vendredi 22 août 2014

How To Make Sobriety Greeting Cards

By Dora Reed


Having a holiday around the corner means that you have to prepare some gifts to give to your special someone. Other people will give sobriety greeting cards to their special someone, to show that they are important. The said gifts are easy to purchase nowadays and you also have lots of varieties you can pick from too.

While the store-bought ones may be of great value already, there is definitely nothing that can be a personalized card. You can make your own cards nowadays, considering that there are various tools for designing available nowadays. As long as you follow simple principles for graphic design, it should be easy to handle the work.

Of course, you can also take advantage of a few tips to be able to make the said card. There are tips for making the card that you can use for your own benefit these days. All you have to do is follow the said tips and you can do a good job with your work. Here are those tips that you should take note of when making the card.

First, you have to remember that there are software for designing available for installation or download nowadays. You have to pick the appropriate software for the making of the card. You can usually find professional desktop publishing software nowadays that will allow you to make your own card.

Remember to pick a format as well. Think about the kind of card it will be. It can be serious, funny, oversized, personalized, side fold, or top fold. Of course, there are other designs aside from these ones. If you have a plan on the format beforehand, then you should be able to speed up the process of making the said card.

Set up the document you will be making. If the layout you have decided on is a common one, then there should be at least one or two templates you can use in your chosen professional desktop publishing software. If the layout is not so common, then you can just use the blank templates and design the layout on your own.

The graphics are important parts of the said design. Thus, you have to make the right choice on which one you will choose. It is a must for you to keep everything simple. If you want this, then stick to single images. Cartoonish appearances will also work. Just search for it in the clipboard, gallery, or the Internet.

Do not hesitate to modify the image. Although there might be some photos that are fine without any modification, you should remember to do some changes to some photos so that they fit the message you have on your card. When it comes to changing the photo, it can either be in the color or in the size.

The font used for the greetings in the card has to be decided beforehand. The ideal number of font that you can use for the card should not be more than two typefaces. It will just be distracting to have more than two typefaces on the said card, after all.




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