A picture wedding invitation does not necessarily have to be a wedding invitation with a picture of you and your fiancé. The picture can be of many different things. The picture could be of the place you plan on getting married, or even the place that the proposal took place. There may even be an item that is very symbolic to the both of you.

If you plan on creating do it yourself picture wedding invitations, then there are a few things that you will want to keep in mind. The first being that whatever image you use need to be of high quality. For printing purposes, you will want to make sure that you image is at least 300 dpi. You can check this information by right clicking on the image and looking at the information, or editing the image in a photo editor like
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 -. You will also want to make sure not to enlarge you image. If you do this, this will result in lowering the quality of your picture. There is only so much information in a photograph. When you try to enlarge it, you are only really stretching it, like a rubber band, it only becomes thinner. This is why you want to start with a large 300 dpi image. The lowest quality you want to use is 150 dpi. You should also keep this in mind if you plan on cropping your image. If you make sure to get an original image this should help a lot.

You could decide to add hand created element and photographic elements and integrate them together. This can add a very different style to your picture wedding invite. You could even effect the image so that it is all one color, or you could change the threshold setting to make it all black and white and more solid. You may have a more vector, hard edged item blend in with a photograph. A beautiful watercolor sky could blend in with the sky of your picture and give you wedding invitation an added artistic feel. The will also serve to lessen the harshness that an invitation could have with a solid photographic background.

Whatever picture wedding invitations you decide to buy or create, remember to always go with something that is meaningful to you and your future husband or wife.

If you would like some better software to help you design your wedding invitations I highly recommend Adobe products. I use Adobe for all of the designing that I do. They create top of the line software for professional designers all over the world.. The only disadvantage to the casual user is that they can be expensive. Fortunately, they do have a great program for the casual user called
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 -, which is affordable and easier to use than their professional software. This will definitely help you with any sort of photos that you would like to put into your wedding invitations.