How to choose
Photo Greeting Card SoftwareMaking your own greeting cards can be lots of fun. The photo greeting card software you choose will, of course, help determine how good your greeting cards will look.
This software choice will also determine whether the experience is one you enjoy and want to do again and again or whether it's a one-time project and the software is never touched again.
A good photo card software package will be simple to use yet flexible enough to allow your creativity to show through. Anyone can pay an online greeting card company to create a basic photo greeting card, with the photo on the front and some verbiage inside. There's even free photo greeting card software online now! There's nothing at all wrong with using one of these and they actually end up looking quite nice. However, if you want to be able to make your own photo greeting cards over and over for many different occasions, you'll want to buy your own photo greeting card software.
I'll go ahead and mention that, being the cheap computer Programmer-type that I am, I resisted buying software for photo greeting cards for quite a while. I figured that my digital cameras each came with photo-editing software and I had other tools that would allow me to create flyers and cards. Why did I need to spend more money on specific photo greeting card software? It's true that you can actually create a half-decent greeting card with photographs in Microsoft Word. You simply set the page to landscape in the printer setup, insert a photo or two, and then spend hours working with columns, text alignment, and margins to get everything just right, printing the card in draft quality over and over again along the way. Once I did this a few times, though, I finally decided to try some software that might make it easier. Boy, was I surprised how much easier it could be!
There are so many software packages that are easy to use for holiday cards and photo gifts; this article and link offer a few alternatives. I am neither endorsing nor pushing these, but the time for planning such projects is early in the year. Early planning will enable you to allow for photographing memorable occasions with the right cards in mind.
Everyone from the photo-finishers at Walmart to professional photo labs to FedEx offer software and order instructions online.
Digital greeting cards are also becoming a big thing.