How to Create Posters With Nutrition Displays

It may seem impossible to make posters with nutrition displays without the use of special equipment, but with a little effort it's easy to do it on your own computer. Nutrition labels are on most foods that you buy. They sometimes have a complicated list of nutrients and are usually printed by specialist printers. But don't worry; you can make a professional nutrition display that you can print and stick to a poster or edit on your computer.

Things You'll Need

• Image editing software

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Instructions

• 1

  Go to a nutrition website which allows sharing of images. Create a login for the website. Check your email for the login details, if necessary, and make sure you are logged in to the site.

• 2

  Click on the "Foods" link on the nutrition website. Search for the food you want to use for your nutrition display poster. Click on the food to display a nutrition label, or use the site links to find the label.

• 3

  Open your image-editing software. Take a screenshot of the active window: "Hold down the Alt key and press PrtScr/Print Screen." Open a new file in the image-editing software and paste your screen shot onto the new file.

• 4

  Select the exact area of the nutrition label with the "Select" tool. Crop the image to leave only this area: "Image ---> Crop" or similar command. Re-size the image to your desired size: "Image ---> Re-size" or similar command.

• 5

  Print the image if you want to stick it to a poster. Set up the paper size, print and cut around the border. Edit the image in the software and add a background, writing and other images instead if desired.