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When you take some brilliant photos using your high end digital cameras, it’s obvious that you need their printed copies to save your memories and show up. Yes no one likes to store each and every photo digitally because we know how safe it is. So what most of us would go is visit a nearby digital printing workshop to get all our precious pics printed. But this is a real carp not only because they charge about Rs 6/photo which is actually double the price, but also because the quality of printed pics are worse unless the workshop specializes in digital photo printing.

So here’s a solution which would help you get high quality digital photo printing at half the original price but you need internet because we are talking about Online Photo Printing and Sharing in India which is one of the best websites for online digital photo printing in India. You can order quality digital prints for your digital photos at a competitive price of Rs 2.99 per photo. Visit their pricing page for details.

How to Order Prints @ PicSquare.Com – Brief Guide

Visit PicSquare and login after registering an account. Once logged in you can click on the “Upload” link that is located to the top-right part in the account home page. The flash based uploader allows you to browse and select all the images for which you want prints. After all your images are added to the uploader, select all of them and hit the upload button. But before uploading you have to create a new e-album to which these pictures would go. Now using their easy to use navigation menu in top you can view all your albums and the pics belonging to any specific album.

Here check the photos you want to be printed and hit the “Order Prints” button in top to add these pics to your shopping cart. After completing adding pics to the cart, navigate to the shopping cart page to find every details about your order – It would show how many photos you have added, how many copies for each photo, prices for shipping , discounts etc and total price that you need to pay to order digital prints for your photos. Now comes the checkout where you have to pay to complete the order. Payment modes supported for US Dollars is PayPal and Credit cards/Internet banking (via third party service CCAvenue) if you pay in rupees (INR).

Top Features at PicSquare besides Online Photo Printing

Instead of uploading pics you can directly import photos from your Flickr and PicasaWeb accounts. And on signing for a new account, you get 10 free photo prints too. You can also order photo mugs, custom calendars, photo T-shirts, photo mouse pad, collage posters, poster sized photo prints etc. You can also store and share your photos online in well organised manners.

Pros and Cons of Service @ PicSquare – Review Based on several Experiences

Pros – Ordered photos are of brilliant quality and there quality enhancer does a nice job. The printed copies are shipped within a week via courier and they provide albums for every 30 ordered pics. The poster sized photos also look too good. The best thing is clarity and quality of the prints which look much better than the photo files being viewed in PC.

Cons – They automatically adjust the photo prints and most of the times the backgrounds where the photos were captured are not present in the print with the photos captured in distance appearing as a close-up in the print. While printing they crop the photos, so that the persons in the pic would be highly visible but it’s no good as all background sceneries, arts are gone. It is the case with not all the photos but in one of the photos that were ordered by me the photo print shows half of my face only and rest part of my body is cropped out (not in the inset).These type of mistakes are common because they crop most of the pics to give emphasis on some one. Also the envelope in which they courier the prints are not good for the poster pics as they don’t fully fit into that and become slightly folded. Carefully open the envelope with poster photos as there is a chance that you endup tearing these pics while cutting the envelope/paper parcel. And one last thing - After my fist order, the prints were delivered in 4 days but now it’s taking about a week or more for deliveries.

You can visit PicSquare website (http://www.picsquare.com ) for details like pricing and ordering digital photo prints. Do check the current discount promos they are running before ordering and 10 prints are free for every new user.