| If you are like me having a photo processing lab in your | | | | phone calls and email the pictures in hopes that they |
| office is too much to resist. I bought a $360 digital | | | | would find a compressed photo sufficient to fulfill their |
| camera, a $400 color photo printer and I was ready | | | | needs.Then out of the blue my husband decided to |
| for business. Or so I thought. I took piles of pictures and | | | | learn more about photography in a three week course |
| filled my hard drive up with somewhat goofy pictures | | | | offered at a nearby local college. Every night he would |
| of all my kids, neighbors, cars and pets. I was really | | | | come home and rattle on about all the cutting edge |
| pleased just to have them on my computer ready to | | | | information they taught him about the new digital |
| peruse at my leisure. When I showed them to relatives | | | | photography age that we had entered.You can print |
| they often requested copies that I was dying to make | | | | your digital photos onlineIn the midst of his sharing this |
| with my new lab equipment.Printing pictures at home | | | | information I heard him mention that the professor |
| was too expensive and the quality was poorAfter | | | | owned a rather large chain of camera shops.Printing |
| printing the first 2 or 3 photos it struck me that they | | | | photos online and getting them in the mail was |
| were not fit to put in a frame that would grace the | | | | easyThey offered online photo uploads that would be |
| walls of my 800 square foot apartment. I could still see | | | | processed and mailed to you in your selected sizes |
| the printer lines when I looked closely. Although the | | | | and various other options. It flicked a switch in my |
| picture on the computer was incredibly clear, the | | | | rather foggy brain and I realized that I could have my |
| printed copy had lost its crisp edge. I still did not give up | | | | very own photo processing lab. Instead of retrieving |
| hope. I wanted to print my own photos! I set out to find | | | | the photos from my printer I just had to get them out |
| the highest quality inks and the finest of photo papers. | | | | of my mailbox.Right away I jumped online and began |
| All at its due cost I was ready to process some | | | | uploading my favorite pictures. It was a piece of cake |
| photos that would make my neighbors and colleagues | | | | and the first few prints were free for signing up. A |
| sick with jealousy. To make a long story short I have | | | | few days later I was putting more nails in my walls to |
| not used my color printer since that day and I have a | | | | hang some very beautiful, professional prints that I had |
| drawer in my desk full of rather expensive blank photo | | | | made with my own digital camera in my very own |
| paper.I lived the next few years content with flipping | | | | home.To view our list of recommended sources for |
| through folders on my laptop when family was in town. | | | | digital photo printing online, |
| When they were out of town I would avoid their | | | | visit this page: Photo Mugs. |