Today's digital cameras make it easy to document life's special occasions and build stockpiles of beloved memories. Unfortunately, retaining images on your computer's hard drive or camera's memory cards makes it difficult to showcase such magical moments. Luckily, Shutterfly not only provides a complete set of free tools to organize and share your photos directly online, but customers can order an assortment of physical prints and more elaborate items generated from their favorite images.

Shutter Fly provides free versatile software that allows budding photographers to view, organize, edit and enhance their digital images before uploading them to the provided photo hosting service. Membership at the site is not only free, but customers can test drive the brilliant results by receiving 15 complimentary prints delivered directly to their door. Additional prints, which are available in a variety of popular small and large sizes including wallet, 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10 sizes, are always photo lab film quality. Customers can even include descriptions, dates and printed text on the photograph's back. Photographers can use a series of automated tools to alert their friends and family to the online images, which they, too, can order from directly.

Using www.shutterfly.com you can transform your prints into tasteful decor and artwork, including mugs, magnets, archival storage boxes, canvas prints and calendars. Turning birthday, vacation, wedding and baby photos into publishing-house grade picture books replete with captions is a snap. Parents can dazzle their toddlers with personalized Sesame Street picture books, featuring their child as the main character. Custom greeting cards, party invitations, note cards and photo cards, featuring single or multiple photos and even collages, are ingenious, mindful and downright touching. With money saving annual and prepaid print plans, photography has never been more fun or affordable.