Crossways Photo Images Reviewer's Comments
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Crossways Photo Images is our #16 online digital photo developer.
Ease of Use - Ordering Process:
Crossways Photo Images is truly one of the easiest processes we reviewed. To use this service, you don't need to download any software if you don't want to—although it is available—with this service you can simply upload your digital photos through your browser.
Quality of Prints:
Crossways Photo Images really did a great job on the photos we sent them–see comments below:
Below are the original photos. Click to Enlarge
Below are the prints developed by Crossways Photo Images. Click to Enlarge
- People Inside: The skins tones in this print are really good, possibly even better than the original. The color of the blouses stayed pretty close to the originals too. There is some slight cropping that's been done on this print.
- Building Outside: The details in this print are crisp and bright. The pillar's color is slightly brighter and lighter, as is the whole print, but the overall color is actually quite close. We feel this print may actually look better than the original.
- People Outside: There's slightly more cropping than we cared for on this print. Although the overall color is slightly lighter, we felt the color looks pretty good.
Note: To check quality, we took each set of prints received from the online photo developer and laid them down, side-by-side for comparison.
Pricing:
The per-print prices offered by Crossways Photo Images are quite high as compared to other online digital photo developers we've reviewed.
Service and Site Features:
Crossways Photo Images does use high-quality, archival photo paper to protect and ensure the longevity of your prints. This service offers red-eye removal, cross filters, cropping, calendar printing, and text printing.
Crossways Photo Images also offers several photo-based, gift items, such as mugs, plates, ornaments, balls, t-shirts and so on. But we were disappointed that they don't allow you to share your photos online and don't offer much in the way of standard services.
Shipping Costs/ Turn Around Time:
Crossways Photo Images charges to ship us five 4 x 6 inch prints were $3.99, the actual postage for USPS First Class was $1.70, leaving $2.29 going for packaging and handling. This total shipping cost was substantially higher compared to the majority of online digital photo developing services. These higher-than-average charges may be because Crossways Photo Images is located in Cananda, verses the US.
Our prints come in a paper sleeve, sandwiched between two lightweight, cardboard inserts, which was then placed inside a bubble-mailer, paper envelope. The envelope took a beating coming from Canada and our prints were slightly bent.
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We gave each photo developing service anywhere from 1 to 4 days to send us our completed prints; Crossways Photo Images took 9 days.
Summary:
Crossways Photo Images is located in Canada, which affects their shipping costs and shipping times to customers in the US. But, uploading digital photos to their site was one of the easiest processes we've seen. In short, although Crossways does a good job, there are other online digital photo developing services that do an equally good job, for considerably lower prices.
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