thomasw333
Leading Member
My pictures are jpeg fine, from my Canon SX50HS. They are put into Microsoft Photo Gallery and I use auto-correct and they usually look great and I consider them ready to print. Today I went to Wal-mart and printed some 4x6 photos. I printed all the pics glossy. I let the HP machines (that they use) do there own auto correcting on top of my auto-corrected pics from Microsoft Photo Gallery. The I printed 2 more pictures without doing the auto correct. To me the pictures that I corrected in Microsoft look better, HP made the pics look worse. But then again they had already been auto-corrected on my laptop. Then i printed 2 pics in matte, I printed them with my original auto-correct settings and with HP settings. Again my pics from Microsoft Auto-correct looked better. And the Matte pics looked so much better. So I would say if you print and Wal-Mart, use your own settings and print Matte. The HP machines there use HP Vivid Photo Paper.
Then I went to Target and used there Kodak Machines. I printed all of the same pictures, they have no option for matte that I could see, so the pictures are glossy. They did not have any option for auto-correct. They are printed on Kodak XTRALIFE paper, and they looked really good, better than anything from Wal-Mart. So I guess I will be printing from Target. But they was one problem with Target, Two of the pictures had been cut-off slightly more than the ones from Wal-mart. I am talking about an 1/8th of an inch from the bottom. Also one of the pictures had a tiny piece of string fall onto it, and it is imbedded in the pic.
Wal-mart has a better set-up in that they give you a ticket to scan, and when you pics are done you can open a sliding door and your pictures fall down from the machine into the tray, basically the pictures are printed inside of a machine, they are protected. The Kodak machines on the other hand, are very open, the pics pop out one at a time right there by your knees into a tray, it seems to me that dust is more likely to get into the printer, also no security so you have to wait for your pics or someone could take them, when I was at Target today the first machine did have somebody's pictures sitting there for anyone to see or take. Target is nice though if you ask for an envolpe they have very study posterboard like ones to give you in several different sizes, at Wal-Mart you have to hold your pictures there is no envelopes. And finally one of my black and whites had a very obvious line going through the top of the pic about 1/3 of the way down, it looks like the printer did not print a few lies right in that area.
I printed 14 pictures, some B&W some full color. At the end of the day I like the colors I get from Target so I guess I will go there. I am also waiting from some pics from Mpix.com, but with shipping it is more money and I like getting my pictures right away, but I will add a note here when I get the pictures from them, I am hoping they will be here by Friday. From Mpix, I uploaded the same pictures and told them they could do there technician based auto-correction. I am hoping the pictures look even better and the paper is even nicer because I will pay a little more and wait if they look that much better.
So anyone else have any experience with photo kiosks? What do you do what do you use, who orders online etc...
Then I went to Target and used there Kodak Machines. I printed all of the same pictures, they have no option for matte that I could see, so the pictures are glossy. They did not have any option for auto-correct. They are printed on Kodak XTRALIFE paper, and they looked really good, better than anything from Wal-Mart. So I guess I will be printing from Target. But they was one problem with Target, Two of the pictures had been cut-off slightly more than the ones from Wal-mart. I am talking about an 1/8th of an inch from the bottom. Also one of the pictures had a tiny piece of string fall onto it, and it is imbedded in the pic.
Wal-mart has a better set-up in that they give you a ticket to scan, and when you pics are done you can open a sliding door and your pictures fall down from the machine into the tray, basically the pictures are printed inside of a machine, they are protected. The Kodak machines on the other hand, are very open, the pics pop out one at a time right there by your knees into a tray, it seems to me that dust is more likely to get into the printer, also no security so you have to wait for your pics or someone could take them, when I was at Target today the first machine did have somebody's pictures sitting there for anyone to see or take. Target is nice though if you ask for an envolpe they have very study posterboard like ones to give you in several different sizes, at Wal-Mart you have to hold your pictures there is no envelopes. And finally one of my black and whites had a very obvious line going through the top of the pic about 1/3 of the way down, it looks like the printer did not print a few lies right in that area.
I printed 14 pictures, some B&W some full color. At the end of the day I like the colors I get from Target so I guess I will go there. I am also waiting from some pics from Mpix.com, but with shipping it is more money and I like getting my pictures right away, but I will add a note here when I get the pictures from them, I am hoping they will be here by Friday. From Mpix, I uploaded the same pictures and told them they could do there technician based auto-correction. I am hoping the pictures look even better and the paper is even nicer because I will pay a little more and wait if they look that much better.
So anyone else have any experience with photo kiosks? What do you do what do you use, who orders online etc...
