How to Print Your Book with Shutterfly or Costco
Shutterfly prints 8 × 8 in square photo books. It doesn’t accept PDFs, so you upload the page pictures and set each one to fill a page. Costco Photo’s online books are made by Shutterfly and work the same way.
- File to use
- Page pictures (ZIP)
- You get
- 8 × 8 in hardcover or softcover
- Good for
- Frequent sales and Costco member pricing
Step by step
- 1
Download the page pictures (ZIP) from your book page and unzip them.
- 2
Start an 8 × 8 in photo book on Shutterfly and choose a layout with one photo per page.
- 3
Upload the pictures. Shutterfly accepts JPG files; it doesn’t accept PDFs.
- 4
Place 01.jpg on the cover and one picture per page in order. Use Crop → “Full Page” so each picture fills its page.
- 5
Shutterfly books start at 20 pages: add family photos or blank pages after “The End”.
- 6
Preview every page, then order.
Good to know
- Your book has about 14 pictures (cover, dedication, story pages and “The End”). Photo-book apps need at least 20 pages, so you’ll add a few: family photos of your child make a lovely ending.
- Your pages are 8.5 in square and Shutterfly’s are 8 in, so the pictures are scaled down slightly. Nothing is stretched, and about 1/8 in is trimmed at the edges.
- Costco closed its in-store photo centers; Costco Photo books are ordered online and made by Shutterfly.
Sizes, prices and options are set by Shutterfly and change; we checked them in November 2026. See Shutterfly for current details. We’re not affiliated with Shutterfly.
Questions
Why can’t I upload the PDF to Shutterfly?
Shutterfly only accepts image files such as JPG for photo books. That’s why your download includes the page pictures: each one is a finished page.