Crafty Creations.(using the Mac to make amusing presents)(Technology Information)

Macworld, December, 1999 by GOWAN, MICHAEL

Use Your Mac to Make Holiday Gifts with the Personal Touch when you were a kid, chances are you made holiday gifts for your mom or dad: a spiffy robot made of toothpicks, a crayon drawing of the cat, perhaps a woven-lanyard key chain. There's never been a better time to reclaim this tradition from your youth.

With several ways to get those crayon drawings and family photos into your Mac and with excellent photo-quality printers selling cheap (see "Color Ink-Jet Printers," Reviews, September 1999), it's high time to get artistic and create some homemade gifts. ...