Photoshop_ChristmasCards

=Personal Christmas (or Holiday) Cards= include component="page" page="menu-designsoftware" editable="1" include component="page" page="menu-photoshop" editable="1" The Admin of South Carleton High School needs to send Christmas Cards - YOU have been asked to design it for them in PHOTOSHOP.

Specifications:
 * 4" tall x 6" wide @ 200dpi
 * Drag in a a Festive Background (School Picture)
 * Locate an appropriate image in the HANDOUTS folder
 * Paint in thematic elements: Snow, Christmas Lights, Snowman, Santa?
 * PAINT ONLY IN LAYERS to paint "non-destructively"
 * Include a Seasonal Greeting:
 * Choose an appropriate message:
 * Happy Holidays from South Carleton High School
 * Seasons Greetings from the Staff and Students of SCHS
 * Use Good typography
 * Use VERDANA for one line of text, and TIMES NEW ROMAN for another
 * Two disctinct sizes of text
 * Use colours and effects that allow the text to be easily read over top the background
 * Include YOUR Christmas Logo & Wreath with the caption "designed by"
 * You can use a "flattened" version of the logo to make it easy to import
 * Turn off the BACKGROUND layer of your Christmas logo
 * Use the Palette Menu and choose to MERGE VISABLE LAYERS
 * Drag the newly flattened later to your Christmas card
 * Consider "Frosting" the outside edges of your card
 * In a new layer, select a large OVAL area
 * Use SELECT- FEATHERING and set a value of 60 pixels
 * Use SELECT - INVERSE to choose the outside edges of the card
 * Hit the D key to set the colours to black and white
 * Use CTRL-DELETE to push the background colour (white) to the selected pixels