# 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.

- **Result:** 8 × 8 in hardcover or softcover
- **Good for:** Frequent sales and Costco member pricing

## Steps

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.

## Tips

- 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.

## 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.

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