How to enhance your pictures Getting started Shutterfly can help you make your pictures look their best with our easy-to-use online tools. We’re going to show you the different ways to enhance your pictures. To begin, sign in and go to the My Pictures page. Open any album to view the pictures contained within it. To get a better idea of which images could use enhancing, you may wish to adjust the size of the thumbnails. Do this by clicking on the large thumbnail picture icon in the lower-right corner of the main work area. Now you’ve got a better look at your pictures. What sort of fixes and enhancements need to be made? Perhaps some were taken using a flash, and the subjects have a case of the dreaded “red eye.” Maybe a few of them could use cropping to remove some distracting objects in the background. Others might benefit from a soft-focus effect, or you may wish to add a border to make your prints look more stylish. Select the pictures you’d like to enhance. If you’re only selecting a few of them from your album, you can click on the specific picture thumbnails. If you’d like to make enhancements to each picture in the album, select “all” at the top of the main work area, then click the “Enhance” button at the top of the page. How to enhance your pictures Fix red-eye The pictures that you selected for enhancing can be edited one-by-one on the “Enhance Picture” page. Let’s tackle fixing red-eye first. You’ll notice there are two arrows on the right side of the page. Click on these to scroll forwards and backwards through the series of selected pictures. When you’ve found one with a red-eye problem, choose the “Fix” tab on the left side of the page. Then move your cursor over the large thumbnail in the middle of the page until you are directly over the red eye. Click once and you’ll notice a preview thumbnail of the eye in the “Fix” palette. Click on the red-eye in the preview and the red-eye should disappear. Select the “Save Fix” button right below the preview thumbnail to save the fix, or select “Cancel Fix” to undo it. How to enhance your pictures Crop and center subjects To crop your pictures, click on the “Crop” tab on the left side of the page. You’ll notice that the large image in the middle of the page now displays a transparent box with black edges and white boxes at the corner. Also, when you mouse over the thumbnail, the cursor icon has changed from a hand to four arrows. The edges, corners and icon are your cropping tools. To crop, click and hold on any of the edges or corners, then drag your mouse up, down, left or right to see what effect it has on the crop. Click inside the boundary lines to drag the cropped area around the page until it’s placed just right. Go ahead and play around with this tool. You can also adjust the crop shape using the options under the “Crop” tab. Move from “EasyCrop” to “4x6”, “5x7”, “8x10” or the two orientations, to see the difference. Select the “Custom Crop Tool” link for Free Crop or Square Crop. How to enhance your pictures To see how your crop looks, click the “Print Preview” button below the large thumbnail. Click “Done” to finish, or to change your crop. Remember, you can always choose the “Revert to original” link on the right side of the page to undo the changes. Add effects To add effects to your pictures, click the “Effects” tab on the left side of the page. The large image in the middle of the page displays your picture in the “No Effect” mode. You can add an effect by choosing from the list in the tab – Black & White, Color tone (similar to Sepia-tone), Saturate (which deepens the colors), and Soft Focus (which is adjustable by dragging the control bar at the bottom of the “Effects” tab). Choose the color effect that works best for your image. NOTE: Shutterfly uses exclusive VIVIDPICS® technology to improve color and sharpness automatically. If you’ve used photo editing software, such as Photoshop, on your pictures, before uploading them to Shutterfly, be sure to check the box that says “Don’t apply automatic corrections to picture.” How to enhance your pictures Add borders You can add any of more than 500 exclusive borders to your pictures, including ones specifically created for baby, birthday and wedding images. To add borders to your pictures, click the “Borders” tab on the left side of the page. The pull-down menu in the tab defaults to “Simple” style. Choose from white, black line, black, shadow box and blur borders, or choose a different style from the pulldown menu. With “Simple” style, you can adjust the width of the borders and trim your picture to make the border an even width. With other styles selected, use the Zoom buttons in the tab to zoom in and out on your picture, and use the move arrows to place the image the way you want. If you’d like to apply the border you’ve chosen on any single picture to the other selected pictures from your album, simply select the link on the right side of the page that says “Apply this border to this set of pictures.”