Patriotic Save The Date Cards
Are
you planning on getting hitched on the 4th of july. A big celebration on a
most important holiday. You may even be lucky enough to get fireworks at the
end of your evening.
Be inspired by some of ideas we have for Save the date Wedding cards that have a very patriotic feel to them.
Save the date ideas
Stars and stripes are an obvious theme idea
Fireworks would make a great backdrop to an announcement card. Take a photograph of the couple with fireqorks exploding behind them or may make a card with a graphics program and leave out the photo.
Wording ideas
red, white, we do
Sam and Janette, are exploding with love
Please save the date for their wedding
Obama Inspired Save the Date Cards
I am no expert in Adobe Photoshop CS but inspired by the
Obama Hope designs by
Shepard Fairey , I thought I would give
it a shot.
Step one
I chose digital photographs where the background was relatively
distinguishable from our heads. It helps if the photographs are full quality.
Tip: don't work with a small image -- I tried that and it sucks.
Step two
I opened up those photos in Adobe Photoshop. I went to Filters-->Artistic-->Cutout. I chose 4 Levels because I eventually wanted to have four colors in my save-the-dates -- like Obama's hope posters. But if you want to have more or less colors, you can adjust the levels as needed. I fiddled with the Edge Simplicity sliding bar and Edge Fidelity bar until it looked about right. There wasn't really a method to this madness.
Step three
I used the Fill option (the little paint bucket) to color the "cutout" version of the photo. The picture part is done!
Step four
I wrote
HOPE
you save the date
and voila -- we have some
patriotic save-the-dates for our 4th of July wedding.
Here are some other spoofs on the "Obama-HOPE" icon that are non-wedding
related... www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/view/165211/2
Made By Ji
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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