Comments on: picture (not so) perfect

By: Tina Vega

Tina Vega — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:57:52 +0000

I’m a HUGE fan of scrapbookpictures.com; I crop a lot of my photos before printing and they have a huge selection of reasonably-priced sizes (including squares). Plus, shipping is only $2.00 no matter the size of your order. Another GREAT resource for bloggers is “Blurb” – if you put a lot of photos/journaling on your blog, you can simply have your blog “slurped” and printed up as a book! The web address is: http://www.blurb.com/create/book/blogbook – it looks very cool though I have yet to try it myself!

By: Danyelle

Danyelle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:46:32 +0000

CORNHOLE!!!!!!
I’ve always been a snapfish fan. Was years and years and years ago back when we lived in your area. Back when I used 35 mm. I think shutterfly is just as good. I tend to upload my photos save them to 2 copies, one for home one for Jims workplace (incase of fire). As for actually scrapbooking them. Well, its a thought in process. (well, okay I do the scrapbooking thing, you know, print them embellish a page and agonize over the arrangment of everything WAY to much…did I use the right colored paper? Is that picture good enough? Should I use black &white instead of color on this layout? UGH!!) unfortunatly, I have found with my digital I feel I can take 100 pictures of the exact same thing…you know to delete the bad, keep the good. However, when that exact same thing is a smiling baby how can you delete even one? so now I have 100 photos of almost the same pose but unable to rid of any!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:35:11 +0000

This is a great photo! Love the action.

I don’t do well with getting photos printed. Her baby book is almost complete with all photos and I did an electronic scrapbook through Picaboo…other than that we don’t do a lot of printed ones for ourselves. I send some to her grandparents and when she has a “photo shoot” we get those in print. sorry, no advise!

HEY…you’ll want to check out my blog…you might find something special FOR YOU there!

By: Mindy

Mindy — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:45:19 +0000

Walgreens.com. It’s the perfect combo of online and real world for me. You upload and order on line, but then you pick them up at the store IN ONE HOUR. (If you’re like me, once you finally get it done, you lose all patience for waiting for the mail!)
(although I really don’t to albums anymore. I do what Kelly@ love well does: back them up on an external.

By: t h a i t r a i t

t h a i t r a i t — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:44:32 +0000

I’m a Shutterfly fan as well. Was from the start. I’ve seen their site go through lots of changes over the last few years, mostly for the better.

I order prints from them and I get them FAST (since I live comparatively close to their outfit, which is in Northern Cali). I’ve made a few photobooks to keep and to share…I feel that their books were better a few years ago, but maybe it was because a few years ago I ordered the top quality leather and suede editions for our wedding albums, as opposed to the less expensive cutesy ones I’ve made and send to my parents of our annual vacations more recently.

Regarding the prints again, I am still working on an excessively detailed hand-made scrapbook of my wedding (we got married over 2 years ago, and I made a photobook on-line with Shutterfly right after the event, too). I feel that Shutterfly is good enough for what I’m doing, and any more advances in quality would have to be on my end (get a better camera as I only use a itty-bitty baby Canon).

Shutterfly also lets you organize and save albums (I have close to 50), share pics, and they’ve been really good about doling out coupons and deals on shipping for loyal customers.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:13:03 +0000

Oh, how I SOOOOO relate here!!! Now that it is so rewarding to just see the pictures on the computer, there IS such less urgency to actually get them printed out…unless they are for a frame or something!!!

My “plan” now is to do some developing quarterly! Come fall, I would like to pick out, crop, enhance and develop summer’s pictures. Come winter, hopefully I can develop, fall’s…and so forth!

I did a scrapbooking retreat last spring and literally went through a YEAR’S worth of pictures in order to go. I told myself that I would NOT do that again!

But…here it is summer, and I have yet to go back and order spring’s smiling photos yet either! Good thing that I still have time!!!

By: Bree

Bree — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:39:05 +0000

Our photo album is on an external hardrive. When Hector has the time he goes through all of the photos on our computer, edits and labels them and then sorts them by date onto the hard drive. It isn’t as pretty as a photo album, but it is really easy to take with us to visit family and because it is organized by date, it is easy to view.

I do try to print pictures every now and then to send with Thank You cards and for that I love Costco. We are there at least once a month anyways and I can just upload the pictures from home and then they are ready to be picked up the next day. It is like .07 a print and they have always come out just as expected.

Good Luck!

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:39:21 +0000

I’ve tried most online ones too..shutterfly, snapfish, ritz, target. I like Shutterfly because you can send those to any Target..so I can either order online through Shutterfly or if I need them right away fro scrapping I send them to Target and can pick them up within an hour. I also tend to go with whoever is giving a deal..currently ritz is by far the best! My sister in law took 750 pics from their two week vacation..her total include shipping came to roughly $75..that’s what i paid with shipping for 350 pics through shutterfly! ugh! So go with the deals I guess!

By: melissa

melissa — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:24:09 +0000

I sign up for email notices from snapfish and shutterfly and clark photos and… I think one other one. When they’re having a promotion, like 11¢ prints or 25 free prints, I order a stack of my favorite pics from the last few months. Then I pile those in a rubbermaid container until I have time to work on scrapbooks or put them into albums.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:00:00 +0000

i love snapfish–they have the best quality prints of any online service and i’ve tried them all! good prices and FAST turn around–they rock. good luck getting yours printed!