Photo Printing Services

swiftaw · Mar 9, 2013, 08:07 PM

I got married last year, and now I have hundreds of photos on my hard-drive from various guests at the wedding.

My wife wants to put a selection of them in an album so I'm looking for recommendations for services for printing digital photos. Obviously quality and price and important factors, but since I want to print lots of photos I also need something that will allow selecting batches of photos rather than submitting one at at time.

What do you all recommend?

r.j.s · Mar 9, 2013, 08:08 PM

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carlgo · 11:49 AM

I use Aperture and had Aperture print up books of family photos, and also some misc photos, inc B&W ones that I could never get right at home with my printer. Very nice and books are a good way to present photos of an event. Mine also included many old photos that I scanned and fixed up.

As for batches of photos, when you do a book/album the program presents a template and you select and arrange photos onto it, then upload the whole thing as a unit and it comes back as a book. You can also write descriptions, passages, sexist comments about the bridesmaids, in whatever font you want.

Without modesty I can say mine looked very professional and was very well received. Again, I used Aperture but other programs must be similar.

swiftaw · Mar 10, 2013, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by carlgo

I use Aperture and had Aperture print up books of family photos, and also some misc photos, inc B&W ones that I could never get right at home with my printer. Very nice and books are a good way to present photos of an event. Mine also included many old photos that I scanned and fixed up.

As for batches of photos, when you do a book/album the program presents a template and you select and arrange photos onto it, then upload the whole thing as a unit and it comes back as a book. You can also write descriptions, passages, sexist comments about the bridesmaids, in whatever font you want.

Without modesty I can say mine looked very professional and was very well received. Again, I used Aperture but other programs must be similar.

Normally I would do that, but we received a rather nice leather-bound photo album as a wedding gift, and so my wife wants to fill it with photos.

glenthompson · Mar 11, 2013, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by r.j.s

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Have you had good results from them? Pricing seems reasonable.

r.j.s · Mar 11, 2013, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by glenthompson

Have you had good results from them? Pricing seems reasonable.

Yes. It's been a few years since I've ordered anything, but their quality is quite good.

swiftaw · Mar 11, 2013, 11:29 PM

Anyone ever got prints through Shutterfly? For standard 6x4 they seem to have the most reasonable price.

pdxflint · Mar 16, 2013, 07:47 AM

I've used Bay Photo for larger prints, and tried Nations Photo Lab for a few large ones. Both gave good service, but I'm a little partial to Bay Photo. Both of them run special sales on a semi-regular basis.

vandrv · Mar 16, 2013, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by pdxflint

I've used Bay Photo for larger prints, and tried Nations Photo Lab for a few large ones. Both gave good service, but I'm a little partial to Bay Photo. Both of them run special sales on a semi-regular basis.

I'll second Bay Photo. I've sold many prints using their service through Smugmug. I have also had good luck with White House Custom Color.

dmax35 · Mar 17, 2013, 07:23 AM

I did a series of MetalPrints Wall Clusters & Splits from Bay Photo and they turned out absolutely stunning.

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swiftaw macrumors 603 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Omaha, NE, USA	Photo Printing Services I got married last year, and now I have hundreds of photos on my hard-drive from various guests at the wedding. My wife wants to put a selection of them in an album so I'm looking for recommendations for services for printing digital photos. Obviously quality and price and important factors, but since I want to print lots of photos I also need something that will allow selecting batches of photos rather than submitting one at at time. What do you all recommend?
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carlgo macrumors 65816 Join Date: Dec 2006	I use Aperture and had Aperture print up books of family photos, and also some misc photos, inc B&W ones that I could never get right at home with my printer. Very nice and books are a good way to present photos of an event. Mine also included many old photos that I scanned and fixed up. As for batches of photos, when you do a book/album the program presents a template and you select and arrange photos onto it, then upload the whole thing as a unit and it comes back as a book. You can also write descriptions, passages, sexist comments about the bridesmaids, in whatever font you want. Without modesty I can say mine looked very professional and was very well received. Again, I used Aperture but other programs must be similar. Last edited by carlgo; Mar 10, 2013 at 11:49 AM.
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pdxflint macrumors 68020 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Oregon coast	I've used Bay Photo for larger prints, and tried Nations Photo Lab for a few large ones. Both gave good service, but I'm a little partial to Bay Photo. Both of them run special sales on a semi-regular basis. __________________ "You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet." -Galen Rowell
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swiftaw Thread Starter macrumors 603 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Omaha, NE, USA	Anyone ever got prints through Shutterfly? For standard 6x4 they seem to have the most reasonable price.
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