Photomama Overall Rating:

Photomama Quick Review: Photomama provides a decent photo printing service. With a simple interface and basic features it’s easy to use and good for people who aren’t heavy internet users. The photo editing features are pretty good too. 50 free photo prints matches the competition so take a look at Photomama.

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Photomama Full Review:

Signing up with Photomama is easy. Just provide an email address and a password and you’re on your way. Photomamo provides a very simple and easy to understand website. No frills or complicated schemes here. Photomama is geared to the basic computer or internet user.

Your home page shows you your most recent album and photos. From here you can click on the Albums, Add Photos, Prints, Books, Gifts and Share tabs. Or just click on your most recent album to view the photos in it.

The Album tab displays the albums you’ve created. You can rename, delete or share your album from here. You can also add new photos, select photos to enhance (edit), delete photos or watch a slide show.

The Add Photos tab allows you to upload photos to a new or existing album. The upload process is easy to understand and use. Just select an album and then browse your computer for photos. Next, select the photos to upload and click on upload. It’s a nice, simple process.

The Prints tab looks exactly like the Album tab. Here you select the photos you want to print. Don’t forget to enhance (edit) your photos before printing them. Select your photos individually or select all with a single click. After selecting the photos, select the size of your prints and add them to your cart. The checkout process is pretty standard.

The Books tab allows you to create photo books. The process is easy. However, the selection of books is limited to black and maroon. Making a photo book requires only photo layout and theme selections. There are only 4 photo layouts for a Photomama photo book. Not a great selection but it’s consistent with keeping it simple. There are quite a number of theme selections for your pages. These consist of backgrounds like balloons, hearts and patterns to decorate your pages.

The Gifts tab takes you to the Photomama photo gift store. It includes photo gifts of greeting cards, t-shirts, aprons, diaper bags, mugs, prints on canvas, games, mouse pads, candy and teddy bears. Overall not an extensive gift selection.

The last tab, Share, allows you to share your photos with friends and family. It’s exactly like the Albums and Prints pages. Just select the photos or albums you want to share and click on the Share button. Next you enter the email address of your friend or family member, type in a message and send the email message. Easy, simple and consistent with their philosophy.

Now on to some details. The photo editing tools are basic. To get to the editing tools, click on the Enhance button from the Albums or Prints tabs. The tools include crop, redeye removal, add borders, additional effects, rotate photo and add text.

The crop tool is basic and easy to use. Don’t forget to select save after cropping. You use the redeye tool by clicking on an eye from your photo. When I did this, the area I clicked on wasn’t shown in the redeye tool. For some reason the tool was off a bit. Under the Add Borders button is the ability to add a white or sloppy border. I’m not quite sure what sloppy border means but it is just a black border. Under the Additional Effects button you can change your photo to black & white, adjust the color saturation, adjust brightness, adjust contrast, change your photo to sepia tone and flip the photo right to left. Next is a rotate option. Lastly you can add text to your photo. This option doesn’t allow you to position the text or change the font. Overall the tools worked well.

Photomama has standard, two-day and overnight shipping. The cost for shipping my free photos was $2.49 for 13 photos. They arrived in about five days which is a littler longer than other companies. The prints were on Kodak paper and the print quality was good.

Unbelievably, Photomama has no online help! Wow, how could you even put up a consumer site without online help? I’m not sure why the help page is empty but it is.

Overall, Photomama provides a decent photo printing service with good editing tools. If you’re not interested in online sharing or fancy schmancy googahs, Photomama may be right for you. Hey, 50 free prints is worth trying it!

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