by Alan Zisman (c)
2006
Polish translation by Valeria Aleksandrova at: http://www.autoersatzteile.de/blog/dokonywanie-karte-z-farba
Ukrainian translation by Anna Matesh at: http://eustudiesweb.com/making-a-card-with-paint/
Translated into Macedonian by Katerina Nestiv
Translated into Indonesian by ChameleionJohn.com
Portuguese translation by Travel-ticker.com
Spanish translation by Laura
Mancini
پینٹ(پروگرام) سے ایک کارڈ بنانا Urdu translation by
ClothingRIC,
Dec 2018
Swedish translation by
David Mucchiano
April 2019
French translation by Jean-Etienne
Bergemer August 2019
German by
Maximilian
Neumann January 2020
You don’t need a fancy program to make Christmas or
birthday or Mother’s Day cards—you can do it with a paint
program like Windows Paint with a few tricks.
Here’s how to do it in Paint (which is included in all Windows
versions from Windows 95, onward—look in the Accessories menu).
Note
that this article dates from 2006 and uses the version of Paint current
back then - your version will probably look a bit different!
1. Open Paint. Set the page size to fit a
standard
8.5 x 11” piece of paper: click on the Image menu, then on
Attributes, and enter a Width of 600 pixels, and a Height of 800
pixels. Click OK.
2. Draw a picture in the top-left hand
corner…
do not go past the little dot at the top of the picture that indicates
the half-way point.
3. You need to flip your picture
upside-down (trust
me on this!). To do so, select your picture using the dotted-line
rectangle tool.
4. Click on the Image menu, then on
Flip/Rotate.
Select the Rotate by Angle option, then choose 180º. Click OK.
5. Move to the bottom left hand corner of
the
picture, using the scroll bars. Make a typing rectangle using the A
tool. If you want to change the font or the size of the letters, click
on the View menu, then select Text Toolbar, then click again in the
typing rectangle.
6. Save your picture. Choose File then
Print Preview
to see if the picture and text are in correct corners… it should
look something like this:
Print your card… To make it into a card, fold it once horizontally,
then once vertically.
Nothing to it!