Many of you have asked us
how to use the photos you have shared on photo-sharing websites like
Shutterfly, Ofoto, or Snapfish, in your Picaboo photo books. In many cases,
your friends and family have shared their photos with you on one of these sites
and now you want to use them in your Picaboo books and cards. When these
websites post uploaded images, they apply heavy compression to the pictures in
order to reduce the load on their servers.
Since the online
photo-sharing websites compress your images, the print quality will be very
poor when you use the images that are pulled directly from a slideshow or
folder in your Picaboo books. Instead, it is best to use the high resolution,
original digital source images in Picaboo to maximize print quality.
When you use software from
these websites to automatically upload your photos to these sites when your
camera is plugged into your computer, there is also a setting to save a copy of
the photos on your hard drive as well. You should select that option so that you can use the copies of the
original photos in your Picaboo books and cards.
As an example, the photo on the
left is the low resolution version copied directly from a photo-sharing website.The
photo on the right is the original high-resolution digital source
image.
If you do not have the
original digital images on your computer, you can retrieve the high resolution,
larger size images from most online photo-sharing websites. For example,
Shutterfly, Ofoto, and Snapfish let you purchase your high resolution, original
size digital images on a CD. Snapfish also lets you download your high
resolution photos for a fee.
Once you have the original
source images on your computer, you can add them to Picaboo and begin creating
your own unique photo books and cards.
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