall (tutorial)

What is a poster?

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many purposes. They are a frequent tool of advertisers (particularly of events, musicians and films),propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message. 

Benefits of using Postermywall

Postermywall is a web 2.0 tool to create online posters. It can be used for fun, for business or for educational purposes. This tool can be very useful in the English classroom, as it enhances creativity and the use of the language in a meaningful way. Those students who love working with graphics and drawings will surely enjoy using this tool. However, for those that are not so good at these kind of creative activities, the tool provides them with a variety of templates that helps them a lot so as not to start from scratch. This is why, I personally find this tool very useful in the English classroom context, because students can focus on language, while having fun designing the poster.

1) Getting started

-Enter www.postermywall.com

-Press on ‘Create your poster now!’

-Press on one the category that best fits the purpose of your poster: 

Halloween, Football, Concert/bands, Event Flyers, Retail, Small business, or See more.

- Select the template you like the most and press on ‘create’.

 2) Make your poster

-  Now, you can start customizing the template the way you like:

You can change the text by pressing on it. There will appear a set of options on the right for you to adjust the size, font, letter spacing, line spacing, alignment, visibility, and position. You can also remove the text or send it behind the image. You can also add a piece of text by pressing on ‘add fancy text’ on the left of the page. There, you will find a set of options for you to choose font, colour and colour effect. 

     

-You can add a clip art to your poster, by pressing on ‘Add a clip art’ on the left. There you will have to write any topic you like, such as ‘joy’, ‘party’, or ‘food’, and there will appear some images related to it. You select the one you like and press ‘add to poster’.

-You can also add a photo by pressing on ‘add photo’ on the left. There you will be asked to choose from where to take your photo: the net, Facebook or your documents. You should press on the option you like and follow the instructions (if you choose to take it from Facebook you will be asked to login).

-You can change the background by pressing on ‘background’ on the left of the page. There you will be asked to pick a background from different sources: just choose a solid background (single colour), combine two colours with a fading effect, choose an image from a set provided, choose a photo from the net, or upload a background image from your documents. 

-As you customize your poster, you can undo any of the changes you have made by pressing on ‘undo’ on the left.

3) Finally

- When you finish, you press on ‘save draft’ to save it. There you will be asked to login. You can do it using your Facebook account, your email, as a student.

- If you want to download the poster in your computer, you will be charged. As an alternative, you can take a screen shot of the web page and save the image as a .jpg document.


Have a look at a sample poster created on Postermywall!

See an activity on Postermywall

Have fun!