Making autograph cards

[missmaile]

Ive noticed that a lot of people dont just send photos to celebs for autographs, instead they make cards with the celebs pic on and a white space to sign, I was wondering how you do this?

I have some lovely pics I would like celebs to sign for me but they are too dark for an autograph to show up on and Id love to put these pics onto a card with a space for signing.

Do you need some kind of special software or programme on your computer?

Thanks

[RYAN J.]

You'll need a card making program. I highly reccomend 'Greeting Card factory Express V.3" from Nova Developments. I use this for my custom cards and am very pleased with the results. It's a pretty simple program to use as well. & cheap. I got mine free, but you can pick this version up on ebay for around $6.00.

RYAN J.

[packrat]

A lot of celebrities have silver sharpies and paint pens for dark surfaces. Or if you want, you can simply open the photo in Microsoft Paint and create a white box for them to sign in, if that's what you want to do. Just make sure that if you save it, use the "save as" option instead of "save" and choose a new name for the file. This way you'll still have the original file in case you should later decide you don't want to alter it.

I also make custom 4x6 and 6x8 photos from time to time, but I don't use any special programs, I just use Paint. The quality isn't as good as a program like Ryan suggested, but it's good enough for me.