2008 Combank3 Christmas Tag

yesterday, i think i've spent almost all of my morning and afternoon trying to make "the christmas tag" for our group/department. of course, that silly idea was mine, again... hehe... i just like doing silly things and my latest is this: creating the super personalized christmas tag for our group's gifts. last year, i just looked for a simple but cute (that's my major requirement, hehe) picture/drawing over the internet. and the result for my quest was a pic of tinkerbell with a santa hat. very ideal for the season.. hehe...

anyway, this time, i thought of having our group's picture on the christmas tag. at first my idea was having our pic cartoon styled drawn or maybe anime? hehe.. but, of course after trying drawing our faces, i gave up... i just don't know how to draw! hehe.. especially facial features, i suck on drawing eyes. of course i'm talking about eyes, eyes, not just circle type or dot.. and next problem was, i tried looking for our group pic and i wasn't able to find one that has all of us complete on it. so, i asked my officemate, and of course our boss if we could have our pic taken... hehe... of course i came prepared that day.

we then had our "photoshoot" just in our office premises... hehe.. we took several so we could choose and we can't seem to find the perfect pose/spacing between people, etc.. (so troublesom, right? hehe...) anyway, it went well (i think) and i had to choose the perfect picture to use. after careful and intense deliberations on the perfect picture, i went on to trying making my tag... whow! it was hard. since i've no background whatsoever in computer, all i know using was paint... hehe.. and i tried tinkering with the installed software of nero. my officemate suggested having our pic cut and put on a christmas background. well, i liked the idea but i don't know how! i wanted to do that ever since but i know it has to be with the adobe photoshop, which i don't have, and don't know how to use (although, that, i think i could learn, hehe.. i'm learning a lot through self-study, more likely, self-discoveries... hehe ) and then my officemate suggested to ask help from our IT, hehe.. i was so embarrassed asking help because one, they'll see our pic (of course they'll ask which would be me) and, they're among the recipient of the gift with that tag they'll help make.. anyway, after numerous trial and error here's the final artwork... hehe...


note : to those who would be doing something similar to this, i suggest, have your file printed on photopaper. don't even attempt printing on any other type of paper like i did, it won't be a nice one and you'd probably get so frustrated trying again and again getting it right, but it won't and will never.

trust me, based on true to life experience.. hehe....