5 Novice Ways to Improve your Postcards
You do not have to be an expert graphic or layout artist to actually be able to improve your 4×6 postcards. Even at the novice level, there are ways to enhance the look and feel of your prints and make it like a professional for postcard printing. Let me give you a list of five simple tricks that you can do for your 4×6 postcards here. Try these out and see how they can make your postcards more amazing.
1. Get updated fonts! – You might not know this yet, but fonts have evolved over time. In fact, the old default “times new roman” is now being replaced by many software applications to their own new and improved standard fonts. If you are still using old style fonts in your postcards, then the easiest way to improve them is to just use more updated fonts.
Luckily for you, there are tons of other more advanced font styles already out there and most are free for download. Just do a simple search engine query and you will get tons of sites where you can install fonts for your designs. The more interesting and updated your fonts are, the better for your postcard prints.
2. Use high resolution, high quality, full color pictures – Remember that a postcard contains a very large area for images at the cover. The best way to actually improve that is to always choose high resolution, high quality full color pictures for that design element. Having that high level kind of image in your postcards will ensure a crisp clean and highly impressive finish in postcard printing. Whatever kind of image you have, as long as it is in high quality and high resolution, people will still be amazed at the vividness of your postcards.
3. Insert some small accents – A bare picture and text title in your postcards will of course not make your color postcards very impressive. You can add a lot more improvements to your prints by adding some small accents like subtle borders, arrows or just some additional little complimentary shines or splashes. These can be easily inserted over your main cover designs, adding some extra detail and impact to the whole theme.
4. Manage borders – A lot of postcards have borders built in around the main cover design. You can improve your color postcards easily by adding some extra kinds of details into the border. Sometimes, if it is applicable you can add in a picture frame type border, while in other times you can add a more modern and abstract type designs to the layout.
Also, if your images are impressive enough, you can just eliminate the borders altogether. It is all about what you want to emphasize really so try to manage your borders for that extra improvement of your prints.
5. Add that glossy coating – Finally, any kind of postcard can be improved by adding some glossy coatings. Coatings will add that shine and gleam that makes color postcards look very expensive, impressive and of course worth keeping. Even if your postcard images are not that top-notch, that glossy coating will typically add that professional touch that will still make it on par with professional color postcards out there.
Great! As you can see, these tips and tricks should be easy enough for any novice to be able to do. So it should be no trouble for you to improve your color postcards very easily.
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