Gig flyers that look commissioned

The photo is the flyer

People stop for images, not information. Lead with your strongest live shot: faces and stage light beat logos and text every time. Each of the eleven designs is built around its photograph and treats it differently. Afterimage turns it into a grainy monochrome print, Underpass paints it as a mural on a concrete wall, Cover Story sets it as a magazine cover and Frequency washes it in holographic foil. Pick the design that suits the shot, then zoom and move the photo until the faces sit where the design wants them.

One night, one message

A flyer isn't a poster: it sells a single night. Act, venue, date, doors: four facts, big enough to read at a glance, and nothing that competes with them. Because the builder fills those in from the booking itself, the classic flyer disasters, last year's date or the old venue name, can't happen. (Promoting a whole run of dates? That's the tour poster's job.)

Make it yours without breaking it

A good design survives the details you add to it. The text sizes itself, so a long band name never spills off the edge, and if a line truly cannot fit, the builder tells you which one. Your logo goes where the design puts it, or anywhere you slide it; the colours come from the design's own dark and light themes, or from your own brand colours. And if the print grain is not right for the night, switch the effects off for a clean sheet.

Every size the night needs

The night gets promoted in at least three places: the venue wall (3:4), the feed (4:5) and stories (9:16), and each crops differently. Every design comes in all three, laid out for each shape, so you make the set in one sitting instead of stretching one image into three wrong shapes. Story guides show where the Reels and Shorts buttons will sit.

Give the flyer somewhere to live

A downloaded flyer is a picture; a published flyer is a page. Publish it and the night has its own page on your profile and an embed you can paste into your own website. Add a ticket link and a QR turns a printed flyer on a venue wall into a way to buy a ticket. Point people at your GigXchange profile and a curious punter becomes a follower.

The whole bill should post it

A night with three acts has three audiences, but only if everyone posts. Sharing the published flyer with the other acts on GigXchange sends it to each of them with a message: same image, three feeds, one coherent night. For the rest of the promotion playbook, timing, captions and local pages, see the event promotion guide, and price the night right with the UK Gig Rate Calculator.