| Shutterfly - Digital Print Review 2010 |
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Ease of Use - Ordering Process:  Shutterfly offers a step-by-step process on their website - that walks you through it; with several other choices that you can select. Due to this, there is a possibility of getting lost on their website. So you'll need to pay attention to what you're doing while using this service. |
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Quality of Prints:
Shutterfly did a decent job on the photos we sent them. Below is our analysis on Shutterfly prints: Close-up Photos: The picture details were softened to achieve deeper clarity and lighter with a yellow tone. We also noticed some cropping. Scenic & Background Photos: The details were softened and were not crisp; due to a yellow tone to distant scenic pbjects in the picture. We also noticed some cropping here too. |
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Pricing:
Shutterfly now has reasonable per-print costs. They lowered their print prices from almost 50% recently. However, they do provide unlimited ad-free online photo sharing as well as various photo editing tools and software - for Free with your registered account, which again is free! |
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Shipping Costs:
To ship nine 4 x 6 inch prints, Shutterfly charged us $1.99. The actual postage for USPS First Class mail was $0.83. This means that Shutterfly charged us $1.06 - towards their packaging and handling costs. Our prints arrived in a lightweight cardboard sleeve, wrapped inside another lightweight cardboard envelope. |
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Turn Around Time:
 For each service provider that we reviewed; we gave them one to four days to ship us our finished prints in order to receive a high score in this category. Shutterfly positively met our requirements. |
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Other Services:
As far as extra services go, Shutterfly has a handsome list of over 10+ items; on which you can have your photos printed. These include mugs, calendars, posters, t-shirts, photo books, cards and so on. Using Shutterfly, you can share your photos online for free! |
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Summary:
Shutterfly is a standard online digital photo printing, processing and developing service - that offers several extras in the way of photo-based gifts. Pricing is a little on the high side, but if you pre-pay or buy in volume, then you can get great and substantially reduced prices. |
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A comprehensive list of features and a side-by-side comparison on every digital online photo printing and sharing service provider is available on our "Compare Services" Page. |
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