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Devoted February 2010

Photobucket, Flickr, or Snapfish?

detailedplanner, on March 14, 2010 at 10:35 PM Posted in Planning 0 8

I want to create an account on 1 of these for all of our wedding guests to share their photos they took at our wedding. Which one of these sites do you feel serves this purpose best? Tell me what you like on 1 site versus the others? Pros and cons? I also want to be able to print these pictures at home, so tell me if these sites share that capability, etc.

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Latest activity by The Awesome Thief, on March 15, 2010 at 12:50 PM
  • chearysgirl
    Super March 2010
    chearysgirl ·
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    I use shutterfly and they are pretty versatile, you can download any pics, you can add easily, they photobooks are totally customizable...snapfish is awesome too and you can print at walgreens or cvs or walmart for 9 cents a piece, but they are glossy. They always have coupons or freebies, which is nice. Photobucket I have never really liked and flickr I have never used...so hope this helps!! Smiley smile

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  • J. Holland
    Expert August 2010
    J. Holland ·
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    I've always had good results with snapfish and have never had any issues with my prints. The website is easy enough that even my mom uses it now. I've never tried the others

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  • Matt Potvin
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    The one thing that I really like about flickr is that it is more geared towards photography. The downside to shutterfly, snapfish, etc. is that they are geared towards printing and making you buy prints. With flickr, you have the option of allowing people to download the full size original file. I use flickr as my personal site/dumping ground. Houses a backup of all my kids photos, again since the full size file is there. If for some reason my hard drive failed, and I lost my off site storage, they are on flickr as well.

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  • Cabell
    Master May 2010
    Cabell ·
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    I use Flickr, and it's still easy to buy prints off it even though, as Matt says, they're more geared toward photography. When you buy prints from them, you can have them shipped directly to you OR pick them up in Target, including one-hour processing. I haven't used Photobucket or Snapfish, but I've been totally satisfied with Flickr--I've had a paid account (unlimited uploads, which you'd probably want to put up the wedding photos) for like four years now, and it is MORE than worth it.

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    Devoted February 2010
    detailedplanner ·
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    Thanks everybody! My main immediate purpose is setting up an account where guests can load their pictures into the "same spot" and I can work with those pictures. Eventually I will have some photobooks done, but that's not my immediate concern. So with Flickr, can you set up an account then send some notification to wedding guests, "please share your photos here!"? Besides the wedding photos, eventually I would like a personal site/dumping ground as Matt suggested. I'm a "obsessed picture taking" freak as I've been told. I always say besides the people & animals that are capable of breathing in my house, in the event of a fire, I'm not leaving unless I have all of my pictures. I intentionally put all pictures that are pre-digital in photo boxes in a room closest to an outside door just in case. Everything else is on the computer hard drive and copied on disc. That would be irrelevant if I couldn't carry out the pc or couldn't get to the cd's.

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  • Matt Potvin
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    You can create collections/sets on flickr, and restrict them to different people if you want. There are ways that you can be notified of new posts by making use of RSS feeds. They have lots of options to make things as well. Stamps, photobooks, all that stuff that the big names have as well.

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  • * maryke
    VIP July 2010
    * maryke ·
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    I use snapfish and shutterfly both. Smiley smile

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  • The Awesome Thief
    Master February 2010
    The Awesome Thief ·
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    I have used snapfish for years. So has my mom, her 2 friends and my grandma. I love it. I've never had any problems with them. I also use shutterfly for the wedding pics so that everyone else could see them or print them off.

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