Re: [APML] Walmart prints color problem - long winded

["Michael Barlow" <mikeba@rochester.rr.com>]

    24x36? Inches?  Now that's what I call a picture!
Michael A. Barlow

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Lodriguss" <lists3@astropix.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Walmart prints color problem - long winded


>
>
> You can't do 16 bit TIFFs on the Walmart setup which uses a Fuji Frontier.
>
> Convert them to sRGB color space if they are not already there, and then
> convert them to 8 bits, and then save them at JPEGs at quality 12 (the
> highest quality setting).
>
> I just had some 24 x 36 inch prints made on the Walmart web site, and they
> were awesome.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> At 03:12 PM 5/2/2005, you wrote:
> >I took a few images I scanned in and edited to wal-mart to make
> >prints.  On the
> >machine at the counter (it sends the info to the machine in back) the
prints
> >look OK on the screen.  However, the prints look horrible, looks almost
like
> >total noise... You can make out a little of which picture is which
though.
> >
> >The images were scanned in using the Dimage software and edited with
Adobe CS.
> >The file were saved as 16bit tiffs... They were pretty big.  After the
first
> >failure I went home and decresed the images size thinking the 20meg+ was
too
> >much for it.  Well, even after resizing they still looked bad.  This last
> >time,
> >I let them check out the images on the main machine in back.  It
displayed
> >them
> >like the prints... Looks like nothing but noise... But again on the
display on
> >the counter they look perfect.  Any ideas?  Hate running back and forth
to the
> >store to see if the changes I've made will work.
> >
> >TIA
> >Len
> >
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