How to Customize and Decorate Your QR Codes with Pictures
We all know about QR codes. Some black and white boxes, containing encoded data. Boring, isn’t it? Let’s decorate and make your QR code more stylish and customized!
No, QR codes aren’t dead; it’s just the fact that people have failed to properly utilize them. Today, we will tell you how to make attractive QR codes. Let’s have a look at a QR code in a bit more detail. The arrangement of the small black boxes in a QR code determines the information it contains. But the colour of the code doesn’t matter, as long as it is readable by a QR code reader. For this purpose, we suggest you get a QR reader app for your phone. For iPhone, Scan is a good one, and for Android there’s QR Droid.
Let’s start. Now we have two choices. First, you can create a customized QR code online, but the level of customization will be limited. The second option is to generate a simple QR code, and then play with it in Photoshop/GIMP/your favourite image editing program to create a customized version. There are several possibilities in the latter. However, the only thing you need to keep in mind is that the integrity of the QR code remains intact, and it doesn’t lose the encoded information. We will talk about it later.
The Simple Method
