Expanding Options for Turning your Photos into Art

In recent years, there has been an explosion of online stores offering enhanced services for converting your digital photos into personalized gifts, photo books, wall art and more. Best known are the big names like Snapfish and Shutterfly that enable you to store, view, organize and edit your picture gallery. From there, you can create photo books, which make great gifts and memories of family vacations or other special events. Other options at both sites include photo mugs, canvas prints, personalized photo iPhone cases and more. Both offer excellent discounts with Shutterfly offering 40% off photo books (ends 3/14) and Snapfish offering “Buy one photo book, get the second for free.” (ends 3/12). Other lesser known players in the photo space include Polaroid’s “Fotobar” which runs a 20% off sitewide offer, and can turn your photos into framed art, canvas art, metal art and more. The site is easy to navigate and use, and leaves some of the creativity to you. Another more specialized grouping of photo sites includes Canvas on Demand, Canvas People, and Great Big Canvas which all focus on turning your pictures into canvas prints and offer generous discounts that can be found on PromotionCode.org. To really get creative check out Animoto, which is designed to help both novices and pros create videos. With Animoto you can turn your still photos into a high definition slide show that will be sure to impress. It is surprisingly easy to use.