Create Custom Banners In Under 60 Seconds With Snappa

You aren’t a graphic designer...

...so you’re always looking for new ways to whip up banner designs and then get on with your day. But most alternatives come with significant shortcomings.

Photoshop makes banner design a chore.

By the time you’ve figured out all the different image dimensions and imported all your photos and graphics, you’ve already lost half of your day. Repurposing one banner into different sizes? Forget about it.

Graphic designers are expensive and slow.

You need to wait for your request to reach the top of their to-do list, and that’s if you can even afford a designer. And discount designer sites like Fiverr come with similar wait times and inconsistent quality.

Most web-based design tools are clunky and difficult to use.

Plus, the best photos and graphics in their libraries, the ones you would actually want people to see, cost extra.

Now there's a better way...

Make banners on the fly with Snappa

• Save time with preset banner dimensions for Facebook ads, display ads, Facebook covers, Twitter covers, and email headers
• Start with one of many professionally designed banner templates to throw together eye catching graphics in seconds
• Drag and drop your way to your own custom templates to make banners that are always on-brand
• Access thousands of high-res, totally not cheesy, 100% royalty-free stock photos from our library
• Add the polish typically reserved for professional graphic designers with customizable graphics, shapes, and text
• Download your banners as a web optimized JPG, high-res PNG, Retina JPG, or Retina PNG
• Repurpose one stunning banner for your other platforms in a couple of clicks.

Examples of banners made in under 60 seconds

4 steps to professional looking banner graphics

What’s to love about Snappa’s banner maker?

Never worry about banner image dimensions again

Dimensions across all popular platforms are available as presets. This includes banner dimensions for Facebook ads, display ads, social media cover photos, email headers, and more.

Magically resize your banners

With image resizing, you can design a banner one time and then repurpose it for your other platforms. For example, in a couple of clicks, you can turn a Facebook ad into a display ad, or a Twitter cover into a Facebook cover and email header.

Use optimized templates to create banners in seconds

You don’t always have time to dream up a 100% original graphic. With Snappa, you have access to professionally designed banner templates for social media, ads, and emails. Each template is designed to grab attention and earn you clicks. Now you can be confident that your visual elements are well-proportioned, that your text elements are balanced, and that your colors complement one another. And you can easily customize everything about a template to make it match your vision and brand.

Easy access to our library of royalty-free photos

You can find the perfect background image for your banner without searching through a handful of stock photo sites, worrying about image rights, and paying extra for the best images. It’s all inside of Snappa, and it’s free. Of course, you can also upload your own images.

Customize your banners in a couple of clicks

Change background images

Choose from thousands of premium stock photos, dozens of modern patterns, plain color backgrounds, or upload your own images.

Change graphics and shapes

Edit the size, color, orientation, opacity and more for over 3,000 vector graphics and shapes. No graphic design skills required.

Change fonts

Choose from over 200 fonts and typefaces. The text in your graphic changes as you scroll through each font so you can easily preview changes. You can even import your own custom fonts!

Change colors

Change the color of graphics, shapes, text, and overlays with a single click or by entering a hex code. This makes it incredibly easy to create on-brand banners.

Change image effects

Use a simple slider to create a color overlay, to darken and blur your image, and to change your image’s saturation, hue, brightness, and contrast. Play with each effect and see your changes in real time.

Snappa is fast, simple to use, and everything’s included

Snappa is designed to run smoothly in Chrome and Firefox. We have cut features ignored by non-designers to make Snappa as fast as possible. Now you can complete your designs quickly without sacrificing quality.

We have eliminated the learning curve you have come to expect from graphic design tools. You can create your first attention grabbing banner and upload it to your social media or ad accounts within minutes of joining Snappa. Courses, lengthy tutorials, searching through help documents, and talking to support are not required to use Snappa like a pro (free help is available if you need it, thought). Snappa is made for the entrepreneur or marketer who needs to create professional looking banners and then get back to their real work.

Everything is included in Snappa. Get access to our entire library of royalty-free photos and graphics at no added cost.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does Snappa’s free trial last?

You can use Snappa for as long as you like without paying a dime. You have access to 30,000+ photos and graphics, professionally designed banner templates, two connected social accounts, and 5 shares and downloads per month. Even our most powerful time-saving features such as automatic image resizing are yours on the free plan. We only want you to consider a paid account when Snappa becomes an important tool that saves you a ton of time and headache each month.

Is Snappa only for making banners?

No. In addition to making it easy for non-designers to create banners, you can use Snappa to design:

• Social media graphics (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest)
• Facebook covers, Twitter headers and Google+ covers
• YouTube thumbnails and YouTube channel art
• Infographics
• eBook Covers
• Blog graphics
• Display ads of all sizes
• Images with custom dimensions

Are your photos licensed for commercial use?

Yes! All photos included in Snappa are released under Creative Commons CC0. This license allows you to copy, modify and distribute photos, even for commercial purposes, without asking for permission or paying a fee.

Does Snappa offer customer support?

All members have access to video tutorials, detailed help docs categorized by topic, answers to FAQs, and email support.