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> For example, the "Reach for the Stars" picture has a nice black/blue 
> border
> with the title printed largly on the bottom with some smaller extra stuff.
> I would think this would be easy to do, but I need some good pointers.

For what it's worth, I didn't have a lot of ideas either when I did the 
Reach for the Starts poster design, so I looked around for designs I liked, 
and calculated the border/image ratios from them. Then I tested a good 
number of fonts until I found a couple of ones that looked good. For this I 
used Picture Publisher, but the Gimp should do the trick.

For my own posters, I tend to use the following:
4800x6400 pixels : border =  30 pixels background colour + 10 pixels main 
colour + 760 pixels background colour
5000x5000 pixels : border = 10 pixels background colour + 5 pixels main 
colour + 750 pixels background colour
The background colour is either black or white and the main colour is the 
one also used for the text. I usually derive this colour from the dominant 
hue of the image itself.

G.


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