Reviews, Views, Opinions… Call it what you want… Roz gets to have her say!

Say It With eCards, the former Graphics Schmaphics Exclusive Judaic Greetings Club, owned and operated by Bronx, NYC designer Roz Fruchtman says…

“Let’s get acquainted…  Try us out… Send some of our Free Hanukkah eCards:”

http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

Roz says… “Everyone, including me… likes to ‘try before they buy!’ ”

“What better way to do this than to send some of our specialized Hanukkah eCards.  You will NOT find these Hanukkah eGreetings on any other e-Card site on the web.” 

This past Thanksgiving I received “at the least” six of the SAME Thanksgiving Day eCards.  The first time is was fun and unique, but watching the SAME automated eCard six or more times “to get to the message at the end” was a bit trying.

Roz says… “Don’t get me wrong, the fact that the sender’s thought of me in the fist place ‘was not’ lost on me.  I felt more than a little grateful and appreciated, but my point here is to say that ‘variety is the spice of life’ … EVEN WITH Hanukkah eCards!”

Take advantage… Come on over and give Say It With eCards a try…

http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

The FREE Hanukkah cards can be easily found in the NEW section “FREE eCards, Try Before You Buy.”

Chag Hanukkah Sameach to all!

P.S. Hanukkah lasts for eight (8) days.  It is NOT too late to send!  Tonight, Friday, December 15, 2006 is erev Hanukkah! (The eve of Hanukkah!)

Enjoy and Peace to All!

Questions, comments, suggestions, or even complaints.  I am “always” glad to hear them all.  I can’t fix or improve what I am not aware of!

Send an email to:  Roz @ DesignsByDaybreak.com  (Please remove the spaces on each side of the @ sign. 

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Although Say It With eCards is a fee-based eCard Club, in order to “give back” and allow others to try the service (try before you buy) I put up two free “obligation free” Hanukkah eCards.

Check it out:

Say It With eCards
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

The two free Hanukkah e-cards are clearly tagged with a “red” FREE icon.  IF you do not see them or do not see them together “refresh” the page as the images change when you do.

The two free Hanukkah eCards are fully functional except for the member features which would allow you to save your email addresses in a personal addressbook for future use.  As well you will not be able to see when they are picked up or save the card(s) in your favorites for future dates.  Another feature that is not available on the free end is you cannot send in advance.  For example:  IF you want to get your Hanukkah eCards ready today and want them sent on Friday night or Saturday – in time for the holiday - you CANNOT do that on the free end.  That IS a Say It With eCards “Member Benefit!” 

Questions:  Contact roz @ DesignsByDaybreak.com (please remove the spaces around the @ sign)

Enjoy!

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Say It With eCards does it again… with more than 100 Hanukkah eCards offered at Say It With eCards Judaic Greetings Club website…

Approxiatmely 75 Interfaith eCards have been uploaded to the Say It With eCards member area.  These Interfaith eCards target blended families celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah.

The Interfaith eCards have been designed in three basic flavors:

• Black and White Collection
• General/Traditional Collection 
• Patriotic/Support The Troops

Roz Fruchtman, Bronx, NY Digital Artist explains “Why These eCards Were Designed.”

Times have changed, the family structure has changed, and with the Internet, the world has changed. With this said, I will begin…

Through the years I have been asked to design holiday eCards for families of mixed denominations or cultures. Now-a-days the politically correct phrase would be for “blended families!”

Roz says, “Although I thought this a fabulous idea… I struggled with the decision of how to do so without offending those visiting or having memberships at:

Say It With eCards / http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

my Judaic eCards Club’s website.”

Last year I decided to give it a whirl. I had a blast designing and created what I hope would be tastefully designed eCards for those celebrating combined Judaic and Christian holidays.

The cards can be found at the Say It With eCards website in the categories listed below:

• Category: Interfaith eCards/December Holidays – Black and White Collection
• Category: Interfaith eCards/December Holidays – General/Traditional Collection
• Category: Interfaith eCards/December Holidays – Patriotic/Support The Troops

Enjoy and Happy Holidays To All!

Comments, questions, suggestions, complaints, contact Roz Fruchtman at:
roz @ designsbydaybreak.com  (Please remove the spaces around the @ (at sign)

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Coming soon (for Hanukkah and Christmas) to Say It With eCards…

Interfaith eCards designed and created by Roz Fruchtman – Bronx, New York City Digital Artist

Times have changed, the family structure has changed, and with the Internet, the world has changed. With this said, I will begin…

My name is Roz Fruchtman. Many of you know me for my Judaic eCard designs.

Through the years I have been asked to design holiday eCards for families of mixed denominations or cultures. Now-a-days the politically correct phrase would be for “blended families!”

Although I thought this a fabulous idea… I struggled with the decision of how to do this without offending those visiting my Judaic eCards Club’s website, but last year I decided to give it a whirl. I had a blast designing and created what I hope would be tastefully designed eCards for those households celebrating combined Judaic and Christian holidays. Below is the result.

Interfaith selections will include:

• Interfaith eCards – General Collection
• Interfaith eCards – Patriotic Collection
• Interfaith eCards – Black and White Collection

These eCards and over 1,700 more Judaic eCards are featured at:

Say It With eCards Judaic eCards Club
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

Stay tuned the Interfaith Collection will be uploaded within the next few days. Information about it can be found here or at:

http://www.Interfaith-Ecards.com
HISTORY – From Roz Fruchtman / Bronx, New York Digital Artist

When I first started out I had two distinct and separate eCard sites: One Judaic in nature and the other more Traditional. As you can imagine, since this is a one-woman show, it was impossible to do both and give either my full attention.

I continued on with the Judaic eCards as my mission had always been to provide an artsy, unique and tasteful way for the Jewish community and those communicating with them or having a need for Judaic themed ecards to have a place to go and a way to do so.

To date my Judaic eCards Club website – SayItWithEcards.com – offers more than 1,700 Judaic themed eCards for your sending convenience.

Questions, Suggestion and/or Comments: Contact Roz
Roz @ DesignsByDaybreak.com (please remove the space around the @ sign)

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While the reason why I found Easy Thumbnails from Fookes Software was not a happy one, using it is making my life a joy and turning over 1400 of my cloudy thumbnails crisp, clear and sparking.

IMPORTANT NOTE — Did I say it was COMPLETELY FREE!  NO nags, NO advertisements, NOTHING but an excellent little program jammed packed with an enormous amount of thumbnail creation features and much, much more.  It comes with its own viewer so it is the ONLY program needed for the job, UNLESS you need to make changes or enhancements to the images themselves.

NEGATIVE — It does not accommodate PSD (Photoshop native format)

In my case the images were already in JPG format and I needed to create thumbnails with a certain naming format.  Easy Thumbnails provided features to do this all in “one-step?”

The software is great for the novice as well as the seasoned professional and does not have much of a learning curve. All the features are named with self-explanatory names, however, you might want to either make some tests for yourself or have a quick look at the PDF manual that can be downloaded at the link below.  I looked at a set of instructions and the manual AFTER the fact!

— Quoted From Their Website —

Easy Thumbnails is a popular free utility for creating accurate
thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of
popular picture formats. An elegant interface makes it a snap to
find your images and select them for processing individually, in
groups, or in whole folders, using a simple file selector and
built-in image viewer. You can use slider controls to rotate
images and adjust their contrast, brightness, sharpness and
quality, and check out the results with the built-in viewer.

Key Features:

• Scale images up or down in batches
• Eleven resampling filters, including Lanczos3
• Sharpen soft images from digital cameras
• Real-time preview of target image
• Supports the new JPEG 2000 image format
• Preserves EXIF data in JPEG images
• Supports lossless JPEG rotation
• Free software producing quality results 

— End Quote from their site —

Go here….

• for a more comprehensive look at Easy Thumbnails
• download your FREE copy
• download the PDF manual

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