You may have noticed that certain cards on our site have a camera icon next to them like this 
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This means that the art for the card was designed so the the end user can add a photo that becomes part of the art itself. We call these Photo Inside cards.
Initially all of these cards we done internal to our company because as you might guess there's a certain process involved in preparing the art to support this feature.
However you've been asking us how you too can make these cards and we definitely want to make it possible for the entire community.
We only ask that you please be patient with us, because we really want to make the process as easy as possible for you. This means a couple of things have to fall into place:
1) We have to provide documentation on the Photo Inside process. That documentation is available here on our wiki.
2) We may be a bit slow in processing the first few submissions in order to iron out any kinks, but after that we expect it too be pretty quick on all sides. We've already received first content from several artists.
3) While the process is documented Photo Inside sample projects need to be created because for many of us the easiest way to learn is by starting with a working sample and building on it. This part will take a bit longer because we want to provide examples that are specific to the most common tools. For example we'll have samples for both 3dxmax and Maya. This is just happening as we speak. In fact we sold a small car and used the money to order Maya 2008 just today.
One question we received regarding Photo Inside was if is was just for 3d artists. Well at first yes, but then we were appropriately castigated for this as being unfair to certain artistic styles and therefore we are providing a way for any art to use Photo Inside, not just 3d work. While we happen to use 3d tools internally, we love stop motion, hand illustration, and other styles too and don't want to discriminate. :)
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