Sunday, July 28, 2013

Photo Apps I Love!

I have been asked numerous times how I edit my photos, what apps are best and where I print my pictures. I have included my personal favorites and pictures of the app itself, I have an iPhone so the apps may vary for other devices.


Free prints by photoaffections.com
I recently came across this app/website via Facebook and I am very pleased with what I found!
 This site offers 85 free prints a month, you just pay shipping. Shipping cost is never more than $9.99. I placed my first order and received it in 3 days! They also offer photo cards, invitations and much more directly from the app!


Collage.com I also found this site via Facebook and love the options they have!
   They offer a Free 8x10 canvas photo collage promo code when you sign up and you only pay shipping. Shipping for my canvas was $14.95. (HUGE savings considering the price of buying the actual canvas!) You can also order larger poster style prints of your collage that are cheaper than the canvas prints if you choose. You can create your own design or choose from theirs. I chose the heart shape design. You just select your pictures and rearrange them how you want 'em... All thru the app! Or you can go to the website, whichever! I also designed a poster to display in the playroom of all the fun pictures of my kids I took over the summer. (Examples below).


Smile box 
 This app allows you to edit pictures with designs specific to any occasion, choose from a large variety of animated designs or stickers, collages, cute sayings and borders. They are constantly loading new designs! Once your picture is complete you can share on any social network with just one click or save to your own camera roll. 


Shutterfly
I upload ALL my pictures to shutterfly.com as back up. I downloaded the app and have easy access to all my photos at any time and the pictures no longer take up space on my phone. They have great deals sent thru the app or to your email. I received an offer last week for 101 free 4x6 prints and just pay shipping! 
One word of advice: after selecting your pictures to order, EDIT each photo individually. I have received pictures that are zoomed in too far, heads cut off or resolution isn't as good printed out as it appears on your phone or laptop. When you take the time to edit each photo individually, you are able to adjust how the pictures will look printed. You can do all of this thru the app on your phone. AWESOME! They also offer larger prints, panoramic pictures and cute accessories for your favorite pictures to be displayed on. I found this much more user friendly then backing pictures up to iCloud, you can upload as many pictures as you want and sort into albums... All FREE!


PicsArt
 This is my most favorite app! I edit almost all my pictures first with PicsArt, then combined it with smilebox designs and complete my creation by uploading to Shutterfly.com or photoaffection.com to get prints!
In the PicsArt app you can add effects, edit photos, add lights, borders, clip art, text, vignettes and much more. I love, love, LOVE this app!

Examples of my creations from Our Little Life:

This picture of my daughter was edited using PicsArt! And printed using shutterfly.com

These pictures were prints I ordered thru photoaffections.com after editing each using PicsArt to adjust the lighting and crop to my liking and Smilebox to add fun stickers and borders!

This is the poster collage I created for our playroom using collage.com. Very easy to use and the quality is great!
As you can tell, some pictures were edited using the various apps I described above :-)

I hope you find this useful and enjoy the apps I have discovered as much as I do! Any questions or comments?! Please don't hesitate to leave one!

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