A picture is worth a thousand words, making photographs and stick-figure sketches the easiest solutions to looming dissertation deadlines. Take advantage of efficient visual-communication strategies with today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of photo services at Universal Color in New Hope. This Groupon is valid toward everything in-store except video and movie transfers.

Universal Color's trained technicians adeptly custom-frame family heirlooms, archive precious memories, and restore dilapidated photos to display condition. Expert framers secure wobbly prints with more than 900 custom-framing options ($50+) that safeguard photos from errant baseballs and grasping plants with liberal interpretations of photosynthesis. Weathered photos can undergo light restoration, which removes stains, mends rips, and banishes acne scars ($46). Technicians archive stray imagery onto CDs ($89.99+ for up to 400 photos, plus $5.25 for an archival CD), converting photos into 1s and 0s that can be easily sorted or surreptitiously exchanged for more valuable 2s and 3s.

Shutterbugs can immortalize their best poses alongside favorite professional wrestlers through photo enlargements that turn a snapshot into an 11"x14" canvas ($50). A photo announcement package—which includes 50 5"x7" cards and envelopes ($42.50)—gives friends and family visual proof of a new baby, graduation, or ferret baptism.