Has anyone seen, in the flesh, the quality of prints that the,
finally available in Australia, iPhoto print service produces?
I'm pretty used to getting good, almost professional, quality prints
from my Canon inkjet at home for framing and mounting - not
surprising as I spent a long time setting it up "just so" and will
tweak and reprint any print that comes out unsatisfactory.
The Apple book printing service looks tempting for creating bound
books though, something that's not easy to do from home.
I heard good reviews from technology/consumer websites about the
service when it was introduced in the US all those years ago but also
read some less than glowing comments from photographers about the
consistency of colour accuracy between images sent and prints
received and also with inconsistency between prints with in the same
batch.
Now some people, myself to some degree as well, are quite critical
about appearance of a print particularly if it's from a shot I've
taken ans spent some time in Photoshop getting "just so"
but .... I know if I gave a book of prints to my parents they would
be happy with it so long as it looked and felt like it was reasonable
quality and wouldn't know, notice, or possibly even care, that ,
say, the shade of red of the geisha's make up has just a touch too
little yellow tone to it or that some shadow detail was lost in the
background of a shot of some gamelan dancers...
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