Adding Pictures to Valentine's Day Cards

Video Transcript

"Now let's get our nice photograph of you and your loved one. Now what we're going to use this for is going to be putting it inside a centerpiece on our card. But there are a couple of tips on what pictures work best. First off, you have to keep in mind that most of the picture isn't going to be here. It's actually going to be a situation where we're only cutting out a central section of it. What's more we're going to be tinting this with a light pink pen meaning that, if you have a choice, black and white would be greatly preferable to color photographs for this case because it will tint a lot better. Color will just look kind of weird. Lastly, a matte finish on your photograph is much better than glossy because again, on a glossy, your pen ink could tend to bead up. So you're going to see none of these are going to be a problem for us today because we have a nice black and white, matte finished photograph that we can really zero in on a section and actually cut out our picture. And we're basically then going to use this again as the centerpiece. So just make sure that you have one of these things on hand. A lot of your basic printers will be able to create this photograph for you and I mean a lot of your additional graphics programs will be able to black and white-ize any photograph."