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Our Verdict

Don't be tempted past Walmart's comparatively low prices. The software is severely limited, and the printed products are unimpressive.

For

Insufficiently inexpensive
Piece of cake photo editing

Confronting

Severely limited software
Restrictive templates
Unimpressive printed products

Tom's Guide Verdict

Don't be tempted by Walmart'south comparatively low prices. The software is severely limited, and the printed products are unimpressive.

Pros

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Comparatively inexpensive
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Easy photograph editing

Cons

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Severely limited software
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Restrictive templates
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Unimpressive printed products

Walmart Photo's software is based on Snapfish's (as is CVS Photo), but Walmart'due south has none of Snapfish'south creative flexibility, only a handful of its tools and options, and a bunch of its frustrations. What'southward more, Walmart'southward photo book, card and calendar are unimpressive. Even though the prices are comparatively depression, y'all become what you lot pay for. Spend a fleck more with Mixbook or Printique, for great flexible software and far meliorate print quality. Or, if you're on a budget, expect for the periodic discounts at Mixbook.

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Walmart review: Prices

Walmart photo book
Our test 8 x 8-inch hardcover book cost $17.57. Other sizes of hardcover glossy books include five 10 7 ($thirteen.57) and 12 ten 12 ($34.37). Hardcovers with matte covers start at $18.96 for a 5 x 7-inch book. Soft encompass books run from 5 10 vii inches for $10.96 to 8 ten 11 inches for $18.96. Additional style books include an 8 10 11-inch leather cover for $21.96, an viii x eleven-inch linen comprehend for $18.96, an 11 x fourteen-inch lay flat sleeky for $54.96, and a 4 x 4-inch mini premium layflat for $xi.96.

Walmart calendar
Our exam 8 10 11-inch 12-calendar month centerfold wall agenda cost $17.47. Other sizes available are 11 ten fourteen-inch ($25.86) and 12 x 12-inch ($22.42), plus a 10 x 5-inch desktop flip calendar ($thirteen.84).

Walmart photo card
A five x vii-inch card on premium menu stock costs 87 cents regardless of how many y'all order. Envelopes printed with your return accost are included. Special edge trims cost ten cents each for round corners, and 20 cents each for "elegant" or scalloped trims.

Walmart review: Software

Walmart's software is missing more than than information technology offers. The software has no borders, driblet shadows, shapes, cutouts, or a library of optional clip fine art.

Clip art and decorative text that are part of whatsoever volume, calendar or card template are permanently fixed in identify. While nosotros couldn't delete or move or add photos to whatever folio, nosotros could use the optional layouts to change the number of photos allowed. Unfortunately, the layouts are boring, with the fixed photo placeholders set up firmly in a horizontal/vertical grid that can't exist altered. Nor can you lot add pictures by simply dragging and dropping. What'south more, you have to delete any photos that you have placed on a page before you lot can apply a new layout.

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The book interface has just a few layouts, which meant if we wanted a iii-photograph book folio, nosotros were limited to a single layout. On the other manus, the calendar interface has a few hundred, ranging from text-but upwardly to x photos per page. Our carte du jour had only two layouts for the forepart (a option between horizontal or landscape orientation) and 19 for the back, spread out over a wide range from text-just up to 12 photos per folio.

1 recent comeback is that you lot tin at present change the background color, but simply if your template has solid color backgrounds rather than gradients or patterns. For my book template, that meant I could alter the background color of my book spine, and cypher else.

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With all these limits, I was pleasantly surprised that I could add together text anywhere on my projects. And the text tool has well-nigh of the options yous'd expect. In improver, Walmart uses a full 24-bit picker, equally well as HEX or RGB designation. The same recently used colors are displayed in both the solid background and text windows, for greater consistency.

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Walmart's calendar software now allows you to modify the calendar grid background from white to a solid color. However, since our selected calendar template uses pattern backgrounds for the upper folio (which tin can't be sampled or changed), and the height and lesser of a month spread are displayed separately, we couldn't decide what background colour I should option for the date grid to lucifer or alloy with the upper page. It was safer to leave the grid page white.

Walmart review: Print Quality

Walmart photo book
The Walmart photograph volume looks and feels cheap. The end papers are blackness textured paper, with no flyleaf. Even subsequently we opened it a couple of times, the bounden started to split up.

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The semi-gloss paper is a bit thin with a smooth feel. The photos accept a red-orange colour shift that was unappealing in some pictures. The dynamic range was suppressed, with some loss of detail in shadows and reduced contrast overall. And a number of photos are a bit soft. Type has some bleed at margins and the edges are slightly jagged.

Walmart calendar
The photos in our Walmart calendar were uneven. In some, color was highly-seasoned, though warmer than the originals. In others, skin tones had an ugly orangish hue shift. While sharpness is generally okay, a number of pictures exhibit loss of detail in the shadows. The dot blueprint is noticeable magnifying what is already some jagged type. The paper is thick and smooth, only feels cheap.

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Walmart photo cards
While non great, our Walmart menu has print quality that was above average. The photos were well-baked with good contrast, though colors had a shift to yellow. The blazon had messy edges and ink dropouts. The smooth paper was weighty, with a pleasant feel.

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Please annotation: The above impress quality analyses don't apply to Walmart'southward cards or calendars that are printed in-store, for pick up within a day. Those are simply one-sided photo prints (for the cards) and bound one-sided photographic enlargements (for the calendars.)

Walmart review: Verdict

Walmart's photo products are priced for the upkeep-conscious, though not as low as Costco Photo Centre. The software has little to exist desired. And given the photo quality of our book and calendar were below average, we can't recommend buying yours from Walmart. Yet, our Walmart card has slightly ameliorate photo quality than Costco.

And then, if you are on a strict upkeep, and don't intendance about creating a customized card, a Walmart photo card might be the right fit for y'all. Only for anyone who wants to enjoy creating a fully customized book, calendar or carte, bank check out Mixbook or Printique for flexible, versatile software and superlative-quality printing. If you want to save money, look for Mixbook's frequent discounts and coupons.

Sally Wiener Grotta is the president and lead annotator of DigitalBenchmarks test lab (world wide web.DigitalBenchmarks.com). The scripts she created for various tech publications for testing and evaluating digital cameras, image quality, software and related technologies have go manufacture standards. Amongst her numerous books is the first major volume on image processing "Digital Imaging for Visual Artists" (McGraw-Hill), co-authored with Daniel Grotta. Her hundreds of reviews, stories and columns have appeared in scores of magazines, journals and online publications.