We’re happy to announce that the new Color Splash for iPad update now includes Sincerely Ship’s “Print and Ship” feature. Color Splash is an app that allows you to turn your color photos into black and white shots with small splashes of color. It’s a great app, with killer UI, and now you can use it to send postcards!

Check out some of our other Ship partners here.

We’ve gotten a bunch of great feedback about our Dotti Disposable Camera app. People love having physical copies of their photos, but have been wanting to be able to use photos from within their own photo albums.

With our newest update (available for free now on iTunes or the Android market), you can do just that. Take any photos from your device’s photo album and add them to your roll to create real physical copies. How cool is that? Very!

The Sincerely Team is joining hundreds of other developers and designers descending on NYC for Photo Hack Day II. The event is taking place at NYC’s General Assembly February 25th-26th, and this time, Sincerely is an official sponsor and will be giving out some awesome prizes including free Sincerely credits, T shirts and more! Last Summer, Aviary brought together the creative forces of the best minds in mobile photography, photo editing, web design and more, to create photo hacks using API’s from participating companies, including Sincerely’s own Ship Library. The resulting hacks, after a 24 hour hackathon, were astounding.

We are looking forward to collaborating with friends, new and old, and be a part of some amazing hacks. We’ll give a brief presentation on the Sincerely Ship API on Saturday morning, participating in workshops, observing demos, and participating in the hack, which runs from 11:30 a.m. Saturday the 25th through Noon on Sunday the 26th.

PhotoForge2 is a powerful photo editing tool for iOS. Along with all the editing essentials, PF2 is also packed with some crazy distortion or manipulation tools such as Twirl and Noise. With today’s new update, PhotoForge has added the abilitiy to ship your photos as postcards (using our Sincerely Ship library). PhotoForge2 is available on the iTunes store for just $.99.

For some of the more experimental stuff you can do with PF2, check out this recent tutorial on the Objective Scenes blog.

Since it’s the season of love and getting your kiss on, we wanted to share with you a few creative ways to create stunning Valentine’s Day cards with our partner apps on your iPhone, Android, or iPad. In honor of Free Card Day today, February 7th, you can also send a free card from one of these apps. Enjoy!

Cartolina Postale by Cartolina: Send your honey a card using the beautifully designed templates ranging from gorgeous flowers, fluttering butterflies, sweet seashells, the lovely Eiffel Tower and more

Color Effects by Daniel Cota: Create dramatic images with your lover by removing colors and changing them entirely

Frametastic: Create a visual masterpiece with images framed together in various layouts as a postcard

PhotoForge2 by GhostBird Software: Make your card pop with a stunning image transformed with full resolution editing, layers, filters and FX

Halftone by Juicy Bits: Make a snazzy postcard that resembles a comic strip with edgy filter effects like “code red,” 27 different paper styles, two caption styles, and six different speech balloon types

Pic Collage by Cardinal Blue: Create photo collages with plenty of backgrounds and stickers to add a romantic touch to your Valentine’s postcard

Filter Mania by Dropico: Spice up your card by layering filters over your image

Picsicle Postcards by Frank Denbow: Share moments of love in a card by adding filters and thought bubbles with text or drawings to your image

Tikkibox by Tikkibox: Tell a love story with your images in collage format to make a lasting impression on your sweetheart

Judy Paul Postcards by Judy Paul: Send your Valentine a gorgeous work of art with Judy Paul’s mixed media collage paintings

Camera Genius by CodeGoo: Take a simple photo and alter it with an array of utilities like 6x zoom, 20 different filters (you can layer the filters too), cropping, borders, and a timer to help you snap a cute pic with your lover

Tripsy by Ryan Kaminsky: Pull a photo from trip album and send your loved one a memento to remind them how much you enjoyed your travels together and how much you love her/him

Interlacer by Jeremy Brooks: Combine alternating lines from several images to create a unique, memorable  postcard for your sweetie

Color Splurge by Vijay Doddavala: Create a dramatic look for your loved one’s card by transforming your image to black and white, while keeping you chosen details in color or recolor certain objects to a new color

Montager by xinsight: Put together a photo montage for your sweetheart with images with a range of layouts and a nice photo-cropping functionality

Sincerely makes it easy to send thoughtful, meaningful and one of a kind cards to those you love most with apps that allows you to make it your own. This year, let’s get creative and put the Valentine back in Valentine’s Day with these five fun ways to say “I Love You”.

1. Lead your significant other on a treasure hunt with Postagram:
   Sending a trail of Postagrams with written and visual treasure hunt clues will be a sure way to impress and entertain that special someone. For example, hide a present, or schedule a mystery dinner date, and send clues in the mail using Postagrams spaced a couple of days apart that will reveal the hidden gift or dinner location.
2. Send a message with PopBooth:
   Use Popbooth to send your honey love notes in the mail. Grab some paper and pens and write out your sweet nothings, and take a strip of photos using Popbooth with a different message in each shot.

3. Use Dotti to capture your day together and make the memories last:
   If you’re planning a romantic outing on Valentines Day, make sure to capture it with Dotti, develop your roll of film, and have the prints sent to your date.
4. Send love notes day by day:
   Send a Postagram-a-day in the week leading up to Valentine’s Day with sweet messages and photos, it is a fun and thoughtful way to show how much you care.

5. For us nostalgic folks, nothing beats an old fashioned card:
   Use Sincerely Ink to create a fantastic Valentines Day card from the heart. Use one of our many festive templates and make it your own.

We hope you enjoy these fun Valentine’s Day ideas, if you have some clever card ideas, please share them in the comments below. Thanks!

Ever since the release of our Sincerely Ink app, we are frequently asked “When can I start ordering Birthday/Valentines/Thank You/Congratulations/etc cards?”. Good news for card lovers, the new Sincerely Ink update includes all of those designs and more! We’ll keep the new cards coming throughout the year too. What holiday/card designs would you like to see added? Share your ideas in the comments below.

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