A photo album is edited and printed distributed over a client server system. A server system stores low quality and high quality digital representations of photographs. The server system sends low quality digital representations to a client computer remote from the server system in association with respective identifiers of the photographs. A user edits an electronic representation of pages of the photo album at the client computer, using an interactive display with the low quality digital representations of interactively selected photographs. After editing the client computer sends an editing result to the server system, including identifiers of the selected photographs. The server system retrieves an prints the stored high quality digital representation of the selected photographs identified by the identifiers. The user also selects positions of the photographs on pages, preferably using positions from selectable templates. The client computer may also perform user selected transformations of the photographs, transformation commands being sent to the server system to execute corresponding transformations on the high quality representations before printing.