PhotoCD preorder price?

[stitch_&_lilo]

I was looking to preorder the Photopass PhotoCD for a trip to Disneyland. I seemed to remember reading on these boards that the price for a CD with only Disneyland pictures was around $60. However, when I go to the preorder link, I can only find a $99 price. Has the system changed, or am I not looking in the right place?

I appreciate the help

 

[Sherry E]

I was looking to preorder the Photopass PhotoCD for a trip to Disneyland. I seemed to remember reading on these boards that the price for a CD with only Disneyland pictures was around $60. However, when I go to the preorder link, I can only find a $99 price. Has the system changed, or am I not looking in the right place?

I appreciate the help

This question comes up a lot. Basically, don't pre-order a CD for DLR. You will be spending more money unnecessarily that way. The $99 fee is the pre-order fee for DLR or WDW, but only in the case of WDW does it make sense because then you would actually be saving money.

The DLR CD price - either purchased in the parks or once you get home and open an online PP account - is $59.95. If you order it after your trip takes place, you will also pay $7.00 shipping and handling for a total of $66.95, unless you are outside of the U.S., in which case I think the S&H is $17.00 or close to it.

If you buy the CD in the parks, you can have it with you when you leave and they may even throw in a couple of free prints for you, but you won't get any of the fun Disney borders or enhancements added to your pictures that you get from the online account, and you wouldn't be able to share them via e-mail with anyone. If you wait to order the CD once you get home, you have 30 days to start an account. Once you start an account, you have another 30 days to view, edit and share via e-mail all the PhotoPass pictures and add all the cute borders, make some into black and white, zoom in, zoom out, crop - basically you can multiply however many photos you have by editing them. I turned 97 pictures into 300 by editing, and Dizneydaz ended up with over 2000 photos after she was done editing her batch. All for the same $59.95 + $7.00 fee! A pretty darn good deal, I'd say!

So none of us pre-order here because it would cost more money to do so. We mostly just get the CD once we get home.

 

[stitch_&_lilo]

So as long as I order the CD when I get home, I can still get all the borders and everything? That was one of our main concerns, and I read on a different board that you could only get all that if you pre-ordered.

This Photopass stuff is confusing.

Thanks for all your help, by the way!

 

[Sherry E]

So as long as I order the CD when I get home, I can still get all the borders and everything? That was one of our main concerns, and I read on a different board that you could only get all that if you pre-ordered.

This Photopass stuff is confusing.

Thanks for all your help, by the way!

You're welcome. It won't be confusing once you get into it. It is really easy, but I know I was confused about it before I ever used PhotoPass. I got all my info about it on the DIS, mainly from Bumbershoot, and have enjoyed it ever since!

Yes, if you decide to get the CD when you get home, you can get all the borders they have available and you can edit all your pictures with the different borders online when you get home and create your PP account. Let's say you have 50 pictures taken at DLR, but you want each one with a different effect or border for a different family member to have, you can do that, using the borders they have online. Let's say you want to make a B&W version of each photo as well. You can do that too. You can crop the more distant pictures with too much background to look better, you can send a 'share' e-mail to family and friends so they can view the pictures, but you have to do all of this within the 30 days from when you start your account, and then purchase something - whether it be the CD or a single print or whatever. Also, all of the original photos are saved as well, so basically you are getting the originals and then as many edited versions as you want, so you can get hundreds (or in Dizneydaz's case - thousands) for the same price.

Make sure when you see a PhotoPass photographer that you ask them for whatever "magic shots" they have available. They don't always tell people, so make sure to ask. They can put certain things into some of your pictures that you can't do yourself at home, like they can put Tinkerbell in your hand, or they can put Mickey sitting on a bench next to you, or they can put you and your group pointing at Stitch in the ground, etc. Those are magic shots. Ask them to give you whatever magic shots they have available. And you can add the different PhotoPass borders to the magic shots as well, when you get home. It is a lot of fun!

In fact a good idea is to go to the Photopass Poses: the Cheesier the Better sticky thread over in the Disneyland Community section - http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1954446 - and start at the last page, working your way backwards to the beginning. This way, you will see some of the most recent magic shots available at DLR and you can make notes of what you like and know what you want when you get there.