Beginning Your Image:
From the "File" menu, select "New." A new window will appear asking you to select the dimensions of your image. Banners generally never exceed 600 pixels in width or 150 pixels in height. For our banner image, let's create a 600x150 pixel image. Enter in 600 pixels for the width, and 150 pixels for the height.

Finding a Picture to Use:
Right now you've got a blank image. Let's grab a pre-existing image from the Rutgers home page (www.rutgers.edu) to use in our image. Go to the Rutgers home page, and find the big image at the top of the page with the yellow sun. Right-click this image and select "Save As" or "Save Picture As." A new window will appear asking you to select a location on your hard drive to save the image. Pick a location and click "Save."

Back in Photoshop, select "Open" from the "File" menu, and find the image you just downloaded. Select the image, and click "Open." The image will now open in Photoshop. We're going to erase the black text so that only that sun and the word "Rutgers" remain, so we can use it in our banner.

NOTE: The Rutgers logo is not for everyday use, and is a copyrighted image. Since we are using it for a simple test site on Rutgers space, this is an appropriate usage. Keep this in mind for future projects, however.

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