Archived News and Awards

“Shutterfly allows you to select images from your digital photographs, appoints layouts, and write captions for a personal photo album, from $29.99.” See full article.

“If you want a classier alternative to the photo cards your drugstore will make, check out … Shutterfly you (can) upload images to cards or buy photo frames that you then fill with prints (prices from about $1 to $2 per card).”

“Shutterfly lets you put your fab photos onto cardstock with mod borders. Photo Mount Cards, 12 for $14”

“Shutterfly’s name brings to mind a cheerful, hassle-free experience, and that’s what you get from this veteran online photo service … From its sign-in screen to your personal home page, Shutterfly’s interface is both simple and intuitive. Pages load quickly and are efficiently organized…”

Real Simple editors selected Shutterfly as a winner, after reviewing a dozen online photo sites, for the best custom cards. Shutterfly received praise for its “easy editing tools…excellent previews…and address-book feature … Bonus: Shutterfly is also a digital-photo sharing and storage service.” See full article.

“Take your favorite travel shots and make personalized note cards or your own photo book from Shutterfly. The books tell a story and make great gifts for the people you shared those special vacations with.”

“Don’t lose track of favorite photos online. Take advantage of Shutterfly’s new find feature: it searches albums by keywords and dates.”

“Make a summer photo album. To help hang on to that vacation glow, print the pictures from your summer trip and put them in photo albums. At Shutterfly you can organize and enhance your photos electronically. Jane Alpert, a mother of five in Purchase, New York, includes mementos with her pictures and makes a summer scrapbook.”

Shutterfly was ranked number one for online photo services for “best balance of photo quality, management features, and editing tools.”

“Photo sites are finding that big sells. Shutterfly now offers to print digital photos on stretched canvas, as large as 24 by 36 inches. … ‘As we start to think about what’s beautiful to us and what we want to be surrounded by, it’s our own memories and personal creations,’ said Jeffrey Housenbold, the CEO of Shutterfly, whose own office walls are covered with 20-by-30-inch shots of his children.”

“FOR CREATIVE TYPES: If you want to spiff up your albums with pretty graphics, use Shutterfly. … (which) offers tons of layouts, borders, and background options.”

“Shutterfly.com members get free, unlimited storage and picture-sharing, no purchase required. Best part: Your first 15 prints are free.”

“For those digital photographers whose dreams are mural-size instead of pocket-size, Shutterfly’s got just the ticket. The online photo service will print your image on hand-stretched canvases in three sizes.”

“Shutterfly.com: Easy-to-use Web site for downloading pictures. I can send photo albums with lots of pictures of me and my daughter back home to family and friends without the hassle of taking hours to open them.”

Shutterfly gets votes for: “unlimited storage forever; the ability to share a group of photos, rather than the entire album or a single photo only; share recipients can view large albums or see small versions of photos, or thumbnails; and optional software for organizing and adding photos online for Mac and Linux computers.”