I have way over a thousand pictures of Hunter and I really want to print them all But I don't have a ton of money to spend. Do you pick and choose? Do you have a company you use for good quality photo's at a good price??
Any advice.. tips??
thanks
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I pick and choose. I print only those with which I want to scrapbook. The rest I leave online/on computer.
I normally order from shutterfly, and for basic, nonprofessional images I've found them to be just fine. YOu can get prepaid plans that lower the cost of prints quite a bit. But if you have Costco, check it out--they rate pretty well in quality (as per a thread here earlier this week), and they are cheap!
It's going to be so hard to pick and choose. As a new mom, with a good camera, I have taken pictures of every.single.thing. Hopefully I will get some money for my birthday and put that towards printing pictures. So that I can get them organized before I get to behind. I love pictures, they capture memories.
I pick and choose, because otherwise it does get expensive. I haven't found a place yet that I absolutely love. I've done a lot of the sign up and get free prints thing, so that saved me some money. I wish I could find a place with decent, consistent quality. I would even pay extra for it.
Usually I use shutterfly. Their prints are pretty good. Wolf/Ritz is better, in my opinion, but costs more and it is way more of a pain in the neck to upload.
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Believe me, I know. When I had just one, I took over 500 pictures a month. That I kept, that's not counting the pictures I immediately deleted Now I probably average a total of 200 good pictures a month. I print such a fraction of them.
I guess the question you need to ask yourself is: What do you want to do with them when you've printed them? Just flip through them in an album? Then why do you need them all printed? You can flip through them online, too, whenever you get the mood. Get a digital picture frame, and then you can change them as you flip through.
If, like me, you just really want to see them in prints, choose your absolute favorites, and get them printed nicely. Print the really good shots bigger, and start a wall gallery. Or choose your favorite picture each week, then print that, and start that in a 1st-year album.
I only print my favorites. And I usually use the same lab I use for my business or mpix. But our local costco did a great job with my daughter's stuff and was really economical.
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heather - i like holding them in my hand and having a hard copy for back-up purposes. yk, cover my bases. Plus it is easoier to show ppl on a couch with an album IMO vs the laptop.
Is there anywhere you can print out LOADS of them for a cheaper rate?
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Yea I like your idea's Heather. I want to print most of them so that my kids can show there kids. I plan on scrapbooking and organizing in photo albums.
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Give it 3-6 months before you print a picture. It tends to give me a little more clarity
I also like the photo books for printing many at a time - I did a format that was 9 pictures per page this year and it was a nice way to keep them all together without framing them.
That's so true, Sandi. Right now I'm really behind--I get pictures printed when I'm ready to scrapbook them. So I'm printing pictures from 2 1/2 years ago now. I find it much easier to limit myself to, say, 30 pictures a month than I do when I want to get prints of pictures I've just taken. Time gives me perspective as to which are the photos that really capture the moment, that show me what I want to convey about that time period.
I only really print two things. One...the prints I have on my walls and two...I have some little brag books that I put pictures in. The kids love to sit and look at those over and over and they don't take up much space.
I have a family website at SmugMug Photo Sharing. Your photos look better here. and I look at those all the time...much more frequently than I would if I had them printed in an album and much more frequently than just the folders I have on my computer.
I only really print two things. One...the prints I have on my walls and two...I have some little brag books that I put pictures in. The kids love to sit and look at those over and over and they don't take up much space.
Same here except instead of a brag book I make DVD's (one a year that is a highlight of the whole year and our gift to grandma's and such and then I make others of major events as I see fit). My kids love to watch the DVD's. Right now we have one from 2005 (whole family and whole year), one from 2008 (whole family and whole year), a special edition one from Hannah's surgery/hospital experience, and a special edition one of just Hannah from birth to her 7th birthday and another that is just her seventh birthday party (it was a big event). Oh wait, I also have one I made of Bayus' sunday school class over Christmas. I have on my to-do list to make one of Elias from birth to seventh birthday and one of just his seventh birthday party pictures (his biggest event party).
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The absolutely BEST (and I mean the absolute best - one or two a year) get print large and framed for the wall.
The rest get put into a photo book from blurb.com
I generally do not print prints as you'd get if you had film. Too much clutter. Really, what would I do with all those little prints? Think about putting them in an album. Well, the book is much better.
I do the following albums each year:
1. A year in the life of our family
2. a separate book for each big vacation (there were three this year)
and
3. my 100 favorite pictures of the year.
That is it. If Lauren needs some pictures for school, we just select the ones she needs for the given project and print them to Target.
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"Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
Jesus said until him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And, the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments have all the law and the prophets."
Now I probably average a total of 200 good pictures a month. I print such a fraction of them.
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