How to Create photo Christmas Cards?

Nothing conveys your best wishes to family and friends like a holiday card. Cards are a timeless emotional expression, especially potent during the holidays. Now that Christmas is coming, did you get your Christmas cards ready? No, well let's make it easier and more efficient this year.  In this article, I'll show you have you can easily send someone personalized photo Christmas cards.

Method one: using iPhoto’11

Step 1: Create a new project

Launch iPhoto’11, select the thumbnail of your photo or image you want to add, and go to “Create”>"card” in the lower-right corner of the screen to start a new project.

Step2: Choose a card theme

At that time, you will be brought into a carousel, where displays all the card themes, sorted by type. Select any one you like and click “create” button to start customizing when you get to the cover flow screen of letterpress choices.

Step 3: Start card-customizing process

You can drag a rectangle frame to select the editing area or drag the slider below to zoom in or out in the lower left of cardmaking interface. Also, you can click the pop-up menu over the card to change your cards’ layout.

To add extra photos or images, you can right-click the selected photo frame to open the photo panel where you can select and drag photos to the selected frame.

Select the photo or image you want to edit, and then click “Design” button to make changes, including color scheme, cropping and others. Also, you can add some inspirational blessing words in the text editing frame.

Step4: Print your Christmas cards

Directly print it out on your printer. Of course, you can order your Christmas cards by hitting “Buy Card” option to have your cards shipped from Apple.

Method Two: using iCollage for Mac

iCollage for Mac is a easy-to-use Mac collage software which you can use to make your unique Christmas cards. Just drag your photos into this app, add effect or decorations, edit photos, and then print it out. Below are the detailed steps.

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1．After running it, click “Open Collage” to create a new project.

2．Select a Card template and directly drag photos from iPhoto to the selected template.

3．Edit photos. Just zoom, rotate, add decorations or change effect by using “Effect”, "Adjust”, or “Mask” function.

4．Hit the “Print” button to let your printer print it out.

Compared with iPhoto, iCollage for Mac makes it easier and more convenient to send your best wishes to someone. iCollage for Mac allows you to make personalized Christmas ecards, apart from the fancy paper Christmas greeting cards.