Make your Greetings Shout Out with these Font Effect Tips

When you create custom greeting cards, there is always a great urge to shout out your sentiments through its fonts. The important thing to note though, when you to want to make your text shout out is that you must add effects to your text. Your greeting card printing will not really “talk” or “shout” if you just use plain fonts and colors. You must add certain special effects to really make the text distinct with a certain impression of loud and joyful emotion. In this little guide, I will give you a few tips on how to make your greetings shout out using simple effects for greeting card printing and design.

• Glowing Greetings – Now, first do you know that you can actually make greetings glow? Yes it is possible in two ways actually. First is through the digital design itself and second with the use of specific inks.

? When it comes to digital design, it is easy to have your designer add glow effects to certain text. Software alike Adobe Photoshop can easily add “glow” effects to text layers using its layer blending options. Try to tell this to your designer, or if you are the designer yourself, simply play with the blending options in your text layer to see the “glow” effects that I am talking about.

? Besides that though, you can also have the greeting card printer itself use a special kind of ink that glints or glows with light. These can be metallic inks, or inks with glitters and such. When the greeting cards are printed, the glitter or sheen effect can be embedded within the inks, making certain details quite magical. Your message will definitely be heard with this. Whatever the case though, glowing greeting cards are certainly great and will always make your greeting card messages “shout out” to your readers.

• Lifted Words – Now if you want a slightly lifted effect in your fonts, you can use the shadow effect. Shadows can basically make words or text appear as though they have been lifted. With this effect enabled, you add subtle more realistic impression with your greeting card text. It even makes your greetings pretty distinguishable and more eye catching than most other plain looking text. This is also a great alternative to glowing greetings especially if you think you are using the glowing greetings too much.

• Colorful Text – If you want a little creative use of color in your greeting card text, then you should consider using color themes and gradients for your words. Color gradients can be quite colorful since you can choose from two to more colors and blend them together as a gradient. This makes a lot of text in greeting cards indeed come alive and shout out their messages. The changing of colors within each word or character can be quite fun and even interesting to watch. So make sure you consider adding colorful text whenever possible.

So that is how you can make the greeting card messages shout out through simple font effects. Good Luck!