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I was just wandering what you guys do with your photos. Do you print them out, frame them, put them in albums, or just let them sit on your computer?

*also, I wanted some photos enlarged. I got them done online by 9x6 and 10x8 not really knowing what the size was or what i was doing. on second thoughts will the photos be cut and cropped or will they be enlarged?
 
Some I print myself; some I make into slideshows;some never see the light of day.

A couple of things to remember about printing.

1. You need enough pixels in your image to achieve the print size with somewhere between 200-300PPI

2. The aspect ratio - ratio of width to height - of you original image doesn't always match that of the paper, so you may need to crop to fit the paper. For example 9 x 6 and 10 x 8 are two different ratios.

Colin
 
My favourite ones get printed (by me) at a4 or a3+ and put into an itoya or pampa portfolio that have about 20 clear sleeves each with black card to allow 2 photos per sleeve (back to back).
 
Thanks for the replies. I collected the photos today. They were great, with no cropping, and crystal clear.

On the way home I dropped the lot in the river.
 
I make a point of printing and mounting my fave photos and keep them in a cello bag.
Usually 9x6 in a a4 mount sometimes bigger, there's something about looking at a hard print that can never be matched by viewing on a screen.
Plus you always have some in stock to sell at short notice.
Nigel
 
Prints are my favoured end product and I do them here at home (up to A3+). Any 1/2 decent shots get printed at 6x4 then some get the A4 treatment and the few that deserve it go the whole hog and get A3+. I have a few on the wall and tend to rotate them so the best are up at any one time. For a few reasons recent changes have been slow but a return to health and a new camera have breathed new life into the hobby for me so I expect a couple of changes soon.
 
I use a Canon iX4000 A3 printer which replaced a Canon s820 A4. The iX is a 4 ink (CMYK) printer but gives results which are just as good as those from the s820 which was 6 ink (CMYKPCPM). Both are significantly better than my wife's Epson R220 Photo Stylus 6 ink one (but were also rather less cheap!)

Inks are about £11 each for the iX (genuine Canon inks from www.premier-ink.co.uk ) and after a bad experience with a cheapo 3rd party cart, I would never use one again (but they would be £4ish from the same source. The black carts are bigger and £13 each (£5 for the 3rd party). Can't remember how much they are from 7dayshop or Tesco's (who sometimes have packs of the 3 colours and 50 sheets of paper [6x4] at a good price). The inks are CLi8 for the colours and PGi5 for the black.
 
kabooi said:
I was just wandering what you guys do with your photos. Do you print them out, frame them, put them in albums, or just let them sit on your computer?

*also, I wanted some photos enlarged. I got them done online by 9x6 and 10x8 not really knowing what the size was or what i was doing. on second thoughts will the photos be cut and cropped or will they be enlarged?
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As someone who prints photos professionally. The way the machines work is this - they will enlarge the photo to fill the frame. If this cause details to be cropped so it fits the print size then this is what will happen. If you send it to a photo printer you can do different things:
1.Scale the photo correctly to the print size you require in your photo edit software. However this is a bit tedious if you resize it for multiple prints of the same photo
2. Don't crop your photos to allow for the machine cropping to take place and include instructions to the lab doing it so that you get the photo prints you want cropped the way you'd like

I hope this helps
 
I print more photos now I have a dye sub than I ever had before. But only the really nice ones, normally pics of the dog, and they go on our fridge! If I'm sending off a 12x8 order to dscl I'll quite often add a few more prints in just because it helps me justify the postage costs ;) I got some cracking photos of the old bull that was sold from the farm yesterday, 12x8 prints and they look fab.
 
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