Creating a 'postcard'
This tutorial will show you how to create a 'postcard'. What you need: some photos, Posterino and 5 minutes time.
Here's the quick version of the tutorial, for the experienced user this may be all she needs. More detailed instructions follow.
Next we will shed more light on each individual step.
To create a 'postcard':
Start Posterino or create a new document by choosing the
command from the menu.A new document will open and display a sheet of templates:
From the list of templates select the one named "Card in Blue".
Press the Choose button.
A new "Card in Blue" document will open. You see a postcard with an empty image frame and a text field to fill:
On the sidebar of the document window you see the image picker:
If the image picker is not visible, press the button at the bottom of the sidebar or choose from the menu (or press Command-1).
At the top of the image picker is a popup menu. From this popup menu choose the iPhoto album holding the photos you would like to use for your postcard. In our example we choose the "Lago Maggiore" album holding images from our last weekend trip. See Importing Images if you want to use other image sources than iPhoto.
Now choose an image from the image picker and move it onto the empty image frame using drag & drop:
Next we will ensure that no important part of the image is clipped off by the frame. For example, we improve the clipping of the image below:
Double click the image. The image bounds are displayed and you can grab the orange knobs to change the size of the image, the green knob to rotate the image and the white knob or any other visible part of the image to move it.
In our example we grab the white knob and move the image a bit to the right.
Now we can see the Madonna del Sasso in all it's glory.
To enter some text, click into the text area. The text field will highlight:
And enter your message:
If your are done with the design of your postcard, press the toolbar button (or press Command-Shift-K). The mail options dialog will apear:
In our example we want to send our postcard as email, so choose
. Posterino will stamp your postcard with a postmark, render it and open it with the Mail application.You can easily customize the postage stamp by dragging one of your own images onto the stamp:
You can customize the postmark to a very high degree. To change the postmark go to
> > :The postmark and postage stamp position and rotation are altered at random every time you create a new postcard or send your postcard.
You can control the degree of randomness on the
preferences panel under the headline .