Where do you process your digital photo?

[RYCeT]

I'm looking for place to process my digital photo, any suggestion guys. Priority is the quality. Pls share your experience. Thank's

 

[grawk]

www.mpix.com
www.ezprints.com
www.shutterfly.com

 

[jjcapurro]

mpix hands down. Mpix Link

 

[MrSlacker]

i print mine at home on Canon i860

 

[Mr.PD]

I upload to Sony Imagestation. Cheap and they look good to me.
I don't do very many or very often because I often print them at home on my Canon I850.

 

[Juergen]

Are you looking for a place you can go to or via internet/mail? I had been going to Walgreens. You could transfer the pics via the reader and have prints in minutes (if nobody else was using it). Now all of the pics get transfered to the main photo processor and you might have to wait up to an hour (must not wait for anything

). I recently tried the new service at my local HyVee grocery store. You can download them over thier web page and pick them up the next day. You pay when you pick them up. Both services seem to yield good quality photos for under 30 cents each. The last two years I made up a photo christmas card in Photoshop. Very convenient and I only print what I need.

 

[gshan]

Walgreens quality is surprisingly good. I DIY'd a bunch of passport photos for my mom on one 4x6, and they look very vibrant.

Lately my friends and I have been using SnapFish. After the ownership changed, quality seemed to go higher, albeit prices lower - $0.12 a print

 

[vibin247]

I usually color correct my photos under Photoshop, burn them as JPEGs on a CD, and send them to Wal-Mart. They do pretty good job, as does Walgreens.

 

[perplex]

if they were going to charge money, wouldn't you atleast want them to accept BMP or RAW or something? not JPEG?

 

[gshan]

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Originally Posted by perplex if they were going to charge money, wouldn't you atleast want them to accept BMP or RAW or something? not JPEG?

I don't know of any basic consumer snapshot cams that support bmp or raw. AFAIK it's all jpeg. Quality of jpeg prints is very comparable to standard film rolls, even with a decent 2mp camera.

 

[zachary80]

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Originally Posted by gshan I don't know of any basic consumer snapshot cams that support bmp or raw. AFAIK it's all jpeg.

Mine (Olympus C750) is not very basic but it is mainly point and shoot and supports raw files. However I don't take them because the size is too huge for me to deal with.

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Originally Posted by gshan Quality of jpeg prints is very comparable to standard film rolls, even with a decent 2mp camera.

No? The resolution is not close. On my digital (4mp) at 4x6 they look similar, but if you zoom in or blow it up it is definitely worse than film. The quality of the jpegs might be closer to that of the raw files though

 

[gshan]

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Originally Posted by zachary80 No? The resolution is not close. On my digital (4mp) at 4x6 they look similar, but if you zoom in or blow it up it is definitely worse than film. The quality of the jpegs might be closer to that of the raw files though

I'm talking about the actual photos that get printed. Not zoom ins.

 

[enzoferrari650]

I use my own epson photo printer for when I need instant prints for people. And when I need to print a batch, I use shutterfly.

 

[vibin247]

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Originally Posted by perplex if they were going to charge money, wouldn't you atleast want them to accept BMP or RAW or something? not JPEG?

The quality comparison between JPEGs and BMP/RAW/TIFFs is very small if you're only printing 3x5s and 4x6s. When you go bigger to an 8x10 and larger, the difference becomes more dramatic, and that's when you need to consider the larger file size.