Create Christmas cards with Picasa
With Picasa you have created beautiful and above all personal Christmas cards in just a few steps. Read here how exactly this works.
1. Find suitable pictures for Christmas cards
With the free Picasa, everyone can easily create their own Christmas cards. To do this, you must first choose a suitable picture.
- Either you take your own, self-made photos, for example a family photo in front of the Christmas tree.
- Or you can search for your desired Christmas motif on Google Images, for example.
- You can save the images in a folder of your choice by right-clicking> "Save as".
- Make sure that the images are usually protected by copyright and can therefore only be used in private circles. If you want to create Christmas cards for the company or school, you should use images with a Creative Commons license.
2. Create Christmas cards in Picasa
When designing the Christmas cards in Picasa, there are no limits to your ideas: no matter whether portrait or landscape format, collage or single image, with or without text.
- In the Picasa overview you can see all your photos. Select the appropriate folder in the folder view on the left and then select your desired Christmas motif. Double-click to open the editing.
- Now you can crop, align and improve your picture and add text to make your Christmas card unique.
- To add text, click on the "Text" symbol on the left and then on the desired position in the picture.
- After entering the text, you can change the font, size, and orientation. Give your card the finishing touch with special, free Christmas fonts.
- Save the change with "Apply".
3. Send or print the Christmas card in Picasa
Now that you have designed your individual Christmas card in Picasa, you can now conveniently send it by email, print it out yourself or order it as a deduction.
- To do this, select "File" and then "Print", "Email" or "Order prints".
- You only need to set the size and number when printing.
- To send your Christmas card by email, simply select your email program.
- And to order prints, select a provider and enter your user data.
If you forgot to buy Christmas paper in time, we will show you here how you can print out Christmas paper yourself.