Make amazing calendars from your Instagram photos with keepsy

As you will have seen from my previous post, keepsy the photo book publisher has just announced their new calendar printing service.

Prior to this announcement, keepsy were kind enough to send me a sample calendar made up from some of my Instagram photos, and very nice it is too. Nicely printed on good quality lightweight card, from either your Instagram, Flickr, Picasa or Facebook photos, these calendars will look good hanging on any wall. Priced at $19.95 USD for a 12 month calendar or $25.95 USD for 18 month one, these calendars would make a great personalised Christmas gift for yourself, friends or family.

Main features of the new keepsy calendars are:

• The site integrates Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook APIs, so you can get your photos from any of these services -- not just Instagram.
• A cool new feature is the ability to access a *friend's* Instagram feed to make gift calendars or albums. We think this will be a big hit during the holidays. We're the first to enable this, as far as I know. (It's important to note that the person must be one of your Instagram followers if you want to access their photos -- so you can't make a book or calendar out of just anyone's pics. You also need accept terms that you have (or *would* have, if it's a surprise) their permission to print their photos. This limits the scope of givers and receivers to close friends and relatives -- which is perfect for the gift scenario -- but doesn't allow, say, Justin Bieber or Snoop Dogg fans to go create celebrity fan books, or for errant creeps on the service to just highjack your photos without permission.) 
• A 12-month calendar is $19.95, while an 18-month is 25.95. 
• We're shipping to 22 countries via USPS - cost varies depending on destination. All US domestic shipping is via FedEx ground and is $7.95 
• Turnaround on domestic orders is 5 to 10 business days. We recommend ordering by December 12th to avoid any issues with the holiday delivery rush. For International delivery, we recommend ordering by December 5th.

For more information visit keepsy.com

Press Release: Keepsy launches Instagram Calendars

November 1st, 2011 - Menlo Park CA. If you're an iPhone user, you've undoubtably heard of Instagram by now. The hot photo-sharing application that has taken the world by storm now has over 10 million users and hundreds of millions of photos uploaded. While some experts are scratching their heads over how the free application will eventually make money, some intrepid companies are diving in head first.   

One such Silicon Valley startup is riding this wave with printed books and -- starting today -- with printed calendars.

"We've been really amazed by the customer feedback on our Instagram books," said Keepsy CEO Peter Weck. "The print quality has been so high that introducing new products with Instagram photos was an easy next step for us."

The award-winning site now offers 11" x  8.5" wall calendars starting at $19.95. Keepsy's integration with Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and Picasa allows seamless import of photos from these online services.

"With nothing to upload or download, making a book or calendar takes only a few minutes," said VP of Product, Blake Williams.

The first website to allow users to create Instagram books -- Keepsy is fast becoming a leading innovator in mobile-to-print technologies. This is the second announcement in as many weeks from the company, as they gear up for the holidays. Last week, Keepsy announced a new "Gift Book" feature that allows friends and family to make printed Instagram books -- and now calendars -- using each others' photos. To ensure that albums are only printed as personal gifts, Keepsy requires that a given Instagram user follows the album or calendar creator in order to access the photos.*

"If you're part of the Instagram community, we can't think of a better holiday gift than getting your friend a surprise album or calendar of their best photos," said Williams. "And now that we're shipping to 22 countries, your friends can be just about anywhere."

About Keepsy: Keepsy uses the power of social networks to create custom, collaborative photo albums and calendars. People can create their own custom albums and invite friends to add their own photos and messages to the album. Keepsy was founded by Peter Weck, Blake Williams, and Kai Zhao. Keepsy's investors include James Hong, Tim Connors, and Dave McClure's 500Startups fund. To learn more about Keepsy, please visit http://www.keepsy.com

*Other restrictions apply. For more information, visit http://www.keepsy.com/faqs#503

Announcement: keepsy Instagram Gift Books, now available

"Why not give a friend a keepsy Instagram gift book for Christmas"

It’s great to make a photo book out of your own Instagram pics, but what if you could make a book for a friend… using "their" photos?

Now you can! And just in time for the holidays. Announcing Instagram Gift Books — All you need to do is log-in to Instagram on Keepsy and then replace your username with your friend’s username. Their pics will load automatically in our photo selector, pre-sorted by number of ‘likes’.

Make you keepsy Instagram photo album or gift book here.

Press Release: Keepsy launches Instagram Gallery

Keepsy releases first Instagram gallery - Photo album site first to create curated online gallery of Instagram photographers.

Today, Silicon valley startup Keepsy announces the first curated online "gallery" of Instagram photo albums.

"We've heard people describe Instagram as 'Twitter for photos' but that is really doesn't do the application justice. It is so much more than that," said co-founder Blake Williams. "We've been closely watching the photos coming through our system and the quality is simply stunning. Our aim is to create and curate a space that showcases this creative potential for mobile photography."

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Make Instagram books with Blurb

Blurb, the online self publishing book service has just joined the Instagram party, with its very one create an Instagram book service.

Blurb join Keepsy in the Instagram book market, and just like Keepsy, creating an Instagram book is as easy as 1-2-3. Once you have authenticated your Instagram account with this new Blurb service, your Instagrams are automatically imported and arranged in a 7x7 inch formated book. Then, just like Keepsy, you can edit, add text, rearrange the pages and edit the layout, customise the cover, and when done, order and send it to print.

With prices starting at an attractive $10.95 USD for a 20 page softcover book, this new service from Blurb is likely to give Keepsy a run for its money.

For more information, or to create your very own Blurb Instagram book, then head over to Blurb's dedicated Instagram book page here.

AppJudgment talks Instagram and Hipstamatic printing

AppJudgment's Anthony Carboni talks with iPhoneographer DocPop [who I'd not heard of until now] about the printing services that are part off. linked to, or based around Instagram and Hipstamatic.

In the video below, they about Postagram, Printstagr.am, Keepsy, Hipstaprint, and even Walgreens. [If you want to skip all the intro stuff, then Chris and DocPop start their chat at 6 minutes 10 seconds].

Guide: How to make a Keepsy Instagram photo book

You have have seen my posts about Keepsy, the service that lets you create photo books from your Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or PicPlz accounts, well now, thanks to the guys at Keepsy, here is a video guide to creating a Keepsy photo album.

If you like the idea of creating your very own Keepsy, then help support the iPhoneography blog by clicking on the Keepsy advert found to the right, which will redirect you to the Keepsy website, and earn the blog some commission.

Keepsy meets Facebook, Flickr and Picplz

Keepsy, the Instagram photo book printing service has extended its service to Facebook, Flickr and Picplz [with Picasa coming soon], so if you use any of these services for sharing your photos, you can now produce fantastic photo books, quickly and easily.

For more information, check out the Keepsy blog post here.

Keepsy now offering International shipping for their Instagram photo books

Keepsy, the Instagram photo book printing service, is now shipping to countries outside the USA.

Printing and shipping takes between 10 to 15 business days from the time of your order, and ship to: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

In addition to printing photo books from Instagram, Keepsy are planning to open up this service to support the printing of photo books from Facebook, Flickr, and more. This new addition to their printing service is due later this month, with improved templates and a better album building experience.

For more information on Keepsy, visit their website here.

Create an Instagram photo book with Keepsy

Want to create a photo book from your Instagram photos? Then check out Keepsy.

Keepsy lets you connect to your Instagram stream, and then automatically produce a photo book from your photos, based on the most liked photos. Although this is the quickest and easiest way to produce your Keepsy Instagram photo album, you can manually select from your own favourite Instagrams, and then tweak, edit, reposition and alter titles and captions, before sending to print.

Currently, a Keepsy Instagram hardback photo book will set you back $29.95 for 30 pages, and is only available in the USA, but anyone can create an online album and share for free.

*** Special Offer ***

Make an awesome Instagram photo book between now and May 8th and get 50% off. Just enter code: INSTAMEET when you order and Keepsy will cut the price of your 11 x 8.5 hardback album in half.

For more information, check out keepsy.com