Digital Photos...online printing, hosting, posters?

[rbV5]

Want to start printing some of my digital photos. I signed up for the Kodak picture center through Costco, but wondering if there are better/cheaper alternatives? Also, a recommendation for Poster sizes if anyone has done this? I am also interested in a reasonable cheap, or free hosting for my photos online to share my work. Appreciate the help

 

[rbV5]

bump for advice:camera:

 

[RossMAN]

How much web space do you need?

How many pics?

What file size are the pics?

What's your monthly or annual budget for web hosting?

 

[dionx]

i use Sony's Imagestation.com to host my digital cam pics. it has been free so far, and i've heard no mention of space limitations. however if you want ppl to see the album pictures, they need to register, which is free. no ridiculous spam, if any, either.

 

[rbV5]

How much web space do you need?

Not sure, bigger is better.

How many pics?

I have shot a few thousand photos in the last couple months, with alot of keepers.

What file size are the pics?

I shoot most everything at 2272x1704, but I can resize to whatever.

What's your monthly or annual budget for web hosting?

Zero, right now, but a few bucks a month won't break my bank. I've been wanting to start a web site again anyway.

 

[rbV5]

i use Sony's Imagestation.com to host my digital cam pics. it has been free so far, and i've heard no mention of space limitations.

Hey thanks, I could use something like that for as simple free host. I'm starting to lean towards more of a web site host now I think. I'd like to create something more complex for my artwork and music also, an eclectic art site to show-off me stuff.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Walmart and Sam's have Fuji Frontier printers. Real photos on Fuji archive paper are nice. I think it's $.19 for a 4x6, less than $3 for an 8x10. The quality is very nice. Takes them about an hour.

 

[rbV5]

Walmart and Sam's have Fuji Frontier printers. Real photos on Fuji archive paper are nice. I think it's $.19 for a 4x6, less than $3 for an 8x10. The quality is very nice. Takes them about an hour.

Thanks, yea I've used Walmart for enlargements, but its a drive from my place. I'm looking more for an online solution...upload images, receive images in the mail.

 

[GasX]

if you have your own domain, you can install the Gallery script and print your pictures through Shutterfly

 

[rbV5]

if you have your own domain, you can install the Gallery script

I don't have a domain yet, I could even serve my own site, but I think the bandwidth would kill me. Maybe if just the photos were hosted somewhere else...I dunno, a good/cheap host would probably be the best.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
if you have your own domain, you can install the Gallery script and print your pictures through Shutterfly

I would go this route but go through Walmart Photo Center instead which has good quality and is the CHEAPEST!

As for web hosting, unless you give me a $$ figure I can't do jack for you.

Here's where you can find web hosting specials and post web hosting requests.

If you can afford $3.33/mo you can get 600MB, 12GB bandwidth, 40 email addresses, etc. which normally costs $10/mo.

 

[fatkorean]

Costco here prints digital for 19 cents a pict and the quality is amazing. They look exactly like real photos, no sub dye stuff. You can't tell the difference between the digital pict and a film pict.

-fk

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: fatkorean
Costco here prints digital for 19 cents a pict and the quality is amazing. They look exactly like real photos, no sub dye stuff. You can't tell the difference between the digital pict and a film pict.

-fk

But it sounds like most of his pics are on a hard drive not removeable media like CF.

Good suggestion though, CostCo prints come out great.

 

[PhaZe]

Can't you take them the pictures on a CD or something else and still have them print the digital?
I have about 40 pictures from a while back that are no longer on my CF card that I want to have printed.

 

[fatkorean]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: fatkorean
Costco here prints digital for 19 cents a pict and the quality is amazing. They look exactly like real photos, no sub dye stuff. You can't tell the difference between the digital pict and a film pict.

-fk

But it sounds like most of his pics are on a hard drive not removeable media like CF.

Good suggestion though, CostCo prints come out great.

Just burn it to CD, the costco I went to used a plextor 40x burner to read the disk. You can put it into any folder you want and you can pick what size you want, if you want to fix it or what not. It will recursivly search though all the folders looking for image files. I printed like around 150 pictures and it cost me a little over 30 bucks. Took a day for them to get it done.

-fk

 

[rbV5]

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Originally posted by: fatkorean
Costco here prints digital for 19 cents a pict and the quality is amazing. They look exactly like real photos, no sub dye stuff. You can't tell the difference between the digital pict and a film pict.

-fk
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But it sounds like most of his pics are on a hard drive not removeable media like CF.

Good suggestion though, CostCo prints come out great.
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Just burn it to CD, the costco I went to used a plextor 40x burner

Most of my photos are on my HD, and I can burn CD's, but I'm mainly looking for somewhere I can upload images after editing, and get quality prints back cheap, especially larger sizes like 8x10 and 11x17. Also, I need some poster size prints made also. Looks like I'm all set for picture hosting however

 

[DurocShark]

Just buy an Epson photo printer! $100 gets you a C82 if you look, and you can get museum quality prints from them with a bit of work. No work at all for snapshot quality prints (as good as the WalMart ones).

 

[rbV5]

Just buy an Epson photo printer! $100 gets you a C82 if you look, and you can get museum quality prints from them with a bit of work.

Between the supplies and paper, I just can't believe it could be cost effective for quality printing at home. I am mostly concerned with larger prints also actually, which raises the bar quite a bit. I think to all the throw-aways I get from just document printing at home...looks like a money furnace to me even if you could get the same quality. Then there's the kids to consider......nope, no home photo printing for me;

 

[KK]

Check out dotphoto. They have pretty good bulk rates, and you can upload as many pictures as you want to them, although you can't download back from them.

KK

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: KK
Check out dotphoto. They have pretty good bulk rates, and you can upload as many pictures as you want to them, although you can't download back from them.

KK

link

Thanks, worth checking out.

 

[RossMAN]

Wow dotphoto's bulk plans go as cheap as 15 cents per print!

 

[KK]

Yeah, 15 cents is pretty cheap, but what the hell would you do with 150 8x10s. We usually just do the 550 4x6 prints for 99.00 Quality is good, I'm no film expert but they look just like any other picture I've ever seen. And they also do matte finish.

KK

 

[LordSnailz]

Hey Rossman, any suggestion on a good reliable web host that offers something near 1gig. A suggestion of a few hosts that offers best-bang-for-the-buck? I can then go through the WHT forums and decide from the user reviews.

TIA!

 

[rbV5]

We usually just do the 550 4x6 prints for 99.00

Bulk prints are multiple copies of the same photo, or volume pricing on seperate photos? Thanks for the link btw, looks like it could be good.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: LordSnailz
Hey Rossman, any suggestion on a good reliable web host that offers something near 1gig. A suggestion of a few hosts that offers best-bang-for-the-buck? I can then go through the WHT forums and decide from the user reviews.

TIA!

I hope you're asking or 1GB bandwidth, right? Or do you want 1GB webspace?

What's your monthly budget?