alright! greeting cards can be
made by choosing different images and then putting them together in a way
that they respond to each other. for example a card that is made for somebody's
birthday would most certainly have a cake..or flowers..or gifts..and so
on. the trick is to find the right kind of iamge. i suggest the yahoo image
search!
For example a search for the key
word "yellow" shows all kind of images
that have the color yellow in them.
maslan this yellow bowl:
or these yellow flowers:
clicking on the image takes you
directly to the original location of the image and this way more pictures
of the same sort can be found easily.
by using different techniques we
can manipulate the images so they go together.
some of the techniques i use to
make ecards are:
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cloning images
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copy and paste
with feather
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adding text
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adding blank layer to add depth (believe
me this will make more sense later)
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changing opacity
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changing the size of a picture
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flipping a picture
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text effects
there are manu more techniques but
for now we are going to focus on these.
this card was made by using the
above techniques
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in this card i took ONE heart image and changed its size,
opacity, angle and pasted it all around the rose.
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the rose in the backfround was cut from a different picture
and pasted on this canvas but since its opacity is very low it gives the
image a nice background.
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i made a blank layer and with the paint bucket filled it
with light yellow color to give the image, especially the rose some depth.
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the roses on the left were cloned here from a different image.
cloning helped me get rid of the harsh edges of the image.
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text was added at the very end..
another version of the card
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everything is the same in this image except the size of the
card was enlarged and the image of the girl was added instead of the flowers.
and the color of the text was changed to deep red.
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i used color pencil and brush stroke
filters on the image of the girl to get rid of the harsh lines and make
it look like a painting instead of an actual image.
some more examples:
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