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We asked our customers why they switched over to Piktochart for poster design. The most common answers? “Ease of use”, “professional pre-made templates”, “better results”. Piktochart is so simple that you can immediately use it, without design skills. Choose from the free poster templates designed by experts and start customizing. Add icons, graphic elements, upload your own photos or choose from a large library of stock images. Collaboration features are also included for you to work with your team, leave comments, and create beautiful visuals.

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Customize to Your Brand With Our Poster Maker Tool

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.

Add your own images by editing one of the customizable poster templates. Whether you are a small business owner or you work for a corporation, you can save money and be efficient by using a poster creator.

Event posters, announcement or informative posters, movie posters, and any business posters in a web browser – you have flexibility to create no matter if you’re in the office or your own home.

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Share Your Custom Posters Online and Offline

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 Piktochart platform. Download it as a high-resolution PowerPoint or PDF (with the premium plans) for print or offline use. It’s up to you how you want to use your visual content. Start creating eye-catching posters in minutes.

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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 open library of high-quality graphics, design components, and customizable pre-made 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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“I was looking at different companies, like Canva and Venngage and whatnot, and what really interested me about Piktochart was that they had just as many features but I felt the price was just right in a sense; we were able to get more for our money, for less than the competitors.”

Theodore Paat

Theodore Paat

Instructional Designer at Affirm

How to Make a Poster

1. Pick from pre-made templates

Unless you’re a professional designer and prefer to create from 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 new templates that fit your target audience using the search bar at the top of the Piktochart editor or browsing through our poster templates.

2. Customize your poster

Pick the free poster templates, adjust the colors, change the fonts, and add your text with all the important details. Customizing is super easy with the poster maker from Piktochart. You can choose from a library of free photos, icons, illustrations, and text frames for professional poster design. Add visual assets, and customize colors with one click with Piktochart’s drag-and-drop editor.

3. Download or share online

Finished your poster design? 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 while you create by inviting your team to Piktochart. Last but not least, you can embed your visual 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 and other visuals for advertising purposes using a free poster maker
  • Drive traffic and leads with professional posters that explain your unique offering and brand
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SMEs and Enterprises

  • Explain a process to employees with the perfect poster in just a few clicks
  • Communicate updates easily with our poster maker tool
NGOs and government persona

NGOs and Government Organizations

  • Explain a process through design elements
  • Inform the public through custom posters to grab the audience’s attention
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Small Businesses

  • Design posters to grow engagement
  • Create business posters
  • Make announcements
  • Assist campaigns with the digital poster maker tool

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Flyers
Social Media Graphics
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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 best websites for poster making are:
  • 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 fast.

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 design.

If you have no design experience, don’t worry! Our easy-to-use online platform makes it easy to create a stunning poster and drag-and-drop your own 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 its purpose, and if it will be printed or remain digital. The ideal size should depend on the volume needed, the budget, the display content, etc.
1) Large bus stop or subway poster: 40” x 60” Poster (1016 x 1524 mm), ideal size for event advertising 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 ones: 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 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 it as a PNG, and for both PDF and PNG 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, event poster, promotional poster, quote poster, and much more.

Create 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 are typically 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 A2 (16.54 x 23.39 inches), and so on and so forth to size A10.
  • Because the objective of each visual 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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