Photo Tips & Techniques

Some Photo Techniques for your Christmas Photo Cards

October 13, 2009

If you decide to send a Christmas photo cards, vary your photo techniques. Choose beautiful backgrounds, experiment with different camera angles, and take candid rather than posed photos. Be the director of your Oscar-worthy Christmas photo cards. Do you live in a cold climate? What’s more seasonal than hills of snow and majestic pine trees [...]

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Holiday Photo Cards of the Most Beautiful Baby Boy

August 25, 2009

My sister says that sending holiday photo cards is the perfect way to show the rest of mankind that you have the most beautiful baby boy in the world. The only stumbling block is picking out which picture should be shared with your friends and relatives. Should it be the adorable one with the kitten, [...]

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How to Make your Digital Photo Holiday Cards a Little Less Boring

July 28, 2009

Stop it! Stop it right now and let’s get creative! No more lining people up like glazed-over mannequins for the annual group photo! Life is beautiful and so is your family, your friends, and even your coworkers. With a little forethought and a few simple steps you too can bring forth award-winning digital photo holiday [...]

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Holiday Photo Cards Tips (In-Laws Style)

June 16, 2009

In my husband’s family, there is never a shortage of pictures to choose from when creating our holiday photo cards! Now, I am not saying these are necessarily good pictures, but pictures non-the-less. It all started when my father-in-law got a new digital camera. After giving him a tutorial on how to use it, he [...]

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Taking Great Digital Photos Can be Really Easy

May 19, 2009

Anyone can use a digital camera. Just point and click, right? The obvious answer would be yes for most people, but that’s only partially true. It depends on what you’re taking a picture of, if you’re taking a picture for your digital Christmas photo cards, what hour of the day it is, whether your subject [...]

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No Need to Stress With your Holiday Photo Cards

May 5, 2009

Every year since my kids were little, I would go crazy trying to get our Christmas tree decorated in time for taking pictures in front of it for our holiday photo cards. It was hard work getting the two kids (who didn’t really like to pose) and the camera-shy dog to cooperate for the multiple [...]

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Digital Photo Cards as Keepsake Memorials

April 7, 2009

The loss of a family member or friend is an emotionally wrenching experience. We all know that. We search for words and gestures to help soothe this grieving period. Using digital photo cards to create a memorial keepsake can be an aid in healing the acute initial response to such a loss. Start the process [...]

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How the Daguerreotype Led to Holiday Photo Cards

March 31, 2009

My Dear Mr. Daguerre, On behalf of the members of the Institut de France, I want to let you know we have chosen the 7th of January to announce to the world the photo technique process you have named “The Daguerreotype.” The applications, as we see it, can only benefit the citizens of France and [...]

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Scanning Photos for Greeting Cards is Worth Your Time

March 24, 2009

Everyone has them filed away in their closet, under their bed, or stored in the basement. They are there, you know they are there, but you just never find the time to do anything with them. You dread the thought of having to go through them; You hate the notion of having to spend hours [...]

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Wedding Photo Tips from my Sis

March 18, 2009

I recently attended a friend’s wedding in Ohio this past summer. Before leaving for the wedding, my little sister (who loves taking pictures) stopped by to lend me her digital camera. She told me to take lots of pictures because she wanted to see what all the girls’ dresses looked like. And since I am [...]

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