seeing as i'm broke as fuck and still wanna get christmas presents for a buncha people, i was thinking i could give people photos, cause i've been getting a lotta feedback for them and if i could actually get them on photo paper i think i could make it work with some nice frames or something
however, i have no idea what the best way (no, i don't have a photo printer ) to get my photos (high-res jpegs) into as close as i can get them to real photos
any insight or advice would be great, cause right now the only way i can think of is the lil kodak booth thingy in cvs, which just by principle and the fact that its there makes me think they're ripping me off
i just haven't figured any other way
thanks in advance
edit: price rance is gonna be a big factor, cause i'm sure there are high quality expensive ways to do it
i got nothing right now, but i'm gonna sell my guitar/amp so i can afford this, which is gonna put me up about 50-60 bucks (not a great guitar, and i'm selling it to the guy who gave me the amp in the first place)
might be able to convince my rents to loan me some, but i can't be sure
bleh
damn christmas
its funny how i always bitched about it being a consumer holiday, and how people should make gifts, and i would but i never have ideas
and now i do and i still don't have enough money

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Most of the normal photodevelopingstores develeops digital photos nowadays (at least here i Sweden), so you should ask them how much they charge and also what sizes they offer.

As for the imagequality, make sure you select the same colorspace profile (ICC) in Photoshop and in your monitor as the printinglabs use. Also, convert your JPEG files to TIFF and then fix the colors (if needed) in Photoshop. It really is a bit of a hazzle to get the exact same colors you see on your screen and on the finishing product (considering that printinglabs use CMYK colorspace and what you see on your screen is RGB), but you should be able to get pretty exact colors using the above methods.

Good luck

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Originally posted by P4z! Most of the normal photodevelopingstores develeops digital photos nowadays (at least here i Sweden), so you should ask them how much they charge and also what sizes they offer. As for the imagequality, make sure you select the same colorspace profile (ICC) in Photoshop and in your monitor as the printinglabs use. Also, convert your JPEG files to TIFF and then fix the colors (if needed) in Photoshop. It really is a bit of a hazzle to get the exact same colors you see on your screen and on the finishing product (considering that printinglabs use CMYK colorspace and what you see on your screen is RGB), but you should be able to get pretty exact colors using the above methods. Good luck

thanks for the info
and i think i'm gonna try to borrow someone'c computer for a bit if i can find someone with photoshop, cause i'm a laptop
and nice as the monitor is, i just don't trust the display quite as much
hopefully i'll stop by CVS and the local photo shop tonight, see what their prices are

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yeah most places here will do it from compact flash/smart media/CD.. and some places (usually kodak places) even have self-service machines where you just stick your memory card in and choose which you want printing and how big etc.

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Originally posted by tu_face yeah most places here will do it from compact flash/smart media/CD.. and some places (usually kodak places) even have self-service machines where you just stick your memory card in and choose which you want printing and how big etc.

yeah the thing they have at cvs
regular negative quality i'm assuming, resolution permitting of course
better be, cause i remember it not looking cheap

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