Digital photo lab

B0rG

Can anyone recommend reasonable (and competent) photo lab for digital photo prints somewhere around city center? All the ones I've tried last few days accept jpegs only...

digitalbeginner

Reasonable (as in price) and competent can be hard to find in any walk of life. One of the pro labs is Photo Labs just off Camden St you could try them, certainly competent (very) and price will depend on what you want. This is their link http://www.photolabs.ie/

B0rG

yeah,

I was trying to print photoshop files (wasn't a problem in any shop back home) - here they accept jpegs only...

website looks good - but location and working hours not really (I live near heuston and work in sandyford)...

mtracey

why do you want to print from psd files ? I think that you're going to find it very difficult to find someone who will print from them.

elven

How big are you printing, that a max size jpg is making a difference?

Not being cheeky, just curious for my own future reference!

B0rG

mtracey wrote:

why do you want to print from psd files ? I think that you're going to find it very difficult to find someone who will print from them.

I'm printing test prints for A5 (half A4 size 15x20 cantimeters not sure of inches).

Shooting with 350D and 50 1.4 and 17-40 4L.
RAW -> C1 (white balance + crop) -> Photoshop (+brightness, +contrast, blur on the face) small retouch where needed.

back home that would cost me less than 50c a print...

I was trying to decide whether to get a decent color printer or to print in the lab. Decent printer is around E200 + E100 for consumables, since I'm not printing that much yet lab could be better option if there was one.

B0rG

elven wrote:

How big are you printing, that a max size jpg is making a difference?

Not being cheeky, just curious for my own future reference!

A5 (half of A4) call me perfectionist - just don't want any jpeg artifacts on.

Back home any lab would accept any kind of format, didn't know it'll be a problem here...

mtracey

Try using photobox.ie.

8" x 6" (20cm x 15cm) €1.45 each , prices for down to 0.60c for 20+ prints

Delivery is a standard €2 .
Quick delivery. Excellent quality also.

When you join you'll get some free prints also, so you can test our the quality for the cost of the postage

DotOrg

any lab will have to flatten a psd to a tiff or jpg anyway, no lab can print direct from a psd

come into city pharmacy on dame st (opposite the olympia), we can convert your psds to tiffs and print them no problem

JMcL

B0rG wrote:

A5 (half of A4) call me perfectionist - just don't want any jpeg artifacts on.

If you save at maximum JPEG quality, I really don't think arifacts are going to be a problem, especially at A5 size. A while back I assembled some panoramas into a single image to print as a large 60x40cm poster size, and had to save them at quality 9 on Photoshop (75% I guess) as there was a 5Mb file size limit. I was worried that artifacts would be an issue, but the results actually looked fine.

Failing that, you could maybe try TIFF. Even where it's compressed, it's lossless

B0rG

DotOrg wrote:

come into city pharmacy on dame st (opposite the olympia), we can convert your psds to tiffs and print them no problem

I take it you're accepting tiffs, is that correct?

DotOrg

yep tiffs are fine, no fuji machine will print 16bit files though so you'll have to make sure they're 8bit files