Homemade Personal Holiday Postcards
While greeting cards are the traditional printed gift for the holidays
, you should never forget that postcard printing can also be a nice gift. In fact, if you want to be unique this holiday season, you should send nice personal custom postcards to your friends and family instead of the usual greeting cards. Do not worry, postcard printing is not really hard. Here are four simple steps that you can follow to create your own custom postcards from home.1. Getting that right picture.
First, since postcards have big cover images, you should try getting the right picture. The right picture is a simple and very straightforward image that communicates your message to people. So for example, if you want to greet people with your holiday postcard why not take a picture of yourself in a Santa hat. It is simple but quite interesting since it is a custom design. Do not try to confuse people with exotic abstract images that they will not really understand. You will only have a hard time getting your message across. Just use something personal and quite touching or funny.
On the technical side of things, the right picture should always be large and in a digital format. By large, I mean the pictures must be in a high resolution anything from 300-600 dpi should be good. This should make the image appear on the postcard far clearer. So scan your images using the large setting and if you are taking digital photographs, make sure that the camera is always set into high quality.
2. Getting the right template.
After getting the right picture you need to get the right postcard template. Since a postcard must have a standard dimension that the postal service will accept, it is good to download templates that are of course within the standard specifications. I recommend downloading postcard templates from actual postcard printers since they will usually have the best and most accurate templates. Try looking online and you should find plenty of useful ones.
3. How to design your postcard.
Now, to finalize your design, you actually only need to combine three things. You just need to use your postcard template and merge that with your cover image. Try to see if the template provides guidelines on where exactly your cover should align to. Once done, you should then just add the simple greeting message that you want. Place the text on an area of the cover with the least amount of design details. You can do this in 10-15 minutes since it is very simple.
4. How to print your postcard.
Lastly, to print your postcards, it is possible to do this quickly and professionally by online postcard printing. Just use the company where you got the postcard templates from. It should make your postcards designs quite ideal for professional printing. After the payment and design has been sent, all you really have to do is wait for the delivery and you will have your nice and professional customized greeting postcards.
As you can see, it is very easy indeed. You should be able to send your personalized greeting postcards to your loved ones and they should be able to appreciate the personalized gesture. So why not try out a little deviation from the norm and use greeting color postcards? See how your friends and family react!
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Homemade Personal Holiday Postcards
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