Surprisingly though, its photo cards were the best in our testing. In particular, Snapfish’s photo books and calendars were the worst of the five companies we tested with washed out color, uneven exposure and flimsy construction. While the user experience for printing photo products is great and we found the company’s clear and straightforward software to be the best of all the companies we tested, the results were mediocre at best. Snapfish review: VerdictĪs you can probably tell, we’re pretty divided about Snapfish. Overall, it’s a professional-level card at a budget price. The standard cardstock of our flat 5 x-7-inch card was weighty and felt good in our hand. The rear of the card, which features an image we shot of the George Washington Bridge at sunset, looked crisp and inviting with good detail in both the bright and shadow areas. The limbs of the pine trees at the top of the image also blended together. The bright glossy hardcover of our book didn’t look bad from a distance, but when inspected closer it lacked detail in the flowing waterfall shot. Snapfish review: Print qualityĪs mentioned previously in this review, Snapfish’s print quality was disappointing for photo books and calendars. But unlike some other services which forced us to weed through many designs that didn’t suit our needs, Snapfish’s smart filtering got us right to what we wanted. As with all of our testing, we chose a simple holiday card design that emphasized the family photo vs something more ornate. While we felt overwhelmed picking a card design with some competing services because of confusing organization, Snapfish does a good job of helping you narrow down the choices thanks to filters that let you quickly sort between, for instance, landscape vs portrait photo orientation, card type, colors and other options. Selecting and designing photo cards was also a breeze despite Snapfish’s extensive selection of thousands upon thousands of options. Speaking of loading, Snapfish’s book builder had the fastest load times of the various companies we tested, with virtually no lag when dragging and dropping images or scrolling through layouts. Best of all, you can scroll through your entire book without loading a new page. If you like what you’ve created, you can duplicate a page with the same design elements to use somewhere else in the book. If you want to move the actual frame in the layout, grab the photo outside of the hand icon and drag the image to where you want it. You can then zoom in and center an image by grabbing and holding the hand icon. Once you’ve selected a layout, such as a side-by-side photo spread, just drag and drop your images onto your page. Meanwhile, layouts and designs are found next to each page, so you can quickly experiment with how you want your images displayed. Return to the album view by clicking the back arrow on the upper left.Photos, backgrounds and embellishments are on the right side of the screen, which is another good choice because it gets them out of the way but still makes them easily accessible.Navigate sequentially through your other photos by clicking the arrow icon on the right or left of the display or selecting another photo in the album in the display at the bottom of the screen.You can select the photo by clicking the check mark on the photo to use it for creating a product, or other options in the album view.MORE gives you the option to rotate, move, copy or make the photo the album cover.If it is the only copy of the photo it will also be deleted from the account. DELETE removes the photo from the album.You can edit the date taken in this view. INFO shows an information panel on the right of the photo with data such as date taken, resolution, camera used and camera settings.DOWNLOAD copies a full-size version of the photo to your computer or storage device.FAVOURITE flags the photo for your Favourites album, a special album where you can access all your favorite photos in one place.TITLES OFF displays the file name which you can rename (titles show captions in the slideshow and album screens).SLIDESHOW starts a slideshow of the whole album.When you open a photo details page there are a number of things you can do by clicking the icons at the top of the page.
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