Posts Tagged ‘ Photo gifts ’

MailPix review & giveaway (US only)

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I must admit I am a bit addicted to photo gifts.  I have tons of photo albums, but I have also purchased various photo books or other photo gifts from various places over the years.  So I was excited when I got the chance to work with MailPix!  MailPix is a website where you can order prints or photo gifts at great prices.  I was asked to review one of their photo brag books, which was a great choice for me because I am a sucker for photo books! The MailPix website is very easy to use.  I set up a 40-page photo brag book in a fairly short amount of time.  You can import photos from Facebook or Instagram, or upload from your computer.  I imported from Facebook since I’m in between computers right now and currently using a borrowed netbook which I have not put all my photos on.  The whole process was fairly straightforward and easy to do. Then I chose which pictures went on which page.  I didn’t do any specific theme or event for this photo book.  I just chose my favorite photos from January through December 2012.  I was able to arrange all the [...]

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Collage.com review & giveaway (US only)

Sorry for the glare on it, but I decided to use this picture anyway so it would hide my brother's full name.

I recently came across a neat website, Collage.com where you can make photo collages and have them printed on posters!  You choose a shape or even type in words, and then choose your photos (you can even choose them from your Facebook albums) and it arranges all your photos into the shape you chose.  I was given a gift code for a free 20×30 collage poster.  I played around with the options for quite awhile and finally decided to pick the graduation cap and put photos of my brother from the past few years, to give him for Christmas.  It turned out great! You can choose to have your poster printed vertically or horizontally.  I chose horizontally since the graduation cap shape is wider.  You can also add text to it at the top or bottom.  I put my brother’s name and “Class of 2013″ at the bottom.  The print quality is amazing!  Also when you create your collage it tells you if any pictures are going to be blurry.  You can click a button to rearrange the photos until you get ones showing that are the right resolution so they won’t come out blurry, or you can just add [...]

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