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Old 02/16/08, 03:13 PM   #6 (permalink)
rob_x2004
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Default Re: photo greeting cards

William they call it scrapbooking. There are plenty of suppliers, with all the paper kits, matt cutters, patterns templates and junk for making cards. As complex or as simple as you like. Avoid it like the plague or get the missus interested and hand her your print to frame.

A good and simple atlernative is to surce a cheap oil painting pad. Like a Reeves A4 250gsm acid free. They are only about ten bucks a pad. Print your image or whatever then fold the bugger in half and cut down to the image or close to leave a border. Nice stuff to write on beneath your printed text on the reverse side...yea sure.

If you are doing a run of twenty thirty sixty cards, and particularly round christmas time or other events, operators like SNAPFISH often have specials, and are fast, with easy interface, huge range of templates and unbeatable prices. It is worth organising ahead and paying for a single or a few cards before doing the big run to see how your image editing sits with their production. BUT THESE ARE SINGLE SIDED ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER, and you wont get perfection, but no one will notice. Sometimes the single sided glossy is an advantage, if you are handing them out around hospitals or to kids that are going to hang them up on the wall.

But the best advice is to palm all this off on, well, someone neat and tidy with the patience to do it. Edit your image, then do the sharing thing, hand it over to someone close. Its a family affair .
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