Anyone using walgreens.com for printing photo's ?

I don't know if anybody pointed you to this site yet:

http://www.drycreekpho​to.com/icc/

You can pre-profile your image to match it to the lab's machine from this site.

This site has a lot of good info that you might find interesting and it addresses many of your questions.

lostdoggy wrote in post #2354456
I don't know if anybody pointed you to this site yet:

http://www.drycreekpho​to.com/icc/

You can pre-profile your image to match it to the lab's machine from this site.

This site has a lot of good info that you might find interesting and it addresses many of your questions.

Thanks, but my store was not on there. But I don't think this should be this hard, I'm making it harder then it should be.

So lets start all over. I use Digital Photo Pro, I convert and save to 6x4 , now here is where I get lost. Should I touch the dpi ? Yes or No

Then should I open it with photoshop and adjust the PPI , Yes or NO. ( when ever I go to image size under photoshop, the PPI is always 350 )

If you want the easy answer - and you do at this point - just save it to 6x4 and leave it alone. MPix will do a very fine job making the print.

A week after you get the prints, take some of your favorites, and inspect them with a critical eye. Do you think they could be printed better? If so, why?

Then post an example photo, tell us what you think was wrong with the print, and we'll help you along and guide you to making it better - IF we think it can be done better.


There are many many big fat books out there, all about Photoshop and color and sharpening and printing and all sorts of stuff. Any one of those topics can take a while to learn, and years to master. You can't learn it all at once.

And the fact is, if you're happy with the prints, then you don't have to do things any differently. You may want to, but you don't have to.

Sounds good but I was told to do a few things so mpix or walgreens gets it right, one thing was resizing the image. I also just read that if you select no color correction and you don't like it, you can't get reprints.

So whats the basic stuff to do before I order ? Should I resize ? Is cropping better, but what if I don't want to loose any of the pic ?

I'm going to run out, I will check back when I get home. But I still need to know if I should resize the image down to 4x6 or 8x10 or so on. Or should I just leave the pic the way it comes out of my camera ?

OK, here's a quick tutorial that will help you get the size right, and includes info on cropping so you just get the good stuff:
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=34567

If you don't want to crop anything, in Photoshop go to Image... Image Size... Make sure that Resample Image is checked, and set to Bicubic. For the width and height set them to the proper dimensions (see below). Ignore the Resolution - trust me. MPix will get it right. And they'll produce the same exact print thing no matter what you set this to.

Always send them pictures at 300 dpi times the size you want. That is, for a 4x6, you want to give them a 1200 x 1800 picture. For a 5x7, make it 1500 x 2100.

Always convert to sRGB, using Photoshop, per the instructions I gave earlier. If you find that the first picture you try to convert is already in sRGB then you don't need to bother even trying the rest. (Very most likely.)


You could be right about not getting reprints if you select No Color Correction. But if the prints come out bad then you can be assured that it's something YOU did, not them.

Which means that you can blame me for not making these instructions clearer....

Just try a sample batch some untouch and some modified. So, it cost a couple of dollars and few minutes of your time, but at least you know how it is before sending in a couple of hundred of image to be printed and not liking it.

I personally use winkflash and they allow you to preview the image before finalizing the order. The preview will show the image size relative to the media and will there be cropping or blank white borders. Most labs will over shoot rather then undershoot when it comes to white borders. Meaning it'll try to cover all of the media rather then allow it to leave a border. Sometime they will even do it even if there is no border.

Scottes wrote in post #2354737
That is, for a 4x6, you want to give them a 1200 x 1800 picture. For a 5x7, make it 1500 x 2100.

See when I do this in photoshop, set the pics to 4x6, the pixels up above say 2100, 1400 but the ppi is 350, so maybe thats why ?

( edited ) I changed it to 300 ppi and now got 1800 1200

Also the sRGB is not under edit, atleast I could not find it. But I'm sure that the pics already in that format.

lostdoggy but what if they all look the same , no seriously lol.

No, set the pics to 1200x1800 - which is 4x300 and 6x300 - and ignore the Resolution. It does not matter here, in this scenario.

In CS2 it's Edit... Convert To Profile.... and THEN choose sRGB.
Or do you have CS? For CS, I think it's under Image... Convert To Profile.

Scottes wrote in post #2354757
No, set the pics to 1200x1800 - which is 4x300 and 6x300 - and ignore the Resolution. It does not matter here, in this scenario.

Set the pixel dimension or the document size ? If I change the pixel demsion to 1200x1800 my document size it not 4x6 , its 5.143 x 3.429 and ppi is 350.

Then it have answer your dilemma. You don't have to do anything. Just send it in as is.

Set the pixel dimension or the document size ? If I change the pixel demsion to 1200x1800 my document size it not 4x6 , its 5.143 x 3.429 and ppi is 350.

Does that even matter which one I set

I think you're getting really confuse here. the 1800X1200 relative to 300ppi
At 350ppi it should be 2100X1400 for a 4X6 print.

Set the Pixel Dimensions Width to 1800 and the Height to 1200 - or vice versa if the photo is Portrait mode. Sorry, i always forget that there are 2 boxes that say Height and Width.

Ignore whatever the resolution box says. Mpix or Walgreens will print you a 4x6 no matter what the Resolution or PPI is set to.

If you must do it completely correct, set the Resolution to 300, and THEN set the Document Size Height and Width to 1200 and 1800.

If you set the Resolution then you must use the Document Size boxes. If you ignore the Resolution then you must use the Pixel Dimensions boxes.

No problem, but let me state this. If I set the pixel size to the correct size, and the ppi is set to 350, the document size will not be 4x6 .

Yes, in Photoshop's view it will not be the right size. But MPix and Walgreen's are going to ignore that Resolution, and will print a 4x6.