There are free online banner creator out there. Check google.

Here's some of online banner creator but of course free services always come with their watermark.

BannerFans - Free Banner Maker
Free Flash Banner Creator, creating amazing flashbanner online
Banner Maker - Free Banner Creator for your website, Myspace, Facebook, and more!

I have not tried it but why don't you give yourself a try and share to use your experience?

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Personally, I feel Illustrator is much more useful for design work than Photoshop, but I supposed it depends a lot on the type of banner you are looking to create.

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Yeah Gimp is like the FREE photoshop compatible thingy... the url... gimp[.]org
Happy Banner Making...

Z Huang

eBay Design Ninja

Hey, as a designer I've been working with Photoshop over 3 years.
I highly recommend you to utilize Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe products are quite expensive but it really worth the price.
Having Photoshop as your designing software it will be a great advantage for you because the internet have tons of tutorials about Photoshop.
Lastly, Photoshop is very useful for graphic and website designing.

Hope it helps.

Aleo Flash Banner Maker is a great tool. You can export your banners in either Flash (.swf) or Gif. If you are going to create a logo for your website, I'll recommend you the AAA Logo Maker.

There are various software available on the web where you can design your website banner. As per my view Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver are both well know designing software which will help create an attractive banner design. Adobe photoshop is much easy to learn and develops a unique banner design. Adobe photoshop has advanced features and techniques which will help to create a creative website banner design.

Photoshop software is perfect for Design Website Banners.

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The best way to make banner is to create it from scratch manually with Photoshop.

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There are a lot of online tools who can help you to make a banner ,
i use Photoshop .

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You can utilize online services such as web design bannerfans.com..

I don't think an online banner creator is really a good idea. Plus if you are serious about learning more photoshop, you don't necessarily need to buy it, you can buy like a month of use for $20 http://www.adobe.com/products/creati...scription.html .
And lets face it, the things you can do in photoshop I doubt an online software can match, and not to forget the visual quality of the projects you can create in photoshop.

You can use adobe photoshop for banner design.Its the best.

For banner designing I usually use photoshop. It seems very user friendly software to me.

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Photoshop is always my choice. If your not familiar with it, try AAA Logo creator. Easy to use with more custom designs and fonts.

GIMP / Paint.NET works fine... but they can't compare to the Photoshop.

If you have the time to learn or just need something simple you can do it yourself using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Flash (trial 30 days - free).

Flash Banners: Animation software, animation movies | Adobe Flash Professional CS6

Gif Banners: Photo editing programs, photo editing software | Adobe Photoshop family

Best software really is Adobe Photoshop. But still there are online softwares but sadly has watermarks. Try Adobe Photoshop portable

Yes Photoshop is best one to design banners yet Flash have more tools to make it presentable.

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To be honest, You won't get quality graphic with free graphic builder. So its best to hire someone

Someone has probably already mentioned this but why not save yourself the headache and hire out, i.e. Fiverr. Focus on what your good at and outsource the jobs you're not into doing yourself.

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Photoshop is definitely king, but paint.net (getpaint.net) is kind of like a distant cousin. There are even one or two thing that I use paint.net for that I can't figure out in photoshop. Photoshop can be intimidating for someone who has never used it.

For me, the great tool is a best way to create best banner but the Important thing that you must prepare before create is the Message.

Photoshop CS 5 is the best option for Banner design/Header.

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Yeah, I'd recommend you to use photoshop.

If you are looking for a fast and simple web page banner creator I highly recommend Xheader. It comes with 500 free professionally created backgrounds and a simple graphic designer thrown in. The designer is designed so that you can add your own text, shapes or clipped images on to the headers provided, but you can also start from scratch and create header of any size for Facebook time lines and all.

You can find it at xheader.com

You need to sign-up to get the free 500 header version or there is a free 50 header version that you can find on the download sites. Not to happy about trojan code & viruses on the download sites so I signed to get the 500 header version. There is also a 5,000 header version to that you can get for $49 on the XHeader site.

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I use gimp (i.e. "photoshop for the poor guy" perhaps, but gets the job done, and that's what matters)

You can even try GIMP online here
(the graphics are actually done by GIMP, and expect about 10-20 second delay
for your image to be generated ... that is normal, as the script runs on their server)

cooltext.com

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The OP asked suggestions for a software/script.

STOP pimping your own services!

You can browse the following sites for banner designs

Banner Maker - Free Banner Creator for your website, Myspace, Facebook, and more!
BannerFans - Free Banner Maker
Flash Banner Maker

photshop best for making banner i think u try to learn and buy it

From my experience most of the free banner design programs available are junk. They will help you make a banner but it will probably look like its from the 90s. There are several quality softwares specifically for banner ad design. Here is a good list of them:
www.websitemarketingreviews.com/category/banner-advertising/banner-ad-design-software

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