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Creating a Greeting Card

Eye-catching greeting cards are a sure way to impress family and friends, and a really attractive card can spend many months on someone’s mantelpiece, or even get framed and displayed with pride.

The Greeting Card Editor in Adobe Photoshop Elements offers you a variety of templates to create attractive cards with ease and efficiency. You can include one or more photos on each page of a greeting card that can be printed on your home printer, ordered online, or sent via e-mail.

This lesson will enable you to experience how easy it is to choose a format and theme and present a photo in a creative and professional looking manner. When you’re finished, you’ll have transformed your photo into a delightful greeting card.

1) In the Organizer, use the Keyword Tags palette to find the portrait of a little girl, tagged with Lesson 4, named 4_Pauline.jpg.

2) Click to select the purple Create tab in the Task pane.

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3) In the Create panel of the Task pane, choose Greeting Card from the More Options menu.

4) In the New Greeting Card dialog box, under Choose a Theme, scroll down and select Wedding Classic, the third theme from last, showing grey torn paper with white flowers along the bottom. Under Choose a Layout, select the middle layout in the second row, a portrait format rectangle on an angle. Select the Auto-Fill with Project Bin Photos option and deselect Include Captions. Then, click Done.

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5) You’ll see a preview of your greeting card in the Editor panel, with a bounding box around the photo you have chosen. You can move, rotate and resize the photo if you wish. To resize the picture, position the pointer over a handle in the corner of the bounding box—the pointer turns into a double arrow—and drag to change the size. When dragging the bounding box, the image is scaled proportionally by default. Click and drag the photo if you want to reposition it on the greeting card.

6) When done resizing and repositioning the photo, click the green Commit button ( ) at the bottom of the bounding box to commit the changes.

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That was quick! Composing your photo with an appropriate theme and layout can make a really distinctive card.

When the Move tool is selected, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the ele-ments of a selected layer in small increments instead of dragging them using your pointer. Similarly, you can use the arrow keys to move a selection when a selection tool is active.

7) Choose File > Save. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the My CIB Work folder and name the file 4_Greeting_Card.psd. Make sure that the Include in the Orga-nizer option is selected. Click Save.

8) Choose File > Close. Be certain not to save any changes to the original photo.

Congratulations, you’ve finished your first creation. Now you’ve experienced how quickly you can get attractive results using pre-designed styles. Look for yourself, there is an abundance of styles and templates to choose from to best suit your creative projects. In Lesson 5 you will learn more about printing, sharing and exporting from the Organizer.

Excerpted from “Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 Classroom in a Book,” by Adobe Creative Team. Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. Pearson Education, Inc. and Adobe Press. www.adobepress.com