Nations Photo Lab Photo Prints Reviews

I downloaded NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints after reading about it on the New York Times Wirecutter. NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints is TERRIBLE. It crashes every time I tried to place an order and deleting and reinstalling NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints didn’t help. When I tried to use the website instead, it didn’t have any of the photos I had uploaded on NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . There’s also no option to delete photos from NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . When I finally contacted Customer Support, no one was available to speak so I did a live chat and all they said was to delete and reinstall NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints - and then the chat ended before I could follow up! Not worth installing.

The reason I downloaded NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints was because the desktop version was being very laggy. So i open NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints and put in the same exact photos in, and its almost 3 times the price?? On desktop the same exact photos were about 150$ meanwhile, in NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints it was a little over 400$. i don't understand how there was such a huge difference in price. i just ended up deleting NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints and using rhe laggy website instead. i also dont like how it automatically put color correction on which is an extra charge. i spent half the day going through every single photo and turning it off so it wouldnt charge me. its also difficult to properly crop the images. Also I was using my phone on the website so maybe this is why but when i was scrolling through the photos some wouldnt show up or the formatting would be weird.

The photo quality of NPL is excellent so thought I would try NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . Well I’ve spent the entire morning trying to get it to work. We just got back from a trip and wanted to get a large number of prints and I’ve spent the entire morning trying to get NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints to work. Inevitably every time I get to the checkout page, I load my credit card or pay pal and click check out and the whole thing crashes. Had issues with getting my account set up before that so I have had to load 200+ pictures 6 different times only for it not to work. Super frustrating.

I’ve ordered prints from Nations before and found them easy to work with and high quality, so I was very excited to find NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints. I uploaded 508 photos, edited the size (why did they default to 5x7 instead of 4x6? Why does adding a duplicate picture in a different print size go to the beginning of the pictures instead of staying in order? Why do they want you to scroll to the end by swiping individually instead if having an option to go to the one you haven’t reviewed yet?), selected many for duplicates in larger sizes, and tried to upload. After multiple failures I started deleting edited photos. 50 at a time until I had less than 50, and it still wouldn’t upload. Just don’t bother with NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints. Edit them on a laptop and upload to Nations that way, because NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints is a frustrating waste of time.

Absolutely not do not use this company. I ordered a personalized Christmas stocking for my daughter, the photo fit perfectly, was not close to any edges, etc. The product I got had white around a few of the sides (this was NOT part of the design). I contacted them saying that this had happened and asked what could be done. They said “this is not our normal quality” and said they could either replace or refund. I gave them benefit of the doubt and had it replaced. NOPE, waste of time. I received the same horrible quality product-white edging in new places. So I am not in the process of demanding a refund, and the stockings are going in the garbage. Very VERY disappointed in everything that has happened.

I downloaded app after a google search for photo prints lead me to them. That was 7 hours ago! I uploaded over 100 photos, for some reason, after changing the size and saving all photos, I was left with 32 photos. I went back out and started over… and over … and over.
NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints fails constantly and loses all your photos and edits. You’ll have to start over. It automatically uploads to purchases 5x7 and you have to manually change each photo size, and NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints crashes constantly.
Cropping is nearly impossible. Don’t bother with NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints.
I’m deleting and going back to Snapfish. I wish I had the lost 7 hours of my life back.

It was great for about 30 min! I installed it today because i was having trouble with the website. With the time i had available right after installing it i was able to order about 1/3 of 2 of my galleries and i planned to order the rest when i got free this evening. Fast forward get in this evening and now 3 of my 5 have no photos. Ive restarted NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints probably 15 times. I’ve reinstalled it. I’ve turned my phone on and off. Still all gone. And the website no longer works with safari i guess is what I’m told after doing a live chat.... so I’m pretty disappointed and now i get to go to another photo service to try to finish.

With all the recent iPad hype for transitioning from desktop to tablet, I was expecting more iPad functionality. I was hoping for “Files” access, add to an existing “Gallery” that was previously created and perhaps an actual iPad app opposed the iOS version. The “Photos” access is good, and social connectivity is great for users on the go, but projects exported from Lightroom, or similar software, leaves you needing to use a very specific procedure to get your photos uploaded or being pushed back to needing a desktop computer. And yes, the website does have some issues with multi-file uploads from the iPad Files app. I’m sure it will improve and looking forward to future releases, but Files and iPad users... better export to an album in Photos and be ready to create a brand new gallery or use a desktop.

This is an AWFUL app. It’s like they want to lose customers. The company is absolutely leaving money on the table by not improving NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints.

Chief complaints:
* It takes SO long for the photo library to load. I ended up selecting the photos I wanted to print in my regular photo app and saving it to a district album and then only giving NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints permission to those select photos in my phone share settings else literally the photos wouldn’t have loaded. I recommend doing this or you’ll just drive yourself mad.
* if you select photos from a google album and my iPhone photos then it errored out
* it just errors out randomly in the flow— when I tried to save the shopping address it just closed NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints

In the end printing ten photos took me 30+ minutes and I pretty much knew what I needed to print. If they weren’t well reviewed for the print quality and I hadn’t already had a subpar experience on a different print service (in terms of print quality), I’d have abandoned ship!

NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints seems not quite as full-featured as the websites, with some photo paper options not available. But I decided to use NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints out of convenience. I added a few prints on the default paper, with no problem. But then when I went to select a metallic print NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints suddenly had a completely white screen. I force quit NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints and I selected the option to pick up where I left off, but the white screen returned. I’ll now see if the website works on my iPad instead. Although right off the bat, I don’t see a “sign in with Apple” option on the website, even though I created an account via that method on their app.

NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints closing down any time you try to do anything is really frustrating. Honestly, without getting the free 5x7’s, I would not have continued to fight NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints (you wouldn’t believe what I would do for a Klondike bar). There are a lot of thing you need to go to the browser for, even on your phone works better than NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . Each screen really needs a search function, and you should be able to go to the cart from any screen. It can be difficult to navigate to specific products. Somehow, I ended up with cc on 5 of my images, even though I was very careful to deselect it on every item added. I hope they work out; not only did I waste the funds on it, my monitor has been calibrated to NPL prints, and I can’t afford the time to reorder if they are bad. These are the mistakes made when you spend 2 hours on a task that should take 15 minutes.

The is fine right up to when you want to make a purchase and it quits. Unable to use the free 5x7s for first purchase through NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . Last time I tried to purchase through NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints was two years ago, but after trying again yesterday I see they have not fixed the issue. Last time I contacted the customer support, but that was no help. If you want to place your items in the cart to purchase through the website then it works fine. However if you want to complete a purchase through NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints , good luck because I have yet to be able to.

I've ordered through Nations before, so I wanted to give NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints a shot. (Getting 10 free 5"x7" prints definitely enticed me!) I felt NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints worked fine for what it was. But as it is with many apps, you're getting a "dumbed down" version of what you can do with desktop.

For example, I could only figure out how to change print size. There was no apparent way to change paper type to glossy or metallic, you just got "lustre" (known as matte anywhere else.) Nor could you turn off color correction (conveniently an extra charge), add borders, etc. I had to go into the main website via laptop for that.

And you can obviously select pics from your phone. NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints also allows integration with Instagram/Facebook and Google. But there's no way to directly add pics from Flickr, SmugMug, or other more photo-dedicated social media. Instagram images are notoriously lo-res, so there's no way I'd want to use them as a template for a 5"x7" (or larger) photo. So I had to first download images from Flickr to upload to NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . Not the end of the world, but Flickr integration would make things a lot easier.

And when I got to check-out, the only payment option was PayPal, which seemed pretty bizarre.

NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints was easy enough to use, but I doubt I'd use it again, unless I wanted to quickly upload iPhone shot images.

I was enticed by the 10 free 5x7 prints, so I ordered using NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . I have received no emails regarding my order and no shipping information after 5 days. I went on NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints to check the status of my order and keep getting an error message. I have no idea if the order even went through. When I log into the desk top to check my order status it says I don’t have any pending orders. Hopefully they can fix these bugs because I really like NPL’s prints, but am a bit frustrated with NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints .

NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints doesn’t work well for figuring out a large order with multiple different sizes. I will change the size of a photo only to have it default back to 5x7, or I won’t be able to review every photo that I’ve chosen as it just shows up as a blank tile. Also, once I placed an order, I never got any kind of confirmation email or indication that the order went through. But it still showed up! I loved the prints, they were lovely.

NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints is great, and I’ve heard fantastic things about this company. However, there is one thing about NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints that was extremely frustrating for me. I fat finger things all... the... time. Normally that’s not an issue, but in NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints, fat-fingering an interactive element can register as a click on the background which effectively returns to the previous screen. I did this twice when editing different photos and a whopping three times when just trying to click the “make primary” button on the enter payment screen. It’s super annoying to have to enter credit card info FOUR times. Please either increase the interactive area of elements or remove the “click the background to go back” feature. If it wasn’t for this, I’d be giving NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints 5 stars.

Extremely annoying that it seems NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints does not work with uploading iPhone RAW files. I think it has something to do probably with with the file type but there’s little info online. It only gives an error that something went wrong and to try again later. Just tell me I uploaded an incompatible file so I don’t wonder what’s wrong for a month.

Otherwise, I like NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints . It is a little buggy, previews sometimes disappear. Zoom is a little granular and makes big step changes when trying to move the image in the crop window. I wish it would display printing dpi based on the image and printing size. I also wish it wouldn’t group the photos by size but I understand if you are ordering 100s it probably necessary.

Haven’t printed in years. Guessing the major printing sites have changed. Did a test order enlargement. I must have missed the cropping feature because it was mis-cropped because camera format didn’t match the the 8x10. I have to reorder the print. The image wasn’t perfect (soft rear focus) but the image had personal meaning. I will order again from them. I am guessing the lab is solid.

I was excited to see they added an app. It works well enough but still a little limited, was unable to add photos from a shared album easily. I had to use the website to upload first then come back to app. Also a little clunky changing all photo settings from a batch of photos.

However it had my account and cart from the website, worked smoothly, and was generally great to use. I hope it continues getting refined and seems like the base to a great app!

I LOVE the quality of my photo prints from Nations Photo Lab. I haven’t ordered from any other photo print company since discovering NPL over 5 years ago. I’m thrilled they now have an app and so far I have found I can do everything on NationsPhotoLabPhotoPrints that I do on the website. I haven’t run into any glitches. I like that I can easily access photos from my phone and social media accounts for quick and easy printing.