How it works?

Store and Share for free
Most Online Photo printing services offer you FREE online album space to entice you to use their service.
The very best ones offer unlimited online album space which really is a bonus.
These albums can then be made "public" which means everyone can see them or "private" which allows you to email only your friends to see your album.
This is excellent if you're travelling, on holiday or live along way from your friends and family this really is a great way to share your photos quickly and efficiently.
If you make the album available to your friends they can view the photos, enter comments in a guest book and even order their own prints or gifts if they wish.

How to store
Adding or uploading photos is the process of transferring the digital files from your camera your hardrive drive into your online albums on the website.
Depending on your browser/platform this can be done uploading photo by photo which takes longer or groups of photos which is far quicker.
You may have to download a small piece of software to allow you to do this but this will reduce greatly the time spent uploading the photos.

Upload time
It can take just a few seconds or as long as several minutes to upload each image dependent on the photo size (quality of the photo from 500kb to 5MB) or your internet connection (56kbps (dial up modem) or broadband connection of 2MBps)

As a guide: it takes 2 to 3 minutes to upload a single 400 KB file over a typical 56kbps modem.

Personalise and organise your photos
Within your online albums you can add comments to your photos, rearrange the order in terms of date etc and rotate them should a photo be portrait (a longer vertical side) or landscape (longer horizontal side)

You can 'copy' and 'move' albums/ photos around and create specialised albums for different people if you'd rather your mum didn't see one of you naked on the beach.

Ordering photos
One of the best features of the free online photo storage is the ability to pick the specific photos that you would like printed rather than with a normal camera that requires the whole film to be processed.

All online photo printing companies offer a range of sizes (4x6, 5x7, 8x10, wallet sets, poster prints as well as reprints)

Delivery Charges
All companies charge a small post and packaging free normally of around £1. You may want to consider this when you're buying small amounts of prints as this may not be a cost effective way of printing single photos.