We’re just human and born to be sentimental. You can’t be rational and do things right all the time, so does your partner. Forgiveness, appreciation and commitment are very important elements of maintaining a good and long lasting relationship. Express yourself in a creative and romantic way will definitely help a lot.
It’s relative easy to be romantic at the beginning of a relationship. But the real test is the time, particularly when you think you know what your partner will and won’t do, and when everything becomes so routine apparently. Any romantic acts of expression that you’ve done before will probably no longer be as effective if you do it again, especially if it’s entirely not the work of your own hands. This includes sending real flowers, or even buying diamonds for your partner. On the other hand, it’s usually very effective if you handmake or cook something special for your partner, but you don’t always have the time to think about and do that, do you?
If you don’t have the time but still want to express your confession in a special and touching way, perhaps you should think about writing your confession by your own hand this time! As the internet and the computers rule our world for the past decade or more, most of us seldom see each other’s writing by hand especially when we’re out in the workforce. Handwritten text is becoming more and more like a piece of art and treasure. It doesn’t matter if you think your handwriting is ugly. Handwriting is the signature of your character. When people read your handwriting, the feeling is like seeing you and listening to you face-to-face. You don’t have such a feeling when you read typed and printed words nowadays, as you probably are forced to read them everyday, every hour, and almost every minute.
That’s why traditional paper greeting cards still have its market despite of the massive offerings of free or subscription-based e-cards anywhere online, as you can express yourself on paper greeting cards using a pen in your own hand. But unfortunately, the quality of your handwriting often contributes heavily to the overall aesthetics of the card. Another thing, which is also the case for most e-cards, is that the way your words are presented often don’t harmonize with the graphics and design of the card itself. It’s usually the case where the graphics is on one side of the card, whereas your words are entirely on another side, unless you’re artistic enough and have the right tools to fit your words into the graphics and design. Sometimes you may even need to tweak the card a little bit by additional sketching or cutting for such purpose. Again, you’ll need extra time to do all that. Not to mention the additional time it takes to have the card delivered to your location (if you order it online), and in some cases, to your love one. Something that doesn’t apply to e-cards.
Therefore, AniGreetings.com offers a solution that takes the best of both worlds. An anigreeting is a 3D animated short greeting video that can be personalized, downloaded (in its personalized form), and delivered to your recipient(s) in a matter of seconds. You may personalize one or more sections of the animation with your typed and/or handwritten words, drawings, or photos.
All you need to do is to think about what you want to confess. Write your confession using a black felt-pen or ballpoint pen on a piece of white paper. When you’re done, take a photo of what you’ve written using a digital camera (or scan it if you’ve a desktop scanner). Then pick an anigreeting of your choice in AniGreetings.com and upload the image file online. Remember to indicate in the checkbox that the image is a drawing/handwriting, and to adjust the size and the orientation of the image block to be rendered in the section. Then you’re all set for a preview of what you’ve put in. Your handwritten words will be transformed and rendered using the same color shades and appearance as that of the typed words. Fine tune the size and orientation of the image block and run the preview again if necessary.
Example of how handwritten words and drawings are transformed and rendered in an anigreeting. Top: Digital camera capture of words written on a piece of white paper. Above: The preview snapshot of an anigreeting.
When you’re done with the personalization, you may then send it to your love one through email just like sending e-cards. You may also download the personalized anigreeting as a .mpg movie file, which can be shared with your love one through video sharing providers such as YouTube. Alternatively, it can be burnt into a CD for later distribution. As your love one may also download and keep a copy of your personalized anigreeting, I’m sure your love one will have a feeling of commitment from you about your confession made on an anigreeting!
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