If you make professional invitations...

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• mistywhite400 member

  March 2011

  I don't make them professionally, but when I was doing Emerson's ivites for her 1st birthday, I used photoshop.  I think most people who make them use some form of photoshop, whether it be illustrator or regular photoshop.  You can take classes on it or in graphic design.

   GL & maybe someone with more knowledge can give you some tips but if not maybe look into some info on those programs!  GL!

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• bwralc member

  March 2011

  mistywhite400:

  I don't make them professionally, but when I was doing Emerson's ivites for her 1st birthday, I used photoshop.  I think most people who make them use some form of photoshop, whether it be illustrator or regular photoshop.  You can take classes on it or in graphic design.

   GL & maybe someone with more knowledge can give you some tips but if not maybe look into some info on those programs!  GL!

  Thanks.  I do use Photoshop and Illustrator to make them already.  However I don't know how to make clipart myself and was wondering if I would run into a problem with that.  The invites I've made so far, either haven't had any clipart, just photos of the child, etc. or a very popular character like Lightning McQueen and I usually just find the image on the internet and adapt it for my use.
  

  

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• mistywhite400 member

  March 2011

  bwralc:

  mistywhite400:

  I don't make them professionally, but when I was doing Emerson's ivites for her 1st birthday, I used photoshop.  I think most people who make them use some form of photoshop, whether it be illustrator or regular photoshop.  You can take classes on it or in graphic design.

   GL & maybe someone with more knowledge can give you some tips but if not maybe look into some info on those programs!  GL!

  Thanks.  I do use Photoshop and Illustrator to make them already.  However I don't know how to make clipart myself and was wondering if I would run into a problem with that.  The invites I've made so far, either haven't had any clipart, just photos of the child, etc. or a very popular character like Lightning McQueen and I usually just find the image on the internet and adapt it for my use.
  

  I'm not quite sure how to make the images yourself other than using a the shape tools & creating the shapes yourself, I couldn't ever figure it out on my own!!  I do know you can purchase shapes/graphics from etsy or other graphic designers.  Then you can still create invites while you are learning to create them yourself. 

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• 2-Step member

  March 2011

  If you are going to sell them you can't use any licensed characters such as Cars etc. That will get you into trouble fast. To make your own clip art you need to usually draw something in illustrator with the vector tools. I find this extremely time consuming and I am not really an artist, just a graphic designer (there is a difference for sure) so I don't find that a good use of my time.

  The best place to find images and clip art that you can licnese is on stock vector or stock photography sites. Some charge per use, some charge a monthly fee for X # of downloads and sometimes you can find free stock vectors that will work. Make sure you do not buy Rights-Managed images as those are going to charge you per use. You can search by illustration or photo, I prefer finding illustrations to purchase and then you can pull them into illustrator or photoshop and change the colors, add or subtract elements or just use them as-is. Some of my favorite sites are shutterstock.com and istockphoto.com.

  I really taught myself most of what I know. Check out Lynda.com for free tutorials on how to do specific things in any of the graphic design programs. They have some great tutorials that are just as good as anything you would pay for.

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• 2-Step member

  March 2011

  bwralc:

  mistywhite400:

  I don't make them professionally, but when I was doing Emerson's ivites for her 1st birthday, I used photoshop.  I think most people who make them use some form of photoshop, whether it be illustrator or regular photoshop.  You can take classes on it or in graphic design.

   GL & maybe someone with more knowledge can give you some tips but if not maybe look into some info on those programs!  GL!

   I usually just find the image on the internet and adapt it for my use.
  

  This is fine if you are doing it for friends, but do not sell anything with images that you do not own the rights to. It is illegal and a headache you don't need, believe me. Draw your artwork yourself or license it.

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• 2-Step member

  March 2011

  2-Step:

  If you are going to sell them you can't use any licensed characters such as Cars etc. That will get you into trouble fast. To make your own clip art you need to usually draw something in illustrator with the vector tools. I find this extremely time consuming and I am not really an artist, just a graphic designer (there is a difference for sure) so I don't find that a good use of my time.

  Also you can draw on paper and then scan and use the trace tools in Illustrator to copy your drawing. That is a quick and easy way to turn your artwork into a digital image.

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• bwralc member

  March 2011

  Thanks for the websites to buy graphics and the tutorial sites.  I will definitely check those out.  As far as drawing on paper I've never been very good at drawing so that would probably not work out too good for me.

  As far as the licensed characters, what do you do if you get someone who wants one of those types of invites?  I've seen them for sale on Etsy, does that mean that those are illegal?  Sorry for all of the questions, I truly have never dealt with copy writing etc.
  

  

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