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Happy Holidays from Dickens
You can create your own holiday greeting cards in a few short minutes. Well, maybe we’ll start the timer after you decide on the photo you want to use. That might take a bit longer. For this example I chose a photo I took of Dickens last Christmas wearing his Santa outfit. (He really wasn’t crazy about wearing it, but was a good sport about it.)

Create your own greeting card-Dicken's had some help creating his

 Step 1-Edit the photo
As I have said many times, every photo needs to be cropped and color corrected and this shot is no exception. I used CorrectPhoto to crop the photo using the 4×6 cropping format. I chose not to center Dickens so I could add the greeting on the right side of the photo. Using the OneClick color correction feature I clicked on the white portion of his hat and I was done.

Crop and color correct the photo-I used CorrectPhoto Editor

Step 2-Add Greeting Text to Photo
To add the text I used PictoColor’s ImageTitler because it is so simple (I still have difficulty using Photoshop Elements to add text to photos and it takes too long.)

Add Titles and Text to Photos with ImageTitler by PictoColor

After opening ImageTitler I selected the edited photo of Dickens and typed in the text I wanted. I then adjusted the text size and moved the text to the location I wanted using the arrow buttons. I then selected the type fonts from the pull down menu to see which one I liked best. After quickly going through the list of available fonts I settled on Times New Roman with the Bold and Italics option. The whole process only took a couple of minutes and I was finished with Dicken’s greeting card. The quality of the text on the photo is really sharp and crisp and will print quite nicely.

My friend Dick and his wife Joan decided to use a vacation photo for their greeting card this year. Dick is the software developer that created PictoColor’s CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler (I will talk more about Dick in a future post) so he obviously used ImageTitler to add the text to their photo. 

Dick used CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler to create holiday card

After editing and adding the title to the photo they ordered their cards from Costco.com and picked up the cards the next day.

Take the time to create your own greeting card.
If you plan to send a photo greeting card or including a photo with your card I suggest you take spend a few minutes editing and titling the photo. I don’t know if you are like us, but we display the cards and photos we receive during the holidays. Most of the photos end up on our refrigerator door and are seen by our holiday guests. Quite often someone will ask, “Who is this?” So, why not add your name to the photo and answer the question before it is asked? Also, most of the photos tend to be dull and lifeless because, a common characteristic of digital camera photos. As I have discussed many times that is a problem that is simple to fix. It is simple and fast to create a photo greeting card you will be proud to send. All it takes is a little time and the right tools.

Wayne  www.correctphoto.com