RE: Shutterfly

Just wanted to thank annikasmom for recommending the shutterfly.com website for printing out digital camera photos. How do we give them your email so you can get credit for the recommendation?? Couldn't figure that part out.

Their 25 free prints offer was extended until March 31, by the way. I hope the photos come out nice - we have had them on our computer for months and finally will get them "developed" if that's the right term for digital prints too. Cool!

were you happy w/the quality? I tried them in september, and the pictures were really yellow looking. Maybe it was just a bad batch and I'm willing to give them another shot.

I also tried Ofoto.com and was happier with the quality of their prints, you might want to try them as well. They also have an offer for 25 free prints when you sign up, and I think you get free shipping on your first order as well (at least i did).

ofoto has better quality pictures but you can't do as much with them as you can on shutterfly. you can add borders at shutterfly-they have tons of cute ones! i've used both though, and i think it really has a lot to do with the quality of your digital camera. they both offer free pictures though which is great!

Glad I could help I don't have any complaints from either of the two. If you do have problems with the pictures, though, just email the support people and if it's their fault - like the yellow tint - they will reprint them for free. If you haven't signed up with ofoto yet then do so too. I think their free prints have to be used in the next year - not 60 days like shutterfly.

I agree with troynicole about the camera. On mine there are three different resolutions you can take pictures in. If I take the pictures in the lowest quality I can tell on the prints that it is a digital picture. It's really grainy or something (I don't know how to explain it.) If I do the medium setting it looks just like 35mm.

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I only just ordered my prints from Shutterfly, so I won't know about the quality for a while. Don't know how long they take to mail them out. Our digital camera is very basic, and dh says he didn't use high resolution to take the photos, so they probably won't come out too great. I am happy to hear that there are several sites offering free print offers. I may have each company print one same photo to see which gives the best results. Thanks again for the info!

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We did that as well. Although we were able to tell right off the bat that the shutterfly prints were not to our satisfaction, when we compared the two like photos, we did like the ofoto one better. I had read reveiws in advance, and most of them preferred shutterfly because ofoto had too much contrast. I didn't notice that. I'm not really interested in the editing features or fancy borders either. You can do that sort of stuff on your home PC before you send it to them if you really want it.

You should have your prints very soon. When I ordered mine (back then, the offer was for 100 free prints ) I ordered on a thursday at 10:30 pm and got my prints in the mail on saturday.