wrote:

On 9-Oct-2005, JF Mezei wrote:



Note that there was an article on CNET recently about how now about half
the people prefer to just go to some photo shop to have pictures printed
versus fiddling with their own printer/paper and INK, especially since
photo shops now cost much less for each image than printing it yourself.



And with the on-line shops you get perfect prints on archive paper, not
dye images that fade.


YOU DO NOT GET PERFECT PRINTS CHEAPLY BECAUSE THE TECH WILL NOT AND
CANNOT RUN THE IMAGE THRU PHOTOSHOP AND EDIT IT TO GET THAT PERFECT
IMAGE. AND EVEN IF HE WOULD WHAT MAY BE PERFECT TO HIM IS NOT TO YOU.

NOW IF YOU WANT TO DO THE EDITING YOURSELF YOU CAN THEN COPY THE EDITIED
MATERIAL ON TO A CD AND INSTRUCT THE SHOP TO PRINT WITHOUT ADJUSTMENTS.

This assumes that you are proficient enough
to get the image right before you upload, but that applies to however
you print it. I've abandoned the landfill specialists.