Free Tools For Creating Custom Greeting Cards

I have heard a lot about custom greeting cards and even online greeting card printing

. What stopped me from having those custom greeting cards printed really though was my lack of tools to create a good and custom greeting card. Design software is expensive, and the raw materials for the design of a greeting card can be hard to acquire. Now however, it is a different story. I have discovered a lot of free tools that can help novices create good looking designs of their own. In this article, I will share with you these free tools I have discovered so that you too can think about printing custom greeting cards of your own.

Beautiful and free images Need some cool images for your custom greeting cards? Well you don't have to draw them or become a professional photographer to do it. Websites like OpenPhoto and Flickr have a great collection of free and beautiful images that you can use. Lots of great artists and photographers share their best work in those sites, as long as you attribute the work to them. I have found plenty of great images here to work with for my custom greeting cards and I am sure you'll find the right one for you as well.

Artful and creative free fonts Fonts of course are the great play things for custom greeting cards. You of course will probably want the best fonts to use for that special occasion. Worry not because there are thousands and thousands of free fonts out there in the Internet. Searching for free font download in Google should give you thousands of results and thousands more fonts to choose from. So if your design software or word processor font collection seems bland and uninteresting, why not get a few new fonts for free.

Useful free software Now, if you can't afford to buy expert design software such as Corel or Adobe Photoshop then you should try using those open source and free to download software. Applications like Gimp and OpenOffice.org Draw are great and powerful tools that can help you design a custom greeting card. I recommend Gimp for experts, while OpenOffice Draw should be a simple enough application for beginners. If you don't mind taking up some time for a little learning, you should be able to design your own customized greeting card for free.

Informative and free advice Finally, if you need advice for custom greeting card printing, you should look no further than in design blogs and forums. There are thousands of people out there talking and discussing about the proper designs and the great ideas for custom greeting cards. More often than not you will see more of them when the holidays approach. Look for them via Google blog searches to find them faster. There are plenty of professional designers out there that are willing to share their design secrets.

With these free tools, you won't need to pay a cent in creating your custom greeting card designs. All you really need to pay for is greeting card printing. So if you are a little bit on a budget, try these free tools, they should help out quite a lot if you are determined enough to design and give away your own custom greeting cards.

by: Robert Johnston

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