Designing Digital Holiday Photo Cards

One of the really fun features of Crane's new website is the ability to create digital holiday photo cards right from your own computer. Crane has lots of designs to chose from, with options to personalize your greeting text, typestyle and ink color.

But the most fun is the digital photo editor. You can upload your photos from your computer, from Picasa or from Flikr. Once upoaded, the photo editor lets you crop, flip, rotate, change to black and white or sepia tone, fix those nasty red eyes and even use a fill flash to bring out the best in the photos. There's also an auto fix for the less adventurous. You can even get a printable pdf proof. So don't bother messing with your photos before you design your cards. You can do it all on crane.com

Here are a few experiments:

An Inside Look at Digital Photography

Ever wonder what goes on inside a digital camera? I can't say it occupies a lot of my attention, but as I was downloading some photos from a recent visit to the Government Printing Office's Paper Industry Day for a blog post, the last photo blew me away!

After setting up our booth, I walked to the front to take some photos for the blog and promptly dropped my camera. I almost said a bad word as it bounced along the floor, but contained myself.

There were no more pictures to be taken that day. When I got home from the trip, I was able to fix the camera, for the moment at least.

Here is what appeared on my computer screen:

Think it might sell?