These Macintosh software programs feature ready-made templates, design wizards, clip art, fonts, or other extras to make it easy to design and print your own greeting cards and often other creative projects as well.
Hallmark Card Studio
Hallmark Card Studio for Mac screen snip fro Hallmark site
The Mac edition of Hallmark Card Studio is optimized for Leopard and Snow Leopard and integrates with iLife and has multi-touch gesture support. You'll get fonts, graphics, and plenty of templates for greeting cards as well as scrapbooks, e-cards, and photo cards.
Available as of 2010: Hallmark Card Studio for Mac
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- Hallmark Card Studio (Company Store)
Avanquest/Nova Development: Print Explosion
Print Explosion Deluxe 3 Mac Image courtesy of PriceGrabber
Creativity and home publishing for the Mac with templates, graphics, and fonts. For creating greeting cards and similar projects the Nova Development print creativity titles offers thousands of store-quality greeting card projects plus fonts, graphics, and iLife support.
Available as of 2010: Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 for Mac
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Avery DesignPro
DesignPro for Mac © Avery Dennison Corporation
The label people have some design software that does labels, yes, but also iron-on transfers for t-shirts, greeting cards, business cards, and more. Import personal photos from iPhoto in the Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard and for Windows. Oh, and it's also a FREE download.
Available as of 2010: Avery DesignPro for Mac and Windows
- DesignPro for Mac (Company Store)
ArcSoft: Print Creations - Cards & Calendars Bundle
Print Creations - Cards & Calendars box shot from ArcSoft, Inc.
Design a photo calendar or several kinds of greeting cards: Quarter fold, half fold, slimline. Add photos and captions. There's a trial version too.
Available as of 2010: Print Creations - Cards & Calendars Bundle for Mac (and Windows)
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ArcSoft: Print Creations - Greeting Card
Print Creations Greeting Card screen snip
From ArcSoft, Print Creations software contains multiple templates including a greeting card and a slimline card design element with several layouts, photo editing tools, and print wizard. The software is a free download and then you purchase an activation code for each type of template you want to use. Cards include holidays and occasions. Other templates are for calendars, scrapbooks, brochures, etc.
Available as of 2010: Print Creations version 3.0 for Mac (and Windows)
- Print Creations (Greeting Card)
- Print Creations (Slimline Card)
Broderbund: The Print Shop
The Print Shop Mac box shot; Broderbund
The newest version of The Print Shop Mac has better layout tools, more graphics and photos (19,500+), more special effects and includes thousands more projects (9500+) such as multi-page booklets. Like version 1 it integrates with your Mac apps such as iPhoto, iDVD, and iCal.
Available as of 2010: The Print Shop v. 2 for Mac
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Ohanaware: Funtastic Photos
Funtastic Photos screen snip from Ohanaware
This Mac only software for photo editing, photo mosaics, and photo sharing also lets you create greeting cards. If you were user of Script Software's Easy Card (no longer under development), they recommend this as a "sidegrade." A free trial is available for download.
Available as of 2010: Funtastic Photos v. 1.0.6 for Mac
- Funtastic Photos (Company Store)
