Snapfish Launches Industry's First Customizable Photo CD-ROM, Image Editing, High-Resolution Downloads

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation - Snapfish, the complete online photo service for film and digital camera users, today announced a suite of new features including image editing, high-resolution downloads and the industry's first customizable Photo CD-ROM.

The new features available at Snapfish include:

Image Editing

According to Lyra Research, approximately 75% of US digital camera users edit their pictures, but until now film customers had no convenient way to enhance and repair their images. For the first time all Snapfish customers can edit their photos online, fix common errors and improve their images before they order reprints. Quick and easy image editing tools developed in cooperation with Pixami, enable customers to fix redeye, crop their photos and automatically fix color and contrast problems. Image editing tools are free.

Custom Photo CD-ROM

Snapfish offers the industry's first Photo CD-ROM product that enables customers to archive high-resolution versions of their Snapfish images on CD-ROM, regardless of whether they originated from film or a digital camera. Customers simply create the Snapfish albums they want to save on CD-ROM, caption the photos, and place the order. Software included with the new CD-ROMs features a variety of image editing tools: redeye reduction, zoom, brightness, contrast, rotation and cropping, plus a slideshow feature.

Pricing on Custom Photo CD-ROM is .99 for the first 50 images and .99 for each additional 25 images. Capacity limits are 500 images or 500 MB, whichever comes first. Shipping is .99 per order.

High-Resolution Downloads

Snapfish customers frequently inquire about downloading high-resolution versions of their images from the Snapfish Web site to their computers. Snapfish now offers high-resolution downloads for editing, archiving and home printing. Downloading is quick and easy and the images are available right away. The resolution of the downloads for images from film is 1536x1024 pixels. Pricing is 89 each for 1-5 images, 69 each for 6-10 images and 59 each for 11 or more. For a limited time Snapfish is offering one high-resolution image download per customer for free.