But unlike some other services which forced us to weed through many designs that didn’t suit our needs, Snapfish’s smart filtering got us right to what we wanted. As with all of our testing, we chose a simple holiday card design that emphasized the family photo vs something more ornate. While we felt overwhelmed picking a card design with some competing services because of confusing organization, Snapfish does a good job of helping you narrow down the choices thanks to filters that let you quickly sort between, for instance, landscape vs portrait photo orientation, card type, colors and other options. Selecting and designing photo cards was also a breeze despite Snapfish’s extensive selection of thousands upon thousands of options.

Speaking of loading, Snapfish’s book builder had the fastest load times of the various companies we tested, with virtually no lag when dragging and dropping images or scrolling through layouts. Best of all, you can scroll through your entire book without loading a new page. If you like what you’ve created, you can duplicate a page with the same design elements to use somewhere else in the book. If you want to move the actual frame in the layout, grab the photo outside of the hand icon and drag the image to where you want it. You can then zoom in and center an image by grabbing and holding the hand icon. Once you’ve selected a layout, such as a side-by-side photo spread, just drag and drop your images onto your page. Meanwhile, layouts and designs are found next to each page, so you can quickly experiment with how you want your images displayed. Photos, backgrounds and embellishments are on the right side of the screen, which is another good choice because it gets them out of the way but still makes them easily accessible.

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