Any promo codes out there for Disney Photo pass?

[mickerbaby]

This would be helpful for my upcoming trip, I'd like to buy the whole CD when we get back.
thanks
Crissy

 

[LisaNJ25]

you can pre-order it for 99.00

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Yup...pre-order it. Here's the link http://www.disneyphotopass.com/previsitcdplan.aspx

 

[nunzia]

..Or I hear you can purchase it before you leave the park for 60.

 

[bumbershoot]

..Or I hear you can purchase it before you leave the park for 60.

That's the non-edit-able CD. No adding borders, no cropping, just the pictures.

If you are good with photo editing software and don't want the borders, character "signatures", and such that you can get through Disney, the $60 version is a good option to just get the pictures to do with what you will.

 

[salleys]

WOW! I wish I had known this!
Salley

 

[foreverprincess]

Just bumping to see if anyone has any codes.

 

[TWyn]

That's the non-edit-able CD. No adding borders, no cropping, just the pictures.

If you are good with photo editing software and don't want the borders, character "signatures", and such that you can get through Disney, the $60 version is a good option to just get the pictures to do with what you will.

Where in the parks do you buy this CD? I may give this a whirl and try making my own borders.

 

[arbonnette]

Where in the parks do you buy this CD? I may give this a whirl and try making my own borders.

I would like to know this as well. Also, are the borders, etc. worth the extra $40?

 

[foreverprincess]

bump

 

[bumbershoot]

I don't know where the photo centers are in WDW. In DLR there's one in Greetings From California over in DCA, and I think the DL one is on Main St. But I don't know about WDW.

The borders being worth $40...well, that's a personal decision.

For me, because I like doing silly things with my pictures and do NOT really embellish things when I do scrapbook, the borders and signatures you can add on are really fun to me, and worth it. You can see the last couple pages of the trip reports in my signature, to see an example of borders available for our December DLR trip. (note: the Captain Jack Sparrow border is something that the photographers put on the pix in their camera, it just comes that way and I can't take it off...and I don't know if the Jack meet and greet at WDW has the same, so do NOT expect that at WDW)

For those who embellish quite a bit, who are proficient with photo editing software, and/or who just like plain photos, then getting the spendier one doesn't really make sense.

When you get the one that you edit, each edit of the picture creates a new picture. So if you have 100 photos from your trip that you like, each time you crop one or add Tinkerbell flying to it (separate from the Tink-in-your-hands picture), or add a border etc, it adds another picture. Your 100 pictures can quickly become 200, 300, etc, based on how many little things you want to do to them. When I did my December photopass editing, I just ended up throwing borders and sigs on each picture, even if I didn't really like it. My tastes change over time, and I figure that maybe I didn't like it today, but next year I might and I might as well have it. Doesn't cost any MORE.

Should I ever get photoshop, I'll probably end up getting the cheaper photopass CD. But for now, for our bigger trips, I get the $99 version.


By the way, the $60 CD is one you take home right then and there. The other version, no matter which price you pay (pre or post), shipping is included. Just in case you didn't know!

 

[runmom]

I forget where we have to p/u the CD's, and I didn't know about the $60, non-edited one - this is the one w/just he photos the photographer took? the $99 allows you to put the signatures, castle and such on it, is that right?

Also, if we are with other people will we be allowed to be on the same photopass card, or will they make us get separate ones?

Thank you!

 

[bumbershoot]

runmom

There is the photopass card, and there is the account.

Your group can split up and each person can have a card or two or 8. Later, you will put as many cards as you need to on to one account.

If you're picking up the cheap on at the parks, once that is done, buy it.

If you're prepurchasing or buying it after the fact from home, then you edit all of those pictures (if your family is far flung they can be given username and password and can edit pictures as well...this is where it's important to note again that each edit makes a new copy...so as long as no one flat out DELETES a picture, no one's work will interfere with another's work). Once you're done editing, you enter the code from the prepurchase or simply buy the CD, and then they make it and send it to you.

If your family is far flung and everyone wants a copy, you can order several copies (at, I think, $20 each) from photopass and everyone would get the big jewel case and CD with the photopass logo on it, or you can make copies of the CD and give it to the other members of your family (that latter one is how photopass "shares" work, by the way).


The prepurchase (99.95) and the purchase after the fact (124.95) allow you to edit. Crop, borders, signatures.

The cheap one that you buy AT the park and take home with you is just the original pictures.

 

[vellamint]

Wow...only $60 now? In 2006 I thought I paid ALOT more than that for the CD to bring home....with no borders or characters added at all! I'm thinking over $100........anyone remember.

Now I have to decide whether I want to buy the plain one or the fancy one lol

 

[jank1225]

Hi
Can someone please tell me exactly how the photo pass works. We are going in two weeks and would like to know if I have to prepay or if I can get it there and where and how.
Thanks

 

[bumbershoot]

I highly recommend setting aside a chunk of time to solidly read our very own bradk's Stitch Kingdom's photopass primer.

vellamint, I've seen bradk mention that the most basic and cheapest version of the CD available at WDW, but I haven't seen mention of where you pick it up. On the other hand, maybe I'm making it up that I saw bradk mention it.

But I do know that it was available at DLR in Sept and Dec, and I don't know why it would be so different between the two.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Hi
Can someone please tell me exactly how the photo pass works. We are going in two weeks and would like to know if I have to prepay or if I can get it there and where and how.
Thanks

You can get the cd in the parks or at DTD. Or you can pre-order it (they'll email you a code that you enter when you get home). It's a personal choice but pre-ordering it can save you $$$.

 

[bradk]

there is actually a fundamental difference.

pre-ordering or ordering it online allows you to enhance the photos.

buying in the park does not (for the CD).

you can even actually pre-order in the park for $125 and they'll give you 3 5x7s to offset the difference from doing it online.

at WDW, the cheapest option is pre-ordering for $100.

at DLR, it's $60 in the parks, but no enhancements. It's cheaper at DLR because they have half the parks. If you want to do enhancements, you have to pre-order online for $100. supposedly there's a way to get the enhanceable version online for $60 (maybe you get a voucher at DLR?) i don't know the details on that yet.

 

[pepperderr]

When everyone is saying about being able to do the enhancements, does that mean they GIVE you pictures on the CD that you can use as backgrounds and stuff for your pictures?

I am trying to decide if I just want to do the 60 dollar one. Do they send me a CD when I get home and the pictures are on the CD for me to print or do whatever with?

How often do you really find one of those photographers around to take your picture? Also, would they be kind enough to take a picture of us with our own camera or do they only do pictues for those using photopass?

Thanks!

 

[Elvis33]

Just looked at my 2006 Photopass pics for the first time on over a year. Loved the added Disney stuff, since I don't scrapbook. So glad I did it and will do it again this year.