Photoshop Elements :: How To Create Greeting Card From Scratch
Aug 28, 2013
I purchased elements 11 last year to not only edit photo's but also to create my own greeting and announcement cards.I'm having trouble figuring out how to create a greeting from scratch. It seems as if I can only use Adobe's templates. Is there any way I can create my own?
I want to use a different size than the templates. The size is A2 which is half of a 8/12 by 11 paper then folded in half. (that way you can print twocards per page). I want to be able to resize my image to fit this size, add text to the front half with the image and a little text on the back.
I don't want a greeting card template. I can create the cards just fine. I just want an action to create an image of a greeting card. I've scoured the net and can find actions to create business cards, book covers, magazine covers, ..... but none to create greeting cards.
I have Elements 9 and created a card in bi-fold format and cannot figure out how to get it to print in that format. I have a Dell V715W printer. Photoshop help is not useful. I am trying to figure out if I need to print add a blank page to the front and print two pages to one sheet (front and back) or something else. There don't seem to be many options when printing or edit options to the file/project/card within Elements 9.
I have selected the Shutterfly 2 sided card template and completed all of the card layout. When I try to print, Photoshop Elements 10 wants to print the card as 3 separate pictures. Under Create, pages, it shows the correct layout, but I can't get it to print out that way. When I select print it shows the card as 3 separate photos and prints them out that way. How do I get this to print out as a 2 sided greeting card?
I don't want to print it off my home computer and I don't want to shell out big bucks to Shutterfly. I just want to make it a jpeg so I can go to CVS and print it as a picture.
i created a double sided greeting card (5x7) portrait and selected email attachment under share tab. The result was two separate files. First file was the front of the card and second file was the inside of the card. Not resembling a card. Is there any way to share a card and have it resemble the actions of a real card. (ie: front of card shows first then by clicking next or open or ?? u see the inside of the card?)
I have gone throught the laboring process of photo shopping two photo's to use in our greeting card and I need to scale them down to fit greeting card.
I want to print a folded greeting card from the templates offered by Photoshop Elements, but the printing process requires you to essentially print three things: front, left-hand greeting and right-hand image. It doesn't have one template for just the front and back and another for the inside.
I hurriedly photographed the text in a greeting card and have uneven lighting and underexposure that I'd like to correct. Please see attachment, in which I've increased the brightness and contrast and then desaturated.
I've looked at tutorials on gradient contrast masks but I get lost part way through. Either I'm too much of a newbie to understand (highly probable) or maybe the tutorials are for older versions of GIMP. (I'm on 2.8.6 for Windows.)
I cannot succssfully print a greeting card on elements 9. I have finally arrived at the conculsion that duplex printing is not possible. So I have been trying to print without the duplex feature enabled. The problem is when the page prints out the picture takes up the whole page - how do I shrink it to make it look like a greeting card?
Using VS X4, I haven't been able to find how to create my own DVD menu, starting with a blank screen.
I have been able to use the gallery edit function and remove text fields, but can't remove the image that is supplied with a given gallery menu. Is there just a way to start with a blank screen and then just add an image and some text?
find a good resource on how to create a 3D DXF file from scratch? I am a developer working on a tool that can create cylindrical shapes from schematic drawing coordinates.
If I have 4 Scratch disks does photoshop use all scratch simultaneously or does it wait for the first scratch to fill up before it starts to use the next one ?
I just installed PSE 11 yesterday (Sat). I played with Organizer for a while, first. While there, I edited My preferences. One of the things I changed was the location of the scratch file. I set it to the root DIR on the D: HD, which has only a scant few Win files on it. This is a 1.5Tb HD with mostly free space. Now though when I select the editor, PSE tells me that either the file is locked or I don't have permission to access it.
When I investigated this on D: using Win Explorer, the file, apparently, doesn't exist. I tried going back to Organizer & editing preferences, but wasn't able to see an option for setting the scratch file. So now PSE Editor loads fine. How do I properly move the scratch file from the C: HD to the D: HD?
My system is Win 7 (64),This is a brand new PSE 11 installation, I haven't added anything to it,My C: drive has 60gb free and is a 120gb SSD.I have 8gb system RAM.
I've been editing very large images with many layers recently, and I noticed disk performance issues - so I thought that by changing my preferences to set the scratch disk to the D drive, I might improve things (more available space, not competing with Windows disk usage, etc).
Now when I launch PE, it throws up an error: 'Could not open a scratch file because the file is locked. Use the properties command in the Windows Explorer to unlock the file' and refuses to open. However, it doesn't say what file it's trying to open, so I don't know how to fix it - and I can't get into PE to change the preference back to the C drive.
Unfortunately the preferences file isn't ASCII so I can't edit it manually. Added a half-hour later: By simply removing all the setup files I can get back into PE, but I'd still like to know what folder(s) and/or file(s) PE is trying to create on the D drive, so that I can see if there's any performance improvement.