Google Photos does compress images when you upload them to the cloud, keeping them under 16 megapixels. It feels nice, with thick, satin-finish covers, a square-bound spine, and very minimal Google branding on the back cover. The resulting book arrived within a week.
#PHOTO PRINT OUT FULL#
(In those cases, I got to select how the photo would be cropped, which was nice.) I shuffled the order of the photos with Google's drag-and-drop interface and found that juxtaposing the two layout styles (matte and full bleed) on facing pages made the results look almost professional. For some, I chose a full-bleed option, which makes the photo run all the way to the edges of the page. I set up most of my pages with the photos floating in the middle, leaving a thick white border around them. The interface for designing a book is simple, but you can organize your photos in some creative ways. (Larger hardcover books start at $30 for 20 pages, with additional pages costing $1 each.) I chose the cheapest option, a 7-inch-square softcover book, which is $15 for the first 20 pages and 50 cents for each page beyond that. Clicking on it started the book-building process. When I opened that photo album in Google Photos, a little shopping bag icon appeared at the top of the page. First, I curated a selection of a few dozen photos inside the Google Photos app, collecting them into an album and organizing them into the rough running order I want to see them in the book. I used Google Photos to print a photo book made up of my favorite shots from a 2019 trip to Mexico City. I've been happy with the results of both books and calendars. Where Shutterfly excels are those books it’s always trying to sell you. Given the subpar purchasing experience and lack of outstanding results, I recommend Shutterfly only for prints if you're on a tight budget, since it is cheaper than Mpix or Printique. Every time you upload photos, even if you've already said you want to make prints, Shutterfly interrupts the purchase process to say, "We've turned your images into a book,” and forcing you to dismiss this unwanted dialog just to get to the thing you actually want to buy. I also found the constant upselling on the website tiring.
But the prints have a flat look to them and the paper is flimsy compared to our top picks. The tonal range is good, shadows don't disappear into pure black, and at the white end of the spectrum, clouds retain plenty of detail. I've used Shutterfly to create everything from calendars to books and have been happy with the results, but the company's prints are not the best.
All prices are for standard 4 x 6 prints. Here are the best places to print your photos.
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To make sure you don't end up with prints of your kids with orange skin against green skies (yes, that happened in one test), we assembled a collection of photos designed to test color, tonal range, blacks, whites, and more, and fired them off to nearly a dozen services. Unfortunately, some of them are truly awful at printing your images. In place of the 1-hour-photo booths, there are endless online printing services, most of which produce far better results than the kiosks ever did. Those kiosks abruptly disappeared, taking our photo printing options with them.ĭeveloping film isn't commonplace today, but the desire to have a photograph as an object has never faded. Then came the digital camera, and suddenly there was no film to develop. Little kiosks were sprinkled across strip mall parking lots like pepper on a bad steak. Suburban America used to contain roughly one 1-hour photo lab for every 500 people.
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