Back into photo printing
September 26th, 2006 by Jerry
For a while, I’ve been out of the world of photo printing. Everything has stayed digital, mostly staying on Flickr. I just ordered a print from Shutterfly so I could spruce up the apartment a little bit. By the way, I find it rather odd that the 20″x30″ print I ordered arrived before the free 4×6. Figure that one out…
The print I ordered was this one. It’s definitely my best photo worthy of the 20″x30″ size. I was very impressed at the quality of Shutterfly’s print. They even have a canvas printing service (16×20 in canvas = $90.. ouch!), but I think I’ll stick with their matte finish large prints. At first glance, the colors appear to be spot-on with the JPEG I uploaded. I had to process the photo a bit to get the blues and greens to “pop,” but I think it’s better than the original. The abundance of those two colors makes it easy to notice any miscalibration in Shutterfly’s printing process. I haven’t yet directly compared the print to the digital copy, but it seems close enough that I’ll blame any differences on my monitor. 
Now I need to figure out what other photos are worth printing big.
Update: Frames are hard to find for 20″x30″ prints! Michael’s had nothing useful, so I’m hoping that Hobby Lobby will have at least the correct size of acrylic & backing so I can use a custom-sized frame kit. I found some decent poster frames online, but they seem to be rare in Waco.
The print I ordered was this one. It’s definitely my best photo worthy of the 20″x30″ size. I was very impressed at the quality of Shutterfly’s print. They even have a canvas printing service (16×20 in canvas = $90.. ouch!), but I think I’ll stick with their matte finish large prints. At first glance, the colors appear to be spot-on with the JPEG I uploaded. I had to process the photo a bit to get the blues and greens to “pop,” but I think it’s better than the original. The abundance of those two colors makes it easy to notice any miscalibration in Shutterfly’s printing process. I haven’t yet directly compared the print to the digital copy, but it seems close enough that I’ll blame any differences on my monitor.
Now I need to figure out what other photos are worth printing big.
Update: Frames are hard to find for 20″x30″ prints! Michael’s had nothing useful, so I’m hoping that Hobby Lobby will have at least the correct size of acrylic & backing so I can use a custom-sized frame kit. I found some decent poster frames online, but they seem to be rare in Waco.