Snapfish, a division of HP, is a colorful and fun site, geared towards the everyday user. For sharing photos with family members who are far away or for showing a slideshow to a gathering of friends, this site is great for showing off loved ones and good times. They have constant promotional offers and a good referral program. Easily upload your entire Outlook address book for easy sharing. Unlimited storage in unlimited albums is provided with free membership, making this a great site for personal use.
Following their reputation for user-friendly functions, Snapfish’s customer service response is fast and helpful.Replies were received promptly regarding membership issues as well as technical questions. Live help is also available right from the website.
If you are a digital imaging rookie, you may want to check out the glossary for descriptions of general features found on photo and video sites, and for some insight into basic industry terms.
[#Unique#]
Enhance photos with borders and other scrapbooking effects.
Photoshow, free desktop software by Snapfish, allows you to easily display entire albums to family and friends and arrange the shows with various transitions, captions and even music. From this application, you can also create various products and gifts and screensavers for your computer.
Snapfish’s School of Fish is helpful for inexperienced users needing a little help and for users looking for creative ideas and tips on photo projects. (You can send in your own tips, and if they are used on the site, you receive 50 free prints!)
[#Membership#]
Unlimited storage and access to very basic photo editing tools are offered on the website. Downloading the free desktop application, Photoshow Express, gives even more options for creating, editing and organizing.
Snapfish currently has only one level of membership, but the software application, Photoshow, can be upgraded to the Deluxe Edition. Upgrading to Photoshow Deluxe for $39.99 provides additions, such as animated clip art to add to slideshows, archive CDs and DVDs burned directly from the application, the ability to add your own mp3s to slideshows, html code for blogging, and more.
[#Drawbacks#]
Albums are deleted if no purchase activity on an account for 365 days. Email reminders are sent to warn you of this ahead of time.
To blog any photos, Photoshow must be upgraded.
[#Uploading#]
Photos can be uploaded with Photoshow or through the website. It is fairly quick with a T1 modem. Ten-minute videos can be uploaded and stored and shared with purchase of this service.
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*upload speed is analyzed using a 256k modem.
[#Storage#]
Storage is organized through the Photoshow Express or Deluxe.
[#Products#]
All photo gifts can be created and ordered through Photoshow or through the Snapfish website. Snapfish has some unique photo gifts like ties, scarves, stationary, photo stamps, notebooks, playing cards, golf towels and beer mugs.
[#Prints#]
Prints can be ordered in glossy or matte finishes in many sizes. This site warns about using low resolution for prints, suggesting maximum size prints you can get at a good quality for the resolution that of your photo.
Snapfish has in-store print pick up at Walgreens locations.
Prints ordered directly from Snapfish are excellent quality; however, photos picked up from a Walgreens were discolored, service was very slow and we had a problem getting the manager to give us a refund.
Print packages are available for extra savings on large orders of prints. The lowest prices they offer on 4 x 6 prints is $0.10, only $0.02 less than the regular price of $0.12.
[#Sharing#]
Membership allows sharing through email invitations. Guests must create their own free account and then they can order prints and gifts from the photos you have allowed them to see. You can choose to share individual photos or entire albums.
URLs are provided through Photoshow Deluxe.
[#Privacy#]
Snapfish does not have public galleries or personal URLs, so photos can only be seen by guests that are personally invited.
[#SiteNavigation#]
Basic function menus and header and footer menus remain on almost every page, so you can always move quickly to another feature.
