Adventures in South Korea!: Christmas Cards!

As many of you know, this year we decided to send out Christmas cards. This is the sort of thing that Andrew loves, so it came as no surprise that he took it as seriously as he did. We spent an afternoon using the tripod and self-timer in our neighborhood and having passerby's take our photos inside of a mall. That was the fun part, and the easy part. The real difficulties came when we tried to print the pictures.

Naively, we thought we could just go to a photo studio with a picture and use their computers to add a message and make it into a card. That is not the way things work in a country that neither makes nor sends Christmas cards!

We ended up having to import the pictures into Microsoft Word, create the the whole thing using ClipArt and WordArt, save it as a PDF, and then finally convert the PDF into a format compatible with the computers at a photo printing place. It was far more work than necessary, but in the end, the final products justified the hassle.