Searsphotos.com - Online Film Developing & Prints

Are you familiar with Sears Portrait Studio? If so, now your portraits are available online so you can conveniently view, share, and order your portraits from home. When you share the portraits with your family and friends they can order their favorite poses online, which saves you time and hassle. You can also use your portraits to create unique photo gifts. Searsphotos is an extension of Sears Portrait Studio business and a complement to the other products and services offered in Sears’s stores. Through this website, you’ll have instant access to your photos allowing you to order prints, create on-line photo albums and share your photos with family and friends any time right from your computer. Pictures are available for sharing, viewing and ordering for six months. You can also order portrait creations (a one-of-a-kind portrait with a black & white, sepia, color accent, border, or vignette enhancement), canvas portraits (canvas prints include mounting, framing and a protective coating), portrait companions (combine up to three of your favorite portraits and your message with one of their creative designs for a unique gift), personalized greeting cards (baby announcements, thank you cards, holiday cards, and more). Membership and online services such as viewing, sharing pictures with family and friends, and uploading images from your digital camera to your account are available at no cost to you.

“Searsphotos.com … because pictures are made to be shared. Order portraits from a session of prints of your own digital pictures. Upload pictures from your own digital camera. View your portraits after a session. Share your favorites with family and friends. Use your portraits to crate unique gifts and keepsakes.”

Searsphotos is nicely designed and really easy to use. The site has all the advantages and brand recognition of its parent company, Sears, Roebuck and Co., a leading U.S. retailer of apparel, home and automotive products and services.

Are prices competitive? Is the file limit of 500K clearly hurting their print quality? How they will be able to compete with a large number of websites offering not only digital photos related services but also the possibility of sharing videos and audio files?