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The Best Postcard Maker for Direct Mail Marketing

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It’s always a joy when sorting through your routine pile of bills that you find a surprise piece of mail that you didn’t expect. In fact, 56% of Americans consider it a real joy to receive mail, with 95% of Millennials saying that they enjoy physical mail. Postcards can be particularly exciting, since you don’t have to rip open any envelopes, they’re image-based, made to be eye-catching, and often contain discounts or otherwise valuable information for the consumer. And even with the influx of digital media over the years, businesses are finding that adding direct mail like postcards to their marketing mix has been a proven way to increase business than when simply using digital alternatives. Whoever thought snail mail would be the way of the future? If you’re looking to add postcards to your marketing mix, the vast library of Postcard templates in BeFunky’s  Graphic Designer  is the perfect solution! No matter what kind of business or type of promot...

How to Photograph the Milky Way in 5 Minutes

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Photographing the Milky Way is a bucket list item for most photographers, so here's the foundations for doing so, all in under five minutes. One of my goals for 2020 is to go to a truly dark spot with little to no light pollution and photograph the stars. The U.K is a bit lackluster for astrophotography and would require I go to somewhere in either Scotland or Wales to get some truly great nightscapes, particularly if they are to feature the Milky Way. In this video by the brilliant   Lonely Speck  — a resource for astrophotography well worth checking out — Ian Norman and Diana Southern walk you through some of the basics for capturing the Milky Way in all its splendor. Unless you live in Namibia, finding a true dark spot is one of the most important tips on this list. One other tip I would add is to pack clothing and hot drinks because most of the time, a dark spot is in the middle of no where and the temperature will plummet at night. Even in the U.K I've...

How to Make All Pictures of Same Size in Microsoft Word

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Picture this — you want to insert several images in your Word document. Initially, the pictures are of different sizes, but you want them to be of the same size in your document. While one can  take the help of proper photo-editing tools , sometimes, one doesn’t have access to them. In such situations, you can use Microsoft Word itself to resize all the pictures. There’s no denying the fact that Microsoft Word is amazing when it comes to text. But if you dive deep into it, you will unearth its hidden features related to other things too such as photo editing. For instance, did you know you can  give your image a perfectly round shape  directly in Word? Similarly, you can make pictures of the same size in Word. Let’s see how to do that by using the two methods mentioned below. METHOD 1: USING MACROS Sometimes, we wish we had a single button where pressing it would perform a difficult task automatically. That’s what macros do in Word. Macros auto...