The family and I had a wonderful time this summer from moving into our new home, swimming, and enjoying a 6 night Carnival Cruise. Of course through all of these activities I was ready and posed with my camera. After all a photo is a great way to capture the memories of the fun you had. I don’t often print out my photos and they tend to live on my computer or show up here at Shibley Smiles. This is easy but not when you want to share your photos with visitors or co-workers. Everyone huddled around a computer screen is really not that comfortable. So Honey and I took our photos down to our local CVS to create a fun photo book at the Kodak Kiosk.
Ready to Make Our Photo Book
We were armed with a USB drive of photos and a few hard copies of prints we had purchased on our trip. I took Honey with me because I knew she would want some input in selecting our photos and making the book. The Kodak Kiosk gives you many options to create fun photo products such as the photo book, cards, mouse pads, and more.
There are also several different ways to get your pictures to the Kiosk for printing or creating projects. You can bring in a flash drive, an SD card, scan, pull from Facebook or other photo sharing sites, and even connect your phone via WiFi. We inserted our USB drive and for some reason the computer wouldn’t read it. Instead of asking for help I went ahead and connected my phone since the photos were all there. The procedure was pretty easy and the Kodak Kiosk walked me easily through the process.
Once our photos were available we simply needed to select which photos we wanted to include in our book. During this process you can also edit your photos, zoom in or out, and rotate them as necessary for the exact look you are going for.
We selected a themed photo book “Beach Waves” and selected all of our photos. When we were done we were given the option to chose another input source so we selected the scanner and scanned in a few photos.
You can actually add up to 152 photos for the photo book we selected which was priced at $19.99. We didn’t have nearly that many that we wanted to include in our book. Honey had a great time selecting photos. Once everything was scanned in and all photos were selected the program will magically put all your photos into templates for your book. From their you can move photos around. We took advantage of this because the system really seemed to like Honey and usually made her photo the main focus of each page. While this made Honey smile we needed to make sure we were featuring other members of the family as well. There were also a few times when I wanted to change photos and move them to another page, the edit was easy.
When we were all done we placed our order and the photo book printed right there while we waited. Here is a photo of our photo book.
We also ordered another product and we want to showcase our photo book a little more so look for a follow up post coming from Honey and I in a few weeks! We had a great time making our photo book and it was a fun project to do with my daughter. It is also a nice way to capture your memories of a special occasion or time in one neat book to share with your family and friends.
I received a gift card to help facilitate this post. All opinions are my own
Cynthia R says
CVS’s Kodak kiosks are so easy to use to get those digital photos printed. And I’m always getting coupons for it too.
Julie Wood says
The CVS Kodak Kiosk sounds really great to help me put my pictures to a book so I can look at them when I want. I like that I can get this done for a great price.
Penelope says
I did this over the summer and it was so easy to do! We love CVS, it’s our family pharmacy.
Anne says
I am so jealous! That’s a great price for a photo book with that many photos, and I love that your book is printed while you wait. I’m jealous because there’s not a CVS anywhere near here. (There used to be one in a city about an hour away, but they closed up shop several years ago). I might look into whether Kodak has kiosks in other stores that I might be able to get to.
Thanks for the review.
Vanessa: thequeenofswag says
I miss having photos printed out. I think I’m going to go print out some of our wedding pics this way.
ellen beck says
I love printed out photos they are easier too show off new babies 🙂 I like how easy this looks.
Jo-Ann Brightman says
152 photos is a lot of photos for a photo book that costs only $19.99, and I am looking forward to seeing your photos of all the events and your memories.
Kathy says
I just complied our summer pictures into a book myself. I love that I can keep all my memories in one place.
Ty says
I love printing out my photos. CVS is a little far from me, but I love the way this looks so I’ll definitely be checking it out.
Kelsey Apley says
That is such a fun idea! I had no idea you could go in and create a book like that!! These make great gifts for the holidays!
Theresa Gould @ Faith and Family Reviews says
I love Kodak Kiosk, we’ve used it a couple times before. I’m glad you and Honey had so much fun, that book looks great by the way.
Raijean says
I still get my prints printed at CVS on Kodak paper, love them.
Rhiannon Rowland says
That is great, I didn’t realize you could get the book right away and thought it would be something that had to be picked up a week later or something. So cool.
Tammy says
We’ve made a lot of photo books over the years commemorating our different trips and vacations. I’ve never made a book from those Kiosks before though, I’ve always done them online. That would be very handy for if you had guests and wanted to make a book on the spot for them to take home 🙂
Liz Mays says
I don’t know why I’ve never thought to do that, but this would sure be a great way to preserve and enjoy those memories for years to come!
Angela says
I haven’t printed out any pics in a long time. This looks like a great way to do it quickly.
Crystal says
My computer holds all of our photos, and they aren’t often looked at. It’s such a shame! I’d love to make photo books to be able to reminisce.
LyndaS says
That’s pretty neat. I didn’t realize you could have a photo book printed right at the store. Nice.