Best sites for creating digital albums

Photography is an art but it is also the means to immortalise the memories of each person, be they special occasions, parties, happy moments or spectacular places.

In this list we see what the best sites for creating digital albumsfree to use, so you can share them via sharing links or store them online to view them at any time, using the site from your PC or phone.

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1) Google Photo

If we want a quick and practical tool to create a photo book starting from our photographs, it is certainly one of the best services Google Photocapable of automatically collecting all the photos taken with the smartphone and saving those uploaded from the PC using the site.

Once the site is open, we log in with our Google account (the account registered on an Android smartphone, the Gmail account or the YouTube account is also fine), click on the button in the left bar Album.

Here we will find the subdivision of the photos carried out directly by Google, divided by place, by date or by other active filters (created automatically).

Alternatively we can always create an online album by pressing on the item at the top Create album and choosing which photos to upload. To share a single photo album, all we have to do is open the favorite album and press on Sharethus creating a quick sharing link.

2) Microsoft OneDrive

Another very useful site for creating digital albums is OneDriveassociated with your Microsoft account and accessible from any device.

Also in this case we can use both photos uploaded from the phone and images uploaded directly from the PC. Once the images have been moved to the Microsoft cloud we open the section Photo of the cloud, we press on the menu Album at the top and create a new album by pressing on Create a new albumadding all the photos.

Even on OneDrive it is very simple to share a folder of photos by pressing on the folder itself and using your voice Share top left.

3) Amazon Photos

One of the best services for creating digital albums is Amazon Photos.

With this service we can upload photos from the phone or upload them directly from the PC. There are two different types of albums on the site screen: Family archive e Album; in the first we can save family photos and also invite relatives to create their albums on the shared space, while in the second case we can create personal albums and choose whether to keep them private or share them.

The users Amazon Prime they can benefit from unlimited photo storage, a great advantage if you have a lot of photos to save.

4) Canva

Another online service that we can use to create photo collages is Canvawhich has always been a point of reference for those who want to create online albums and edit photos.

By clicking Start Designing a Photo Album and by logging in with a free account (we can also use Facebook or Google for quick access) we will have access to numerous photo book templates (many of which are free), to fill with our photographs (which we will have to upload to the site). In addition to adding photos, we will be able to customize every aspect of our photo book: background, color gradients, texts with various sources and sizes, etc.

Once we have created our photobook we can save it on our online account or download it as a PDF to our computer, so we can share it with anyone.

5) Other sites to create digital albums

If the services we have indicated above do not convince you, below we can find other valid websites for printing photo books and collages online, all at truly competitive prices:

• FlipBuilder is a free program that allows you to create extraordinary photo albums, collages, interactive magazines and even eBooks where you flip pages with page rotation effects and animations. It also allows you to share and publish photo albums online.
• FlipHTML5 It works as a powerful creation software Flipbook to create scrolling photo books. You can import images or upload a PDF to FlipHTML5 and then organize them into an elegant album. Once the digital photo book has been created, it can be shared on social platforms such as Facebook.
• Smilebox allows you to create a collage or photo book with images in a very simple way. You can choose a format and design, select photos, customize the book, add music and publish or save it.
• MixBook it is a web application, therefore without downloading any program, which allows you to create a digital photo album with many spectacular and three-dimensional graphic effects (3D). You can add personalized text, differentiated backgrounds and many other graphic elements to make the template or album graphics interactive and communicative. You can use online photos from Flickr, Facebook, Picasaweb and Photobucket once done the photo album are the Internet, can be purchased at a truly affordable price. Albums also can also be shared via embedding in personal sites and blogs and saved on the site itself to be viewed online.
• Snapfish is an excellent site for creating digital albums where you just need to choose the photo, template and theme to get a personalized photo book to share. The site also allows you to print the photo book if you prefer, showing the price next to it.
• Shutterfly allows you to add photos from your PC, Facebook, Instagram and other social networks and modify them with an editor to improve their appearance. The album can be printed in a real photo book (obviously for a fee) or shared via the internet for free.
• Pastbook is one of the best sites to create a Photo book where to insert your photos, which can be ordered to receive it, with free shipping, at home. The photo book allows you to create the album starting from photos from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and other social networks in order to make selection quick and easy. It also automatically allows you to create the album with the best moments of the year taken from Facebook.
• Bonus print is a website on which you can upload digital photographs from your computer or from the main photo sharing sites, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook and others and apply them on them effects and backgrounds to create a personalized photo album like a collage. You can also insert covers and writings.
• photovisi a really simple web application with few options but very fast in creating photo collages. Creation is completely automatic, you just need to choose the style and background of the composition and then upload the photographs that make up the collage.
• BigHugeLabs is a site with many photo editing and free and personalized photo composition tools. Among its functions it also allows you to create photo albums with online photos from Flickr and variously composed collages with photographs uploaded from your computer.
• the photon it is not a program but a web application that is used to create photo collages. The tool provides various backgrounds onto which it is possible to paste photographs, over which frames can be superimposed, i.e. drawings of various types such as frames or fantasy elements.
• Smilebox is one of the best apps for creating photo books in just a few clicks.

Many of these sites allow you to both create and save digital albums online and start a printing process using the included services, so you can print your best memories on paper.

Conclusions

Using Google, Microsoft, Amazon or one of the other recommended sites we can quickly and easily create a digital album on which to save our memories foreversharing them only with the people we care about most.

If instead of websites we want to use PC programs, just read our guide to the best programs for creating photo collages.

If we want to create effective, funny images, with frames or with quotes of all kinds, we can read our guides to sites for putting frames and other effects on photos and how Write on images to create virtual posters with quotes.

For poster lovers, we recommend reading our in-depth study on how creare i poster online.