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Review: PhotoWorks.com

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PHOTOWORKS RATINGS

Price 4x6 print: 15¢
Pre-Paid Print Plan: 12¢
Print Quality: 4 1/2 stars
Ease of Use: 5 stars ease of use
Pricing: 4 stars
Features: 5 stars features
Customer Service: 4 stars
Shipping/Turnaround: 4 stars

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Founded as Seattle Film Works specializing in mail order prints, PhotoWorks.com is now a player in online digital photo services with an impressive and expanding array of services and products. Photoworks completely revamped their website in October 2009. Among the new features are the ability to search for products and browse for products more easily, shop by product, occasion or theme, faster uploads, easier sharing, and new photo products designed by American Greeting Cards. There is also an elegant new line of Papyrus photo card designs to which you can customize with your own photo.

NEW PRODUCTS:

  • Photo Only Photo Cards
  • Collage Cards
  • Studio Photo Books in collaboration with American Greetings
  • Photo Wall Art
  • Photo Panels
  • Photo Water Bottles

Photoworks offers regular discounts via coupon codes you enter at checkout.

Photoworks
uses Kodak Perfect Touch Processing and prints on premium Kodak paper at no extra charge to ensure excellent print color and quality. They are one of the few major online photofinishers to do so. The prints we ordered came very quickly and had rich, true colors. In a recent CNET survey, Photoworks was rated 7.9 out of 8.0, ahead of all the other major online competitors.

The website is straighforward and simple to navigate. Photoworks even allows you to import your photos from Flickr. Ordering prints and photo gifts is quick and easy. Glossy and matte finish prints are available, in addition to a wide assortment of photo products including calendars, greeting cards, photo books, blankets, porcelain Christmas ornaments, puzzles, t-shirts, mugs and more.

New: 8x8 and 12x12 Photo Books with oversize personalized cover, new photo greeting cards for fall, Christmas and Hannukkah, Cards and Wedding Stationary designed by American Greeting Cards design team, new 11x16 and 11x24 calendar designs including pet and baby themes, plus new photo gifts including cutting boards and new mug and poster designs.

 

Photoworks Full Review

Last Reviewed July 2010
Free Membership? Creating account, uploading photos, photo-editing software is free. All you pay for are the photos and related merchandise.
Special offers

Monthly specials such as 9 cent prints, free photo cards and more. Discounts frequently available via Photoworks' coupon codes. See below for current coupons.

  • NEW MEMBERS: WHEN YOU JOIN GET 25 Free Digital Prints from PhotoWorks.com

  • SAVE 25% on all Photo Books. Use code JULYBOOKS at checkout. Hurry, offer ends 7/28/10

  • 4x6 and 3.5x5 prints are on sale for just 10¢ each thru Aug 31

  • FREE Standard Shipping on Wall Art at PhotoWorks. Use Promotional Code: SUMMERFS thru 8/31/10

  • SAVE on your Summer Memories from PhotoWorks! Get FREE shipping on your first order when you use Coupon Code "MYFIRSTORDER"!

OTHER FREE SHIPPING OFFERS:

Get free shipping on all photo throw blankets from PhotoWorks. Ongoing.

Get free shipping on all photo mouse pads at PhotoWorks! Ongoing

Get free shipping on photo mugs from PhotoWorks. Ongoing.

Find personalized gifts for under $10 at PhotoWorks and get FREE SHIPPING!

Get free shipping on photo books at PhotoWorks! Ongoing.

Get Free Shipping on Photo Gifts at PhotoWorks.com

Prints as low as 9 cents each. New 4x6 print pricing plan:

1-499 prints: 15 cents each
500-999 prints: 12 cents each
1000-plus prints: 09 cents each

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Services Offered Printing photos, online photo album, photo editing software, photo sharing, calendars, greeting cards. Either upload digital images to their web site or you can mail in a CD, memory card, or 35mm or APS film.
Print Sizes Available 3.5x5, 4x6, 5x7, wallets, 8x10, 11x14
Photo Calendars - New 11x8 Calendar - EmbellishedPhotoworks recently introduced new sophisticated photo calendar designs with flexible layouts. Choose 1 or 2 photos per month, add your own event dates, select vertical or horizontal calendar and start on the month of your choice. Photos can display bigger, including full bleed to the edges. Out of all the calendar options we've seen on various photo sites, these are by far the best. Go to PhotoWorks.com
Special Features

Glossy, matte, white bordered prints, black and white, and full frame prints available. Features a nice variety of professional looking, quality bound photo books with custom options. Also offers photo cards, calendars, keepsakes such as mugs and mousepads.

Halloween photo cardsNew Photo Cards: Choose from new American Greeting Card designs for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Free PhotoStreamer 2 software (free download). Lets you upload lots of photos at one time or drag and drop entire folders. You can buy prints from your desktop. Just place your order and you can leave your computer unattended while your photos upload to Photoworks. PhotoStreamer 2 lets you crop, correct red eye, rotate images and adjust contrast/brightness. It tells you what size prints are recommended for a designated image (very helpful feature). You can also upload images from Flickr and Webshots.

Photoworks offers unlimited free online photo storage and unlimited photo albums as long as you are an active customer within the calendar year, i.e. you have made a purchase within the last year. Free online photo sharing.

Ease of Use

 

Ordering prints is a simple 3-click process (even easier now with Photoworks' free, upgraded Photo Streamer 2 software). You can save projects to complete later and save addresses in an online address book for photo sharing or sending prints.
Other Comments Order fulfillment is very fast. Orders received by noon Pacific time are shipped the same day. Photoworks offers a variety of shipping options as well as regular promotions using coupon codes at checkout. See current coupon codes.


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