Create Christmas motifs for letters as watermarks

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Your letters should have a very personal touch this year, with Christmas motifs as watermarks. Read here how to create your Christmas motifs and incorporate them as watermarks in your letters.

Design your own personal watermark for your Christmas mail.
Design your own personal watermark for your Christmas mail. © Rita_Thielen / Pixelio

What you need:

  • Paint
  • OpenOffice Writer

Create Christmas motifs for your letters with paint

With the help of the graphics software "Paint" you can create your own personal Christmas motifs for your Letters design. Your Christmas motifs can then be used wonderfully as a watermark in your Christmas letters.

  1. Open Paint from your computer's start menu and wait for the white work surface to appear on your screen.
  2. As soon as you see the white work surface for the creation of your Christmas motifs, you can use the various tools to design your motifs for the watermark of your letters.
  3. Above all, use typical Christmas tones so that your Christmas motifs come into their own. In the color palette at the top left, dark red tones or rich green are particularly suitable, as these are Colours can usually also be found in Advent wreaths and Christmas decorations.
  4. For a personal greeting in your letters, you can also add a slogan to your Christmas motifs using the text symbol in the Paint toolbar. To do this, first select the text symbol and drag it over your Christmas motifs. Write your text, e.g. B. "Merry Christmas" and then set the color, font and size.
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  6. If you have designed your Christmas motifs in Paint, then save the motif on your PC. In the next step you can now incorporate your Christmas motifs into your letters as watermarks.

Watermark letters with your Christmas motifs

So that you can store your Christmas motifs as watermarks in your letters, you now have to work with Open Office Writer. The writing program offers a simple tool with which you can embed your Christmas motifs as a watermark in your letters.

  1. Open Open Office Writer so that you can now watermark your letters with your Christmas motifs.
  2. On the command bar, click Insert, Image, and then From File.
  3. The "Insert picture" window now opens. Select the Christmas motifs created with Paint and press the "Open" button.
  4. Your Christmas themes and the graphic toolbar will now appear on your stationery. In order for your picture to be integrated into the letter as a watermark, change the display from "Standard" to "Watermark" in the graphics toolbar.
  5. If the display is changed, then click with the right mouse button in the picture and select the item "Picture".
  6. The "Image" window now opens, in which you can make further settings for your image. Switch to the "Circulation" tab and select "Flow" under Settings and confirm with "OK".

To write respectively. If you now write your letters, your Christmas motifs will always appear in the background, because you have set "pass" as the image property. You have now integrated your Christmas motifs into your letters as a watermark.

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