Mpix.com
It’s pretty amazing what you can do with digital photography these days. Kodak Gallery has a great Photo Book you can create with pre-built templates and your own uploaded photographs. Charlene made me one a while back for our anniversary. They’re pretty neat, but they do depend on pretty good quality photos to begin with. (That whole garbage in-garbage out concept.) But this post isn’t about the Kodak Gallery, it’s about one of their competitors, Mpix.com. They bill themselves as “The professional online digital imaging lab for both the professional photographer and the advanced amateur.” And I’ve gotta admit, they have some pretty cool products. As with Kodak, you can get photo books, either hard or soft cover. The price is comparable. But they have some really cool, unique products as well, like Gallery Wraps, which are basically pictures which have been printed out on canvas, and then stretched around the frame just like a real painting. A few others that caught my eye were the custom Tickets, and the Standouts.
It seems like they have some really great products that could make great gifts. With all the photos I’ve been taking lately, I think I might be placing some orders soon…