Photo Set

How do you set a photo as the background on Shutterfly?

I want to make a photo book on Shutterfly. I have a vision and I am going to stick to that vision. I want to set a picture as a background on a page and then put other pictures on top of that. Is there any way I could do this? I know I can do it on iPhoto but I get discounts on Shutterfly. Please help!

Ryan,

I don't know of a way to do it - they have very limited layout flexibility on Shutterfly.

I created 2 books with them and both times the color of the shots printed in the book didn't look anything like my original photos. Their color management systems are hideous.

Unlike Costco, they don't seem to have profiles you can apply to ensure proper colors in your final product. And their customer service people were tedious to deal with (and had accents I personally found hard to understand...) when I discovered how awful my photo book looked.

I'd strongly advise you not to use them for photo printing - including books. I got some free prints from them after the 1st book disaster and the color on the prints was off too. Perhaps you could have more luck with Lulu.com to interpret your vision. I've used Lulu, but only for text oriented books. Another service that gets top ratings for photo books is: VioVio:
http://www.viovio.com/shop/

Here's a 3rd party review of photo book services if you want another opinion:
http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/97676/13/1/15

Good luck!

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