having prictures printed from online services... I have a few questions

[Homerboy]

I recently scanned a bunch of old family photos that I would like printed out. However these scans/pictures are not standard 4x6, 5x7 etc dimensions as some are old square photos, Polaroids, and lots of generally odd-sized dimensions.

If I choose a 4x6 print, I'm hoping/guessing that they stretch to fit 1 dimension, and if the other is too small its left white?

Anyone know?

 

[sohcrates]

most photo upload sites will let you manually set the crop for each picture

if picture has dead space left then yes it is usually white

my suggestion would be to open the pictures up in photoshop or whatever, set your crop tool to 4x6, and manually crop them yourself before you upload them. will probably be less work if you do it that way

 

[Homerboy]

I don't want them cropped. I want them to retain the 4x4 and oddball sizes so white space is perfectly fine as I can just trim it off. In fact this is arguable the best case scenario. I actually left the original white "border" around the image that old pictures had after I had scanned them.

I emailed their support but who knows how long it will be before they respond.

 

[gwrober]

Any updates? I'm curious about this also...

 

[ZetaEpyon]

With adoramapix, you can specify how you want each photo treated: cropping, border or no border, etc.

 

[gwrober]

Are there any other places besides Walgreens that allow for local pickup? Obviously has to be a B&M...

Walmart? CVS?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

shutterfly sucks...don't use them

 

[MX2]

I used Winkflash recently and I am happy.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
shutterfly sucks...don't use them

more explanation needed

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
shutterfly sucks...don't use them

more explanation needed

awful print quality and slow

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
I don't want them cropped. I want them to retain the 4x4 and oddball sizes so white space is perfectly fine as I can just trim it off. In fact this is arguable the best case scenario. I actually left the original white "border" around the image that old pictures had after I had scanned them.

I emailed their support but who knows how long it will be before they respond.

If you have an image editing program and are unsure what they'll do, just create the extra white around the edges as you need. To use photoshop terms, make your canvas 4x6 and plop your original image into the center of it, leaving white whereever you think it should be.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: Homerboy
I don't want them cropped. I want them to retain the 4x4 and oddball sizes so white space is perfectly fine as I can just trim it off. In fact this is arguable the best case scenario. I actually left the original white "border" around the image that old pictures had after I had scanned them.

I emailed their support but who knows how long it will be before they respond.

If you have an image editing program and are unsure what they'll do, just create the extra white around the edges as you need. To use photoshop terms, make your canvas 4x6 and plop your original image into the center of it, leaving white whereever you think it should be.

wow thread resurrected.

Yes I had to create the extra white space. I did a sample print job and they cropped to fit so I went back with PS, created the white space, printed and then cut the the white space off when I picked the pictures.

Flawless.

Walgreens pictures FTW.