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How to Design & Print a High School Team Poster

It may be difficult to find a poster-size picture of your favorite high school team, but you can make your own at home on your personal computer and your color printer. You can then produce as many copies as you need at little additional cost or effort.

Things You'll Need

  • Color printer
  • Digital or physical team photo
  • Digital camera (optional)
  • Tape or glue stick
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Instructions

  1. Acquire an Image

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      Upload a digital photo of your local team from your team's school, its website, the athletic league, a local newspaper or other source.

    • 2

      Acquire a hard copy of a photo from your school, its yearbook, its sports department or other source and scan it to create a digital copy.

    • 3

      Take a photo with a quality digital camera if no existing photo is available.

    Design Your Poster

    • 4

      Open Microsoft Office Publisher. Under "Document Type," click "Banner." Click "View Templates from Microsoft Office Online" and choose a template by clicking "Create."

    • 5

      Click "Font Schemes" and select the font you want to use. Under "File," click "Save As," then "Save In" to select a location, such as your desktop, to save the file. Under "File Name," type in the name of your poster. Under "Save as Type," click "Publisher Files."

    • 6

      Add your photo by clicking under the "Objects" bar "Picture Frame," then "Empty Picture Frame." Click on your poster to place the picture frame. Right-click on the picture frame and point your cursor at "Change Picture," then click on "From File."

    • 7

      Click "Insert" to embed your photo on your poster. Click "Save."

    Enlarge and Print Your Poster

    • 8

      Upload your completed poster to free poster production sites or copy the poster to a thumb drive or other storage device and visit an office supply store or other retail location with a photo finishing business and have them output it on their poster printer.

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      If using an online service, size the poster to your requirements and "cut" it into quadrants onscreen.

    • 10

      Download the finished PDF file and print out each quadrant separately.

    • 11

      Glue or tape quadrants together to assemble your team poster.


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