Vickie P. from our Shutterfly Gallery Guru team, tells us how she discovered the magical process of digital photo restoration, shares a couple of amazing before-and-after examples, and provides tips on how to get your own photos restored (at scancafe) without doing a spot of digital cleaning yourself.

I’d like to introduce you to our very own Ishantha L., Shutterfly’s Senior Director of User Experience. In his spare time, Ishantha is an accomplished abstract painter who utilizes Shutterfly photo books to help him tell the story behind his art. Here, Ishantha shares his journey through the photo book making process - from establishing his story goals and gathering his materials, to putting it all together with our easy-to-follow photo book making process.

Rachael S. is a nature enthusiast who loves travelling with her husband by motorcycle. She is also a member of our Shutterfly Gallery Guru team, dedicated to supporting your photo book and storytelling creativity.

In this interview, Rachael tells us how she was designated family historian, how road trips and family photos are her favorite subjects, and also imparts some great advice to us fellow storytellers - getting creative is easier with a little help from fellow artists (like us, on Shutterfly Gallery).

Let me preface this article by letting you know we’ll be talking about family pets – so if you’re not into the whole four-legged-friend thing, you may skip this read. But if you love furry critters, then let’s party!

Do you have pets? If so, have you taken a look at our Pets category? No? Then stop right now and visit immediately. I guarantee it will make you smile.

Still haven’t convinced you? Then let me share some of my favorite furry photo books.

Shutterfly Gallery has taught me that weddings come in all shapes and sizes, and that every wedding has a special story to tell. Take mine for instance.

We planned our wedding in 6 weeks - scary, I know, but it actually worked. The secret? Don’t laugh, but the key to our success was in large part due to our wedding date - April 1, 2000. Since many couples were squeamish about choosing April Fool’s Day for a wedding ceremony, all the services associated with weddings for that particular day were available - some at a nice discount, too.

First of all, have you built your Shutterfly Share site yet? If not, get on it, because it’s easy to set up, incredibly useful, and looks sharp and professional with very little effort.

Plus it has all sorts of fun features like calendars, photo uploads, blogs, forums, polls, rosters, task lists, and more. So you can use it as your own site, a family site, a team site, school site, wedding site, anything really.

Second, once you’ve created your fabulous Share site, did you know you can use it to share your favorite photo books (yours included of course)? Here’s how.