You’ve probably heard of several places on the web where you can upload your digital photos to create photo albums, but which should you use? Here’s a quick review of seven popular and easy to use websites available for you to make online photo albums.
If you're interested in simply sharing your digital photos, here's an article about the top photo sharing websites currently available. This list quickly reviews seven different websites that let you create digital photo albums to share and store your photos without worry, and how you can get started making online photo albums. Most of these options also let you purchase special products like photo books, calendars, and posters that can be created from your own custom photos.
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1. Webshots
Creating albums with Webshots is quite easy with either of their two different upload methods based on how many photos you have to upload to the site. You can upload photos and setup an album for them to be uploaded to, or first create an album and then upload or move photos into it. Once your albums are finished, you can choose to keep it private to only the friends you allow to see them, or make it a public album so everyone can see. Your photos and albums can also be made into coffee mugs, calendars, mouse pads, books, and even jewelry which you can order from the Webshots website.
2. Shutterfly
Much like digital photo albums you may be familiar with on your computer, Shutterfly uses the expandable folder method to view and manage your albums on the website. This allows you to learn a lot about Shutterfly's tools and options that are very specific to the site and lets you feel comfortable while viewing, setting up, and organize your photo albums.
Shutterfly lets viewers navigate photos in each gallery like a book. By default, the book will automatically turn 'pages' to different photos and options to go back, go forward, and pause - this feature applies to anyone who may be viewing your photos. For more sharing options, Shutterfly lets you create real photo books, calendars, and even posters that you can order for yourself or others.
3. Snapfish
With a free Snapfish account, you can upload and store an unlimited amount of photos to share with everyone you know. The catch is that they'll need to create a Snapfish account to view them. With this method, you choose who's invited to see your online photo albums. Snapfish offers a slideshow feature so that viewers can sit back and enjoy the photo albums you've created. Ordering prints of photos is also a snap and the price of each print is very affordable. At the moment, when you upload your digital photos to Snapfish for the first time, the first 20 prints are free, after that, prices are according to size (4x6 prints cost only 9¢) with additional savings on pre-paid prints. Snapfish offers services to create and purchase photo books, cards, stationary, and other gifts that include your own photos.
Please continue on to page two of this website review to learn about the remaining online photo album websites that make it into our top 7 list, including the popular Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket and Jalbum.