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Review Overview:
The Shutterfly site is easy to use and its review
function allows you to see how your pictures will look at
any print size. Its album view and slide shows are excellent.
Our test prints came out crisp and richly colored. Shutterfly's
red-eye reduction tool worked great on my dog's eyes. Shutterfly
offers monthly promotional coupon codes for great
discounts on photo prints and gifts.
In addition to frequent coupon codes and discounts, Shutterfly offers:
- Free unlimited photo storage
- 50 Free prints when you sign up as a member (also free)
- 100% guaranteed satisfaction
- Photos stored in full resolution
- They will never delete your photos and there is no yearly minimum purchase requirement
- You can pick up prints and some photo products at Target, Walgreens and CVS, often in an hour.
Custom Path Photo Books
Price 4x6 print: 15¢
Pre-Paid Print Plan: 10¢
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Shutterfly upped its game in May 2011 with the introduction of Custom Path photo books. This enables you to have much more creative control over your photo book including the ability to add, move and resize photos and text plus new styles, backgrounds, embellishments and more. You can read my review of Shutterfly Photo Books here.
Shipping was fast and my shipment came in a sturdy cardboard envelope. Shutterfly stores your image in their original resolution and will never delete them. As with most online photo services, membership is free.
Shutterfly excels at social media and photo sharing options. You can download a free app to access all your Shutterfly albums and pictures from your iPhone. Shutterfly also integrates sharing photos from your Facebook, Flickr or MySpace account. You can also create a free share site right on Shutterfly.
Key feature: Unlimited free online photo storage. You can back up your entire photo collection on Shutterfly. Images are stored in full resolution and will never be deleted.
Weddings: Shutterfly.com now has a wedding section.You can:
- Create elegant save the date cards, wedding announcements, thank you cards and more
- Make a photo book of your wedding, engagement, courtship, proposal etc.
- Create a free share site for your wedding to announce your engagement and collect wedding photos.
Shutterfly introduced a new way to view, organize and arrange your pictures. You can now view pictures in larger detail so it’s easier to pick the best ones. You can also organize your albums into new folders and use drag-and-drop to arrange your pictures. You can now upload your digital images to Shutterfly and pick up your 4x6 prints at your local Target store.
Shutterfly uses Fuji Crystal Archive paper and Fuji chemicals and equipment to ensure that your pictures will last for years. Their exclusive VividPics® technology automatically adjusts your photos for color. PC Magazine rated Shutterfly as Editors Choice among photo-printing services. Real Simple magazine awarded it Best Online Service for Photo Cards; Money Magazine deemed it their Field Test Winner for hardbound photo books. Good Housekeeping awarded Shutterfly with its 2009 Award for Best Photo Books.
Shutterfly is one of the few photo services that allows you to add comments to each photo, such as file name and date, names of the people in the photo, etc. that will print on the back of your pictures.
NEW: Shutterfly offers a new service for photographers, websites and organizations to sell their photos while Shutterfly handles all the details. Click here for more details about Shutterfly.
Shutterfly Review Details and Coupon Codes
| Last Reviewed | Feb 2012 |
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| Free Membership? | Creating account, uploading photos, and photo-editing software is free at Shutterfly. All you pay for are the photos and related merchandise. Shutterfly offers free unlimited photo storage and you are not required to make regular purchases to keep the storage. |
| Services Offered |
Printing photos, online photo album, photo editing software with red-eye removal, free photo sharing, free secure photo storage with no forced deletion of images or minimum purchase requirements, free personalized web space, screen savers, wallpaper, frames you can preview with photos, process 35mm film. Shutterfly offers excellent customizable photo book creation. Read our Shutterfly Photo Books Review Popular products: Personalized Photo Product - Digital Photo Card, Calendar, Photo Book, and more Holiday Cards NEW: Pick up your Shutterfly prints at your local Target store. NEW: Photo store with expanded selection of products including a wider variety of photo frames and albums and large selection of children’s picture books that can be customized with your child’s photos. NEW: Image organizer allows you to search for photos on your computer. Search by order date, description or date added. Mark your favorite photos for easy reference. New size slider lets you change size of photos for easier viewing. New: Shutterfly Collections--create
a personalized web page for your pictures and comments,
complete with its own web address and optional password
protection. Each Collection can hold multiple albums
and friends can sign in and contribute their own photos
and comments. For a limited time, you can make up
to 2 Collections for free. Go to Shutterfly |
| Print Sizes Available | 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, wallet (4), 11/14, 16/20, 20x30 |
| Special Features |
A great feature of Shutterfly is that it allows
you to preview photos in a variety of digital picture
frames to help you select the best frame for your
photo. Snapbook, a professional-looking spiral bound
book of your photos with captions or stories, is a
nice option. Fun feature is special effects such as
sepia tone and black and white. If you have 35mm film,
they'll process it, scan the photos and put them on
line so you can have all the benefits of digital pictures.
8x8
Clifford Story Book 12x12 Thomas the Train Memory Book - Put pictures of your young one on the same page with the characters from the Thomas the Train series. 8x8 Angelina Ballerina Story Book - Little girls will enjoy seeing themselves side-by-side Angelina Ballerina in her whimsical world.
ARCHIVE DVD An archive DVD is an affordable way to preserve your digital memories. Shutterfly is replacing archive CDs with DVDs. Archive DVDs hold 7x more images than a CD and offer permanent archival of one or more albums on DVD media. With the new archive DVD, you receive: • Mac and PC compatible DVD |
| Free Software |
FREE PHOTO ORGANIZING SOFTWARE: Shutterfly is featuring a FREE image organizer, Shutterfly Studio. This downloadable software (for Windows XP, Vista, & Windows 7) allows you to edit your photos with 10 tools, rate your photos on a 5-star scale and add keywords to organize your pictures by person or occasion. You can upload, share and order prints with one click. • Collage creator allows you to feature up
to 400 photos. 150 layout options. Download the free software at Shutterfly.com |
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The Shutterfly site is easy to navigate and upload images. Creating digital photo albums and calendars is a snap. |
| Other Comments | To review Shutterfly, I ordered a number of prints from various services. Shutterfly has consistently good prints. Great preview function and slide-show. Shutterfly offers free photo editing software with very good red-eye reduction and cropping tools. There are tons of photo cards to choose from, but you are limited on font styles and colors per the photo card template. Shutterfly offers Free unlimited photo storage and will never delete your images. Shutterfly archives multiple copies of your images for safe keeping. There are no forced deletion of your photos and no minimum purchase required. They also offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you’re not satisfied with your purchase, Shutterfly will refund your money. Shutterfly offers a pre-paid
plan for 4x6 prints as low as 10 cents each. Shutterfly
also offers great discounts using their promotional
coupon codes at checkout. See
above for current discount coupon codes. |
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