Review of Snapfish Photo Printing and Storage
Itchy Feet Team | Dec 09, 2008 | Comments 1
When you are on holidays you end up taking a heap of digital photos. The worst thing that can happen is that your camera gets stolen or you lose your card or it becomes corrupted. So we have solved this problem for you by finding a secure and trustworthy site where you can upload your photos, so you have a backup copy.
Snapfish is huge and operates throughout the world so they are going to take care of your photo’s. They have more than 60 million members and a billion unique photos stored online. This is what Snapfish has to say about themselves.
Snapfish is a leading online photo service with more than 60 million members and one billion unique photos stored online. We enable our members to share, print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest prices-online or off. Snapfish offers professionally-developed digital camera prints, free online photo sharing, unlimited online photo storage, and a variety of personalised photo products, ranging from calendars, mugs and mousepads, to books, puzzles and teddy bears.
The best thing is that they also have one of the cheapest printing costs around at only 15* cents a print it is a bargain. Here is their latest special…
Get 20 FREE digital prints from Snapfish, HP’s leading online photo service. At Snapfish you can share your photos with friends and family and store them online for FREE. Photos and photo gifts are printed in Australia to the highest quality and additional prints cost as little as 15¢.
Don’t just take our word for their good product, here is a couple of quotes from others endorsing Snapfish.
“Best Overall Photo Service: Snapfish delivered the best image quality plus the lowest price.” – PC World, June 2005
“Once you weigh price, speed, ease-of-uploading, and a few other considerations, some services stood out from the pack-in particular, Snapfish… Overall, Snapfish sent the best images. Its prints all had good exposure, contrast, and detail.” – MacWorld, July 2005
So try them out and see how they perform, even if you don’t order any photos it is a good idea to just keep a copy of them where others are responsible for looking after them.
The only downside that we found with Snapfish is that if you want to share your photos with others they need to sign up for an account and once you do, you are on their mailing list so they send out promotional stuff. But you always have the option to filter them out of your inbox and hey it is still free.
If you try them out and have something to say about Snapfish let everyone know and leave a comment.
*Price accurate as of 9/12/08
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The only problem with Snapfish is that they do not offer a “Fit In” or “Shrink to Fit” option when choosing the size and cropping for each image.
So if your image is not of standard dimensions, it will be heavily cropped. The better online photo printing sites give you the option of “fitting” the image, which means shrinking the image so that all of it can be printed with white space either on the sides or top and bottom to accomdate this.