With just a few days left, everyone is eagerly anticipating the upcoming New Year 2020. Amidst the lively atmosphere of welcoming the Canh Ty Spring, it's also the perfect time to convey meaningful wishes through cards to family, friends, partners,... And it would be truly wonderful if you could personally craft those cards.
Crafting New Year 2020 Greeting Cards with Paint
However, if you're busy or inexperienced in card-making, what can you do? Don't worry, in this article, Mytour will share with you a simple yet beautiful way to create New Year 2020 greeting cards using the built-in Paint tool on your computer.
Guide to Crafting New Year 2020 Greeting Cards
Firstly, you need to prepare some card templates according to the New Year 2020 theme. Following the traditional lunar calendar, the upcoming year will be the Year of the Metal Rat, so images of rats will be popular and widely used in New Year greeting card templates.
Mytour has curated a collection of beautiful card templates featuring the theme of the rat and celebrating the New Year 2020. Users can click on the link below to download and use:
- Download New Year 2020 Card Template: Download New Year 2020 Card
Step 1: Open the Paint application on Windows. Click on the File menu and select Open.
Step 2: In the Open window, navigate to the folder containing the downloaded New Year 2020 greeting card templates. Select the image and click on the Open button below.
Step 3: In the Paint workspace, click on the Home tab and then choose the Text tool with the A icon.
Step 4: Press and simultaneously move the mouse to select the area where you want to insert text into the image.
Step 5: Enter New Year greetings into the frame. Then, highlight all the characters and use the Font style, font size, italicize, bold, underline tools in the Font function group to complete.
In this example, Mytour has used 2 fonts: Open Sans ExtraBold and UTM God's Word for beautiful and legible formatting. Users can download and learn how to install UTM Font in another Mytour article.
Step 6: To change the text color, highlight and select a color from the options in the Colors tool on the menu bar. If not satisfied, click Edit Color to choose different colors.
Step 7: After completing the creation of the New Year 2020 greeting card, click on the File menu on the toolbar. Here, click Save as and choose the image format such as PNG, JPEG, GIF... when saving.
In this step, Mytour chooses to save the image in JPEG format.
Finally, review Your New Year Greeting Card - The Achievement after Your Own Design Journey.
With just the simple tool of Paint, you'll quickly craft a card to your liking along with Tet wishes to send to your friends, family, or colleagues in the upcoming New Year 2020 season. Hopefully, the cards designed by you will bring joy to the recipients in this approaching Canh Ty Spring. Wishing you success!
