High Volume Sports Photography, Meet Custom Trading Cards

For sharp, professional results, we recommend uploading images at 300 DPI or higher at the card's print dimensions. Most photos taken with a DSLR, mirrorless camera, or a recent flagship smartphone will meet this threshold without any editing. If you're submitting a batch of sports action shots from a game, the cleaner and better-exposed images will print most crisply. Our upload system flags any image that appears likely to print below our quality standard, so you'll know before you commit to checkout. Cropping tightly to the subject also helps maximize print quality on smaller card dimensions.

Yes, and many teams do exactly that. You can place multiple card orders for a full roster, customize each one with the individual athlete's name, number, and stats, and have them ship together in a single package. Booster clubs, athletic directors, and team photographers frequently use Snapshot for end-of-season runs covering 15 to 30 athletes at a time. Each card still ships with its own magnetic display case included. If you're coordinating a large order and have logistical questions, reaching out to our team before placing the order is the smoothest approach.

Cards go into production at our Des Moines, Iowa facility after your order is confirmed, and standard turnaround is one business day before the card ships. Once it ships, transit time depends on your location within the USA and the shipping service you choose at checkout. Shipping is free over $30 to all 50 states. If you're ordering cards for a specific event — a banquet, senior night, an awards ceremony — placing the order at least a week in advance gives comfortable buffer time without rushing production.

Snapshot offers a library of pro sports-card templates designed to replicate the look of real, professional trading cards rather than novelty prints. Templates support customization of player name, jersey number, stats lines, position, and team name. You select the template, upload your photo, and fill in the player details — the system handles layout and formatting. Some templates lean toward a classic vintage card aesthetic, others are modern and bold. All of them are built to standard trading card dimensions so the finished product looks and feels like it came from an actual card company.

It's genuinely included at no extra cost with every order — single cards, packs, and MEGA cards alike. There's no checkbox to add it, no upgrade required. The magnetic case ships with the card as part of the standard package. We include it because cards displayed in a proper case tend to stay in better condition and actually get shown off rather than stored away. For photographers building premium card packages for athletes and families, this detail matters — it means the product arrives presentation-ready without any additional cost passed to the customer or added to your package pricing.

Standard card packs contain multiple cards — great for team sets or giving an athlete several copies to share with family members. Packs are priced up to $49.99 depending on quantity. The MEGA card is a single oversized card measuring 11 inches by 15.4 inches, also priced at $49.99. It's built for photos that deserve to be displayed prominently rather than collected in a stack — championship portraits, senior season highlights, standout action images. The MEGA format uses the same premium card stock construction as standard cards but at a scale that works as wall art or a shelf centerpiece.

Every card ships with the included magnetic display case, which provides protection during transit as well as long-term display use. Orders are packaged to prevent bending and surface damage during shipping. For bulk roster orders, individual cards are packaged together carefully to ensure they arrive in the same condition they left our Iowa facility. If a card arrives damaged due to a shipping issue, contact our team with photos of the damage and we'll make it right. We stand behind the quality of every order that leaves our production floor.

Many sports photographers use Snapshot as a fulfillment partner for card packages they sell through their own photography services. The process is straightforward: shoot the session, select the best images, upload and customize through Snapshot, and either ship directly to the client or to yourself for distribution at picture day or a later event. Because pricing starts at $17.99 per card with free shipping over $30, there's clear margin opportunity when building card packages into a photography offering. We don't have a formal wholesale program, but the per-card pricing at current rates supports profitable package pricing for most photography businesses.