Do you edit your photos on your computer?

Lynette, the question is whether your screen is showing correctly?

well anyway i had some pictures printed, some turned out not as nice as it is either.

what you see is not always what you get cos display is a matter of mixture of RGB signals. what you see on screen isn't what other people see on their screen either.

(yes, i know. i could have 4 LCD panels at anyone one time and they all show different color)

printout on the other hand involves so many things. paper type. ink quality. printer quality. so many things.

Not all. I understand about the contrast and brightness unbalance if I edit but the thing is some of my pictures, even without editing (reason for not editing- pictures was nice enough) turn out horrible with the dark part of the photo too dark and the light part of the photo overexposed.

I felt like crying looking at the developed photos.

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Added on January 31, 2008, 12:44 amYea, the display is another thing i noticed when I edit my photos.

I've got a laptop and a desktop. My desktop monitor is erm... 7 years old. I edit my pictures with my laptop and when I view the pictures on my monitor it looked too dark while it looked totally fine with my laptop.

I'm just pretty uptight about what my beautiful pictures have turned out. I'm supposed to give them to my boss and I don't think she's going to be impressed.

So basically, I can't control these factors?

This post has been edited by CutieLynette: Jan 31 2008, 12:44 AM

@cutie lynette

You should tell the person working in the photo shop not to touch any of your pics and print it as it is. Or the other thing could be that your monitor is not calibrated.

well usually people who are in photo-studios won't even want to touch your photos. no point, they know the risk. they won't spend time either.

i did print photos at foto-shangrila before and it was fine. I just gave them the JPG files and that's it. printed and sliced. all turned out fine.

another i heard is that you can go to shops with FUJI FDI printing machine. supposedly very good.

And how do I get it calibrated? BTW, I got a very noob question to ask- what's calibrate?

maybe you can get them to test print out a sample for you first, coz sometimes their printer might be calibrated differently. if i not mistaken they can adjust their printer calibration to print out the color that you want

calibration, you can DIY or you can pay people do to lor. will cost you la. either way it costs you.

calibration is to make sure your display output is as accurate as possible. RED is RED, GREEN is GREEN, BLUE is BLUE and whatever else is whatever....

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Added on January 31, 2008, 12:53 amnow i think la. the question would lie in WHAT kind of printer they use.

what can you do if their using cheapo printer that's badly maintained.

This post has been edited by goldfries: Jan 31 2008, 12:53 AM

FUJI FDI. That's precisely what they use to print my photos. (unless that guy used another machine to print mine instead)

Won't Foto-Shangrila charge a bomb? Have any of you tried Photozoom? Are they okay?

@ CutieLynette - You could try bring the exact same jpegs to another shop and ask them to printout without modifying the pics, see if the results are the same.

If the same, then there's something wrong with your monitor that you use to edit the pics. If they turn out fine, then there's something wrong with the photo shop that printed your pics

Hmm, sounds like a superb, science-experimental idea. I will give that a try when I have some extra cash to spare.

50cents pun talak ka?

RM0.50 where got enough? If you want to print too few pictures they will gladly charge you an extra RM5 for handling charges.

How much do you pay when you develop photos, guys? For me I pay RM30 for 50 photos. Expensive?

no, not every shop charge handling / processing.

RM 30 for 50 photos come to around. 65 sen per piece i think. can't remember how much i paid.

Oh, is that so?

Then I better start scouting around for shops which offer better rates and quality pictures.

So where do y'all develop your photos other than goldfries' Foto-Shangrila and shops using FUJI FDI printers?

their color should be so far off from what you had in the image file.

it might become a little darker due to ink and paper type but it should not be so bad until it looks distinctly different.

i had some pictures also, printed by pro printers but it turned out a little darker than screen.

6 years ago, they charge me 60sen. Now is 65sen? OMG, talk about inflation.

(By the way, Sony A300 LifeView implementation is perfect based on their spec. All lifeview supporter should buy 1).

how do you DIY? and where to pay people to do so? and how much would be approx the charge? Calibration?

So slow today? Usually this hour the page reach 2nd pages d... hahha

all busy le. so many works to do