Sunday, August 23, 2015

Do you want to print photo from the cloud, not just from your local device?




Does your family have multiple smart devices snapping away photos?  Maybe you also drag around big SDR camera for that perfect shot :-)

You should BACKUP those photos to a NAS or cloud?   Sometimes you may want to print a few photos to pickup the same day?  Below are my setup and my experience in try to print photo from my Android device.


OS:  Android


Backup:  Synology NAS and currently also using http://photo.google.com, include Windows’s Google Photos Backup version 1.1.0.239; this helps to load SDR camera's photo


Must have features:  

  • Able to print Photo Google (cloud), optional from my NAS (network)**
  • Pickup photo the same day.
  • I am surrounded by Walgreens all within 2-3 miles, one CVS and Target.  
  

** if you map drive with something like “ES File Explorer” the photos will appears just like it's on your smart device.



NOTE: as app may quickly add features, my review include version number. 

 

Walgreens App ver 5.2 can only browse local device’s photo and anything you have upload to photo.walgreens.com, Dropbox, facebook, Flickr etc. There is no option to see google cloud, maybe next version.







Kicksend 3.3.2.19   local device only, even after I logged into with my google account and confirmed with SMS code I still can’t see photos I backup to google.  boooo

Screenshot below show you must select from local, there are no option to do anything else.
 




Print Photo: 1h Photo Prints! 4.2.2.- 106 Looks like easy to use interface, wish the developer would put screenshot of option in the google play (see below). I can logged into my google account and see all of my photos!!!






After select photos you can quickly preview the print, modify how many print you want and select location to pickup (make sure input your name and email).. The photo is directly send to Wagreens. I tested with 4X6 but there are other options
I pickup my photo from local Walgreens and everything looks great!







In conclusion: For now the winner is this oddly named
Print Photo: 1h Photo Prints!





Wait there is more, I'll test another app when I need to print a few photos https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meamobile.printicular