photo developing website?

Igor

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our only decent photo shop has shut down, and the photos all come out bad when i take them to boots, jessops etc

is there a good website out there that will develop and post my photos?

also i found that the highstreet places crop my photos, grrrrr


cheers :thumbs:
 
PhotoBox is generally pretty good. I've been happy with them. But there are others.

About cropping though ... you can't blame the High Street places for cropping photos if you give them images which aren't the same shape as the paper. Think about it for a moment. If you have a DSLR, your images have an Aspect Ratio of 3:2. They'll fit perfectly on paper which is 6x4 or 12x8, but they simply won't fit on paper which is 7x5 or 10x8 or many other popular sizes.

It might also help to let us know why all the photos you take "come out bad". What's wrong with them? Is it somthing Boots or Jessops are doing, or is it something you're doing? (For example, if your monitor isn't calibrated then there's no guarantee that the colours you see on prints will be the same as you see on screen.)
 
^^ I've just ordered some pics from Photobox. First 50 were free. Dont know if thats an introductory offer or what. . . . . . .

but I got 65 prints @ 6x4 delivered, for £2.85.

Bargain.

I'll let you know how they compare..
 
thats brilliant :thumbs:

it might be my monitor but then again the cam lcd would be wrong to. i've had a couple of the same photos developed ages ago from different places and the colour is different in each one. if i remember correctly tesco came out best and closest to the monitor/lcd
 
DS Colour Labs are good and reasonably priced. I've had some A4 from there at 45p each which were spot on.

Andy
 
Igor said:
our only decent photo shop has shut down, and the photos all come out bad when i take them to boots, jessops etc

is there a good website out there that will develop and post my photos?

also i found that the highstreet places crop my photos, grrrrr


cheers :thumbs:
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Just to check, do you mean develop (as in film) or print (as in digital)?

For either, I would take a series of pictures on some 24 exposure film (for film, obviously) that you like the usual results from and send them off to a few labs or take them in to a few local shops and see which place gives you the best results. Same goes for digital pics - copy off a few CDs then send them to some printers or take them into a few shops. Personally, I'm not too worried about getting perfect results from a commercial printer - I basically use the prints that come back as proofs to see which are worth a bit more effort and printing larger at home.
 
I have experienced the same problems with print quality and cropped images with ASDA.
Tesco are a little better but i am following these post very closely in the hope that somebody out there will show me an affordable solution .
 
If I am taking my images for home use to a high-street lab I crop them to the respective sizes and then re-upload to my memory card/stick/whatever before i transfer them to get them printed. This way if there is any problem I'm to blame.
Saying that - I do this with online printers also! :)
 
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