Twitter Background Templates for Illustator & Photoshop

Twit­ter is all the rage, but how can you make a great look­ing twit­ter page? Twit­ter gives the user lim­ited, yet flex­i­ble design options. As social net­work­ing sites go, this gives you the abil­ity to cre­ate a unique look unlike say, Face­book. But it keeps things much cleaner than the design night­mare that is MySpace.

Cre­at­ing a cool back­ground is the key to dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing your­self on Twit­ter. After read­ing Jen­nifer Far­ley, of Laugh­ing Lion Design’s excel­lent  tuto­r­ial on Site­point (click here to read it) about cre­at­ing your own back­grounds for Twit­ter. I was inspired, and cre­ated some generic tem­plates based on her tuto­r­ial. Down­load the my tem­plates and use Jennifer’s tuto­r­ial and these tem­plates and before you know it, you’ll have a back­ground that will make every­one a twit­ter about. Oh, man, I can’t believe I actu­ally used a lame twit­ter pun. Twit­ter puns are the low­est form of humor, it makes one sound like, dare I say it… a twit. I did it again!

Down­load these free tem­plates for your own use, pass along the link if you like them. The tem­plates for Pho­to­shop and Illus­tra­tor with guides and are in the three most com­mon browser sizes (800x600, 1024x768 & 1280x1024), though the 800x600 might be a bit use­less, but you might as well have the com­plete set. These were cre­ated in the CS3, if any­one is inter­ested I can save down the Illus­tra­tor ver­sion to an ear­lier version.

Also you can fol­low me on Twit­ter.

Related posts:

1. Twit­ter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01

11 Comments

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  Jennifer Farley May 7, 2009 at 12:46 am

  Great stuff Devlin! Ter­ri­ble twit­ter pun
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  Jennifer Farley May 7, 2009 at 12:54 am

  Also meant to say thanks for the links and the kind words.
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  Devlin May 13, 2009 at 9:05 am

  No Prob­lem, I’m am glad to link to your articles!
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  Aaron Stewart May 12, 2010 at 10:21 am

  I always use Adobe illus­tra­tor at work because i work in an ani­ma­tion stu­dio. this is really a seri­ous tool for the graphic artist.~‘*
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  Adrian Morgan July 9, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  i don’t know with other users but the new ver­sion of Adobe illus­tra­tor is a bit slower when it loads. ;:’
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  Sophie Wilson August 10, 2010 at 9:30 pm

  Adobe Illus­tra­tor has more fea­tures than its competitors “
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  Finlay Richardson September 29, 2010 at 9:54 pm

  i use adobe illus­tra­tor a lot and i really love its great freatures:“
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  Cursus Illustrator September 28, 2011 at 7:38 am

  I always use illus­tra­tor and com­bine with images pre­paired in pho­to­shop to build tem­plates. Nice one thanks!
  Cur­sus Illustrator´s last [type] ..Google Labs verdwijnt
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  Devlin September 28, 2011 at 9:49 am

  I’m glad you liked it! Hope it was helpful.
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  Alyssa November 14, 2011 at 6:52 am

  Thanks for the tem­plates! I’ve been want­ing to cre­ate my own cus­tom Twit­ter back­ground for quote some time. This will def­i­nitely help. Cheers, Alyssa
  Alyssa´s last [type] ..Per­fect Gluten-Free Blue­berry Pancakes
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  Devlin November 15, 2011 at 12:13 am

  Great Alyssa, I’m glad you found them useful!