You Can use Smilebox to print a photo scrapbook

Do you love looking at beautiful scrapbooks but don't have time to make them? Smilebox is so easy kids can make fantastic looking scrapbooks in just a few minutes! You can email these or view them on the computer, but for a great gift, you can also upload these and print them at Shutterfly or Winkflash.

Want to honor dad, a grandma, and uncle or friend? Make a digital scrapbook for them. Making one can take less time than a trip to the store and will mean much more. You can use one or more photos to make a photo gift or else use anywhere from 20 to 1000 photos in a scrapbook. You could gather photos with just one theme, such as “Dad fishing,” “Grandma with the Grandkids” or “Best Friends” or you can just choose photosover a period of time. If you don’t have digital photos of some events, you can scan regular photos or even take a picture of a photo by setting your digital camera on “macro.” Three of the very best photo gift sites are Smilebox, Winkflash and Shutterfly. All of these sites frequently offer specials or free gifts, so you may want to sign up for all of them. Each site also has different features which can help you make personalized, memorable gifts.

• Smilebox—Free Emailed Scrapbook, Card or Slideshow

Smilebox has hundreds of ready-made scrapbook pages which look professional and let you quickly slip in your photo and write a few words of journaling. You can even add background music and video—all for free! After quickly downloading the software and adding your photos, you can email the book to Dad or anyone else for free. You can also use Smilebox for a Father’s Day Card, a slideshow or invitations.

• SmileBox—Inexpensive Digital or Printed Scrapbook

To take your photo scrapbook one step further, you can pay a small fee and buy a design that you can make into a CD or DVD to show on his computer or T.V. screen. That works for both scrapbooks and slide shows. You can also download the image into a JPEG (like a digital camera image) which you can print out at home, send to a photo printer or bring to your local photo printing store. You can print these out at any size and then stick them in the plastic protectors of a photo album or scrapbook album for a terrific gift. For around $30, you can buy a year long membership which allows you to use any of their designs as many times as you like. However, my favorite way to use Smilebox is to download the Smilebox pages as JPEGs and then upload them to Winkflash or Shutterfly and have them printed into a book.

• Winkflash—Digital Gifts

You can get great deals at Winkflash on all kinds of photo gifts. Their home page always has special offers and you can usually get free photos just for signing up. You can make a quick gift for dad by uploading one or more photos and making a photo gift (upload them and drag them onto a one photo page for best results). Winkflash offers a unique photo mini-basketball hoops for dad or grandpa to use while watching sports on T.V. You may also like their selection of photo license plates, travel mugs, water bottles, business card holders, mouse pads, T-shirts, aprons, key chains, coasters, luggage tags, towels and even can cozies. With a few clicks to upload and order, you can be on your way to giving a great personalized gift!

• Winkflash—Inexpensive Photo Scrapbooks

Winkflash prints high quality photo books at some of the best princes on the internet. Their best deal is their Flat Rate book, which gives you up to 100 pages for the price of a 20 page book! For under $40, you can get a book which would usually cost over $100. They have cheaper books as well. Winkflash has templates you can use to put in your photos, but if you want more beautiful designs, you can download the digital scrapbook pages you make at SmileBox and then upload and print them at Winkflash. Either way, you will have a professionally bound and beautiful book that will be a family heirloom.

• Shutterfly—Best Quality Photo Gifts and Scrapbooks

Winkflash has the very best deals, but Shutterfly offers the best quality. Often, you can get special offers from them as well. I’ve printed many free scrapbooks from special offers they send by email when you sign up. One great feature of Shutterfly is that they will make a book for you with their Simple Path (up to 400 pictures). You can also use a Custom Path option which lets you choose how to place the pictures on the page and lets you pick the backgrounds and styles (up to 1000 photos). In addition, you can upload your Smilebox creations onto Shutterfly (you upload them and drag them onto a one-photo page). One other great feature of Shutterfly is that you can create your own website or share your creations through Facebook, twitter or email. Friends and family can look at your uploaded photos and photo books from anywhere. They also offer you unlimited photo storage. Like Winkflash, Shutterfly also offers photo gifts. Their photo desktop accessories, photo playing cards, photo notebooks and desktop calendars are especially nice gifts.

• Use the same photo book for other relatives!

One of the best parts about making a photo gift is that it can be shared with other relatives. A SmileBox album can be sent to anyone in your email address book through their quick automatic email finder. You can share all photos uploaded onto Shutterfly with any friends and relatives as well as being able to share photo books. Winkflash does not allow a sharing option, but both Shutterfly and Winkflash photo books can be stored. With the addition of a few photos or changing the style of pages, you can often transform one photo book into a personalized gift for another relative too. Enjoy creating!