How to make badges?

[HoloYolo]

I wanna make badges for challenges, and I don't know how. Give me a run-by on the process.

Thanks,

Kaboom!

[Guest]

I personally just use PowerPoint and SnippingTool/Screenshots. Maybe some MS Paint, but that´s all.

At first, you have to decide for the background. It can either be a picture or just a color of a color scheme. It should fit your topic (f.e. your challenge).

Then you put the text (the challenge name/a description/something else) around the main part of the picture. The color of the text should correspondent with you picture/background color and if possible with your topic (f.e. green and black for the calculator challenge), and so should the font (digital for the calculator challenge, alien encounter for my military company).

If you don´t have a picture for background, put the text in the middle and one or two small pictures/paintings/diagramms next to it. Your badge should be more wide than high, because it fits better in a sig then. You can also round the corners, make a frame etc. Just try not to overdo it.

If you have done all this with powerpoint, go to presentation mode and make a screenshot. Open the screenshot with MS paint and cut away the white pieces. (You can also directly screenshot just the badge with SnippingTool, but I don´t know if you have it)

Upload the picture to imgur and resize it to ___x100. Then it fits the signature perfectly. If you resize to ___x88 (I use this, 90 or something else might work, too) the user can also write a line of text beneath the signature.

You´re done!

This is my way for people-who-have-neither-good-programs-nor-art-skills. If you´re an awesome artist with awesome programs you can do way better, but it also works like this.