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Keepsy adds the ability to create photo print books on the iPhone

I have set up a couple print books using the Keepsy online Web service. It’s pretty easy to add photos, either from a photo library as well as photos I have on Instagram. My only complaint has been the feature where all of the chosen images are auto inserted into a photo book, that I then have to sort and shuffle. Bigger books can prove to be a fun juggling game. Overall though, the service is great for creating quality photo books that Keepsy prints and mails for me.

Yesterday, Keepsy released a free iPhone app version of their service. When you launch the app, it goes through the photos in the iPhone’s photo library and then divides those the apps sees as being able to be grouped. All of the rest of the images are still available to use in print books too.

The first two ‘folders’ on the list are actually tools that make the creation of book groups easier. They offer suggestions as well button(s) to get a person started.

The additional areas on the list are the Keepsy app trying to group photos just to make it faster for the creation of print books. Anaheim in my case was actually photos I took at Disneyland. Opening a group, photos can be removed (good since if you have the iPhone HDR feature on, you have two copies of each photo), shared with other people so they can add photos too, then sent to print.

 Custom groups can be created from photos in the iPhone’s photo libraries. On the ‘simple things make me happy’, Keepsy groups the photos by date which makes it much easier to get through the 3200 photos I have to sort through when building a group for a print book.

The photos grouped together are automatically added to a digital version of the print book. Keepsy allows the photos to be moved around between pages as well more pages added since Keepsy attempts to keep page counts down to stay affordable.

The Web site for Keepsy shows the options that the Pocket Book version of the print books have (notice that there is a base price, then a charge per page over that so smart grouping of photos on pages saves money):

MoPho app update – creating printed dog tags using your iPhone photos

Rather than waiting to get home to use the computer, the app MoPho allows you to create print products all on the iPhone. Using photos you have taken with your iPhone, the app offers a long list of items that can have your photos printed on. Choose a product, select one of your photos (you can pull photos from Instagram too), adjust the photo on the product, pay and MoPho service will print and ship the item for you. Great fun but also a life saver when you forget to send a gift to someone or need to have something for a special event like a company co-worker going away get together.

In the latest update, the MoPho app has received the addition to it’s product list… a Dog Tag.

Your iPhone pictures infused onto scratch resistant aluminum

There are a few options to have your iPhone pictures printed. There are services that will print your iPhone taken image onto a postcard and mail it. Most of the services lean towards square prints so you can do something with your Instagram and Hipstamatic images.

A new provider, PostalPix, is expanding on what others are offering. PostalPix will print your square images and mail to you or to someone else in the 4×4, 5×5 and 8×8 sizes. They also have the 4×6, 5×7 and 8×10 non-square printing covered. If your looking for using your images for a bit of art, PostalPix will infuse your images onto aluminum, all ready for the office or home walls. The free app handles everything from accepting your iPhone images, choosing the size and paper, aluminum or mousepad, to paying.