Last Updated: 2 January 2023
As you may remember, I worked with
Snapfish earlier in the year and reviewed some of their products with a summer theme. If you missed it, you can catch it again
here.
Now, I've been lucky enough to have been asked to work with them again.
This time the focus is memories and celebration - inspiring people to celebrate their memories through beautiful photo books, personalised gifts, and home décor. It's all about using photography to relive special moments, and simply telling a story.
The story my product tells is very simple. It's a life story. Family is one of the most important things in life, and what better way to celebrate it than through pictures remembering precious memories.
As luck would have it, this year marked my nan's 70th birthday. Therefore I decided to create a
photo book featuring pictures from some of our moments together to make a truly memorable gift for a landmark birthday.
I chose photos from all 21 years of my life and sorted them into (approximate) chronological order. This way the narrative of our life stands out and weaves the photos of the book together.
That was definitely the most labour-intensive project I've done so far from Snapfish, as I had to sort through all our old family photos in order to find the best ones (and we have a
lot of photos, so this took a long time!) I also had a bit of a struggle trying to find photos with both me and my nan in. Neither of us is particularly fond of the camera, so photos with the two of us in seem to be a lot rarer than I'd originally thought! When I had eventually selected enough appropriate photos, I then had to scan the older ones in to get them onto my computer so I could add them to the photo book. That sounds complicated, but it's nowhere near as hard as it sounded!
Then came the design. I chose a classic photo book with a hardcover because I thought it would prove more durable than the softcover one I designed for my last Snapfish review. I also liked the cut-out cover (above) because it allows you to personalise it in a classy way - perfect for a gift.
The layout was simple - photos in chronological order, interspersed pretty equally between several photos on a page in a grid pattern and single stand-out photos dominating an entire page. Again I elected not to include captions or quotes because I wanted to keep it simple and let the images speak for themselves.
I'm really happy with the finished product. All the photos printed beautifully and were nice and sharp and clear, even the scanned ones look just as good as the later digital photos.
When I gave it to my nan she was really happy with it too. She said it brought back many memories from over the years, and she spent a long while looking at all the photos. The Snapfish photo book was a success all around!
Have you used Snapfish before? Will you be using them in the future? Let me know in the comments below!
