Online photo share sites

[Melani]

Does anyone have any experience with online photo share sites?

The ones you can order stuff from as well as sore photos.

I have used Walmarts group room for a family event.
But I was interested in some others.
Like:
Shutterfly
Winkflash
Snapfish

How was the quality of product ordered from them?
cd / photobook / prints

Were you able to upload photos from your Photopass cd?
Were other members able to upload their photos too?
Were they able to place orders easily?

Thanks
~Melani

 

[jann1033]

i had used snapfish and shutterfly a while ago, snapfish i used for yrs for snapshot type photos and also got them on a cd( some anyway) and they were fine for that, never had a problem with them and they keep your photos online for as little as one print per yr( i have photos from early 2000, maybe earlier, there and have only ordered one print per yr at $.19 i think it is. don't recall ever getting anything larger than 5x7 from them but the 5x7 was fine.

shutterfly i got a freebie photobook when i bought something at amazon once and it was really nice. however i ordered an 8x10 and a larger print( 16x20 maybe) and the 16x20 was bad, probably due to the cropped photo i was using but wished they would have warned me it wasn't the correct resolution to print that big.

usually now i use mpix or adorama.
i think adorama will keep your photos online as long as you order something occasionally.
personally i keep the majority of my photos elsewhere and just download whatever i want printed so i maintain a copy anyway( dvd plus external drive). only reason i keep snapfish open is some of hubs work photos from long before i went digital are there and i can't find the actual photos of some.

 

[Mickey4me!]

I've ordered photo books from both snapfish and Kodak and both have turned out very nicely. Snapfish has more templates to make the books and I think both of them have books with personalized dust jackets.