How to Make Your Own Twitter Background
on Oct 11in Tutorials tagged twitter by jamesEver wonder how to make your own customized twitter background? In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your own customized twitter background from you favorite graphic editor.
1. Open your photoshop and create a canvass with this size of 2048px x 1707. I got this size from http://www.croncast.com/blog/1320/Twitter-background-guidelines-template-size.php. There are numerous tutorials that uses smaller resolutions like 1600px wide by 1200px or 1255px x 555 height. The reason I prefer the croncast size for twitter background because it can accommodate high resolution without destroying the design. To see what I mean here is a twitter profile viewed in different monitor resolutions.
as you can see the girl background from the profile was hidden from view.
However it appear just right with 1280×800 resolution. On the other hand using a much higher resolution the background moves farther from the left which is still quite good since if doesn’t fully affect the entire design.
2. Create a guide for the left branding. First column guide will be 125px horizontally and the second column[guide] will be at 250px. Why divide the left into two columns? So that even if the resolution squeezes to 1024×768 the first column will not break apart only the second column will be hidden. However for higher resolution, the second column will again be visible.
3. Next create the top branding. Insert your logo 15px from the top and 20px from the left. After which you can insert your design in the first column and the second column. As you can see in my twitter profile, the design did not break apart from smaller resolution, but additional designs pop in higher resolution.
My twitter profile in 1024×768 resolution
1280×800 resolution
You can also noticed that I have included a “best viewed” resolution notice for the purpose that viewer will know that additional design can be seen in recommended resolution.
4. Export your design with a max of 800k. Twitter only allows up to 800k background image.
Designing with different screen resolution is always the challenged for designers, I hope that this article has help you in finding ways to solve the design issue of designing twitter background in different resolution.
If you have other ideas or reference a relative link, feel free to comment. 
If you want to design your twitter background ASAP you can check out this useful resources:
Twitter Designer
Now you can personalize your Twitter background like never before. The tool below will help you create free Twitter backgrounds that have the same look and feel as those done by professional graphic designers. It’s easy to use, and best of all, it’s Free! Give it a try!
Twitter Backgrounds
We have the largest selection of free Twitter backgrounds and each design is made by us in house. And if you want an even better Twitter, have our world class artists design you a completely custom Twitter background.
Twit Rounds
Welcome to twitrounds! We are your source for Free Twitter Backgrounds. Every day we update twitrounds with new Twitter Backgrounds for you to use on your profile. Getting a background is very easy. Simply look through all the backgrounds we have to offer, click on the background thumbnail, then use our auto-install tool to easily post the background to your Twitter profile. If you don’t want to use that tool, you can always manually install your twitter background. It’s that easy! Thank you for your support and please tweet about us!
Twitter Backs
Hi, I’m Jim Kukral (me on Twitter) and I built this site to help you have a more professional look for your Twitter presence. These backgrounds aren’t for everyone. In fact, you may hate them.
Web Design Beach
Every background is free, lightweight and optimized for mostly used 1024 resolution but we were thinking about all of you with big screens so have no fear our Twitter layouts are going to look the same on 1280px or wide screen.
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Ramiro Arens
Jan 25th, 2010I started twitter a few weeks ago, since then I’ve begun to love it. When I started I hated Twitter it’s allowed me to network with people in my business alot easier. News and updates happen in right away which makes for a great social communication app.
Twarks Twitetr Designs
Feb 26th, 2010Good thing you’ve covered about the resolution! That’s basically the most tricky thing about designing Twitter backgrounds. The best method really, as you’ve said, is to create a design that’s well suited for a high resolution (low res. creations can look highly unprofessional).
-Twarks Designs