How Do You Create Custom Gift Wrap Using Photo Editing Software?
• Pick the image you want (ideally themed to match the gift or card). Make sure you own the rights to use the image. This example uses a little cartoon of a baby: • Change size and resolution – approximately 1″ square at 300 dpi works OK to fill an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet • If using Photoshop, make sure that Constrain Proportions and Resample Image are both checked, otherwise you might squeeze your image or end up with an image way too big or too small (basically what we are trying to do at this step is to make an image just the right size to fill a sheet of paper when repeated as a pattern). • Just for good housekeeping, and in case you want to use it again later, save this smaller version as a new file (rename it and save it where you can find it easily) • Select All (Control+A) and Copy to clipboard ( \Edit\Copy ) • Now to make this into a pattern that you can repeat, in Adobe Photoshop(TM) this is done by selecting \Edit\Define Pattern • (GIMP, Imageforge and other free image editing soft
