Belly Beginnings - Resources-Pictures

Resources—Pictures

Sears and JC Penney studios both have a sitting fee, but there’s a club membership deal that will get you out of that (about $30 for two years). Occasionally, there are coupons that remove the sitting fee without the club. They take the pictures, you can see them, and when you’re done you get to pick if you want the package deal (lots of pictures of one pose for a low price) or to buy them by the sheet (better if you like more poses). I would never go without a coupon though. The basic deal is “Package for $X.99 OR Sheets for $X.99.” The coupons are included in mailings, in magazines, on some clothes tags, or you can get them online.

For all of them, when you go to pick up the pictures they have more sheets printed in hopes that you will buy them. Sometimes that can work to your advantage; if you got the package deal but really like a second shot, sometimes that second one will be an extra print to tempt you.

Kiddie Kandids are available in some Babies R Us’s; they’re more expensive, but you get the prints the same day.

JC Penney offers the shoot on CD as well (others may too, but that’s who I’m the most familiar with). It gives you rights to reprint them so you can put them in your digital scrapbook or print them very inexpensively at Walgreens or the like.

Speaking of digital scrapbooking, I’ve just fallen in love with it. I purchased Foto Fusion so I could create each page. The software gives you control over just about everything to design the sheet, then it can be exported out as one big .jpg. Using a photo book printing service (I’ve been using Inkubook but there are many options), change the page layout to be one picture and upload the image that Foto Fusion created. I guess I’m a bit of a control freak, I don’t like to be forced into using their designs.