I’ve been getting really tired of paying $10+ for holiday cards at the grocery store. It took me a few months to realize I could be asking ChatGPT to make the greeting cards for me.
This worked reasonably well. I followed a logical approach of describing the holiday, the recipient, and the photos I wanted Chat to use. Unfortunately, imagegen, no matter how much I tried tuning the prompt, kept using AI to change my photos (some of these were really weird, like ageing everyone 10 years).
After doing this too many times, I realized what I really wanted was for Chat to make me an app that I could load my photos in, resize/rescale them, and then change the text on the card (with a rather generic background).
This worked great, I did all of our holiday cards this year like this (the added fun was I got to go through a lot of old photos!). The other fun piece of this is that you can email the image as an e-card to the recipient (and schedule the send from Safari Mail or Gmail) and if you have thicker printer paper (about the thickness of an index card), you can print the card as 4x6, address the back and add a stamp, and you have a personalized post card you can drop in the mail.
This has been a lot of fun. I’ve hosted it live on cards.agatefoundry.com.