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Today Show features benefits of making photo holiday cards with Shutterfly.

“Holiday cards in a hurry: If you haven’t already started, is there still enough time to create a photo greeting card? You bet there is. … Order on Line: You can go to several sites that will accept last-minute orders for Christmas. … Shutterfly.com will address and send your cards if you upload your address book to them at no extra charge.”

“One Stop Shopping Sites: Now that you have the photo on your computer, the first thing you need to do on any photo site is upload your photo. Shutteryfly.com is one way to go. … Once you have your photo or photos on the site, you can easily order photo gifts like: note cards, snapshot book, photo calendars, framed prints and other great gifts. The quality is amazing.”

“The popularity of digital cameras, one of the most requested gifts this holiday season, is paying off for online photo services. … Shutterfly … reports big sales increases over last year. … Only Shutterfly is private and profitable.”

“… Shutterfly.com offers … film developing, prints, and online sharing. Digital camera owners can upload their photos for free; storage is usually unlimited. Film images are digitized and negatives mailed back to the owner. You pay only for the prints that you want. … These are generally higher-quality prints than what you can get out of a home printer.”

“Shutterfly CEO Dave Bagshaw says calendar sales are up 200% from last year, and the season hasn’t even begun. ‘There are more digital cameras out there now, and people are doing more with their images,’ he says. ‘This is the beauty of digital photography.’”

“For the highest-quality cards, go through an online photo finisher. None of the alternative solutions can come close to what … Shutterfly.com will mail back to you after you’ve uploaded a JPEG … to their Web site, and walked through a simple Web-based cardmaker. It’s the only custom holiday card that actually looks and feels like a real, honest-to-Elvis storebought card.”

“… Shutterfly … offers free Web space, where picture-takers can park photos for friends and family to see. … Visitors to an online album, however, may be required to open accounts with the site before they can see the photos. … Shutterfly doesn’t. … Users (can) store as many photos as they want, but not all (Web sites) allow free use forever. Shutterfly doesn’t require a minimum purchase…”

“There is cropping, for example, the process that determines how much of your photograph winds up on the paper. One of the photographs I submitted was a horizontal shot in which two people sit at one end of a long bench, another person way on the other side. Only Shutterfly got the shot right printing the photo in landscape orientation so that all the subjects could be seen…”

“Interested in online photo finishing and greeting cards? Check out … Shutterfly www.shutterfly.com…”

“Shutterfly makes photo printing and sharing fun. This colorful and well-designed site offers easy navigation and a ton of nifty features. An excellent preview function shows how prints will look at any size, and the album and slideshow views are impressive. Shutterfly’s prints are among the best we’ve seen, showing rich, accurate color.”

“The most popular format is the photo card, an image and message printed on photographic paper. Cyber shoppers pick the photo, write a message and then choose a border to “frame” their loved one. Borders range from simple snowflakes to Christmas wreaths, Chanukah lights and colorful Kwanzaa designs. Shutterfly.com has 85 holiday-themed borders…”

“One of the surprisingly easy ways is to upload the photos to a Web site like Shutterfly.com. You load the photos onto your computer via a USB cable, following the automated prompts. Then you go into the My Pictures section of your files, select the appropriate folder of pictures, and click on the Order Prints Online icon … Shutterfly has special deals for first-time users so you can get some photos for free. The photos arrive in the mail in a few days.”

“Shutterfly lets you print captions on the backs of photos, which can help you identify images now and years later…”

“Founded in 1999 with seed money from Netscape co-founder Jim Clark, Redwood City-based Shutterfly did $16 million in 2002 revenue, is profitable now and projects net income in fiscal 2003. CEO Dave Bagshaw says educating the market about online printing is his biggest challenge … ‘I think we’re all raising the tide,’ said Bagshaw. ‘Any time I see an advertisement out there for digital prints or digital film processing, it raises awareness and it’s a good thing.’”

“When you upload your digital photos to … Shutterfly … you can share them on-line with family and friends, order prints, and create personalized calendars and photo greeting cards.”

“… Check out Shutterfly’s cute, low-cost, spiral-bound ‘Snapbook’ photo albums. Also nice: free prints.”

“Shutterfly, an online photo service, has a great idea for decorating walls with original artwork. … It’s simple as downloading photos onto a free personal account on the Web site and then ordering prints in poster sizes…”

“Earlier this year, online photo service Shutterfly introduced Pro Galleries, an online fulfillment service for professional photographers and fund-raisers who want to sell their photos online. … Lacrosse photographer John Strohsacker, spends much of his time capturing high school and college Lacrosse games … by setting up his own Pro Gallery … he transformed the time-consuming task of locating images in his 15,000-image database, making copies, and stuffing envelopes in the a streamlined, mechanized operation.”

“… Shutterfly.com … process rolls of 35mm film, convert them into digital images and then send them to a secure Web page that you set up in advance.”

”..Silicon Valley-based Shutterfly … lets you make small photo books, called snapbooks. ..The process is fairly simple. You use Shutterfly’s sophisticated upload engine to get your digital images onto the site. After each one arrives, it lets you know the maximum-size print you can make from it, based on the resolution of the photo. Snapbooks can be ordered in a 4- by 6-inch or 5- by 7-inch size. And captions can be written for each picture. … The print quality is quite good. The .. snapbooks represent terrific fusions of digital and analog. Digital makes it easier than ever to take and save pictures. But the analog books are a lot more rewarding to view than pictures on a computer screen.”

”.. Shutterfly (www.shutterfly.com) did best, delivering clear, colorful prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper. (We placed our orders through partner sites, .. Yahoo Photos for Shutterfly.)”

“Shutterfly is among a small cadre of thriving private technology companies — like Salesforce.com, and Google Inc. — that survived the burst of the Internet bubble with millions of customers in growing markets. But they are waiting for an economic rebound before they offer shares to the public. … Shutterfly’s [CEO, Dave] Bagshaw, a veteran of Silicon Graphics and Excite@Home who joined the company earlier this year, said that the company was profitable in the first quarter, its third in a row, and hopes to earn three more quarters of profit.”

“What’s a loving parent to do? How about combining some of that artwork into a gift book for Mom? A computer-savvy gift-giver can sign up at the Shutterfly.com Web site to scan in the artwork or upload pictures of the art from a digital camera. The site even accepts undeveloped film of fingerpaintings or other masterpieces. Shutterfly enables users to crop, retouch and arrange the images. Once you’re satisfied with the art, Shutterfly.com will copy the images into a spiral-bound book, complete with a variety of borders and photo captions.”

“Shutterfly combines the highly polished site of an industry veteran with solid support for more advanced photographers and enticing bulk-print discounts. The site also offers enjoyable navigation. An excellent preview function lets you quickly see how prints will look at any size, and the album view and slide show were exceptionally impressive. Shutterfly’s test prints were among the best of the sites we looked at, showing rich, accurate colors.”

“Which of the sectors are making money? Take your pick. Auto shopping Web site Autobytel Inc., financial news site MarketWatch.com, and Web search site Ask Jeeves joined the list of successes in the fourth quarter. Among the e-tailers that turned profitable in 2002 are Amazon.com, Overstock.com, and USA Interactive. And the public companies are only part of the story: Dozens of private Net companies have also become profitable, especially in online retailing. Among the success stories: photo printing and sharing site Shutterfly Inc. and jewelry retailer Blue Nile Inc.”

“Printing at home is one way to go, but the convenience may be costing you more than you realize. Industry experts estimate that a 4-by-6 print ranges from 50 to 75 cents—a calculation based on the amount of cartridge ink consumed and the price of paper. The high cost, plus the fact that printed photos can fade quickly, may explain why online photo-finishing services, such as .. Shutterfly, saw business double last year.”