photo gifts

As much as I love my camera phone, I tend to forget to do anything with those photos, since downloading them to my computer means one extra step in a day that is already too full of "extra steps." So my overworked brain is thankful to fi…

Why give mom one camera for Mother's Day when she can have an entire wishlist's worth? So it's not actual cameras (unless you're a zillionaire), but rather A Visual Compendium of Cameras poster , which is almost as cool. And less clutter…

Cool photo gifts for mom tend to be a sure thing in the Mother's Day gift department. Since so many services have made it a snap to print incredible gifts directly from the photos you take on your Instagram account, we're all for taking …

While I'm certainly the type of mom who'd appreciate oh, a cool vintage Polaroid for Mother's Day, it doesn't mean I'm not the candle and bath salts type too. Which is why I'm giggling at this Mother's Day gift idea that brings them all …

I've seen such cool ways to turn my favorite Instagram photos into works of art for the wall , coasters for my drinks , pillows for my couch , even edible Instagram chocolate bars ...for my belly. But, one of the neatest products takes m…

With Instagram blowing up, we've had a great time finding ways to turn Instagram photos into art. There are photo gifts like albums, photo pillows , photo coasters and even chocolate . But one of the most obvious uses for your favorite s…

What do you get the person who is always behind the camera--but maybe you're not about to shell out for a new $400 lens? Here's one awesome idea. I am just loving these camera cookie cutters from Photojojo (kind of like we love everythin…

If you're looking for a fun way to mix up the tens, hundreds (or thousands in my case) photos in your camera roll, this cool new photo app is an inexpensive way to take your bevy of pictures and turn it into a work of art, Chuck Close st…

It's not surprising that longtime popular personalized card and invitation site, Tiny Prints is expanding their offering into other personalized photo gifts-- and that includes some fun iPhone cases. Even for that much coveted new iPhone…

There are two things you should know about me as a chronicler of my kids' lives: 1. I take lots of photographs of them on various devices. 2. I do absolutely nothing with those photographs. I have a sneaky suspicion that I am not alone i…

With everyone wondering where to print Instagram photos, it's nice there are helpful apps like Keepsy and cool services such as CanvasPop to turn them all into great artwork and gifts. In fact, I think I'm already done with most of my ho…

As much as I wish I were a scrapbooker--or, OK, even the kind of mama that actually puts photos into an album more than once a year--I've made my peace with the fact it's probably not gonna happen. So I flock to cool apps like Martha Ste…

I've made all sorts of amazing gifts from Instagram photos , like custom coasters even photo books from my iPhone , but I've been hesitant to try the many photo to canvas services because I'm a little worried about how the resolution wil…

At first when I heard about an edible Instagram product I thought...InstaGrahams? But nope. No clever puns. Just beautiful, delicious chocolate. The new service Cocoagraph , from 3D Fine Arts major Rae Vittorelli, merges chocolate and ph…

It's no secret that I take nearly all my photos with my iPhone, which means in order for me turn my favorite pictures into anything but a file on my computer (that no one really ever sees but me) it takes a lot of extra steps and a lot o…

The photos I see on Instagram are many things: evocative, funny, sweet, and sometimes just plain cool. But they are also really small. Which is why I'm digging a successful Kickstarter campaign that will make it so easy to get to enjoy t…

I'm pretty sure we can claim to know cool mom, author, and photographer Tracey Clark "when," since we featured her first book way back when we first started our site. She even took our first official Cool Mom Picks photo, back when we ea…

Considering most of the photos of my kids are taken with the Instagram app , I'm always looking for cool ways to get them off my camera.So now, along with Casetagram iPhone cases and Stitchtagram pillows , you've got a new option: turnin…

As Father's Day creeps up, I think about all the cameras and photo gifts that some lucky guys are going to get. Then I think about all the photo storage they're going to need. (Especially you new daddies!) While there are plenty of optio…

As someone who only uses my smart phone as my camera, I often use my photographs as gifts, many of which happen to be taken using the Instagram app . If you're still hunting for a cool Mother's Day gifts, you don't have to look any furth…

I've come to a conclusion recently that I must make my peace with - I'm never going to catch up on updating my photo albums. Deep breaths. I've made valiant efforts to get prints made, but being about 1,247 photos behind in just two year…

Now that you Android users can enjoy an Instagram obsession like me, the next thing you'll find yourself wanting to do is to display your photos on something other than your smart phone screen. So aside from all the cool ways you can pri…

Now that photo apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have made square photos more common, it was only a matter of time before someone got into the frame game with options made just for our collective iPhoneography obsession. Hatchcraft is …

Instagram loyalists: you may want to sit for this one. If you love Instagram like we do (who doesn't?), you'll be thrilled to know that you can now take the sweetest, finest or coolest photos from your Instagram feed and get them printed…