


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.
#PHOTO PRINT NEAR ME SKIN#
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.
