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Jan 1, 2024 8:19 AM
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This year, Klefki's Birthday GIFt club is happy to announce a new card delivery system/GIFt making system! The Give a GIFt program aims to help others who felt they wanted to give people GIFts a chance to make their dream happen! Anyone is free to participate (as long as they are a club member) and you can give a GIFt to anyone you want (including people outside the club!). I'll be posting resources below that I've used often over the years to do my work, so feel free to give them a try!

Main card making app/software:
https://watermarkly.com/add-text-to-photo/

Watermarkly is a great application which allows for a varied use of fonts and even the possibility to add logos to images. I've been using it in my card making for about 2 years now and I don't think I'll ever use anything else from now on! The only hick is there's no option to crop images and do the technical side of things on it so for those things, I'll be posting a few more tools! (Important to note that some fonts are not available in the free format for Watermarkly, I'll be posting some "free" sites as well so feel free to give those a try if money is a concern for you).

Two free to use software/applications for card making and other creative projects:
https://www.photopea.com/

https://www.canva.com/

I've used both Photopea and canva in my college classes before and can assure both work very well (plus they're free, which is a nice bonus! canva may require you to make an account, but its not a big deal as they don't pressure you with sales like a lot of other "register first" sites do). Photopea is very useful for editing/croping images (note that you can also crop images on imgur if you have an account there!) and canva is used for a variety of projects, including GIFs with subtitles/videos (you can make YouTube videos using exclusively canva!), and regular posters/images/etc.!

Image resizing:
https://imageresizer.com/
I use image resizer, you can use anyone you feel comfortable with tbh, there's a lot of those kind of sites out there so explore and find out which works best for you!

Finally, here's the Google Drive link for depositing your GIFt once it is done. Feel free to save them to your image saving sites (imgur, Pinterest, Pixiv, etc.) or post them here if you want, no pressure!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ceTQQhvfUJeW8U_ZtBYXFwMveNO_Ciwd?usp=sharing

Hope you have fun making GIFts and have a good year!:)
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Jan 1, 2024 4:04 PM
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I've always wondered how people make the cards for card clubs 🤔 seems like useful tools

@Twintail_Daemon I think most people use more advance and paid software/hardware to make cards, I'm just very frugal/cheap when it comes to this stuff so the only thing I have paid is the Watermarkly account because I need the fonts and other stuff but otherwise, I'll always look at free software and applications first tbh..^^'>3
Klefki_of_AwsomeJan 2, 2024 6:36 AM
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