Instantly Customizable Photo Birth Announcements

A baby announcement just isn't the same if it doesn't include a photo of your newborn. The old saying that says a picture is worth a thousand words could not be truer when referring to a birth announcement. Words will not describe how cute your new addition is; only a photo will be able to do that.

The main concern we hear from customers at Basic Invite is they are worried their photos will not print very clearly. No one wants photo birth announcements with a photo that is not very clear. However, this is never a worry when ordering from Basic Invite. If there is a quality issue with your photo Basic Invite's card creator will give you a warning letting you know that the photo you have selected is not a high enough resolution for your photo to print clearly. This allows you to either replace the photo with a higher resolution version of the same photo or switch the photo to a different photo. This ensures that your photos will turn out brilliantly.

How You Can Ensure You Have High-Quality Photos On Your Announcements

What Are High Quality Photos?

Almost any photo downloaded directly from a camera to your computer or even most photos downloaded directly from a smartphone will produce a photo that will be a high enough resolution to print clearly.

If you have had professional photos taken, you will want to make sure that you ask your photographer for high-resolution photos. Often, a photographer will give you low-resolution photos to allow them to fit more photos onto a thumb drive or DVD, as high-resolution photos are very large and use a lot of memory.

What Are Low Quality Photos?

Photos downloaded from the web will often be very low-resolution photos. For example, photos downloaded from Facebook, Instagram, Flicker, etc. When a photo is uploaded from your computer to a photo-sharing site, the website will downgrade the resolution so that it is smaller and can load quickly online. When you download the photo from one of these photo-sharing sites, the photo will not be a high enough resolution to print clearly on a photo birth announcement.

So just remember when you are selecting your photos for your birth announcements to ask your photographer for high-resolution photos or to make sure you use the photos downloaded directly from your camera or phone and not the ones you saved from Facebook.

Watch For Low Quality Warnings

The simplest way to ensure your photos print clearly is to ensure you don't receive a photo size warning when uploading your photo to the Basic Invite website. Our easy-to-use card creator checks your photo once uploaded and verifies that it will print correctly. So if you follow the steps above, you don't receive a warning; you are all set.