5. Snapfish

Like Kodak's EasyShare Gallery, Snapfish started out its life as an independent company. In 2005 HP bought Snapfish, though you don't have to own an HP camera (or printer) to use the service.

Snapfish has both an online site and an offline tool for editing photos. There is a free offline tool called Snapfish Express Photoshow, and a paid tool called Photoshow Deluxe that costs $39.99. For the purpose of this review we only tested the free Express version.

Unfortunately, as was the case with the other sites in this review, online and offline are not well integrated. There is no apparent easy way to view your online Snapfish photos in the offline client, and the way that photos are shared is by uploading to the online site, even though you can't directly see what's already there.

The Snapfish Express Photoshow includes editing and enhancing features similar to those of the online client, and they work similarly (as opposed to Kodak's EasyShare). The offline program, though, does include features that are disabled in the free version (such as Touchup) .

Additional features in the offline free client include the ability to make a musical slideshow as well as a desktop screensaver.

Whereas with Flickr users are given a number of download options, with Snapfish the option to download is included - but for a fee. That's right, Snapfish will actually charge you to download hi-res versions of your photos.

As is the case with Kodak EasyShare the online gallery offers free unlimited online photo storage for up to 12 months from the date you first upload an image to your account. Snapfish will keep the photos online as long as the member remains active by making a purchase at least once every 12 months.

Prints from Snapfish can be delivered by mail, or you can get them sent to Walgreens, Publix, Circuit City, Bloom, BiLo, Albertson, Bashars' or Longs Drugs for pickup.