Anyone using walgreens.com for printing photo's ?

cking2 wrote in post #2210618
I don't know... results are subjective and can vary widely from Walgreens to Walgreens (mine has a 590). I just had MPIX do a large number of prints for a football homecoming, and Walgreens did the fill in stuff I missed in one hour. While the MPIX stuff was OK...the Walgreens prints were stunning.

To be fair I am going to run a test with the same Print at Walgreens, MPIX, Mckenna, Costco and Sams (Which also has a frontier). I won't use my local Walmart for fill in because their print quaility is very poor.

For the OP...I would just find the Lab that you like and produces the most consistant results and stick with it.

Not only that, but with Walgreens (Local Store) prints, it can vary from operator to operator!

I'm going out on a limb and trying MPIX with no color correction, just to see what I get. I received their ICC profiles within 5 min. of e-mailing my request, and from what I can see they looked OK in photoshop using those profiles for proofing, hopefully that carries over to the actual print.

I'm just hoping that with my monitor set to D65 whitepoint they don't come back looking overly cool. (Photoshop compensates for whitepoint, though, right?)

So since mpix told me not to resize, I won't and see how it turns out. If its bad, I'll go from there.

One question though, I know DPP does not take PPI into consideration, or what ever you would like to call it, but I don't see how this makes sense. I mean, when I upload the pics from my rebel there is not a set PPI on them ?

If I resize the pic in DPP to 4x6 , is this the same as resizing them in photoshop or is it different because photoshop offers a PPi setting ?

90blackcrx wrote in post #2357571
So since mpix told me not to resize, I won't and see how it turns out. If its bad, I'll go from there.

One question though, I know DPP does not take PPI into consideration, or what ever you would like to call it, but I don't see how this makes sense. I mean, when I upload the pics from my rebel there is not a set PPI on them ?

If I resize the pic in DPP to 4x6 , is this the same as resizing them in photoshop or is it different because photoshop offers a PPi setting ?

I found this
Following is a table that shows the PPI for various page sizes for a 5 megapixel camera.
page size 4X6 - 456 PPI
page size 5X7 - 377 PPI
page size 8X10 - 250 PPI
page size 11X14 - 180 PPI
page size 16X20 - 125 PPI
page size 20X30 - 91 PPI

So thats 5mp, what about 8mp ?

Sorry guys , just trying to learn

PPI is meaningless when printing to places like MPix or Walgreens. If you tell them to print a 4x6 they will do so regardless of the PPI setting.

Scottes wrote in post #2358869
PPI is meaningless when printing to places like MPix or Walgreens. If you tell them to print a 4x6 they will do so regardless of the PPI setting.

What is the PPI is set at like 20 , thats not possible on pics with out noticing right ?

90blackcrx wrote in post #2358502
I found this
Following is a table that shows the PPI for various page sizes for a 5 megapixel camera.
page size 4X6 - 456 PPI
page size 5X7 - 377 PPI
page size 8X10 - 250 PPI
page size 11X14 - 180 PPI
page size 16X20 - 125 PPI
page size 20X30 - 91 PPI

So thats 5mp, what about 8mp ?

Sorry guys , just trying to learn

You can work it out yourself.

Your XT is 8MP and it's image is 3456x2304 pixels:

So for 4x6: 2304 pixels / 4" = 576 PPI
For a 5x7: 2304 pixels / 5" = 460.8 PPI
For an 11x14: 2304 pixels / 11" = 209.5 PPI
etc...

e-k

I get my 4x6's printed at the local Walgreens.
Reasons being, Its closer, faster, cheap and im they do a good job.
I get 50 4x6's for $9.50. I dont let them do anything to my pics though.
So far, I havent had one bad Picture come back from walgreens.

90blackcrx wrote in post #2358872
What is the PPI is set at like 20 , thats not possible on pics with out noticing right ?

It doesn't matter. If the pic is 800 pixels wide, then the Web will display all 800 pixels and it will be as wide as your monitor display 800 pixels. If you print that photo at MPix to a 4x6 then Mpix will ignore the PPI and print it at 4x6.

90blackcrx wrote in post #2358872
What is the PPI is set at like 20 , thats not possible on pics with out noticing right ?

The only way PPI makes sense is if you resample to that PPI. So a 3406x2304 image becomes 120x80 (assuming image dimensions of 4x6). Of course, what would you expect out of a 120x80 image sent to print. Th result would not be pleasing.

Its best to ignore the PPI altogether and just send the picture with sufficient resolution. Which for a 4x6 would be about 1800x1200 for absolute maximum quality.

Since it's close, try this. Get a 4X6 made. Do another of the same file an hour later. Do one the next day. Then compare them. I'd be very surprised if they are all the same color.

Actually I'd wait a week or two between them, to make sure that they change the chemicals. From what I saw one day I didn't get the impression that every flunky at Walgreens knows how to change the chemicals.

But that would be an interesting test.... The other question being, are all of them acceptable?

Oh, and this would be very dependent on whether you said "No Color Corrections" or not - something I always do, no matter where I print. If you leave it up to the machine and/or operator I'd guarantee that they would change.

Scottes wrote in post #2361450
Oh, and this would be very dependent on whether you said "No Color Corrections" or not - something I always do, no matter where I print. If you leave it up to the machine and/or operator I'd guarantee that they would change.

Which is likely why I've seen so much variance from operator to operator. I'm wondering, how do you inform the operator at Walgreens to not correct color? I could tell the clerk, but I know how likely it will be that they'll pass that along (Unless they are the operator)

Not to me. Even 1 hour made a big difference.

Good luck with that?

Ok, but if I ever have to resize a picture in adobe photoshop and the PPi box pops up, what should it be set at always ? 300 , 350 ? What if I resize to bigger then 4x6, still 300, or 350 ?

Depends on what your printer recommends? Ask.
Costco likes 300, but 360 (I think) will crash the computer.