Available now in the iTunes App store. Send real or e-Postcards from your iPhone or iPod touch.
Bill Atkinson, Apple Computer software legend and world renowned nature photographer, is back with an innovative product that redefines the way people create and send postcards.
With Bill Atkinson PhotoCard you can easily make dazzling, high resolution postcards on your 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!
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 125 stunning images 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 300 playful stickers and 125 colorful stamps.
Record voice notes, up to 60 seconds, and include them on e-mailed PhotoCards.
Sending PhotoCards via e-mail is always free.
If you choose the e-mail format, your recipient will be greeted by a high resolution image of the composite postcard, in either 720 x 960 or 960 x 1280 pixel size.
Having cards professionally printed and mailed to United States addresses costs between $1.50 and $2.00 each. (Print-and-mail credits are discounted if you purchase in quantity.) Cards mailed to International addresses cost between $2.25 and $3.00. Bonus: the first card you send to a postal address will be free of charge.
If you choose the postal mail format, your recipient will get a real 8.25 x 5.5 inch postcard, printed on glossy stock by 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.
Click here for the PhotoCard User Guide, which is adapted from the
application, and contains tips and techniques for using Bill Atkinson PhotoCard.
Click here for Frequently Asked Questions, useful for troubleshooting if some aspect of PhotoCard is puzzling you.
In the window below is a short video of Bill demonstrating PhotoCard. If it doesn't display or you have any difficulty
getting it to play, you can watch the video on YouTube.
