Sending Greetings with Photo Cards
Have you ever received a digital photo card for a special event such as a holiday and thought that you yourself would like to send the same greeting out to family and friends? Adding that personalized touch is as simple as choosing that favorite photo or photos to get started. With only a few simple steps, you can send a customized and fun digital photo card to everyone you know for any occasion.
Digital photos are shown off in a new way through printable greeting cards and help keep family and friends close. Customized photo card are offered by most online digital photo services allowing you to fashion your own photo greeting card for wedding announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and whatever else might happen in your life.
Creating Printable Photo Greeting Cards:
Photo cards are not only fun, but easy to do. Shutterfly and Ofoto are just a few of the online photo services that provide high-quality photo cards created from your own digital photo and personalized message inside. Normally printed on 5×7 card stock, photo greeting cards can come in your choice of a glossy or matte finish. Simply upload your digital photo or photos to the photo service, choose from a variety of layouts and messages or create your own message. Photo cards typically come in sets of 20, complete with mailing envelopes.
For the ultimate in convenience, Shutterfly will even let you import your addresses from Outlook or your Palm device and mail your photo greeting cards for you. All you have to do is choose a design and the rest is left to themno trip to the mailbox!
Software for Photo Greeting Cards:
You can also make your own printable greeting cards using digital photo software. There are several great programs with photo card templates for a variety of occasions. They make it easy to design your own customized Valentine Day and Easter photo cards or other holiday photo cards. Our two favorite programs for making our own printable greeting cards are FotoFinish and Adobe Photoshop Album. They both have templates for a variety of photo greeting cards including Valentine, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween, Christmas photo cards and other holiday photo cards.
There are many fun ways to use your digital camera. Get creative and enjoy!