Here are the book, calendar, and cards (opens in new tab) that I made for this review.
You can share photo book, calendar, or card projects with others online, allowing them to view, like, order, and make customizable copies of your creations. Once you choose a card type, say, Holiday Cards, you can filter the options by 15 criteria, including photo orientation, number of photos, price, trim options, and metal foil or glitter color. There are thank you cards, thinking of you cards and special collections including affirmations from Ted Lasso and snark from The Onion. Shoppers offers over 700 card templates for occasions including Christmas (and Navidad), New Years, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Thanksgiving, Easter, Eid, Diwali, Birthday, Graduation, and newborn baby, as well as a range of wedding offerings (save the date, invites, bridal shower, etc.). You'll have to manually deconstruct your mistakes.
BEST PHOTO TILES SOFTWARE
Shutterfly's design software works about the same for cards as for books, with one bizarre omission: There is no undo button. But you can only change the grid style itself by selecting a different style template for the whole project. (You can drag photos into individual day squares and place stickers anywhere.) You can fully configure any text element on the calendar grids: individual month names, year, day names, grid numbers. These features apply to the photo pages and mostly to the calendar grid pages. Shutterfly provides a nearly identical interface for calendar design, with all the same options for editing photos (applying filters), adding backgrounds, stickers/clipart, ribbons, and frames, or configuring text. But beware: Shutterfly's software can be glitchy or downright dysfunctional in the Firefox browser (at least on Mac). You can then click on different parts of the screen to get popup descriptions of what they do. If you are ever stuck, click the question mark icon in the lower left to bring up the help overlay.
BEST PHOTO TILES FULL
Overall, Shutterfly achieves a good compromise between providing full control and assaulting you with too much information.
BEST PHOTO TILES FREE
(You have to toggle the Advanced editing switch on the upper right to have free reign over the design.) A flowchart at the top of the screen shows where you are in the overall process and allows you to jump back or ahead to any step: such as selecting an overall style, laying out images on a storyboard, or selecting options including cover and page type and finish. However you arrive at the editing workspace, you will find a well-organized interface, with a two-page spread preview front and center, thumbnails of the photos in the project at the bottom, and menus on the left featuring access to page-layout options, page backgrounds, and "Embellishments" such as stickers/clipart or frames. Or you can access the full arsenal of customization options by creating your own design from scratch, as we did in order to produce roughly similar products across all the services we evaluated. Once you have chosen, Shutterfly shows you the backgrounds and embellishments (such as clip art or frames) that you can use while customizing each one. (You can also create your own from scratch, as I did.) But it can be overwhelming making a choice. If you can think of it, they probably have, too. Shutterfly offers a rich assortment of 265 photo book templates broken down into 31 categories such as Birthday, Professional, Recipe, Travel, and Wedding. The holiday cards, for example, started at 74 cents and went up to $2.85 at time of order. Every card we looked at had all its list prices crossed out and replaced with a discount. These are the list prices, though, which you may never pay. For instance, 5x7 holiday cards start at 98 cents each for 200 or more of the cheapest design and go up to $4.52 for 30 or fewer premium cards with gold foil text. Shutterfly offers a dizzying array of card types, styles, and prices, with frequent discounts and a sliding scale that lowers the price per card the more you order.
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