Sunday, December 5, 2010

Practical Guideline for Making Your Own Photo Graduation Announcements

To have a sufficiently attended ceremony making up of good number of friends, family and colleagues is the dream of many graduates, and have the opportunity of showing off your academic hoods, especially if it is doctoral regalia. It is not enough to just send an invite, there must be an additional push to ensure good attendance and one of such is to send a photo graduation announcement to your friends. It is cheap, and very convenient, and very effective. Remember the axiom that a photo discloses thousand meaning than words can ever project; besides it is a mark stays longer in ones memory. Do you want to learn how to do this? Read on.

Requirements:

To pull this off effectively below are some of the resources you will require, they are: photo paper, digital photo, clip art, printer, computer, word processor, and scissors.

First on your computer and open the word processor file, Microsoft word is a good alternative, set the background template using colors or clip art. A good suggestion is to select your institution color, let it rhyme with the academic tassel.

Secondly go to my pictures in your computer choose a picture, if you do not have it in the “my picture” file, you can transfer from any source and save in there, or the desktop, once you get it, copy and paste into the word template.

Insert a text box in the file and fill with necessary information like: your name, the name of your school, your course (theology, agriculture, medicine, economics etc), the venue and the date of the graduation ceremony, and any other information you might deem fit. You can as well add colors of the academic hoods normally used for graduation.

Get a duplicate of your schools symbol or logo insert and place in a striking corner of the document. The positioning of the logo is very important, as it makes your work look professional, if you are not sure of where to paste, follow how some professional company’s logo are place, then copy the pattern

Check your word, use the print preview to have a general view of your work, confirm if it is properly positioned in right angles, and the outcome of the presentation.

After the general checking you are very sure of your work, you can print out the invitation paper, not on any paper use photo paper to print the announcement to ensure that you have an excellent outcome that is clear and of high quality.

After printing out the photo, using scissors, or any paper cutter, cut it to size. Printing must be base on the number of invitees you have in mind.

What if you have many friends who incidentally are out of town at the moment and you don’t want to create an inconvenience by sending a late invite. This is what you do. After printing out the invitation paper, you can convert the file into a jpg file, using Photoshop resize it and conduct necessary editing to make it look presentable, then send by email to your out of town friends, you can even go beyond that, paste on your face book wall for your friends to see, you will be surprise at the response.

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