Convenience вЂ“ Do you already have all your photos uploaded somewhere that offers photo album services? Do you need to pick it up today, get it next week or can you wait a month? Can you take the time to choose the photos or is it okay to just print every shot, one to a page?.

(If you somehow missed the opening вЂњsplashвЂќ screen with the coupon code, just go to an incognito browser window and get another one.) Whatever the budget, NEVER buy a photo book online without a coupon.

Price вЂ“ Do you want to spend $20 or $200 per album? Continuous discounting and coupons are an industry practice.

not), color, and print quality do you need? Or does none of this matter?

Quality вЂ“ What kind of cover, paper, finish (matte vs.

Here are the factors thatвЂ™ll drive your decision: While thereвЂ™s a photo bookmaker for every photographer and traveler, it is tough to do an apples-to-apples comparison between services simply based on price and product. The reviewers say the service makes it вЂњeasy to create a clean and simple photo book with image quality on a par with books twice as expensive.вЂќД«ut as Shutterfly has fluttered along over the years, literally dozens of other photo bookmakers have arrived on the web delivering everything from museum-quality, leather-bound books for posterity to paper-covered snapshot albums pulled straight from your social media feed. That said, The NY TimesвЂ™ review site Wirecutter just reviewed the leading photo bookmakers, and guess what? Shutterfly came out atop the ranking. Almost everyone I know uses Shutterfly and almost everyone I know is utterly frustrated by its photo-book making process. While I am grateful to this pioneering online photo service and they now hold tens of thousands of our pictures, their site and interface are just as ornery as ever. In fairness, another album production bottleneck is my commitment to making books with Shutterfly. Then I wonder, did my husband, son, or daughter get a shot on their phone that should be included? Are the shots from the underwater in that directory? Did we have GoPro shots too? Do I have to edit each pic? What was the name of that building/critter/vista/person so I can write a caption? Ack! I gotta remember: Done is better than perfect! That means I get overwhelmed trying to decide which photos to put in. A big reason for this is that I take too many photos. IвЂ™m years behind in making albums from most of our family vacations. I used this photo on ROAM, on social media, and even on a Christmas card, but itвЂ™s never made it into a вЂњPalau 2016вЂќ photo book (nor have any of these other pics from that picturesque trip рџ™Ѓ ) Her pix came out better than any of our land-based family portraits.

On a dive trip to Palau a few years ago, our divemaster grabbed our camera, motioned for us to get together, and started snapping away during a safety stop.

ItвЂ™s one of my VERY favorite family photos. Some batches are lucky to make it to an article, a photo site, a social media account, but very, very rarely a photo album. They live forever on my phone, laptop and external drives.

I take thousands of photos of my kids, my friends, my trips, my dog, my day, and more. IвЂ™m no scientist but I believe in a phenomenon I call вЂњThe Photo Lovers Paradox:вЂќ The more photos you take, the less photo albums you make (forgive my grammar )

My albums are empty on shutterfly