Thing 6: My trading card

My trading card
Originally uploaded by Dutchgirl73

Here's my trading card. I'm not sure how useful this "toy" is, but it's fun. I was surprised to discover that you have to upload a photo from your computer, and then upload the finished project to Flickr. If you want to use a photo already on Flickr for your card, you have to download it to your computer first. Not hard, but of course that's an extra step.

I also tried Mappr, which was nifty. This could be quite nice for students doing a report in which they need pictures from a place (middle school travel brochure projects come to mind). The color pickr would be useful if you need to color coordinate your brochure!

I wasn't terribly impressed with Montagr, as I've seen and used much easier collage and mosaic software. Andreamosaic and MacOSaiX are two programs that let you create mosaics on your own computer. Mosaicmaker, Hockneyizer and Warholizer are linked under Flickr's Big Huge Labs area.

Here's my daughter's fifth grade school picture, redone with MacOSaiX: