By: Brad Kartel
Submitted: 2011-06-14 05:04:02 | Word Count: 595
Newsletter printing should not be made plainly and without taste. In fact if you are using color newsletters for your project or for your marketing campaign, you will want to add more detail and effects into its design. Luckily for you, you won't have to pay too much for some great looking design resources In this tutorial for newsletter printing, I will teach you how to add more detail to your custom newsletter printing by using design resources found online, all for free. So go through the list below and discover.
1. Professional and creative newsletter templates – If you want a more professional and distinctive look for your newsletter printing, one of the best things you can get for them is a creative and professionally made newsletter templates. Instead of using your classic newsletter template, you can go for these professionally made ones because they should have a better and more modern look. Luckily for you, there are free sources for this. Just look at the list below.
- http://www.thepapermillstore.com/free-templates/
2. Absolutely free and amazing fonts – Now, you might also want to try out using some new types of fonts for your newsletters. The standard news type fonts of your old color newsletters might be lacking the distinction and freshness that they used to have. The great thing about this is that you can easily get free and amazing looking fonts online. In fact, there are hundreds of sites out there where you can peruse thousands of different fonts with different specific styles. Here is a list of great sites that you should try out first.
- http://www.1001freefonts.com/
- http://www.dafont.com/
- http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
- http://www.fontspace.com/
- http://www.actionfonts.com/
3. Great supporting images for features, royalty free! – If you need some supporting images for your newsletter articles and prints, you can get them easily through the Internet actually. With some deliberate search you can in fact get great looking images that do not require you to buy a license to. As long as you do your search right, it is actually easy to get great accents and additional images for your color newsletters. Here are a few sites that should help you a lot in achieving this.
- http://search.creativecommons.org/
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/
- http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
- http://www.geograph.org.uk/
- http://everystockphoto.com/
4. Additional borders, clip-arts and graphics – Beyond just photographs, you can actually add more personality and accents to your newsletters by actually adding up your own style of borders clip-arts and of course custom graphics. Just like with images, you do have some websites that you can go to if you want to get free types of graphics, borders, clip-arts and other types of pictured accents. Of course, these are a lot more specific, so you will need to peruse through a lot more sites, but if you are patient, you should get what you really need.
- http://www.1clipart.com/
- http://www.free-graphics.com/
- http://www.allfree-clipart.com/
- http://www.free-clip-art.com/
- http://classroomclipart.com/
- http://100000freecliparts.com/
- http://www.free-printable-borders.com/
- http://karenswhimsy.com/free-printable-borders.shtm
5. Free software for newsletter creation – Finally, you can also try to make your newsletters more interesting by using other great design applications to add more features and accents. Believe me, by having extra software at your side, you can actually create a lot more interesting design layouts because of their additional abilities. Here are some software that should aid you in newsletter creation.
- http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
- http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
- http://inkscape.org/
- http://inkscape.org/
- http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-%26-Software/Software
- http://www.openoffice.org/
Great! With these great and free tools, you should be able to get a more interesting, personalized, impressive and of course cost effective color newsletters for yourself.
Author Resource:-
Brad Kartel is a marketing executive whose passion is helping business owners build their campaign through newsletter printing.
