This Year I Switched to Shutterfly For The Family Photo Calendar Testing GitHub as Blogging Platform

This year I switched to Shutterfly for the family photo calendar.  For the past several years, I have used iPhoto and Apple's print services.  This summer I switched to Picasa.  Rather than bring all my calendar photos back into iPhoto, I chose to use one of the many available Internet printing services out there.  Picasa allows for direct upload to many of these sites.  I studied Snapfish and Shutterfly closely and it seemed that Shutterfly was slightly cheaper.  There shipping seemed more expensive, but a couple of coupon codes negated that.

Apple's 13x10 calendars cost $19.99/calendar with ~$6 shipping.  Shutterfly's 8.5x11 cost $13.68 and ~$8 shipping.  To be fair, Shutterfly's calendar *is* a bit smaller and the price is after a promotional 40% discount, good only up to today.  However, in addition to that we had a $10 off coupon and a 50% off shipping coupon.  In the end it was cheaper, but only because of the sale.  I would recommend shopping around before you commit to an order.

The web-based interface worked fine.  Of course you can't compare it to iPhoto's native application interface.  iPhoto is far superior in that department.  Still it was good enough.  Shutterfly's print and paper quality won't be known until it arrives.

See the full calendar here: share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1BauHDNu2aOWg