Personalized Valentine

Making Personalized Valentine Cards. Make It With Fun!

Do you know that making personalized valentines online is very simple? But it is simple now, whan we have great InterNET. And what was before its arrival?

St. Valentine's Day and appearance of valentine cards.

St. Valentine's Day has its origins in ancient Rome. Now it has become a widespread holiday with millions of fans all over the world. If you want to celebrate Valentine's Day in a more creative way this year, this article can help you. It's not a secret that traditional gift on 14th February is a valentine card, or valentine. This is a kind of postcard, often heart-shaped. In this article we'll discuss the history of valentine-making and will show you how to make a cute virtual valentine online.

Some sources say the first valentine was sent by Charles Duke of Orleans (year 1415) for his wife while he was in the Tower of London. This valentine is now exhibited in the British Museum.

Hand-made valentines reached the peak of their popularity in the 18th century, especially in England. They were made of colored paper and painted with colored inks (thereby the «scrapbooking» was invented ).

The sells of mass-produced valentines began in 19th century. Every year they were becoming more and more creative, from black-and-white to the colored, from plain to sophisticated. People composed acrostics for signing the postcards (acrostic is a poem, in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or a message), decorated their valentines with artificial stones, lace, medieval drawings. They even made puzzle-valentines! The post didn't work so fast as nowadays, so people need to send letters in advance.

Valentine's Day postcard, circa 1910 (from «Wikipedia»)

To make valentine anonymous, people signed them with false handwriting messages (for example, using their left hand for writing). These days sending anonymous valentine is as easy as ABC: you can register false e-mail address and send valentine electronically or, when sending via traditional post, print the message.

Today we can make cute valentine postcard fast and easy using online services. Funny Photo! (http://funny.pho.to) service is an excellent way for congratulating the people you love with St. Valentine's Day. The service provides you with lots of personal postcards made of your own photos or the photos from internet.

Now let me present you a short tutorial on how to make a valentine card at our service.

To make a postcard at Funny.Pho.to you need to perform 3 simple actions:

1)Choose a template (photo frame) for your valentine and click it.

You can choose among popular effects (by default) or among all effects or simply click "Create Valentine" button  .Then you'll be able to choose among more than 30 astonishing valentine templates, containing multi-templates (they allows adding 2 and more photos into it and are marked with special icon. Also you will find lots of beautiful animated valentines and templates with automatic face detection.

2) After you have chosen a template you'll be automatically redirected on a page for adding the photo.

You can take the photo from your PC: click "From disk" -> "Browse". Now you can crop the photo or change the canvas by moving photo's bounding box. You can also select the color of the additional canvas. Now you see how to add two faces from one photo to the multi-template . Just select this photo 2 times, and every time crop the face you need.

If you click "Enter URL" button, you can upload any photo from internet. Copy and paste the URL of the photo you like into text field. Then press "Add" and see your photo into upper panel. Afterwards you'll be able to choose photos from this panel – either from earlier uploaded photos or from resulting postcards.

3) After choosing a photo you'll be automatically redirected on a page with your result. Here you can adjust your postcard:
•    perform face auto crop;
•    add your text message right on a picture;
•    remove Funny.Pho.to logo (available for registered users).

If you are not completely satisfied with the result, you can "Change effect" or "Change photo" or even "Start again".

In case your valentine looks perfect, save it on disk or at free Pho.to hosting.

Hope, this article will be useful for you and St. Valentine's Day will bring you and your beloved a lot of happiness! Express your love not only on 14th of February, but every day of your life!

About the Author

Born in Russian Federation. Now 24 years old. I like photo processing and making cool effects. Nice girl at all )

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Thinking about getting my boyfriend of four years a package of personalized M&M's with a picture of me and him on them. If I was going to get this, they have a special gift set that the M&M's come in a little old school candy dispenser (like the gum ball dispensers that you had to put 25cents in and turn the knob..). ANYWAYS. I need an answer here, I don't know if he will like it, is it too girly? GUYS- what do you think? Would you like that if your girlfriend got it for you?
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