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Send personalized greeting cards using your own photos! lets you send online greeting cards to anyone on the internet using your own photos and images! No more website URLs to remember or confusing options to set! | -->

What are Picture Greeting Cards? Picture Greeting Cards are an way of sending a personal message over the internet. Everyone has bought a greeting card at the local grocery store for a friend's birthday, and the Picture Greeting Card is very similar.

When you create a Picture Greeting Card in , your card is sent online and the recipient of the card is told how to come pick it up. The recipient then comes to a special website and picks up the card you created for them.

Picture Greeting Cards improve upon traditional paper cards in many ways. Since you can create them quickly and easily, you can send as many as you want - without spending any money. 's greeting cards allow you use you're own photos and images - which means that your Picture Greeting Cards will be much more personal than any store-bought card. Finally, Picture Greeting Cards are instant. Your card is delivered within seconds of when you send it (now you don't have to worry if you've forgotten that today is that special holiday).

Sending Picture Greeting Cards 's Picture Greeting Cards let you send electronic cards to anyone on the internet directly from your own computer, without having to step through confusing web pages. Plus, you can use your own photos an images, which allows you to personalize your card.

To send a personalized greeting card, just follow these simple steps:

Prepare Your Photo

You can use any type of graphic or photo, such as something from your digital camera or scanner. You can edit your photo, adding things such as text and talk bubbles. Be sure to save your finished artwork where you can easily find it. |

Start the Picture Greeting Card Feature

--> | Select the artwork you would like to appear on the front page of the greeting card, and select Send Picture Greeting Card from the File menu, or from the right click menu. Keyboard shortcut: use "ALT+G". |

Enter the To and From Information

--> | First you need to specify who the card is going to, and who it is from. In the To (Name): field, enter the name of the person you are sending the card to, and enter their e-mail address in the To (E-Mail): field. In the From fields, enter your name and e-mail address.

Enter Your Captions Next, you will first be prompted to enter captions for the front and inside of the card. Enter any text that you would like to appear above the image on the front page of the card into the caption field for the front. | -->

If you would like a line of text to appear above the image on the inside of the card, enter that text into the caption field for the inside of the card.

Enter Your Personal Message

Finally, you can enter a custom message for the inside of the card in the Message text area. will convert this text into a high-quality image, and preview that image for you. This text is the centerpiece of the card's inside. You can select the font, and control bold / italics by changing the options under the text area. | -->

Customize the Signature

You can add a custom signature line, or leave the signature at the default. The signature line will appear above your name on the inside of the card. To change the signature line, simply change the text appearing in the Signature field. |

Send the Card

Once you have entered all the information, you're ready to send the card. Be sure that you have an open connection to the internet. If you need to connect to your ISP using a modem, do so now. Once your connection is open, simply click the 'Send Card' button. |

What Happens After I Send the Card? After you click the 'Send Card' button, will upload your card and notify the recipient that there is a card waiting for them.

The person you sent the card to will receive an e-mail telling them that you have sent them a card, and provide instructions on how to pick up the card. They will then be able to view their card on the web using their web browser.

You will be notified via e-mail when the card is picked up.

Common Questions Q. What kind of computer / software do you need to view a card?

> A. Any internet-compatible system with a 3.0 version web browser or higher should be able to view the card. This includes PCs, Macintosh computers, and WebTV users. No special software is required - only a web browser (and e-mail so that they can receive the pick-up notice).

Q. Is there any charge for sending a card?

> A. Registered users of can send any number of cards with no charge.

Q. Will my personal card be accessible by other people?

> A. No. The card you send requires a username and password to be viewed, which are automatically created and included in the e-mail send to the recipient.

Q. What if the card isn't picked up?

> A. If the card is not picked up within 30 days, it will be removed from the system.

Related Topics:

- Selecting Files
- E-mailing Files
- Editing Images
- Adding Text on Images
- Adding Talk Bubbles
- Capturing from Digital Cameras and Scanners