Sally Wiener Grotta

Apple Photo combines a great price with one of the highest-quality printed calendars available, but it offers little in the way of customization.

Apple's photo book service produced a great book at a very competitive price, but your creative options are limited.

The quality of Nations Photo Lab's physical book was poor, photo reproduction was uneven and the software is limited.

GotPrint's software isn't as intuitive or as fun to use as Mixbook's. But it produced a high-quality postcard, and the price can't be beat.

Picaboo's postcard-project software is a close rival to Mixbook's in terms of flexibility, creativity and intelligence. If only Picaboo's print and photo quality were better.

Creating a postcard with Amazon Prints is a frustrating process, with very limited software and unsatisfactory print quality.

Apple Photo delivers a quality postcard, but its software, which is simple and easy to use, restricts creative freedom.

Costco's online printing service offers the barest minimum of choices and delivers a ho-hum printed postcard.

The Logitech Circle 2 has innovative, easy-to-use software and great person-detection. However, the camera's image quality is disappointing and its functionality is limited.

Honeywell’s Lyric C1 security camera is inexpensive, but its image and video quality are merely adequate, and the audio is poor, even for this price.

Get the Arlo Go if you want or need to take your security camera with you when you travel, even into the woods.

This hugely popular app makes short work of editing and sharing photos.

This app has a number of great advanced photo-editing tools.

This photo will self-destruct in ten seconds.

The one app you need for backing up all your photos, from any device.

This photo-editing app has everything a casual smartphone photographer could want.

The small, inconspicuous D-Link DCS-2530L produces excellent daylight video and one-way audio, but its night vision is merely adequate.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 remains a solid option for consumers, especially novices, who want an easy-to-use image-editing product that can grow with you as you learn.

Although its learning curve is too steep for novices, GIMP is free and has a nice set of photo editing tools.

Google Photos is great at organizing and consolidating all your photos from your various devices.

Apple Photos is a free, fun and very-easy-to-use app for accessing, organizing and sharing your photos and videos.

Affinity Photo is our pick for the best budget photo editor for pros.

A great all-around photo editor for novices and hobbyists alike.

The Arlo Pro is an excellent wireless security camera with great video, free cloud storage, powerful motion detection and programmable scheduling.