Picture Plus

I had hoped to attend the Grand Opening Convention but fate intervened.

In spite of my absence (or perhaps because of it) it appears a good time was had by all. And, for my money at least, the biggest announcement to come from the festivities was the introduction of Picture Plus, the new photo uploading, cataloging and custom card creation feature now available for a $99 lifetime license.

I signed up for Picture Plus right away and was initially very impressed with it. Unfortunately I ran into a BIG problem with it within a couple of days of purchase:

You cannot create or place a custom graphic on the inside of the card with Picture Plus - only on the outside.

This may not be a big deal for some of you but for me it's a show stopper. Any of you who have received one of my custom cards knows that I try to make creative use of all three panels available to me - with interesting text and custom graphics on the outside and inside.

One of the reasons I was so pleased with Picture Plus was that (I thought) I could create and upload my own custom creations at any time 24/7 without waiting for the graphics support folks to do it for me. Don't get me wrong: the folks in the graphics department at SOC are first-class and very fast. Still, they're not available nights or weekends when I am often cooking up new ideas.

And, in spite of paying $99 for Picture Plus, I'm still paying $10 per card to upload my custom creations.

Any thoughts from corporate? Any other folks out there unhappy with this situation?