Adding a photo to a greeting card template in Photoshop CS2

[Eyeayen]

Hey Anne, if you do what OldBoy has said you should be okay with it all, however when doing the size I think he made a minor mistake, working in millimeters you should have the card sized to 82.5mm x 57.5 or else you'll end up with a card almost a metre along one end.

Is this all making sense ? Are you able to do everything that is suggested even if it doesn't work ?

If not maybe one of us can post some screen grabs so you know what you should be looking for when doing it in photoshop.

[AnneBennett]

Thanks OldBoy and Eyeayen for you help, I'm now going to try again. It will be a few days before I get a chance. Although still a comparitive novice in Photoshop I'm sure I will be ok, slowly getting better with it even if you make mistakes you are still finding out things!!

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by Eyeayen

Hey Anne, if you do what OldBoy has said you should be okay with it all, however when doing the size I think he made a minor mistake, working in millimeters you should have the card sized to 82.5mm x 57.5 or else you'll end up with a card almost a metre along one end.

Well spotted.

[AnneBennett]

Hi to OldBoy and Eyeayen
Have finally managed to have a go at particularly your suggestion OldBoy, have been away from computer through sickness.
I found your descriptions very helpful OldBoy. I am afraid it still did not print out properly, although I did check in print preview and it looked a bit odd. This time the whole image did print out but far too small.
I think somewhere along the line some of my measurement have not been correct?? The measurements I was working to were 82.5mmx57.5mm. To recap the batch of cards I bought were sold as A6 size which are technicallly 148x105mm. In inches 8 1/4 x 5 3/4" or 21 x15 cm. These cards have a fold line down the centre. I want my photo to be one half in this case portrait, so I halved my image measurements when I resized the image as per your instructions. As I said ok to the image sizes on resizing the image then became very small. but I thought maybe it would appear differently after moving. I do like way you suggest Window-Arrange-Vertically.
I realise you say Photoshop is for photos. I have a varied stock of many photos and thought it would be nice to make some cards as they can be expensive to buy.
So I think I am still in need of a little assistance please.
I still can't fathom out how I managed to do it right once before?
Thanks

[Lurkalot]

Best way in my opinion. Stop messing about in PS, and use Publishing software such as Serif PagePlus instead.

There's a freebie version here. http://www.serif.com/desktop-publishing-software/ Some features are disabled in the freebie version, but should do what you want very easily.

I've used PagePlus for years now, and can't beat it for this kind of stuff. That's what it's for.

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by AnneBennett

Hi to OldBoy and Eyeayen
Have finally managed to have a go at particularly your suggestion OldBoy, have been away from computer through sickness.
I found your descriptions very helpful OldBoy. I am afraid it still did not print out properly, although I did check in print preview and it looked a bit odd. This time the whole image did print out but far too small.
I think somewhere along the line some of my measurement have not been correct?? The measurements I was working to were 82.5mmx57.5mm. To recap the batch of cards I bought were sold as A6 size which are technicallly 148x105mm. In inches 8 1/4 x 5 3/4" or 21 x15 cm. These cards have a fold line down the centre. I want my photo to be one half in this case portrait, so I halved my image measurements when I resized the image as per your instructions. As I said ok to the image sizes on resizing the image then became very small. but I thought maybe it would appear differently after moving. I do like way you suggest Window-Arrange-Vertically.
I realise you say Photoshop is for photos. I have a varied stock of many photos and thought it would be nice to make some cards as they can be expensive to buy.
So I think I am still in need of a little assistance please.
I still can't fathom out how I managed to do it right once before?
Thanks

If you have produced a image 21x15 then that equals 210x150mm, but the full A6 card is 148x105, so your image won't fit. The image needs to be 74x105mm to fit half the A6 card, which is A7.

It should look somethink like this.

[AnneBennett]

Thanks Lurkalot and OldBoy. I am certainly going to check my measurements again, I want to try and use Photoshop and if I still come across a problem I might well try Serif PagePlus.
Thanks to both

[AnneBennett]

I have tried again and checked all my measurements and it looks ok on print preview. I did print out but it is still only printing half of the image. I have tried to do a screen print and it will paste onto a word doc but not into this reply.
The sizes are all correct so am still puzzled.
Thanks for all your help

[OldBoy]

Did it print like I showed above?

[AnneBennett]

Hi OldBoy
Do I take it that the image you showed was the whole of the image? I did have my image upside down and placed on the left hand side of the page. When I checked in print preview it appeared to take up 2/3 of the page. I tried several ways to place the card in the printer in landscape position and I also tried in portrait position to see if it made any difference. Each time it would only print out part of the image.
Many thanks for your continued help