Busy schedules during the holiday season prevent working citizens from writing personal greeting cards to friends and family. In an age where people must work two jobs to pay phone bills and mortgage payments, working citizens are lucky when they find time to shop for holiday gifts. To help people stay in touch with their loved ones during the holiday season, companies have created greeting card software.

Computer generated cards are currently all the rage due to their customizable designs and low cost. Since people like to exchange individual or family portraits, card software programs have allowed customers to make sets of cards from individual portraits, family portraits, or combinations of the two.

To make sets of greeting cards, people must first purchase a software program. With the program, you can create a professional-looking Christmas card using a unique template, of which you have dozens to choose from, or you can create a simple photo card. Either way, they require a digital camera or compact disc containing the portraits they want to use. If people do not want to use a portrait or a combination of portraits, they can use an image of an object or a photo of nature or create a collage with these images.

After uploading the desired portraits or images to the program, people can write a custom title message for the front of the card and a holiday message for the inside of the card. People also have the option to customize the text. So the title message can appear as snow or a sparkly ribbon and the holiday message can further warm hearts with festive colored text.

Once people create greeting card sets, they can save the original card as a JPG, PNG, or BMP image file. This allows people to print and send more Christmas cards if they forgot one or two distant relatives in the initial printing batch.

Apart from the Christmas season, the software programs are ideal for every holiday and celebration. Template themes make greeting card sets customizable for Valentine’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, birthdays, seasons, sporting events, and more. To create a valuable greeting card, people simply need to upload a photo and add a message.

When money is tight and in a hurry, people can use greeting card software programs to make sets of cards and remind friends and family of their love and kind regards.