Say Hello with a Photo!

By David Peters

Making your own digital photo cards and personalized holiday photo cards is a lot easier than you think. All you need is your favorite photo or photos to get started. Soon you will have your own customized set of digital photo cards to send off to your family and friends for graduation day, birthdays, holidays and more.

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 simple and fun to create. Online photo services such as Shutterfly and Ofoto make it easy to design high-quality customized photo cards using your own digital photos and personal message inside. Typically, photo greeting cards are printed on 5x7 card stock and you can choose from a matte or glossy finish. You just need to upload your digital photo (or photos) to the photo service, choose from a selection of layouts and greetings, and add your personal message. Photo cards usually come in sets of 20 with envelopes for mailing.

Shutterfly even let you import your addresses from Outlook or your Palm device and they'll send your photo greeting cards for you. Now isn't that a great way to take care of mailing your photo cards!

Software for Photo Greeting Cards:

Digital photo software is widely available for you to make your own printable photo greeting cards. There are many great programs complete with photo card templates for any occasion. It is easy to create your own birthday and thank-you cards or cards for any other event. Two of the most popular programs are Adobe Photoshop Album and FotoFinish. 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.

Digital cameras have so many fun uses beyond the quick snapshot. Be creative and have fun!

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