Shutterfly — The Most Flexible Design Options and Easiest-to-Use Online Tools

By Leanne Tremblay

 

Shutterfly is the largest independent online photo service on the web, with a full range of convenient products and services for uploading, editing, organizing, sharing, and printing digital photos.

Shutterfly’s strength is the easy-to-use online tools for sharing editing and organizing photos, and a free download called called Shutterfly Studio that lets you do all the same things but from your desktop. Just upload your tweaked up photos to Shutterfly when done. Your orders are processed an mailed to you within days.

If you like to shop at Target (and who doesn't), Shutterfly also lets you pick up your prints at the nearest store.

What We Like

While not always the cheapest print developer, Shutterfly offers the widest selection and most flexible design options we’ve found for creating photo books, gifts, and cards.

For example, for designing photo books online, Shutterfly has dozens of backgrounds to choose from, photo layouts, borders and photo effects.

What’s unique about Shutterfly is some of the licensed products you can’t get any where else. For example:
Clifford photo books, Dora the Explorer, Thomas and Friends, and Sesame Street. Plus, designer digital scrapbook layouts from Creating Keepsakes.

We’ve ordered several products through Shutterfly and each time the ordering process was slick and efficient. In many cases, we received an email the very next day to advising that our order was complete and on its way. Talk about fast service!

We don’t hesitate to recommend Shutterfly to anyone wanting top quality photo products.

Click here to see what Shutterfly has to offer you

What We Ordered

Here’s some photos of the things we’ve ordered. But we warn you, once you start using Shutterfly, everyone who sees your vacation photo books, cards, or calendars, will want to make their own too!

In addition to digital photo prints, we've ordered the 8x8 square photo book with photo cover, and 8.5x11 size with window cutout.

We were quite happy with both and would order either again depending on the size of the project.

Out of interest, here's a comparison of similar size photo books from Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery. Side by side, you can see that the Kodak Gallery book on the right is shorter and taller (10-1/4 x 9"). The Shutterfly book is wider (8.5x11"), and sports a smaller window cutout.