Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

Getting Photos Online with Snapfish

Snapfish, a production of the folks at Hewlett-Packard, provides services for both digital and film photographers. You can upload digital photos or mail rolls of film for them to develop and upload to your online account. Either way, your photos end up in Snapfish albums, which you can share with friends and family by sending out email invitations. HP also gives you ample opportunity to part with a few bucks by slapping your photos on prints, posters, books, calendars, and so on.

Uploading Photos with Your Browser

You upload photos to Snapfish using your Web browser. First, you need to sign up for a free account at http://www.snapfish.com. Click the Get Started button, and type your name, email address, and password. On the next screen, Snapfish asks for your mailing address so it can send you some postage-paid envelopes for mailing rolls of film for developing. Click “no thanks” at the bottom of the page to skip this step for now. You can always go back to it by clicking the “send film” or “get mailers” links scattered throughout Snapfish.

The link to the upload page is on your Home page; look below and to the right of the top tabs.

Here’s how to put your photos up on Snapfish:

1. On the Home page, click the “upload photos” link.

   In Snapfish, all photos are stored in albums, so when you upload photos, you must specify an album to put them in. When the upload page opens, type a name in the text box under the “new album” icon to create a new album ...