Designing a Postcard Info Required

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MontyK.
Feb 20, 2008
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Hi everyone

This problem will probably be very simple for a lot of you. Unfortunately, I’m not as adept at Photoshop as I should, or would like to be.

I want to design a postcard for my business, using several photos in a scattered arrangement on the card, with my business name on.

I’m using Elements 5 and have played around with the "create a greeting card" function. It comes close to what I want to do, but it does seem rather basic. As Photoshop always seems have more than one way of doing something, I was wondering if there is more effective way of going about it, buried in Elements somewhere. Or perhaps there is another, (preferably cheap) program that is better at this. One thing I would like to do is to change the background colour on the card and not have to rely on the background templates offered in the special effects palette. Ultimately, I will be getting them professionally printed, so I will need to supply the printer with the art work in the appropriate form.

Any advice on how to proceed would be gratefully appreciated.

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Bob Levine
Feb 20, 2008
You’ll do better in the Elements forum. It’s down the hall…two doors on the right.

Bob
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Don_McCahill
Feb 20, 2008
Ultimately, I will be getting them professionally printed, so I will need to supply the printer with the art work in the appropriate form.

What Bob says, but I want to add that you need to talk to a printer first to find out what specifications they have. The size of the card, bleed, and format are all specifications that need to come from them, not anyone in a forum.
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Bob Levine
Feb 20, 2008
I missed that part. Elements doesn’t do CMYK so be careful about color management settings.

If you don’t have a pagelayout application you might want to think about either buying one or hiring someone to do this. The cost will be a lot less than a botched print job.

Bob

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