editing as of May 29th
prices have changed. I'll add a comment at the end of this thread. Don't pay attention to the prices in my posts in this thread!!!!!!
Love the CD.
Check out the ends of my non-solo trip reports linked from my signature, for examples of borders and things.
There are two kinds of CDs you can get, and three different prices. Simple, right?
One CD is just the pictures. No editing unless you do it yourself at home using photoshop, etc. That, in the parks, is 59.95, and includes the photo release/license so that you can make prints at will for your personal use. Nice deal, considering how much other photographers charge for their releases, if they'll give 'em at all.
You go through your trip having pictures taken, then you go to the photopass (since you ordered pictures before I think you know where they are, on Main Street and at the Greetinsg from California shop in DCA) and order the CD. Of course, you might want to preview them on
their computers. I mean, if you hate all the pictures, there's no point, or if you love only one, then you would want to at least know that, before plunking down the money. Then again, if it's a great one picture that you know your whole family will want, it might be worth having the release to make dozens of prints, rather than buying multiple prints from Disney, or having to find a photo printing place at home that will copy the one print you might buy at Disney.
OK, I have digressed.
There's that one level of CD. No editing, 59.95. There has been, the last two visits, a sign advertising the CD and 2 5x7 prints for 74.95.
The second level of CD is the kind where you make an account with photopass.com. When you get home (or during your trip, if you brought a computer) you put in the numbers from the card(s) you used during your trip, and you can see all of your pictures. When you know that all the pictures are there, you can start editing them. Cropping is an obvious one, but you can also put the borders and signatures on them. There were different borders in September than there were in December, and I'm sure they change a bit throughout the year. There's the one with Tinkerbell sprinkling pixie dust over the picture, and that was there both months.
You can crop, put a border...crop AND put a border...crop, put a signature, put a border...you can do all sorts of things. The original picture will ALWAYS stay there. Any editing you do is a copy. One picture can turn into quite a few versions!
In December, I decided to just put ANY border on every picture. My tastes vary, so something I find boring or ugly now might be something interesting later. Since it's better to put on a border to have it later and not want it, rather than to want a border later but not have done it...I went ahead and just had fun with the pictures.
Once you are done with that, you order the CD. Even if it takes up more than one, or two etc, CDs, they will send you as many as it takes.
Now, if you plan to get the CD, and you want the editable version, then you should pre-purchase it
here. That is 99.95, and includes the shipping of the CD to you. You will be sent 3 emails when you pre-purchase it, and one will have a subject line including the words "
DO NOT DELETE". Don't delete that.
It contains your code.
So if you have pre-purchased it, once you are done editing and are ready to order (there is a time-frame on the whole thing...30 days to claim your photos online, 30 days after that to order the CD), you put the code in and it's all taken care of.
If you have NOT pre-purchased it, then it's 124.95.
The CD with editing, no matter how much you pay, also includes the release/license so you can print the pictures wherever you want, for your non-business use.
If you pre-purchase, then don't like the pictures, don't have any pictures taken, or whatever reason just don't want it, within 2 weeks of getting back from
Disneyland, you can contact them and cancel the pre-purchase, and get a refund of the 99.95.
