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Personally, I used gimp (a free image manipulation program). It is not the most user-friendly software I've ever come across but there are some good youtube tutorials out there. I'd be curious what others use.

I started by creating an image size that fit (500 px by 150px). Then I picked out a few of my horses that I wanted to feature. After removing their backgrounds and positioning them, I played around with text to find something that showed up well.

After that, I was going to do a more complex background but realized that I was already over the max image size (15kbs). So I went for something very simple and had to reduce my overall image quality.

That would be my big recommendation when planning - try to keep things simple so that you don't have to reduce image quality too much when uploading.

I'll be going back soon to improve my first attempt which was a bit rushed, so if you'd like any help doing yours, just let me know!