When your best photo's drop off the front page....Posterfriend Review

If you're anything like me then whenever you take a photo that you think is great you immediately want to share it and you Instagram or Facebook or G+ it. It sits at the top of your timeline hopefully attracting a few comments and giving everyone a smile or a laugh or a 'wow'. Two days later though, and it's gone, forgotten, disappeared.

I've often intended to save a collection of my photo's and get them printed off, but I've never got around to it.

It's a well-known fact that the best ideas are generally the simplest. The clothes peg is the usual example of something everyone could have invented if we had only thought of it first...I think that Posterfriend really have hit on one of those incredibly simple yet brilliant ideas. They take your chosen Facebook photo's and turn them into a poster. Simple. You can even choose some of your friend's photo's for your poster if you wish.

My full poster

I decided on an A1 poster with 63 photo's that were smaller, although still plenty big enough to see from a distance, as I wanted to show how my children have grown over the last 5 years and needed to include examples for everyone. I also had the perfect clip frame already. There are tons of different sizes and photo options available, as well as different colours for the photo surrounds. I think if I was putting together a poster for a life event like a Christening or Wedding I would choose less photo's in a bigger scale, and if I was doing a photo for a special birthday then I'd want to have as many photo's as possible and a bolder background/frame colour. 

All in all it took about 40 minutes to design my poster, it was incredibly simple and intuitive. You tend to remember which photo's you were most proud of, and because of how Facebook arranges pictures into albums it's really simple to search through. You can't take photo's directly from your 'timeline', they have to be in an album, so I actually specially re-uploaded a couple of mine. There was even one where I don't have the original any more, so I saved it to my laptop from my timeline, then re-uploaded it to a Facebook album.

I had an absolute blast going through my pictures from the last 5 or so years, the memories for me came flooding back and it was great to put them all together on one big poster I've chosen to frame before displaying on my wall. I did pinch a couple of photo's from my partner's Facebook and I resisted the urge to just make a poster from everyone's profile photo's, but I will be back - including to put together a poster for the Grandparents for Christmas. 

 
The only 2 points that aren't perfect are the inability to use timeline photo's directly, and the fact that the photo's are sometimes slightly cropped to fit, so in fact I ended up with one photo that I'm not happy with, but if I'd been a tiny bit more observant then I'd have realised and recropped it so that it fit better.

I have to say I absolutely love my poster. It's full of my own best and favourite photo's. The funniest and happiest moments from the last few years. The quality is lovely and the printing is excellent. It's genuine photo quality and really sharp. What's not to love really?

The children have really enjoyed looking at this, and it's going in the hall where we'll all walk past it every day and hopefully remember something with a smile, or spot a photo we'd forgotten about.

Posterfriend has various options starting from a 16"x16" (42cm x 42cm) poster at only £12 

with 25, 36 or 64 photo's. 

I was sent a poster free of charge for review.