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Update 9/1/16: If you're having issues with the new uploaded refusing to upload certain pictures, try this: create a share site and upload your pictures to that. The share site uploader will (for now, at least) actually upload all your files, and you can than use these pictures on the regular site as usual.

Whenever they have 101 prints free, only order 99.  At 100 prints, you enter the next shipping category. (so the additional 2 prints cost $2 or so shipping.)

Free book code knowledge base:
 
- These are available from time to time and will be posted either in this thread or on DDMS.
- The codes are generally for an 8x8” sized book and 20 pages (10 spreads). Extra pages are $1.
- Take note of their expiration date; sometimes they last a month or more, sometimes only a couple of days.
- The code does not include shipping.
 
How to maximize:

- You could use the codes in multiple accounts.
- Don’t wait for your book to be ready before applying the code; some codes are limited in quantity. Log in to your Shutterfly account and go to this page. Type the code into the box and click enter; your free book will now be listed under your “Promos and Discounts”.
- The code could be used for any size or type of book, and for any amount of pages. It will simply subtract the value of an 8x8”, 20-page book from your total.
- 30, 40 and even 50% off coupons are pretty much perpetual; use them to bring down the remaining cost of your book even further. These codes could be found in Shutterfly’s marketing emails, and often on their homepage as well. These codes will work on both the book itself and on any additional pages you add.
- If there is no substantial discount available at the moment you may want to wait a week or two. It won’t take long to appear.
- If the expiration date is coming up and your book is not ready, you could chat with them and they will generally give you a very generous time extension.
- It’s a good idea to always have a couple of books ready to go, so that you’re ready when a free code comes up.
- If a book is in one of your accounts and the code in another, you could create a Share Site and send the book between accounts that way.
- Code SHIP39 will give you free shipping on orders over $39, so could combine your book with a regular print order and save on shipping. From time to time there will be a free shipping code available for less than $39. Otherwise shipping on the book itself is around $10.

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #180 on: September 22, 2014, 07:22:27 PM »
Perhaps you don't know how to make photo books , the right way.

And what would be the right way? I have 8 free 8x8s, that I recently reactivated via a very helpful rep, expectantly sitting in my account. I have tried time and again to sit down and actually get them done, but every time I start I want to glue my eyelids shut with a hot glue gun.

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #181 on: September 22, 2014, 07:23:41 PM »
And what would be the right way? I have 8 free 8x8s, that I recently reactivated via a very helpful rep, expectantly sitting in my account. I have tried time and again to sit down and actually get them done, but every time I start I want to glue my eyelids shut with a hot glue gun.
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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #182 on: September 22, 2014, 07:24:22 PM »
And what would be the right way? I have 8 free 8x8s, that I recently reactivated via a very helpful rep, expectantly sitting in my account. I have tried time and again to sit down and actually get them done, but every time I start I want to glue my eyelids shut with a hot glue gun.
Which part of it are you having trouble with?

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #183 on: September 22, 2014, 07:36:32 PM »
Which part of it are you having trouble with?

Well mostly the weeding through 50 similar shots to get to the one good one (x 7,000), but that's not really Shutterfly's fault.  On their end it's more the lack of flexibility in the platform. Even using the custom path I find that resizing, or fitting pictures into their arrangements is cumbersome and requires too many steps. Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but shouldn't a platform devoted to pictures allow you to switch the aspect ratio and/or zoom out in edit mode??

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« Reply #184 on: September 22, 2014, 07:40:06 PM »
Well mostly the weeding through 50 similar shots to get to the one good one (x 7,000), but that's not really Shutterfly's fault.  On their end it's more the lack of flexibility in the platform. Even using the custom path I find that resizing, or fitting pictures into their arrangements is cumbersome and requires too many steps. Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but shouldn't a platform devoted to pictures allow you to switch the aspect ratio and/or zoom out in edit mode??
That's a problem, what I would do is, I would choose the pictures you want in your book and place them in a file before you upload to shutterfly and then upload it in one file

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #185 on: September 22, 2014, 07:53:24 PM »
Well mostly the weeding through 50 similar shots to get to the one good one (x 7,000), but that's not really Shutterfly's fault.  On their end it's more the lack of flexibility in the platform. Even using the custom path I find that resizing, or fitting pictures into their arrangements is cumbersome and requires too many steps. Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but shouldn't a platform devoted to pictures allow you to switch the aspect ratio and/or zoom out in edit mode??

Click on any picture and it'll bring up a zoom/rotate/edit window. Easy peasy.

You could also click "customize" on the lower left and then rearrange and resize to your hearts content.
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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #186 on: September 22, 2014, 08:17:25 PM »
Click on any picture and it'll bring up a zoom/rotate/edit window. Easy peasy.

You could also click "customize" on the lower left and then rearrange and resize to your hearts content.

That's what I was doing... Or at least what I thought I was doing. I couldn't get it to include the full picture when I was loading pictures into the prearranged layouts. It was arbitrarily cropping the images and would let me adjust, but not zoom out entirely. I Just tried it again and dragged the pictures directly into the page, instead of using layouts. Now to hope these end up somewhat symmetrical...

Can anyone lend me some daylight hours?

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #187 on: September 22, 2014, 08:43:33 PM »
That's what I was doing... Or at least what I thought I was doing. I couldn't get it to include the full picture when I was loading pictures into the prearranged layouts. It was arbitrarily cropping the images and would let me adjust, but not zoom out entirely. I Just tried it again and dragged the pictures directly into the page, instead of using layouts. Now to hope these end up somewhat symmetrical...

Can anyone lend me some daylight hours?

That happens when the aspect ratio of your picture is different than the aspect ratio or the spot you want to put it in. For example, if you want to put a regular picture into a square spot. If it lets you zoom out all the way, it'll be a rectangle instead of a square. What you should do in this situation is click customize and drag the sides of the square outward until it matches the shape of your picture.

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #188 on: September 22, 2014, 09:29:44 PM »
Thank you! Never knew they had a forum.

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Re: Shutterfly Master Thread
« Reply #189 on: September 23, 2014, 05:56:09 PM »
And?
and its a question of who is better quality nothing to do with the right way. (i have done over 10 photo albums the"right way")

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« Reply #190 on: September 27, 2014, 08:46:36 PM »
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« Reply #197 on: November 13, 2014, 10:44:02 PM »
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