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Reference number: CH000978
What services can I use to store and print my digital pictures?
Question:
What services can I use to store and print my digital
pictures?
Additional information:
This page contains a listing of services used to store digital
photos online, share their photos with their friends and family,
create prints, and more. If you're looking for locations to simply
store one or two photos and/or free locations to store other files
such as movies, screen shots, etc. see
document CH000755.
Answer:
Below is a listing of some of the major online digital picture
services. Many of these services offer a free location for you to
upload your digital pictures and share them with friends. If you're
also wanting hard copies or prints of your pictures you're uploading
you may wish to view the prices for prints and try a few of these
services out for yourself before committing to one service.
Shutterfly
Shutterfly is an excellent destination for users who
wish to store, share, and be able to print their photos. This page
allows users to freely upload as many pictures as they want,
manipulate their pictures using free software also provided by the
company, order prints in various sizes, and also print photos onto
other products such as books, mouse pads, CDs, etc.
Click here to visit their page
Snapfish
Another excellent online service, Snapfish is a
Hewlett Packard company that also
allows users to store and share their photos online, offers a free
software program to manipulate photos, and offers users the ability
to order prints.
Click here to visit their page Kodak EasyShare Gallery
Formerly known as "Ofoto", Kodak EasyShare Gallery is
a product of Kodak and is another service that allows users to
store, share, and print their digital photos as pictures or create
products such as mugs and pencil holders with your digital photos on
them. Click
here to visit their page dotPhoto.com
Another great site and service that enables you to
post, store, share, and print your digital photos.
Click here to visit their page
Flickr / Yahoo Photos
The most popular community for posting and sharing
your digital pictures. Flickr, now a service of Yahoo is an
excellent location to store and share your photos for free. Once
posted you and others you give rights to can also print and make
other stuff such as cards, books, calendars, stamps and other great
products with your pictures.
Click here to visit their page
Local solutions
In addition to all the above online services many local retailers
have online solutions and/or work with services mentioned above that
allow you to upload your digital photos and have them available for
pickup at a local store. Below is a listing of some of these
services. Wal-Mart
Like many of the above services Wal-Mart also allows
for users to have an unlimited storage of their digital photos
providing you order as little as one print a year. However, unlike
the services mentioned above Wal-Mart allows users to upload or
e-mail their digital photos and be able to have their images ready
often in the same day at a local Wal-Mart. In addition to prints the
company also offers prints to be made on other products such as
mousepads, t-shirts, books, playing cards, and more.
Click here to visit
their page Target
Target has teamed up with Flickr, Shutterfly, and
Kodak Gallery (all mentioned above) to have photos sent to local
Target stores for pickup, often within a few hours, and is also
capable of handling your pictures in all major stores.
Click here to visit their page Other retail stores
Finally, in addition to all the above solutions all
small and large companies that handle film or pictures are now
capable of reading your digital pictures and processing them. Many
companies have booths or customer service representatives that can
help get your pictures from your digital cameras, flash cards, or CD
and have those images printed. |
