Photo collages on quality paper make wonderful gifts.
value conscious, an amateur photographer, online shopper, all for quick and easy, into trying new things
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FEB
14
2009
In November '08, I sent a picture of my new Christmas wreath with an order for 50 4"x6" prints. I planned to use them as inexpensive holiday cards, and, with a special, the whole order cost less than six dollars. Snapfish printed them beautifully, but I was dismayed to see the company's logo stamp on the back of each photo. Next time I'll bite the bullet and order their "real", logo-less postcards.
Otherwise pleased with my first purchase, I now ordered a calendar collage (also on special) using contemporary pictures related to my friendship with pal Lynne and her pets. I chose a black background from a palette of many colors, decided not to put a title on the calendar, then proceeded to use the maximum of 30 photos on a medium-sized poster. I was a little confused about the uploading of photos, but progressed without major frustration on an upward learning curve.
My calendar arrived quickly, protected by a stout mailing tube. I'm not easily impressed but... The photos were as clear as when I sent them, and the photo paper was good heavy stock. People love pictures of themselves (me, too) and Lynne accepted her gift with a "Wow!".
This success set me off on the a laborious scanning of ancient family photographs for a collage for cousin AnnaBanana. (If you don't already know her, check out her well-written site.)
Once again I intended to use the maximum 30 photos. The difficulty here was that the selection of real-photo size apparently had nothing to do with the size of pictures on the final Snapfish layout. In order to make the most important picture the largest, I mickey-moused the collage through different paper sizes. I also changed the configuration by removing one or more pictures as necessary.
The random order of photos baffled me a bit, but I certainly wouldn't want to have to lay out all 30 on the page from scratch. Talk about laborious! This said, I adapted to the procedure and moved on for the assembly of two small notebooks.
For these I chose from a variety of patterned and plain background colors; selected a font and wrote identifying captions; then determined both the number of pictures and size of notebook from an array of different possibilities. Although the notebooks were good items, I would have been happier with larger photo reproduction on the page. Once again, the Snapfish logo on the back of the prints was off-putting.
Unfortunately, I'm the only person who didn't get a collage. I've recently scanned and filed photos of my piano students through the ages. All I need now is the next special on regular collages (no calendar). Think I may try the 16"x20" to make a big splash in my front hall.
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