How do you create a mailer?

[Sean Gover]

Maybe I'm searching BP with the wrong words but I can't find any articles or posts on how to create the actual design for a post card mailer that I can upload to a mass mailer site.

Are you creating the post card from scratch in a word document?

If importing an existing image or copying ideas from other mailers, how are you editing the image.

Any useful tips would be appreciated.

Thanks

Sean

[David Dachtera]

Originally posted by @Sean Gover:

Thanks for the reply @David Dachtera.  I'm looking for the easiest tool to use and general process on how one went about creating their mailer. I've been fooling around can grabbing images off the internet but am having a hard time removing/add text and what not.  

Yeah - once an image is modified and saved, it's no longer a collection of objects like a Publisher project or a Word document. It's just a collection of 0/1 bits.

Even just with simple tools, you can crop the text out of some images using the Windows Paint applet, for example, though that may not leave enough image to still be useful, depending how much text and other "stuff" was added. Not sure if Photoshop would be more helpful or not - I don't have it, so I don't use it.

David J Dachtera

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