Send a happy birthday card by email. How to send a postcard by email for free

Everything is very simple: I suggest using bright, wise, rare photographs and drawings by the authors, which are not actually postcards, but they are so fascinating that it’s hard to come up with ideas for them wishes or look for suitable quotes or parables- GREAT fun and great holiday
Such a “postcard” and congratulations will be original, unusual and, I am sure, will please the person close to you much more than a familiar picture.
And since you invest your good mood and time into the search and creative process.
By the way: practice has shown that without a good mood it is almost impossible to find really worthwhile pictures. In an inspired mood, the pictures seem to attract themselves and you begin to find them in the most unexpected places.

Where to look for such photos: In this article I will share some of the best links that have been found since we started working on our site and suggest some "fishing spots".
There is no need to rush in this matter, the most important thing is to pay attention to the photographs and immediately save a successful photo or a link to it, slowly creating your collection.

If you like this idea, I invite you to plunge into the world of beauty!

Photo sources for postcards.

My favorite source for good photos is, of course, flickr.com. You need to search for photos using keywords (for example: happy, love, flowers) or look at the latest 7 days.
Very comfortably:
- go to the page, look through it, click on the ones you like

And then press the button " RELOAD" at the top of the page and watch more!

It’s convenient to view Flickr periodically, a little at a time. Because finding something that catches your eye can be completely unpredictable.
And yet, it takes a lot of time to search for photographic pearls, and therefore I am always happy about sites that publish their successful finds.
Kind over matter - the best site found in this direction. I have already written about it more than once in articles about promotions of positive postcards, remember?
Amazing pictures on Kind over matter can be found by tag photos.

For example, this picture, which the readers of my LJ liked so much, was found thanks to Kind over matter, for which a HUGE thank you to them!

Photo Harmonic discharge author next_in_line "s photostream

and another one:


Photo On winds of North by next_in_line "s photostream

What to wish: The first photo immediately asks for a wish for harmony and integrity, and for the second - more miracles in life and the ability to enjoy every moment of life.

What to do with the images found on Kind over matter ?
We click on the link to the title (or the picture itself), and as a rule, now we can see it in higher resolution. Here you have two options: send a link to it or save it locally and send the picture itself by email (for example).
How to save a picture found on flickr.com:
save the entire web page, and the folder with pictures will contain the photo you need.

A blog that is a pleasure to talk about again and again is The Star Collector
Conveniently, quotes, parables and pictures are collected here at the same time)) Excellent material for congratulations!
Pictures on this site

Here's an example of how this can be used to congratulate a loved one:

Given: picture and quote:
"They say that Leprechauns bury their treasures where the rainbow touches the ground."

Let's add: “I don’t know if this is really so, but I know one thing for sure: there, when you touched my heart, love was born - the most valuable treasure I possess!”

Everyone, someone will be happy to plunge into the life of a pearl hunter and start collecting their collection for electronic greetings,
I wish you good luck and great discoveries!

Photo by Seth Rader

UPD: a couple more links to good collections of pictures:

Thank you very much! And come again!

You also have the opportunity to follow this link and write there about your ideas, comments and suggestions about our site

Congratulations on any holiday with a postcard have always been considered a sign of respect and attention to loved ones, friends and just acquaintances. And if earlier postal services were needed to deliver such cards, today there are electronic cards with which you can congratulate your loved ones quickly and in a timely manner. Moreover, such a congratulation cannot get lost anywhere, and will arrive exactly on time, and the process of creating an electronic message itself can be quite interesting.

How to make an e-card on a computer

Creating postcards in electronic form is not a complicated process and is carried out as follows:

• in an Internet search engine, enter a request for a site that creates and sends electronic cards (for example: postcard.ru or mail.ru);
• with the help of special servers, a postcard is created to your liking, which can be decorated with different patterns, as well as select the most attractive template, choose a color scheme with a beautiful font for the congratulation text;
• If desired, electronic cards can be supplemented with musical accompaniment; it can be selected from a music catalog to suit the recipient’s taste;
• to create the most interesting thematic plot, you can use a graphic editor, but the idea of ​​congratulations must be thought out in advance;
• the finished postcard is placed in an interactive letter and then sent to its destination.

To ensure that creating postcards in electronic form does not cause difficulties, and also has a beautiful appearance, it is important to consider the following points:

• It is best to use a graphic editor if you have certain knowledge and skills in working with this program, since studying it can take a lot of time;
• creating postcards using a ready-made template will be much easier and faster, and you can adjust it according to your taste;
• it is best to make postcards that are neutral in content, which will appeal not only to their creator, but also to those for whom they are intended;
• When creating postcards, the main thing is to know when to stop and not to overdo it with the number of pictures, the amount of text, and also to maintain a certain color scheme.

But in any case, no matter what kind of e-cards you end up with, they will be wonderful congratulations on the holiday of your loved ones, because they are beautiful, impressive and unusual.

How to make a postcard in Word

You can make a postcard in Word, but here I want to point out why it’s better not to do this.

Word is a text editor, so with graphic objects there are some difficulties when arranging them. And the result can only be seen by opening the postcard in . And if your recipient does not have this program, then he will not be able to see the postcard, or it will open in a distorted form in another word processor. The expected pleasant impression will be ruined.

But what should we do? We will use a program for creating presentations - PowerPoint. A postcard created in PowerPoint can be saved as a picture and will be available for viewing on any computer and on the Internet.

How to Make a Postcard in PowerPoint

Creating a postcard will only take a few steps:

1 Open the PowerPoint presentation program

First option

• Start - All Programs - Microsoft Office - Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (you may have a different version, but it doesn’t matter - all actions are universal)

Second option

• There is a search in the start menu. Start typing the name of the Microsoft PowerPoint program there and if it is installed on your computer, you will see it in the search results.

2 Select a layout

Since we are using a program to create presentations, the original slide will have markup. We don't need her. Let's remove it.

Home – Layout – Blank Slide

3 Set the background image

Let's take some beautiful drawing as the background for our postcard. Go to the tab Design – Background Styles – Background Format

In the settings window on the tab Fill choose Pattern or texture

In section Paste from: press the button File and select the desired picture from the folder. Click the button Insert and press the button Close in the window Background format.

The selected image will be stretched to fit the slide. The background is ready.

Now we can do a little magic on our card to give it an even more original look. To do this, we will add several additional elements to the slide: Santa Claus, the text of his congratulations and the title of our postcard. Well, to make it clear that the congratulations are from Santa Claus, let’s make a callout for the text.

4 Add decorations and text

Let's get started. Insert a picture with Santa Claus.

Execute the command Insert – Drawing and move it to the lower left corner. We reduce its size a little.

Making a callout Insert - Shapes. We change the figure to the desired size.

Now you can add congratulations text with the command Insert – WordArt. We select a sample text font and replace it with our congratulations. Adjust the size of the frame with the text to the size of the callout.

We do the title of the postcard in the same way.

Well, the postcard is ready. All that remains is to save it as a picture and you can send it by email.

5 Save the postcard

To save, select the command File - Save As... We give the postcard a name and, most importantly, change the file type to Drawing in JPEG format

Choose Only the current slide.

Now let's save the presentation so we can use it to create other cards.

Video instructions for creating a postcard

Now watch these steps in the video below. From it you will learn: how to insert a picture, change its size, how to add text with congratulations.

Dear friends! Create beautiful original cards and delight your loved ones and friends with them. I did a selection of blanks for New Year's cards. It contains: Backgrounds, Santa Clauses, Snowmen, Christmas trees, Decorations, Symbols of the year and text greetings. And here selection of preparations for February 23. Still small selection of blanks for March 8. Download and practice creating e-cards

Another selection of New Year's images with transparent backgrounds for quickly creating original cards. Download archive 28 images

By the way, the Microsoft Office package includes a wonderful Publisher program, you can also make a beautiful congratulation in the form of a postcard, I already wrote on the blog in it.

How to search for pictures for a postcard?

To make creating a postcard as easy as possible, look for pictures with transparent backgrounds. Such drawings are most often in png or gif file format. It is preferable to use the first format. It preserves gradients well (smooth color transitions).

To search, go to Yandex. Select search section Images(block 1). Enter a key query - what image you are looking for. For example, year of the pig New Year pictures. In the search tips you can select the most suitable query.

Image search in Yandex

You can use filters on the images found. Click Show filters (block 2). An additional panel will open. Now we select the parameters for selecting pictures.

We select drawings by size. We don't need large sizes for an e-card. Therefore, I advise you to put Average or Little ones. In the thumbnails of the pictures you will see their true size.

Filtering the size of pictures

Which size is preferable? On average, most monitors have a size of 1366x768. So try not to take larger pictures. Because when inserted onto a slide, it can cover it entirely.

Choose the orientation yourself. Everything is clear here. But in Type Don't choose a white background. It's easy enough to remove.

Filter by background

But it’s still better to choose a picture without a background. To do this in the filter File select PNG.

Filter by file type

Yandex will show drawings based on our selection criteria. In the thumbnails, all pictures will have a white background, but this is not the case. Click on any of them to view in larger size. Now, if on the background instead of white you see checkerboards, then this picture has a transparent background.

Displaying a picture with a transparent background in a search engine

It is preferable to use for your greeting card collage. Right-click on it and select the command Copy image and paste it onto the slide.

You can do the same in another search engine.

Creating an animated postcard

The method for creating a static postcard was described above, but you always want something more. Let's try to liven it up a little and add falling snow. To create an animated picture, we need to work a little more and make several slides that differ in the position of the snowflakes on the slides. When quickly changing such slides, the effect of falling snow will be observed.

To save such an effect in a picture, you will need another file format - GIF, which is capable of storing and displaying animation in the browser. But Power Point does not support animation when saving to this format. Therefore, in the presentation editor we will make blank frames, and to create animation from them we will use an online service. Watch the video tutorial below.

I hope this information is useful to you. Congratulations to everyone on the holidays, future and past!

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Instructions

A static postcard is convenient because you can send it without thinking about how exactly the recipient will view it (from a computer or phone), and whether he or she has Flash Player. Draw it yourself using the graphic editor that you know how to use, or download a suitable ready-made image from any free photo bank, and then add congratulatory inscriptions to it in the graphic editor. You can simply draw an image by hand and take a photograph. Attach the finished file (JPG or GIF format) to the message you are sending. To do this, while composing it, click the “Browse” button, go to the folder in which the file is located, select it, and then click the OK button. If the image does not attach automatically, click the “Attach” button and wait until the file is uploaded to the server. After that, making sure that all fields (for address, header and body of the message) are filled out correctly, click the “Submit” button.

The GIF format, unlike JPG, allows simple animation consisting of several images changing in a ring to be placed in a file. The recipient will be able to view such animation on their computer in almost any browser. The ability to display them depends on its model and firmware, and in the absence of such a function, installing one of the new versions of the UC browser will help. To download such images, use, in particular, the site located at the first link listed at the end of the article. Send them by email as indicated above.

Flash cards are distinguished by significantly higher quality animation, which, moreover, can be accompanied by sound effects. You can get to one of the sites where such postcards are available by clicking on the second of the links given at the end of the article. Having selected the desired postcard there (regular or Flash format), fill in the required fields, and a link to it will be sent to the recipient automatically. He can view it by clicking on this link.

Voice cards use a speech synthesizer located on the server. To go to the site with them, click on the third link at the end of the article. Having selected a design option, click on it and a page with an input form will load. Fill out all the fields of this form, including the recipient's address, and most importantly, enter the text that the synthesizer should pronounce. Select background music and voice. Check what happened using the “Listen” button, and then send the result to the recipient (whose computer must have Flash Player installed) by clicking the “Send” button.

The idea of ​​the greeting card largely belongs to the English artist Dobson. It was he who prepared a colorful card for Christmas for his friend in 1794, which depicted family members against the backdrop of a Christmas tree and a winter landscape.

Needless to say, since then the appearance of the postcard has changed and, by the way, not only the appearance, but also the technology for sending it. The Internet and e-mail allow you to send free holiday cards to friends and acquaintances for free.

This article will tell you how you can send a postcard by email and using special services. Read it to the end to please your loved ones during the holidays with bright, colorful virtual gifts.

Online services

There are a huge number of web resources on the Internet that allow you to send a postcard to the recipient without logging in to your e-mail. They offer a huge number of different thematic illustrations to choose from - for congratulations on your Birthday, Happy New Year and other “red dates”, for declarations of love, friendship, etc.

Consider the option of sending a free postcard from the web service - sunbouquet.com (by the way, one of the most popular on the Internet):

1. Go to the above address.

2. Click the “Select category...” button.

3. In the additional panel, select the topic of interest (for example, “Pleasant wishes”).

4. In the section that opens, click the greeting card you like.

5. In the “Send postcard” block, indicate the recipient’s E-mail (to whom the message should be sent), his name and the date of sending. If you want to duplicate the sending of the postcard to your mailbox, check the “Send a copy... to me” box under the fields.

6. Click the mouse to make the adjacent block active - “Create link...”. Enter your email address and name. If you want to participate in the site's ranking, check the box at the bottom.

7. Customize the layout of the card, select the font and color of the letters in the title and accompanying text, as well as the background on which the card will be placed.

8. Come up with and print the title and text of the letter in the fields (the field under the postcard).

9. Click the “Submit” button.

10. Retype the code from the picture (captcha). Click "OK" to complete sending the congratulatory message.

Sending a postcard from your email

Search and download

First of all, find on the Internet the most suitable congratulatory illustration for your occasion.

1. On the Google search engine page in the upper right corner, click the “Pictures” section.

Note. You can also use a similar service in Yandex.

3. Click on the appropriate card.

4. After it opens in an enlarged view, click on it again, but with the right button. Select “Save image as...”.

5. In the window that appears, specify the folder into which you want to download the image.

Sending to recipient

2. Open the form to send a letter.

3. Enter the recipient's address.

4. Create a title, type the text of the message.

5. Click the “Attach” or “Add” button on the form (it may have different names, depending on the service you use).

6. Upload the previously downloaded postcard from your PC.

7. Send a letter (click the appropriate button).

Sending a postcard on the Mail.ru service

Mail.ru has a built-in option that allows you to immediately insert a postcard into a letter from the database available on the site.

To use it, do this:

1. Click “Write a letter” in your account.

2. Fill out the form.

3. Click “Postcards” on the right side of the message text field.

4. Select a suitable card from the feed: left-click on it. And it will immediately appear enlarged in the field.

5. Sign and send the card.

How to create and send a postcard yourself?

If you decide to prepare an exclusive postcard of your own making, you can use a special online designer - pro100tak.com. It has both paid and free image editing features.

1. Open the main page of the site. Go to the "Designer" section.

2. Select a template, add a music track, text, etc.

3. After you make a postcard, click the “Send by E-mail” button.

4. Select a template to send (2 options in the left panel).

5. Specify the address of the recipient and sender (yours).

6. Click "Submit".

Beautiful, bright postcards and warm communication by e-mail! From that.