Credit Tips: Credit Cards With Pictures on the Front

Posted On: May 1, 2006

Author: Board Monitor
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:25 pm
Post subject: Which Credit Cards Allow you to Use Your Own Photo?

This message posted by e-mail request from one of the visitors to our site:

Other then CITI Bank who puts photo’s on cards?

Note Below from Citi-

Photo Credit Cards, Photo ID Credit Card. Citi® Photocard offers you free added security and a great form of photo identification by putting your picture on the card.
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Author: creditnewbie
Credit Expert (100+ Posts)

Joined: 30 Oct 2004
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:24 pm
Post subject: Credit Cards With Pictures on the Front

Bank of America. Also, you can have a family photo on the card as a design. The ID photo appears on the left top corner.

Author: stilltrying
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:06 pm
Post subject:

USAA will let you put your photo on the card. Shortly after I was approved for a Mastercard, I received information in the mail on how to obtain a photo ID credit card. I couldn’t think of where to get a (per the instructions) 2″ by 2″ photo (I don’t own a camera). I stopped by Bank of America, and, although I’m not a customer and offered to pay for the photo, a bank employee very kindly didn’t charge me for taking a picture of me. The photo turned out to be about an 1/8″ too short on the left and about 1/8″ too short on the right. Consequenty, when I received my photo ID credit card about two weeks later, the picture appeared to have turned out tinier than maybe it otherwise would have if I had gone elsewhere (perhaps Kinkos) and obtained a photo that was exactly 2″x2″. Overall, though, it still turned out pretty well.

Besides the photo security credit card that creditnewbie mentioned, Bank of America has something called “photo expressions”:
http://www.bankofamerica.com/creditcards/?template=photo_expressions

Capital One has the “image card” (unfortunately at this time this option is not available to Mastercard cardholders):
http://capitaloneimagecard.com
http://creditcardperks.webgroups.biz/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7423

First National Bank of Omaha has the “One of a Kind Visa” card:
http://oneofacard.com/main.asp

I found this with a google search:
America First Credit Union
http://www.americafirst.com/visa/credit/picture_perfect.cfm

While I was at a store, the person in front of me paid with a Chase card that had his photo on it. I don’t know if it was a Chase credit card or Chase atm card.

Author: Ira
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:30 am
Post subject: Credit Cards With Pictures on the Front

For $9.95 you can purchase a program known as Passport Photo which will take any digital photo and allow you to print it in the correct passport size for US, Canada, and a few other countries. I used it for my passport photo.. Came out just fine.

http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo.htm?referrer=google_passport_photo