Share your holiday snaps before you get home
What you’ll need…
Postcard-creating app
Mobile phone
We used…
FX Photo Studio app
iPhone
You could try…
Postino
Postcard On the Run
SnapShot Postcard
BlackBerry
What you’ll learn…
How to creative and send a real postcard from your iPhone
“A truly special postcard that your friends and family
will love”
While you’re on holiday, buy sing and sending a postcard
home is one of those traditions we all love. But it can be a pain to get to a
postbox sometimes, especially if you’re in a remote location. Now, using the FX
Photo Study app, you can creative a postcard wherever you are in the world
using your phone and then get the app to order a real postcard to be sent home
for you. What’s even better, you can use your own photo taken with your iPhone
to use as the postcard’s front, making it truly unique and personal to you.
Whether it’s a beautiful beach you want to brag about lounging on, or a shot of
you and your friends having fun, your photo will a truly special postcard that
your friends and family will love. You can also edit your photos in the app, as
well as add in effects, text on the front, write a personal message on the back
and even selectively colour certain parts for a truly standout shot.
FX Photo Study can be downloaded from the App Store for
£0.69/$0.99 and the postcard itself costs $1.99 (approx £1.20), delivered to
your chosen destination within one business day. It’s a great way to share your
photos before you even touch down on home soil. It’s really simple to do, so
follow our steps and you’ll have a customized postcard winging its way home in
no time.
Send a postcard
from your iPhone
Personalize a postcard
A creative way to share your special holiday snapshots
1. Pick your photo
Open the app, and either take the photo by tapping Take
Photo or select Camera Roll to choose the thumbnail you want to use and hit the
scissor icon to crop, scaling the photo by pinching with your fingers. Tap
Choose.
Pick your photo
2. Tweak your image
Press the Tools button to access the Crop tool again or to
rotate your image. You can also hit Adjust where you can tweak the brightness,
contrast, saturation and more. Move the slider right or left to increase or
decrease the effect, then tap Done.
Tweak your image
3. Selectively colour
Color Snap will turn photo black and white and let you paint
colour back in using your fingers. Press Pan and Zoom to be able to move around
or enlarge the image without adding in unwanted colour! Hit the tick, or the
cross if you’ve changed your mind.
Selectively colour
4. Add text
Tap the Add Text icon then hit the plus icon and select your
text style. Now write in your words and then click Done. Move the text around
the image your fingers at the corners. Hit Done when you are happy.
Add text
5. Select Postcards
Tap the top right icon that looks like an arrow in a box for
your sharing options. You can save the image to your Photo Album, upload to
social networking sites and more. We want to use the Postcard options at the
bottom to creative our postcard.
Select Postcards
6. Move and scale
You will be taken to a new screen where you’ll just need to
click Continue. If your image is outside the postcard crop lines you will be
warned. Move and scale so it first, then press Continue again. Add a message or
profile photo on this screen.
Move and scale
7. Send it!
On the next screen, tap the +Address bar, type in the
address, hit Save, and then tap Contimue. You will now need to enter your
credit card details to pay the $1.99 (approx £1.20) for the postage. Now click
‘Looks great!’ I’ll buy!’ to send it on its way!
7 of the best…
Postcard-sharing apps
Hipster
Hipster encourages you to send a geotagged postcard instead
of ‘checking in’, giving these tags a much more interesting approach.
Hipster
Photogram
Instead of a traditional postcard, Photogram sends a montage
of your photos via email, with a variety of themes to choose from.
Photogram
Postcard Express
Send digital postcard from wherever you are in the world and
the app will geotag them with your location using Google Maps.
Postcard Express
Postcard On The Run
This app lets you send real postcard with a map on them that
includes your location, as well as a personal message.
Postcard On The Run
Postino
Creative a real postcard from your own photo, then use your
finger to doodle on your own signature for an even more personal touch.
Postino
SnapShot Postcard
Mail a real postcard to your friends and family, using this
basic app. You get the first postcard for free at the time of writing, too.
SnapShot Postcard
SodaSnap Postcards
Send digital postcards via email or post them to Twitter or
Facebook or share with the SodaSnap community.
SodaSnap Postcards
