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Giving away greeting cards to friends, family and clients is a tradition that will continue no matter what changes technology brings. Most people would prefer receiving actual prints than email greetings or even electronic greeting cards for sentimental reasons. A printed greeting card seems more sincere especially if its personally designed and not just bought from some bookstore across the street.

Though I have to admit that there are some good enough generic ones that are worth buying, it could be very tiresome to find that one card that fits your taste perfectly. There are times when you’ll find a greeting card with a great picture, but then you decide against buying it when you get to read that awful cliche of a letter inside. And when you do find that perfect card, you realize that there aren’t much copies available. The best solution of course is to design your own greeting cards and have them printed by a reliable printing company.

Below are some examples of excellent personalized greeting cards that should give you some ideas.

Greeting Card Designs by Megan Hawk

These three cards with vibrant  colors and cool doodles can work for almost any purpose. They’re even classy enough to give away for business purposes.

Juicy Orange Greeting Cards by dee87

It’s hard to find greeting cards that have the exact colors that you want. Design one yourself and get that perfect shade of yellow or orange that you prefer.

Nerdy Panda Love Greeting Card by Panduhmonium

You won’t find a lot of greeting Cards with pandas wearing glasses in your neighborhood’s bookstore. But you can make your own and place a name or phrase of your choice on that speech bubble.

Palentines Cards by Able Design

Ever thought that sending your bros greeting cards would be a bit awkward? After seeing these greeting cards, you’ll realize that it won’t be as long as you use the right humor complemented  by minimalist designs.

Greeting Card I by Annushkka

Greeting cards with fractal or nature-inspired Art will never get old. Sure you can find some in your bookstore. But wouldn’t it be better if you can put a photo you took or designed on your greeting card’s cover?

Springer ’08 Holiday card by Mark Giesser

A greeting card with a dark background and some elegant typography  would look very professional and may just help you win your client’s trust.

Peeler Cards by Akihiro Kumagaya

This is just pure genius.

Article Source: http://blog.uprinting.com/great-ideas-for-your-personalized-greeting-cards/

Posters are great avenues to showcase one’s creativity. They allow artists to express themselves in countless ways. Unlike other print media, posters do not limit designers with certain layouts and design requirements. You can even use any design element that you wish.

Alright, first thing’s first- the following images were NOT “photoshopped”, nor were they run through an image editor for anything other than resizing. These otherworldly images are a result of ingenious lighting and shutter-speed settings.

The technology behind high speed photography was developed by German weapons scientists during the First World Ward to aid in arms research and development. Today, there are several methods one can use to take high speed photographs, but all of them basically involve very fast shutter or camera sensor speeds.

Our eyes, while being incredible machines on their own, suffer from certain limitation in terms of speed and our brains are not capable of accurately recognising fast-moving objects. That’s why things in motion appear as a blur to us, and on slower cameras. With the right equipment however, we can unlock worlds that have been right in front of us all along.

These 25 high speed photos are but some of the more awe-inspiring shots out there! High speed photos tend to capture our imaginations because a lot of the time, we are just *really* seeing things for what they are for the very first time. Scroll down to see:

25 Out-of-This-World High Speed Photographs!

Please click on photos to see their original sources.

By ikerr

By Olivier Landreau aka lepopov

By trishhyyy.

By dina_149

By Frank_F_S

By dennisdijk87

By Lee Delaunay

By photoboothguy

By Saleh Bajahlan

All rights reserved by C a f r i n e

By paranoidandreas

By winsnick

By MrWilkens

By MrWilkens

By dongga BS

All rights reserved by Scottdd222

Some rights reserved by innoxiuss

by ~Stridsberg

All rights reserved by linden.g

All rights reserved by Mark Watson (kalimistuk)

by `KevLewis

By josefrancisco.salgado

By richard.heeks

By Kals Pics

Got comments or suggestions? Drop us a line! Check out the artists’ portfolios for more amazing high speed photography samples. We print large format posters in high detail on durable HP paper on your choice of glossy or semi-glossy finishes. These prints look great just about anywhere and are sure to make a splash on your next business presentation!

Images are property of their respective authors and are for inspiration purposes only. Please click on images to find sources.

Article Source: http://blog.uprinting.com/25-high-speed-photos-to-pump-up-your-large-format-poster-designs/

The entire creative design in print doesn’t start and end with the soft copy. As a designer, you have to ensure the design in your head matches the design on screen. Furthermore, you also need to take extra measures to ensure your design on screen matches what comes out in print. This entails a degree of knowledge and know-how of technical aspects of design, the two most important of which are resolution and color value.

Resolution

In a nutshell, the image resolution is how crisp and clear the image is. Measured in a pixel ratio, the higher the ratio is, the better the resolution. Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty: pixel stands for picture element, the smallest elements of any image. They are the building blocks of everything you see in your monitor. The idea is the more of these pixels there are, the better the image turns out in print.

The catch here is that the resolution on screen and in print are very different. Your monitor can showcase even low resolution images in great quality. But when it comes to print, you need all the extra pixels in every square inch of your print material to make the image quality higher.

Color Value

Now let’s talk about color models. Particularly, the RGB and CMYK color models.

RGB – Red, Green, and Blue is the additive color combination used to show color on monitors. Additive colors come from light sources directly, so it’s not that difficult for your monitor to mix and match the right levels of RGB to mete out good images.

CMYK – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black is the subtractive color combination used in print. Subtractive colors come from light shining off of images. Because printed material can’t emit their own light (and thus can’t mix and match RGB’s) they use values of those four subtractive colors to represent the image printed on them.

Image in RGB versus same image in CMYK.

Almost everything you design on screen follows the RGB color model, unless you specify or adjust the color model manually. When they are printed, short of making the paper luminous, printers have no choice but to use CMYK. Basically, how images look in RGB are markedly different from how they look in CMYK.

Importance of Getting It Right

But isn’t setting the bar too high just nit-picking on what should otherwise be standards auxiliary to the main reason for the print design? No. Resolution and color value are absolutely not auxiliary nor secondary standards or factors.

The clarity of your images and the way your design’s colors show are drastically important. Case in point: research suggests that color advertisements sell 43% better than their black and white counterparts, and they also increase in-depth reading by as much as 60%. Those values alone should be compelling enough for you to get to know your resolution and color value 101’s. Let’s cut this short for now, but in a following post, we’ll delve into practical tips on how to efficiently maximize resolution and color values.

Articles Source: http://www.printcreate.com/