JFKTOWERFAN From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 1100 posts, RR: 17 Posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1872 times:
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Anyone have any recommendations on where I can get large(11X18 etc) high quality prints from my digitals? I had a few made at Ritz and they sucked, they cropped out parts and put no effort into getting the colors etc. right. Any help would be appreciated.
Jderden777 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1747 posts, RR: 33 Reply 1, posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1857 times:
i order my prints online from ezprints.com....upload the original image (sharpened up a bit) and then you can select what prints you want....they do a great job and the prices are very reasonable.
i've heard a lot about photobox too but i haven't used them.
Ckw From UK - England, joined Aug 2010, 530 posts, RR: 18 Reply 2, posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1833 times:
they cropped out parts and put no effort into getting the colors etc. right
While quality of various print services varies, you do have to make sure you give them the right material to work with. If parts of the pic are cropped, it is most likely you sent them something which didn't match the size ratio of the paper used - if so, either the image will be cropped; printed with borders, or distorted.
Regarding colour, while this could be the fault of the lab, it could also be a mismatch between what you see on your screen and what the lab sees on their's (or what the printer sees). To get optimum results, you need to adjust the colours of the pic to look right in the colour profile of the printer being used. Any decent lab will tell you what type of printer they have, and profiles should be available on the 'net. The better labs will provide you with profiles, and/or test images to allow you to make sure you see something similar to what will come out of their printer.
Woody001 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 529 posts, RR: 24 Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1811 times:
I sent a few sample shots to my local printers to see how things looked before I sent them large expensive prints, I then set up a profile within Photoshop to match the prints. This isn't easy or the best way of doing things but it worked out fine for me.
Rotor1 From Tajikistan, joined Mar 2003, 230 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1807 times:
Believe it or not, Costco does a bang-up job for $3.99 per 11x17 and $2.99 per 8x10/8x12. Put yer stuff on a CD and go to the little enlargement computer they have and you'll get to see exactly what the printer will print (colors, crops, etc). Done in an hour.
I've seen 100s of 11x17s come from Costco and their screw up rate is very low.
-Mike
The best aviation photo I've ever taken was rejected by Airliners.net
Even living in Norway, 300km inside the Arctic circle, 2 large format prints (30"x20") was in tube, stuffed in my mailbox in just 3 days. Excelent quality on mine anyway.
Bronko From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 805 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1711 times:
Costco does a great job, for an incredible price and fast. You can go to http://www.drycreekphoto.com/ and download the color profiles for the printers at your nearby Costco locations. I think they also have some tips on preparing them for print at Costco, and what to tell the photo dept. when dropping off prints.
Dazed767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5447 posts, RR: 53 Reply 9, posted (8 years 10 months 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1698 times:
Walgreens - But you have to find a store that uses the 1 hour machine printer, and not some HP printer hooked up to the kiosk.
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