Online Photo Printing
Solutions
There are two major groups
likely to make use of online printing and enlargements are home
users making prints of parties and other family events and Photographers
trying to make a buck or three selling their best shots. If your
ready to set up an online gallery designed to sell your work visit
our Professional
Photo Printing review.If your currently having issues with
your printer and would like to know how to get it to print better
please visit our online printer maintenance
page.
Online picture printing basics
The day of digital
camera is here and not all of the images that you take will need
to be printed, since you can take images for almost free you may
find yourself taking 4 of the same image just to make sure that
you get a good one. This gives you a few options, such as having
select images printed via your printer, an Online photo printer
or by carrying on disk to your local photo printer.
Sending your images to Online printers is become one of the easiest
ways to get quality enlargements of your images and also an efficient
way for you to get your regular prints for photo albums on photographic
grade paper. Before you send your images you'll need to make sure
that you've prepared them for size and color. Color is possibly
the biggest variable in online printing with some companies providing
you a sample image or screen profile so that you can set your
monitor to the correct colors, this way your assured that what
you see is what you get. Other Online printers use automatic settings
based on standard printing methods. When in question the best
thing to do would be to order a sample image so that you can make
sure what you see is what you get!
We've provided a basic printing check list.
| 1) Determine
the size of the image to be printed (this may change the ratio
of height to width needed in your image, requiring significant
cropping) |
2) Verify
that you image has the needed resolution for the size being
printed.
(Only and issue when enlarging photos) |
| 3) Crop
according to the view you wish to have printed (cropping can
change the image completely) |
4)
Adjust the colors of the image if needed to insure proper printing
(look for our color adjustment page coming soon) |
5)
Save the image as a copy or under a different name so that you
maintain an original copy in case you would like to reedit
(personal preference) |
| 6) Upload
the image to your Online Printer |
| 7) Order
your prints |
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Recommended Online
photo Printers
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Snapfish
by Hewlett Packard has over 40 million users so they are doing
things right and even offer personalization of coffee mugs,
mouse pads and more. Prints are around 12 cents each and they
also offer the first 20 prints for free!
please click on the link to the left to learn more
+ Lowest priced 16 x 20
enlargement, has plug in for printing directly from "Gallery"
based sites
- slightly higher resolution
needed for enlargements (1800 x 1440)
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Photoworks
is quickly becoming a name to know for online processing
and we look forward to their listing of more detailed
information, but for the time being that are keeping
things simple and easy to understand and use Kodak Perfect
Touch Processing on silver-halide paper in matte or
gloss.
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Kodak processing, simple interface, "Gallery"
has a plug in for direct printing, Many product options
(cups, clip boards, photo books and much more)
- request higher
resolution for enlargements (200 pixels per inch or
ppi relative to the print size being ordered), but they
have a simple good or poor listing for ordering based
on size selected
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