Showing posts with label photo collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo collage. Show all posts

Friday, March 12, 2010

Start Digital Scrapbooking

Learning the basics of digital scrapbooking is a fun process that takes no special knowledge of computers to accomplish. It saves money because the same supplies can be used again and again and it saves time and energy as well as space since supplies don't need to be stored.

How to Get Started With Digital Scrapbooking

Step 1
Select a photo scrapbooking program. Consider free programs available ( Google Picasa )or commercially well-designed easy-to-use photo scrapbooking creator for digital scrapbooking
Step 2
Install the chosen program on your computer. Take any tutorials offered with the software to familiarize yourself with the options available.

Step 3
Select a photograph from the images on your computer and select a background that goes with the photograph. For a vibrant layout, choose colors that are on opposite ends of the color wheel. For a soft and more natural layout, choose colors that are beside each other on the color wheel.

Step 4
Drop the photograph on to the background paper you've chosen. Add a frame, a ribbon, a bow and any other embellishments you like to create a layout that's pleasing to you.

Step 5
Save the final layout once you've arranged everything the way you want it.


Tips & Warnings

* Make your layouts 3-D by leaving some of the layout space empty and adding stickers or embellishments to it once it's printed.
* Take advantage of scrapbooking blog sites that offer digital scrapbooking supplies for free.
* Always run an anti virus program on your computer to avoid getting a virus when downloading free digital scrapbooking supplies.

Useful tutorials: 

Make a Picture Collage with Picasa

Start Digi Scrapping with Photo Collage Studio

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Make and print clip-art card for Thanksgiving 2009

Creating your own funny clip-art card isn't difficult and placing it on e-cards is also a straightforward process. If you really want to personalize your cards clipart and make someone smile or laugh at the same time, you're definitely on the right track with this ideas of card. The following steps outline how you can get started creating fun clipart for Thanksgiving day 2009 to send out to friends, family and co-workers. Here we take the best photo collage maker - Wondershare Photo Collage Studio for an example.
Download the photo collage software First

Part 1: Make Fun Clip Art Card

Brainstorm your clipart design ideas of card by sketching or doodling them in a sketchbook using colored pencils. Silly or goofy designs can often be the most amusing. Ironical ideas card or witty clip-art carddesigns can also be quite funny and memorable. Remember that the goal is to create clip-art card to make someone smile when she opens the clip art card, so the art shouldn't be too involved. It's best to avoid anything distasteful.

The first step in creating your clip-art card is selecting the individual pieces you want to use. This includes photos, clip art, stamps and text tabs. Each tab allows you to add a different type of cards clipart component. Simply choose the category you wish to view from the pull-down, then drag-n-drop the clipart cards or stamp you want in the same way that you added your images. Rotate, resize, crop and reposition each piece as you see fit. To add text, just switch to “Text” tab, and click ‘New Text” and then type your text in the text box. You can also set your font, size, style, alignment and color. Check the Shadow box to add a shadow to your text.
clipart card

Part 2: Print your Clipart Cards

In Print Clip Art Card tab window, you can print your cards clip art directly using the print tool in Photo Collage Studio. Before that, you could specify settings about how to print your clipart.

1. Select Page

If you have create many pages of clip art card in one project and you want to print only some of clipart cards, you should select desired pages to print. To do so, click the button select_page to bring up a window to select pages from. By default, all pages would be checked to print. To print specified pages, you have to uncheck the pages you don't want. Make sure that only the pages you want to print have the tick sign at the bottom left corner of each page thumbnail.

2. Orientation

Select page orientation of your clip art card on the top left hand side. By default, the orientation would be Portrait. Portrait works for most documents, which means its height is taller than its width. On the other hand, you can select to print your clipart page in Landscape orientation, which means its width is longer than its height.

To make advanced settings for printing clipart, you can click button to open the setting dialog, in which options of Printer, Page range, Copies and so forth are available. You can even make in-depth parameters of selected printer by clicking "Properties" button beside the printer name drop-down list. See the printer manual for detailed information if possible.

3: Lay-out

The layout option allows you to select or customize the layout of your selected clip art card pages. For a fixed background, you can contain one, two, four or night pages in the same printed cards clip art page. Furthermore, you can make your selected clipart cards pages best fit the background or customize the layout yourself.
As soon as all the settings have been done, you could print all your selected clip-art card pages now!
layout

Monday, September 21, 2009

Make a wedding Invitation Card

How to DIY your personalized wedding invitation cards?


Have you ever thought of designing your wedding invitation card by yourself? Maybe you'll consider it as a hard work if you are an amateur.
Here I'll recommend an easy photo collage maker to make it! What you need prepare first is only your digital engagement photo.
The step-by-step instructions will let you know clearly how to use the photo below to create a personalized Wedding Invitation Cards from various photo collage templates in three minutes with Wondershare Photo Collage Studio.

Original photos:


Wedding Invitation Card sample made with Photo Collage Studio:


To realize it with Photo Collage Studio you only do the following:
Step 1. Create a new collage of wedding invitation sample from template (the software supplies four ways to start the design including from template, from layout, from blank and from image) and select your favorite theme template; here we choose the template named as Love 22 to match the occasion of wedding.


Step 2. Adjust the objects in the template according your needs. Everything except the background picture of the pre-designed template can be moved, enlarged, minished and deleted separately so that you can also do many things with the template. Here in order to make the wedding invitation cards look much better, we just hold the wedding frame and roses.

Step 3. Double click or drag your photo from the left list box to the frame of template and adjust the size of photo in the frame to the best effect by using the editing toolbar upper of the selected photo; The first button is used to move the photo in the frame;are used to enlarge or reduce the size of photo in the frame. If you only want to import a part of the photo, the fifth button for cropping can help you realize it easily.


Tip: If you think your photo is too dark or not perfect, use the effect tab to retouch it without hesitation. There are many effects offered by the program, such as old picture, oil, blur, brightness, contrast, embossment and more. Double-click a thumbnail of effects to apply the effect to your photo and right click to cancel.

Step 4. Add the important captions such as the card theme, wedding address, wedding time and your name. The powerful function of text editing like wordarts, shadow, halation, texture can give you more space to show your creativity. Here we should be cautious to decorate the words for standing out the romantic theme.


Step 5. Print your personalized sample wedding invitation cards at home with more custom sizes or even more than one picture on a page. Sent the prints to your families and friends, they must be surprised.


You can do many other things to design your wedding invitation cards such as adding effects, cliparts, stamps, frames or masks. More details you can get from the program tutorial about making a wedding invitation card.