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Ease of use

Easily create engaging posters

We asked our customers why they switched over to Piktochart for poster design. The most common answers? “Ease of use”, “professional poster templates”, “better results”. Piktochart is so simple that you can immediately use it, without training. Start with a poster template designed by experts and make it your own or start from scratch, it’s your choice. In addition, collaboration features are included for you to work with your team on visuals or comment.

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Customize to your brand in seconds and grab attention

Drag and drop your logo or a screenshot of your website to auto-magically extract your brand colors. Do you want to use your company’s fonts? No problem. Your custom color palette and uploaded fonts will always be accessible in the online poster maker. Event posters, announcement or informative posters, and any business posters – in the comfort of your web browser.

Create your visual by editing a pre-made template

Create an event poster in minutes

Share your custom posters online and offline with our free poster maker

Invite your team when collaborating on poster design and save time. Share with stakeholders to gather feedback. Push to social media directly from within the platform. Download it as a high-resolution PDF or PowerPoint for print or offline use. It’s up to you how you want to use your visual content. Start creating with our poster creator, and share your poster today!

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Add images, icons, and other assets to the free online poster maker

The times of searching for the perfect free and premium images, stock photos, illustrations, or icons are over. With Piktochart’s free library of high-quality graphics, design components, and customizable poster templates, the visual inspiration you are looking for is where you need it to create a poster; we provide all the tools. You’ll also find premium images right inside our free online poster maker or simply upload your own photos. You can add icons, use your custom dimensions, and your own brand kit. Creating eye-catching posters has never been so easy. No hassle, no design software or design skills needed, and professional poster templates at your disposal through a user-friendly interface.

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How to make a poster

Piktochart access to all templates Pick from pre made templates

Unless you’re a professional designer and prefer to start with a blank canvas, poster templates are the way to go. The free online poster maker from Piktochart is fast and offers high-quality templates you can edit to design custom posters. Find a poster template that fits your needs using the search bar at the top of the Piktochart editor or browsing through our poster templates.

Piktochart upload images Customize your poster

Once you pick a poster template, adjust the colors, change the fonts, and add your text. Customizing is super easy with the poster maker from Piktochart. You can choose from a library of free photos, icons, illustrations, and text frames to help you make your poster stand out. Add visual assets, and customize colors with one click with Piktochart’s drag-and-drop editor.

Content repurposing Download or share online

Once you have finished your poster design, you can easily download it as a JPG, PNG, or PDF. Alternatively, you can generate a shareable link and email your online poster to your client, colleague, or manager. You can also collaborate on your poster and gather feedback by inviting your team to Piktochart. Last but not least, you can embed your poster on your website.

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People like you use Piktochart’s free online poster maker to:

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Marketers

  • Create an event poster design
  • Drive traffic and leads with professional posters that explain your unique offering and brand
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SMEs & Enterprises

  • Explain a process to employees with the perfect poster in just a few clicks
  • Communicate updates in progress easily with our poster maker tool
Format Persona NGOs and Government

NGOs & Government Organizations

  • Explain a process through design elements
  • Inform the public through custom posters to grab your audience’s attention
Format Persona Business Owner

Small Businesses

  • Create business posters
  • Grow engagement
  • Make announcements
  • Assist campaigns with the digital poster maker tool
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FAQs

Here are six easy steps for making your own eye-catching poster online for free:
  • Step 1: Identify you brand personality, audience, and message.
  • Step 2: Draft an outline.
  • Step 3: Decide on your color scheme.
  • Step 4: Add your images.
  • Step 5: Add your copy.
  • Step 6: Make sure your CTA is easy to spot.

The six best websites to make your own poster online:
  • Piktochart
  • Canva
  • PosterMyWall
  • VistaCreate
  • Venngage
  • PicMonkey

Poster making is the process of planning and designing a poster that usually serves the purpose of announcing, promoting, or raising awareness. Typically, posters contain text and graphical elements but can also be entirely text-based or graphical. Use our online poster creator and readymade poster templates to make your own poster today!

You can make digital posters by using a design tool, like Adobe Illustrator, Piktochart, or Canva. Online design tools like Piktochart let you create a digital custom poster using a template or from scratch to be printed or used online in different sizes and file formats.

Sign up for a free account, choose a template, customize and personalize your poster design.

If you have no poster design experience, don’t worry! Our easy-to-use online platform makes it easy to edit existing templates and drag-and-drop your own branding and content.

Download and print your unique poster design to the highest quality and save your digital design for future use.

Posters are available in many different sizes, therefore finding an ideal poster size truly depends on the purpose of the poster, and if it will be printed or remain digital. Your ideal poster size should depend on the volume of posters needed, the poster budget, the poster display content, etc.
1) Large bus stop or subway poster: 40” x 60” Poster (1016 x 1524 mm), ideal size for event advertising posters with big, bold typography and striking visuals to grab people’s attention
2) Standard movie poster: 27” x 40” Poster (686 x 1016 mm), ideal size for a two-sided poster to display in high traffic areas
3) Ideal size for large posters: 24” x 36” Poster (609.6 x 914.4 mm), standard size for advertisements and displaying illustrations, bold typography, minimalist artwork, and more
4) Ideal size for window sign posters: 16” x 20” Poster (406.4 x 508 mm), used to promote events and advertise products, on notice boards, as window signs, or for decorative purposes such as displaying a family vacation photo, artwork, and more
5) A4-size poster and ideal poster flyer size: 8.5” x 11” Poster (215.9 x 279.4 mm), best for common areas, in art galleries, and on community notice boards.

Using Piktochart’s online poster maker, you can download and export a poster in PDF format. When you export a poster in PDF format, you can also choose your desired file quality depending on your poster’s file size and resolution needs (from normal quality to high quality).

Depending on your poster design, you can also download your poster as a PNG, and for both PDF and PNG poster files you have the option of downloading your design in multiple pages instead of one file.

You should choose a poster template that fits as much as possible your use case. This way, you will save time with customization.

Piktochart has every kind of poster template to choose from, including conference poster templates, event poster templates, promotional poster templates, quote poster templates, and much more.

Make the perfect poster online with Piktochart for your next event, product launch, or occasion with free professionally-designed poster templates.

Using Piktochart’s easy-to-use poster editor tool, you can turn a picture into a poster for digital use or printed collateral.

Easily upload and add your picture to an existing template or create a poster from scratch using your picture as the main focus and background.

The international standard poster size follows the A series sizing model, ranging from A0 to A10.
  • The most common and standard poster dimensions typically are A4 (8.27 x 11.69 inches).
  • An A0 poster (33.11 x 46.81 inches) is about 1 meter squared.
  • A0 posters become A1 size (23.39 x 33.11 inches) by folding an A0 poster in half.
    • Following this logic, A1 folded in half creates the A2 poster size (16.54 x 23.39 inches), and so on and so forth to size A10.
  • Because the objective of each poster is different, they come in different sizes. 40” x 60”, 27” x 40”, 24” x 36”, 18” x 24”, 16” x 20”, 11” x 17”, 8.5” x 11” (in the order of large to small) are the standard poster dimensions.

Poster Resources

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