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Walmart Photo is a digital photo printing service that many turn to for their photo printing needs due to its ease of use, great selection of photo gifts and printing options.

Your vacation shots are too beautiful not to share and the grandparents will love the pictures of the kids snorkeling. With this digital photo printing service, you are able to quickly share individual photos and digital albums by email, through a link or via your social media networks such as Facebook, Blogger, Myspace and Typepad. Before you share any images, however, you can take advantage of the editing tools this online photo printing service offers to make sure your pictures look their best. Walmart Photo Center enables edits in four categories: Fix, Crop, Borders and Fun. The Fix tool allows you to rotate your images, remove red eye, correct color and adjust the lighting in your photo. You can also insert a border or apply a tint to your photos to add a bit of drama.

If sharing your images digitally is not for you, this digital photo printing service has a great variety of photo gifts, including:

  • Calendars
  • Photo books
  • Posters
  • Canvas and wall art
  • Cards, prints and invitations
  • Mugs and water bottles
  • Ornaments
  • Blankets (fleece and woven)
  • Clothing (T-shirts, ties, jewelry, aprons, etc.)
  • Home and office (mousepads, magnets, pillowcases, puzzles, picture books, etc.)

If you need your pictures pronto, Walmart Photo Center offers one-hour, in-store pick-up for prints, collages, greeting cards and photo books, and same-day photo services for posters, collage calendars and 8 x 11 photo books. Prices will reflect your choice of urgency.

After uploading and adding our images to the shopping cart, Walmart Photo Center marked some of our images with a yellow exclamation point, warning us that these prints did not have the needed resolution and would not turn out well. We appreciated this warning so that we could fix the problem before we actually ordered and paid for the prints.

To test print quality, we sent the same digital photos of a sunset, black and white image and an aerial photo to a variety of digital photo printing services. Then we compared the photos side by side to evaluate the quality of the prints.

Sunset – Walmart took our original shot and made it better, slightly. We liked that the image has more contrast and the colors look rich. The shadows on our models are a bit dark but, again, we like the contrast.

Black and White – The black and white image came back looking like a navy and white print instead. The tonality was blue, not black, and the shadows on our model's face were too dark.

Aerial – Again, Walmart intensified the contrast and made the whites and grays of the buildings, as well as the red of the cars below pop.

Walmart Photo Center has a variety of customer service options, which make the upload, edit and order process easier to accomplish. Walmart's photo printing service caters to those needing visual confirmation of certain processes as well. When uploading images, you are able to watch a video demonstrating how to select and upload your photos to a new album, or you can view an upload tip. An upload tip is similar to the step-by-step instructions you will find in the FAQs section, but the tip presents you with a visual and textual reference of the process.

We are excited that this digital photo printing service enables you to share images via email and social media, but the process could be easier. We were excited to share our favorite images by posting them to our blog. Before you can do this, however, you must enter your Blogger username, password and blog URL. Our attempts failed several times before we gave up and shared the images with a link instead.

The Photo Center Help page is chock-full of FAQs that Walmart categorizes according to topic, such as View and Share Photos. This digital photo printing service answers each of these questions with in-depth, step-by-step instruction. If you are unable to find your answer amid the torrent of information on the Photo Center Help page, you have the option of emailing customer service or accessing the live chat feature.

Summary:

Walmart is an outrageously successful eCommerce company, and it also maintains Walmart Photo Center, a fair digital photo printing service that produces decent photographs and has a well-rounded set of features.

 
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Walmart Photo Center

Pros
Walmart photo has great help and support options, including live chat support and an in-depth FAQs section.

Cons
This digital photo printing site returned images that were of good quality, but not great quality.

The Verdict

Walmart Photo's online photo printing service will appeal to many, due to its convenient store pick-up options.