My experiment at making my own greeting card
Feb 19, 2012 03:13:53 #
I thought I'd try designing my own greeting card. I set up the background/subject, shot it with my Canon T2i with a sigma 18-200mm OS lens with a shoe mounted flash that was indirect, bounced, and diffused. I didn't get it quite like I wanted it so taking it to photoshop, I adjusted the over all color balance, clone stamped the background to even it out abit, lassoed each half of the heart box individually color balancing them to match and clone stamped the dividing line out. Then put the greeting card opening line on it, put my "trademark" and date, and my logo on it and here it is. All in all I thought it came out ok for my 1st ever attempt at making my own greeting card. The sock monkey in the photo will be 39 in December 2012. Had to share the results just for fun. Hope the photo comes through okay. Looks like I can't get it to go through so I will try something else and attempt to post it in another manner later for your viewing. Please bear with me and I will try it soon as I can. I'm kinda new at this stuff here.
Feb 19, 2012 07:04:33 #
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Feb 20, 2012 00:30:16 #
Here's another try to post the photo I told you about . I had to print it and then photograph it to get it to work,then the lighting was off. So once more I took it to photoshop and adjusted the lighting and saved it as a jpeg file and tried it again and voila! It worked.
Feb 20, 2012 07:29:11 #
Shutterbug305 wrote:
Here's another try to post the photo I told you about . I had to print it and then photograph it to get it to work,then the lighting was off. So once more I took it to photoshop and adjusted the lighting and saved it as a jpeg file and tried it again and voila! It worked.
Nice card. Keep up the good work.
Feb 20, 2012 10:12:41 #
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Feb 20, 2012 19:17:44 #
twowindsbear wrote:
The text looks 'fuzzy' - perhaps from the shadow?
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
I think you could be right. It is partly the shadow but I also as said before had to shoot a printed out version of it to get it to post here and I think I moved it just a teeny tiny bit too.
Feb 20, 2012 19:23:20 #
Gidgette wrote:
Nice card. Keep up the good work.
Shutterbug305 wrote:
Here's another try to post the photo I told you about . I had to print it and then photograph it to get it to work,then the lighting was off. So once more I took it to photoshop and adjusted the lighting and saved it as a jpeg file and tried it again and voila! It worked.
Nice card. Keep up the good work.
Thanks everyone. I am starting to think about how I can come up with perhaps an entire line of greeting cards (except for the more serious occassions) using this sock monkey. What 'd ya think? Think it would fly as they say?
Feb 20, 2012 20:36:28 #
Shutterbug305 wrote:
I think you could be right. It is partly the shadow but I also as said before had to shoot a printed out version of it to get it to post here and I think I moved it just a teeny tiny bit too.
twowindsbear wrote:
The text looks 'fuzzy' - perhaps from the shadow?
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
I think you could be right. It is partly the shadow but I also as said before had to shoot a printed out version of it to get it to post here and I think I moved it just a teeny tiny bit too.
What program did you use to create the card? Does it have a 'save as .jpg' function? You should be able to post it that way. Or, scan it as a .jpg.
Feb 20, 2012 22:16:38 #
Feb 20, 2012 22:28:57 #
Shutterbug305 wrote:
Here's another try to post the photo I told you about . I had to print it and then photograph it to get it to work,then the lighting was off. So once more I took it to photoshop and adjusted the lighting and saved it as a jpeg file and tried it again and voila! It worked.
Wow, that monkey has held up well! If you find you like doing greeting cards, check out GreetingCardUniverse.com. They don't really pay fairly (they take 80%) but a lot of people seem to like it. My card site is called AngelDogCards. I haven't sold much, but I also haven't put much time into it. Some people do really well there. Good job on this one, by the way.
Feb 21, 2012 00:36:11 #
twowindsbear wrote:
What program did you use to create the card? Does it have a 'save as .jpg' function? You should be able to post it that way. Or, scan it as a .jpg.
Shutterbug305 wrote:
I think you could be right. It is partly the shadow but I also as said before had to shoot a printed out version of it to get it to post here and I think I moved it just a teeny tiny bit too.
twowindsbear wrote:
The text looks 'fuzzy' - perhaps from the shadow?
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
I think you could be right. It is partly the shadow but I also as said before had to shoot a printed out version of it to get it to post here and I think I moved it just a teeny tiny bit too.
What program did you use to create the card? Does it have a 'save as .jpg' function? You should be able to post it that way. Or, scan it as a .jpg.
I can't remember for sure but I think it was all photoshop 5.0 and possibly Fastone Viewer too. Anything else I believe was on my standard computer software & / or programs already on my pc. I had to print it from my pc standard program / software that came with my pc. I have an Epson printer. I think that both photoshop 5.0 and Fastone viewer have a create icon that allows you to make various things through their software and Fastone is free. Photoshop 5.0 for me anyway was free as a friend gave it to me. Does this help?
Feb 21, 2012 00:42:28 #
Feb 21, 2012 00:45:30 #
rainngirl wrote:
quote=Shutterbug305 Here's another try to post th... (show quote)
Thank you! Glad you like the card. I will try to check your place out when I get more time to do so. Sounds interesting.
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