Creating Greeting Card

Issue: Creating a Greeting Card for new years day (figure no. 1).

figure no.1

To create greeting cards simply follow these steps:

1. Open the theme backgrounds window (Do this by clicking the icon on the Shortcuts toolbar or Click on File -> Browse Theme Backgrounds… menu). Select the Flowers tab. Select the DSC_1039.jpg background and press Load Background. A new copy of the background will be exported to the editor. (Figure no. 2).

   

   figure no. 2

2. Select Tools -> Frames -> Add Frame (Mask Type)… menu and open the Add Frame window. From the Add Frame window select the frame named Paper1.jpg and click OK. The frame will be applied to the entire picture (figure no. 3).

   

   figure no. 3

3. Click the Gradient frame (appears on the bottom of the right-hand bar ) to open the custom gradient window. Select the gradient ButtonStyleBrown.grd from the list and click OK.
4. Choose the Text Over Path tool -
5. Left click on the center of the image. Hold down the left mouse button. Move the mouse to the right and draw a wave shaped path (figure 5.). Release the mouse button. The Add Text window will pop up.

   

   figure no. 5

6. Click the Editor Tab. Select the Wave path and Arial font with a size of 20. Choose Bold. Choose one of the Color Transitioned buttons. Type "Happy New Year!" in the text box (figure 6.) and press OK (figure 7.).

   

   figure no. 6

   

   figure no. 7

7. Select the Effects -> More -> 3D menu. The 3D Effect dialog box will open. Set the Light slider to 90% (figure no. 8). Click "OK" to finish.

   

   figure no. 8

8. Select the Effects -> More -> Bump Map (Emboss)… menu. The Emboss effect dialog box will open. Select the Advanced button and set the dialog box values as shown in figure 9. Press OK to Finish.

   

   figure no. 9

9. Select the Effects -> Light -> Shadow menu. The Shadow Effect dialog box will open. Leave the default values and click OK.
10. Left click the floating text and drag it to the desired place. Press Enter to finish and fix the text (figure no. 10).

    

    figure no. 10

11. [Optional]: If you wish to send the greeting card by e-mail, we advise to resize and decrease the size of the image. Click Ctrl + w (or Image -> Resize... menu). The resize function window will open. Select a width of 400 and click OK.
12. Finally, we add a black border to the image. Press Ctrl + b (or Image -> Adjust Board Size And Resolution... menu). The Board Size & Resolution window will open. Select a width of 402 and a height of 268 pixels. Click the B.G. Color box and select the desired border color (black on this sample). Click OK after choosing the color. Click OK again. The result is shown in figure 11.

    

    Figure no. 11