Fun with Photos

In preparation for my scrapbooking retreat next weekend, I have begun printing my photos. Oh boy. So many photos to print. Last year I was overwhelmed with too many photos once I got to the retreat. I spent a boat load of time sorting. Although I did just fly home the night before from a 10 day family trip to Texas and Phoenix. I had to order all my pictures while we were traveling and hope they were waiting in the mailbox when I got home. I think that attributes to my lengthy sorting time at the retreat.

This year I am challenging myself to limit the number of photos I bring to the retreat. I have 3 1/2 days of quality cropping time. I've decided to bring along enough photos to do up to 24 pages. If I miraculously finish all those pages, I guess I'll just have to make cards with the rest of my time. {There is no way I will get that many pages done between eating, laughing, eating, there is only so much time for cropping!}

So, on to printing for 2012. I've decided to split my time between scrapbooking Gwen & family and random things I like. {a lot of cooking and crafting photos to sort!}

I also have the added category of pictures from my iPhone. I'm in love with the Hipstamatic App. 

{John S Lens Pak}

{view of my Hipstamatic on MY iPhone}

{choose a film - lot's of choices if you buy add on's - $.99 & totally worth it!}

It's a digital camera app that creates super cool analog looking images. The Hipstamatic App gives you a ton of neat lens, film and flash options which change the look and feel of your photos. Really it's just a fancy app that applies really neat filters and effects to your photos like photoshop would. My favorite part of this app is creating photos that look like the ones my parents took back in the late 70's and early 80's. I love that I have photos of Gwen with that same grainy amber quality. Plus the images are square! How fun! 

I decided to print my favorite iPhone images using Hipstamatic's print lab and also try out a service called Postalpix.

Hipstamatic has a few different print package options. 

Four Inch Printpak's 

9 pack $4.99

24 pack $9.99

96 pack $34.99

They also offer 7 inch prints, 10 inch gallery prints and 30 inch gallery prints.

Postalpix offers several different sizes.

4x4 1st pack of 3 $.99, 4-20 prints $.29 each, 21+ prints $.21 each

5x5 prints $.89 each

5x7 prints $.89 each

8x8 prints $3.49

8x10 prints $3.49

They also offer something very interesting; Aluminum prints. They are printed on 1 millimeter thick aluminum plates and come with double sided mounting tape for your wall and magnets for the fridge. 

4x4 $7.99

5x7 $14.99

8x8 & 8x10 $24.99

I placed my Hipstamatic Print Lab order via their website and I placed my Postalpix order using my Postalpix iPhone App. You can place orders via either website or in phone application. 

{not my actual order}

 Hipstamatic cost a bit more that Postalpix, but I won't make my final decision on who to use in the future until I get my prints. 

I'm SO excited to see how they look actually printed. I think most of these photos will go into my Smash books. Counting down the days until Scrap Camp!