I got the newborn pictures at the hospital. Didn't buy them because they're like $90-$100, and that seemed ridiculous to me, and the pictures weren't even that great because LO wasn't cooperating. But now that I'm thinking about it I almost regret it because he was sooooo tiny and new, in all his puffy and discolored glory! So I logged onto my account, looked at the pictures... There's a few that I really want to have but I don't think it's worth paying $100...
I know this question is probably ridiculous.. but is there any way to hack the site and just print them?
Re: Our365...
It will still have their watermark on it, but you can hit pause on each picture and take a screen print then paste it into a document. I don't plan on ever printing them but I wanted to be able to look back at them if I ever wanted to so this was a good option for me.
Our pics weren't very good either if it makes you feel any better.
Our pictures could've been better, too. I think newborns generally aren't that photogenic. I thought they were kind of cute anyway. My DH is a photographer, though, and he absolutely hated them (his pictures were actually better and he was just using a phone...he forgot his camera b/c we thought I was in false labor going in). A family photographer is just a stroke of luck, though
Most of the things they do with the pictures can be done in Photoshop in about five minutes, so if you learn how to edit with that (or GIMP...it's almost the same thing but free) you'll be able to make some pretty great albums from home. I remember they had a specialty sky page and all they did was put down a black-to-white gradient as a mask layer and reduced the opacity of a generic pic of clouds.
Trust me, though, knowing how to use photo editing software totally ruins sentimental companies like Our365 for you, lol.