Speaking of sketchy photo finishing ...

There is a local camera shop that does prints. I have sent them files and sometimes they come back looking like someone spat upon them -- you would think that the printer-person would notice, right? Apparently not.

So I take them some small 5x7's, that demo some of my photoshop work, to be printed. The one file was originally processed for full colour magazine publishing, a 16bit tiff at 300dpi. Well they can't open big files. I know they have a copy of photoshop, can't they open it up drop the file size a bit?

Do you find this strange or is this standard? Perhaps it is time to look for a good online photo finishing place.

Cheers,

Oh, it's time to find a new place, I'd say, from what you say about the prints.

I'd give them the benefit on the 16-bit TIFF - I usually bring sRGB JPGs which I expect anyone can handle and there's less hassle with JPG. I've found a new shop which understands 16-bit TIFFs in AdobeRGB, but that's for big prints. For 5x7 they use a standard photo printer so it will be sRGB JPGs for that. But I know they can handle the bigger, better stuff when I need that done.