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Bill Atkinson PhotoCardCurrent Version: 4.1 (iOS 4.0 Tested)

Make beautiful custom postcards using your photos or Bill Atkinson nature photos. Send by email or using our print-and-mail service for large high-quality printed postcards.



With Bill Atkinson PhotoCard you can easily make dazzling, high quality postcards on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, and send them on-the-spot, either through e-mail, or through the US Postal Service. The application is amazingly easy to use. To create a PhotoCard, select one of Bill Atkinson's exquisite nature photographs or use one of your own personal photos. Then, flip the PhotoCard over to type your custom message on the back. For a fun touch, jazz up your PhotoCard with your choice of decorative stickers and stamps. If you're e-mailing your message, it can even include an audible greeting in a voice note. When you've finished your creation, send it off to any e-mail or postal address in the world!



This full version is a paid app that can be downloaded over WiFi. It includes 150 nature photos, 150 stamps, 350 stickers, and one free print-and-mail PhotoCard. The lite version is a free app that is small enough to download over cellular, and includes only 10 nature photos, 10 stamps, and 15 stickers.





FEATURES:

• No frustrations. Simple, intuitive, and fun graphical user interface

• No delay. Within minutes of thinking of a friend or family member, you can have your PhotoCard on its way to their mailbox or in their Inbox.

• Make it postcard-perfect. Use one of the stunning nature photos included with the app, or resize, crop and adjust one of your own newly-taken or existing photos.

• Write your message using any available font, size, and style.

• Edit in place and get what you see with full-screen page layout.

• Decorate PhotoCards with your choice of playful stickers and colorful stamps.

• Record voice notes, up to 60 seconds, and include them on e-mailed PhotoCards.

• Sending PhotoCards via e-mail is always free.

• Your first print-and-mail PhotoCard will be free of charge.

• Print-and-mail PhotoCards to US addresses cost as little as $1.50 each including 44 cents postage. Cards mailed outside the US cost as little as $2.25 each including 98 cents postage.

• The printed cards are big, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, and printed using a state-of-the-art HP Indigo digital press.

• Bring a world of beauty wherever you go. The included library of Bill's original nature photographs represents some of his finest work. A limited license to print and send these photos in PhotoCards for non-commercial purposes is included in your purchase.



Brought to you by Bill Atkinson, author of the original QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard software. Watch a video of Bill demonstrating PhotoCard at www.billatkinson.com
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Bill Atkinson PhotoCard Review

Great software design meets stunning imagery

Bill Atkinson’s name will be familiar to many Apple fans. He’s the creative talent behind many Apple software gems like the Mac OS menu bar, Mac Paint, and more. Bill Atkinson is also a professional nature photographer. Bill Atkinson PhotoCard showcases his two talents by combining great software design and stunning imagery.

Bill Atkinson PhotoCard makes it fun and easy to create beautiful postcards to send to friends and family. The postcards can either be e-mailed for free or sent via snail mail for around $2 anywhere in the U.S. or $3 in the rest of the world. (Apps like Postino and HazelMail provide a similar service, though far less effectively.) You can buy credits for postage using a PayPal account or a credit card.

The snail mail cards are high quality prints on thick card stock with a gloss coating on both sides. The first one is even mailed for free. (A free lite version offers no free sample card and less content; otherwise, the functionality is the same as this $5 version.)


Put Your Stamp on Things: On the back of the custom postcard you create with Bill Atkinson PhotoCard, you can choose from around 150 stamps and even more stickers to place on your creation.

To create a custom postcard in PhotoCard, you first choose a picture for the front of the card. The app comes loaded with 150 amazing nature photographs by Bill Atkinson for you to use. You can also use a picture from your iPhone’s photo library or just take a new one.

Once you have selected the photo to use, you can pick from a few basic editing tools to crop, rotate, and darken or lighten the image. On the back of the card, you can enter your message in a number of different fonts and font sizes. You can also choose from around 150 different stamps and even more stickers to place on your postcard. Once stickers are placed, you can move them anywhere on the back of the postcard by tapping and dragging them. PhotoCard even allows you to record a voice message to attach to your postcard. After you have finished creating the perfect postcard, you just choose whether to send it as traditional mail or as an e-mail.

Bill Atkinson PhotoCard is very well designed and easy to use. Being able to send physical postcards via the Post Office from anywhere to anywhere in the world is really cool. If creating custom postcards anytime sounds like fun to you, you’ll definitely want to give this app a try.

[Tim Mercer is a technology enthusiast, graphic designer, and blogger, whose blog, digital-artist-toolbox.com, offers free resources to the digital artist and graphic designer.]

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Brilliantly thought out with gorgeous photos, excellent pricing for printed results, and great for that spur of the moment need to send a card to that someone special.


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