Heading out to a sunny paradise this summer? We can imagine all the fun you will be having in your summer holiday. Golden beaches; pina colada; lazy hours in the sun.

But does your postcard back home make your friends ‘wish they were here’ too?

With Touchnote you can send great postcards when you are on holiday straight from your iPhone, iPad or from your Android phone.  Here are some tips for posting a beautiful postcard with Touchnote.

Humour Does It

For years postcards have showcased the work of independent photographers and artists. A personalized postcard can show off your cool phoneography. And a wacky sense of humour.

Sun and Smiles

So if it rains on your vacation, think of it as an excuse for your poetic license.

Nightlife photos, the awesome indoor hotel pool. We prefer to detract attention away from the sunless sky by smiling – and showing off those pearly whites.

Love Effects

Photo apps inspire the inner hipster.  Pop art, comic art, sketch effect, watercolour, collage and more. A few clicks – and your holiday postcards are drawing major lolz from your friends.

Guaranteed, your best friends will definitely want to stick you on their fridge. How generous of you. 

How to send a holiday postcard with Touchnote

1. Download the Touchnote Postcards app for iPhone, iPad or Android.  You can also send postcards directly from our website.

2. Choose your a great photo using the tips above

3. Add a nice message and address

4. Voila.  We will take care of the rest and send it to anywhere in the world.  Worldwide postage is included in the price.   

The 2012 Olympics are just around the corner. Excitement, testosterone, and energy drinks are in the air - and of course it's a great time to take and share photos.

So we've worked how to make it even easier for you to share your pictures during the Olympic season with our free postcard promotion. Best things in life are free? For sure.

In partnership with Samsung (and for a limited time only), you can now send postcards for free. Anybody using our Android app, our Facebook app and our website can now send unlimited free cards. It's for a limited time only, needless to say.

Say goodbye to expensive souvenir shops! 

If you're in London over summer, you can now share your personal Olympic moments with your friends and family. And we're working with Getty Images to give you a hand-picked supply of the best and most atmospheric images from the games for you to be able to send. Did you miss the perfect shot of the event you went to? No problems anymore 

And nope, there is no catch. Those postcards really are for free.

If you've any questions about this promotion, here's a list of helpful FAQs to answer your questions. Or else just drop us a line in email(help@touchnote.com) and we'd love to.

Love, giggles, hugs and now postcards. The best things in life are free, just as Luther and Janet said. Well, Sam Cooke too. And Frank Sinatra.

Our friends in America have been sending Mother's Day postcards from Samsung Galaxy Note devices and projecting those postcards onto buildings such as the New York Public Library. "I love you mom! Look that building over there proves it."

In case you're not sure, the Samsung Galaxy Note is the one with a pen that's (to paraphrase) not a phone and not a tablet either. If you have one, you can use the pen to doodle or draw on the front of your Touchnote postcard and then you can hand-write the message on the back. Just download the Touchnote app from Google Play and if you have a Galaxy Note you'll automatically get all the SPen features. 

G'day! There's good news for all of you who've been sending postcards to friends and family 'down under': Touchnote now prints all Australia-bound cards in Australia. It's the same high-quality printed postcard, but it now arrives in one to three days instead of the weeks it could take to travel by train and plane across oceans and continents. And to make things even easier, we're busy updating all our apps and website to include Australian postcode lookup in our address mechanisms.