VIDEO: Make animated Christmas e-cards yourself

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In the past, cards were sent by normal post to make family and friends happy at Christmas. Nowadays almost everyone has Internet and your own e-mail address, today people tend to send animated Christmas e-cards. This has the advantage that they are often nicer or funnier and, on the other hand, can still be sent completely free of charge. If you create the animated Christmas e-cards yourself, it becomes even more personal.

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If you want to create an animated Christmas e-card from scratch, you can use special software, which is often only available for download, however, for a fee.

  1. Download one of the programs such as "Ashampoo SeeYa" or "Wondershare PPT to eCard" and install it on your PC using the installation wizard. Some programs like "Adobe Photoshop" or other image editing programs could also be useful.
  2. After the installation you can start the software and familiarize yourself with it. Then you can upload photos of yourself and create beautiful animated Christmas e-cards with various effects and pieces of music.
  3. You can then save the finished e-cards on your hard drive. Then log in to your e-mail-Provider and write a mail to family members and friends. Finally, load your self-created animated Christmas e-cards into this e-mail and send them.
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Christmas e-cards from online providers

If software is too expensive for you and you do not want to do as much work yourself, you can use one of the online providers such as JibJab or ElfYourself use. Some of these providers only make their service available at Christmas time.

  1. Go to the homepage of the selected provider. Then you can either choose one of the animated Christmas e-cards that you see in the preview or use the card that is available.
  2. You can then take a photo of yourself or select and upload multiple photos of your family from your hard drive. Then use a generator to fit the face step-by-step to the figure or the characters in the animated e-cards.
  3. Most of the time, a Christmas e-card is set up to show a video in which music (sometimes you can choose) plays in the background. This means that even your mouth can move in the process. The software does all of this for you, you just have to set the generator well enough.
  4. When your Christmas e-cards are ready, you can then immediately send them via the provider website to the e-mail addresses to which your Christmas greetings should be sent. On some websites you can even use the e-cards Social networks how Facebook or send it to Twitter.

So you can easily create animated Christmas e-cards yourself. Depending on which way you choose, it can sometimes even be done quickly and free of charge.

Have fun creating!

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