DesignerPhotoGifts.com is a convenient location to create, preview, and order a wide variety of items able to be personalized with your pictures.

We offer you the option to use your traditional pictures or digital pictures to create high-quality, attractive products that are sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

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Do you have a Catalog?

Our products are limited only by your imagination. Any image or combination of images can be used, provided you have the right to reproduce them. Because of this, we do not have a catalog.

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To best view and order our products, we recommend the following technical requirements be met:

Recommended Browsers

Netscape® 6.0 or higher or
Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher or
America Online 8.0 or higher or
Mozilla 1.2 or higher

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No setup fee is required for any of our personalized products. There are no hidden charges. You pay for all the personalized products you want, plus the applicable shipping charge. That’s all.

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Due to our advanced digital process, there is no minimum quantity required to order. You can order one of each of our products, or you can order a thousand of each of our products. It’s entirely up to your needs.

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There are 5 basic file types you can use for your photo gifts: .jpg, .bmp, .tif, .png, and .gif.

JPEG (can be .jpg or .jpeg)- JPEG's support over 16 million colors, but can "distort" the image to compress the file size. The amount distortion is directly related to the 'quality' setting the image is saved with. We also recommend that you use the least amount of jpeg compression possible. (This is a setting on cameras that is sometimes called "quality" or "compression".) While high resolution and low compression will increase transfer times, they will produce the best results.

BMP (MS Windows Bitmap Format) - BMP is the native bitmap file format of the Microsoft Windows environment. For example, if you create a document using Paint, chances are it will save as a .bmp. BMP files are usually not compressed, and so are large for their image quality.

TIFF (Tag Image File Format, can be .tif or .tiff) - A bitmap graphics file format that was developed by Aldus and Microsoft for storing scanned images. It can be used with black and white, gray scale, 8-bit color, and 24-bit color images, and transfers well between different platforms. TIFF images can be compressed, although loss does occur.

PNG - Portable Network Graphics format that supports a completely loss-less compression.

GIF – Graphic Interchange Format files work best with simple line art, logos and icons.

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YES! In fact, black and white images can give your photo gifts a "timeless" feel that will give them a special feeling to you many years from now.

Feel free to use black and white images, sepia ("old-fashioned") images, or even just designs your kids have drawn using Paint or some other computer-graphics program.

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Email service@milfordheirloom.com
Phone 800.852.8064

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We will accept almost any size picture. However, in order to be able to efficiently produce your order, we will only store enough image data to print a 300 dpi 10.5" x 8" picture – the largest possible image we print on a Photo Gift.

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When printed as an 8x10, here’s what they’ll look like (only part of the image is shown):

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Standard Shipping will usually arrive 3 to 5 business days from the time the order is shipped*.

Expedited shipping will arrive up to 2 business days from the time the order is shipped*.

*Most orders are shipped within 2 business days.  During times of high volume, or for certain products it may take longer to produce and ship an order. Please refer to the FAQ for your product.

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We allow you to add your own picture or graphic to any Photo Gift you buy. You can use either pictures you have at home that are already developed, digital pictures (or any other graphic) you have on your computer, or – for Photo Gifts that allow more than one picture to be used – a combination of the two.

To provide the best quality image, it is recommended that the mail-in photo image be no less than 3.5" x 5" in size.

If you plan to use a picture you have at home: a. When you are designing your Photo Gift, select the option to use a "Mail-in Photo."

b. Once your order has been paid for and finalized, a Confirmation Page will appear with a link to the printer-friendly order form. Select this link to open the form.

c. If you have a printer, you may print the form as is. If you do not have a printer available, simply write the necessary information from the form on a sheet of paper and mail it with the photo. You only need to print the form once; each image you’ve told us you want to mail in will have it’s own space on the form.

d. Fill out the order form. Enter any descriptive details about the photo or image in the image description area. This area is especially useful if you plan to use more than one mailed image or photo in your order. This will help us to ensure that each picture appears on the correct month.

e. Once you have completed the order form, simply mail the form along with the photo(s) to:

PhotoGiftWorks.com
C/O Centrics, LLC
11477 Olde Cabin Road Suite 330
Creve Coeur, MO. 63141

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No. Although there are advantages to creating an account and logging in before you start to create your Photo Gifts, you are only required to create an account when you actually check out.


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We allow you to shop completely anonymously up until the point where you go to check out. When you place an order, we need to have some basic contact information about you so that we can get in touch with you in the unlikely chance that there is a problem with your order.

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If you have logged in before uploading images, you will be able to use those images to create your Photo Gifts for at least 30 days. We clean all accounts regularly in order to keep the performance of the website high, and so it’s always easy for you to see the most recent images you’ve uploaded.

If you have not created an account, you will need to upload your images each time you visit PhotoGiftWorks.com

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If you have uploaded your pictures into an account, the only way someone else can see your images is if you share your username and password with them. Other than that, you are the only person who can see your images.

If you have not created an account and you upload images, nobody will be able to see them unless they sit down at the same computer you used, and your session is still valid. If you want to make sure this doesn't happen, just close your browser when you're done.

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1. On the Login page, click the "Forgot Your Password?" link. It’s right under the space to enter your username and password.
2. Enter the email address you use to log in.
3. Click Continue.

Your password will be sent to the email address you entered in step 2.

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What is a cookie? A cookie is a piece of information that your web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) places on your computer so that web sites can identify you. We use cookies so that you can conveniently re-use your images to create different Photo Gifts without logging in. We DO NOT contain any account information in cookies. In order to make sure that your computer is accepting cookies:

Internet Explorer:

• Select "Tools" from the toolbar at the very top of the screen.
• Scroll down and select the "Internet Options…" option – it will be at the bottom of the Tools Menu.
• Select the "Privacy" tab.
• Make sure your setting is NOT set to "Block all Cookies".

Netscape:

• Select "Edit" from the toolbar at the very top of the screen. 
• Scroll down and select the "Preferences" option – it will be at the bottom on the Edit menu. 
• Select the "Privacy & Security" line from the menu at the left. 
• Select the "cookies" sub menu. 
• Make sure that "Disable Cookies" is NOT selected.
  

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First of all, always make sure you check over all details in your Photo Gifts thoroughly to make sure that what you are ordering is correct.

If you decide you want to change something after you’ve added your Gift to your shopping cart, but before you check out, there is no problem. Simply click to edit the item in your cart, and you’ll be able to make any changes you want.

Once you’ve completed your order, our automated manufacturing process immediately schedules your Photo Gift for production. Because we strive to deliver high-quality Photo Gifts to all our customers as quickly as possible, we are unable to accept changes to an order after an order has been placed.

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What looks good on your screen will not necessarily look good printed.

The preferred image resolution depends on the size the image will be printed on your Photo Gift.  Some of our ornaments have an image hole that is only about 1¾" in diameter; in our calendars, the image will print much larger - 8" x 10½". 

We will display a message if you select an image we feel may not have a high enough resolution to look good.

For best results, please check the FAQs or Instructions for the Photo Gift you are creating to make sure that your image meets the recommended size for that gift.

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Due to the volume of requests, we have priced our products to be affordable and produced using standard templates and design attributes.  Our photo gift designers use their best artistic judgment when creating your gift and pay special attention to image quality, colors of clothing, hair and skin tones.  All colors selected for use in Special Effects are at the discretion of our discriminating artists.  We are pleased to discuss any customizations that you may desire. Additional fees may apply.

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