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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.

Printable greeting cards are not only a great way to keep in contact with family and friends, but also to show off your digital photos. The best way to capture a moment is with a photo and transforming a snapshot into a customized greeting card for occasions such as birthdays, birth announcements, invitations and more are simple with the help of most online digital photo services.

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 them – no 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 is no end to the ways you can use your digital camera. Have fun with it!