Fair Warning

Just in case you, my devoted Cake Eater readers, were looking for an online company to print out your Christmas cards, well, I would highly recommend going someplace other than Photoworks.

I'd never done the photo holiday cards before, and given my hair situation, I will admit that it's exceedingly strange that this would be the year to break that particular sound barrier, but as I had a nice photo of the husband and myself, I thought I'd give it a whirl. (Besides, sending out a picture, whilst simultaneously wishing everyone a "Happy and HEALTHY holiday season" sort of gets me out of writing a holiday letter, no?) The only problem with this photo was that it was taken at sunset, with the sun behind us, and the trick of using the flash to compensate for the overwhelming backlighting was not working for some strange reason. Well, never mind, because, verily, there is such a thing as Photoshop. I was able to tweak the photo in that particular program and it looked pretty good by the time I was finished with it. It was a little dark, but you could see us and that's what mattered. I put together the card at Photoworks, received a hefty discount at checkout, and all was well until the cards actually showed up at the Cake Eater pad. For whatever reason, Photoworks did not print the photo in my tweaked manner, but, of course, let their computer program autocorrect the photo---and they ruined the print in the process. You can barely see the husband or myself in the photo, but oh, boy can you really see the setting sun!

I'm still sending the cards out, and I can already hear the ribbing I'll take about them from my friends and family. But I'm not going to redo them. I already paid good money for Christmas cards, and, by golly, I'm going to use them.

However, I thought I'd pass along the warning for what it's worth. I'm not really happy, but I'm somewhat beyond caring at this point in time. A Christmas card is a Christmas card, right? Even if it's crappy. It's the thought that counts. Right?