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5 must have digital enhancements for your custom invitations

By: gary maxwell
Date Added : August 14, 2011 Views : 21
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Don’t leave your invitations bare. With today’s technology there are a lot of things that you can do to enhance your color invitations to make them really welcoming and compelling on readers. Let me give you the five “must-have” digital enhancement tricks that your own invitations should always have. If you truly want people to be encouraged to come to your event, you should really try to study and integrate these to your invitation prints.

1. Re-mastered images – Now this is something of a recurring theme nowadays in most printing jobs, like magazines and of course invitations as well. Depending on the image, some images for full color invitations are digitally enhanced and re-mastered.

The brightness values, contrast values and the color saturation values can be adjusted slightly to make for a better looking image for those invitation prints. Some applications even offer to automatically adjust and enhance images if possible. Better images of course mean better looking invitations. That is why it is a good idea to re-master your images for invitation printing.

2. Gradient backgrounds and design elements – One trick that you should also try out is the use of gradients. Color gradients more specifically can be used for backgrounds and other design elements. These gradients gradually shift and transition the color values in those design elements for a more dynamic and even natural kind of color. This is the popular practice nowadays in printing as well as in Internet related web design. So you should definitely try to apply these to your invitation designs.

3. Textured backgrounds and design elements – If gradients will not work for you, you can also try out textures. Textured backgrounds and design elements are a good digital effect to apply to your invitations. This can help you create a simulated material in your invitation design.

For example, your invitations can look like it was made of wood, metal or even lace and canvass if you like. This can even match your chosen theme for your event or occasion so that you have a more engaging and interesting full color invitation. So try out textures if you can for your prints.

4. Lighting effects – Design applications can also help you add some lighting effects. Special spot lights, flood light effects in an invitation design help you to direct readers to the most important parts of your invitation first. This is effective if you want to emphasize the date, the event or the names of the prime speakers etc. first. So if your theme can actually handle lighting effects, you should try this out.

5. Shadow effects – Now, if you want a more interesting broader effect for your design, you can try out shadow effects. Shadow effects can be applied to your text elements as well as to your shape or logo elements. Those shadows can basically lift up these design elements, adding to the three dimensional illusion of your two dimensional invitation prints. This is effective for titles as well as logos and graphics, giving them that prime emphasis that some invitations need to do.

So do not print those invitations yet! Try to apply these must have digital enhancements to make your custom invitations look better and of course be more trendy and convincing. This is a step you should not miss lest you want to waste your money in invitation printing really. Try them out now!


Gary Maxwell is an artist focused on catalog printing. Born and raised in Colorado, He is currently a freelance for online designing promoting color invitations.

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