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Click HERE to see out price structure. All prices
in U.S dollars
We intend to offer more sizes as demand grows. Our
PhotoDirect Software requires your MasterCard or Visa credit
card details for payment. Our software does not currently
cater for debit cards. The software informs you prior to order
submission how much it will cost and enables you to print off
a receipt.
Once you
place your order, your images are printed on the same day or
the next business day. Shipping usually takes between 3-7
business days depending on designation. International orders
may take a little longer. All orders are shipped via United
States Postal Service (USPS). (See prices chart
for shipping charges).
Conventional print sizes are the regular
sizes that would have been printed from film. You should
choose these sizes if you wish to place your pictures in the
traditional frames or albums. Digital print size have the same
width-to-height ratio as most digital cameras, which means
that we would not have to crop down our image to avoid white
borders.
For a full explanation of the difference
between "digital print" and "conventional print" sizes click here.
We recommend JPEG
format, however we also accept GIF, and BMP. Higher resolution
pictures will result in clearer pictures. We suggest the
following picture sizes:
| Image Resolution |
Picture Size |
| >288 x 432 |
4x6" |
| >360 x 504 |
5x7" |
| >576 x 720 |
8x10" |
Print sizes range from 4x6" to 20x30". We also
offer passport size 2x2", wallet size (2.5x3.5") and
holiday/greeting/occasion cards in 3.5x7". (see
pricing)
We use Kodak professional
paper and state of the art laserlab color laser
printers.
No, you will have to
follow our order procedure and download the FREE software and
upload your images to place your order.
We do order adjustments where if you would
like to adjust an order that you feel the pictures were taken
poorly and might need some adjusting, we can do so at
additional charge depending on the degree of
adjustments.
If your enlargement
arrives with white borders, cropping was necessary to include
the full image. Please us the software to crop accordingly so
that you can preview your picture before it comes out. Many
customers miss this step and do not pay attention to the image
viewer.
Orders placed through our website or our
software go through WorldPay Internet Payment Solutions.
WorldPay delivers simple, safe, and secure e-commerce
solutions.
We'll make it easy for you. Just go to Upload Now And
get your digital prints in a few days.
Yes, but
avoid too high a resolution as the resultant large file will
take a long time to transmit using a modem and will occupy a
lot of hard disk space on your PC. A good habit is to try to
use a file with a resolution between 600 x 800 and 768 x 1024.
This is a reasonable compromise between quality, disk space
and modem transmission time. Select TIFF color 24 bit or JPEG
as the file format to save. If available, choose FLASHPIX, as
this is the most appropriate file format for photographic
electronic data.
Conventional 35mm
films have an aspect ratio of 2(height) to 3(width). For
digital cameras, the aspect ratio is 2.4(height) to
3.2(width), which equates to the aspect ratio of a computer
screen. Because of this, our software enables you to crop to a
conventional 2 x 3 ratio. If you do not crop, but still order
conventional size photos, your prints will have the white
borders that are displayed on the Pix viewing screen. To avoid
the need for cropping, we also offer digital size photos which
match the digital camera aspect ratio. Click here for a more detailed
explanation.
This is mainly
determined by the speed of the modem you are using, the size
of file you are sending, and the load that your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) has to cope with when you are online.
It is difficult to predict how long an upload will take but in
normal conditions we have found the following:
• A 640
x 480 image of size 41K with a 28,800 baud connection took 14
seconds
• A 858 x 614 image of size 61K with a 28,800 baud
connection took 21 seconds
• A 1536 x 1024 image of size
161K with a 28,800 baud connection took 56 seconds
If your camcorder has a still image
capability and a method for outputting these to a PC then you
can print these with us in the same way as normal digital
camera images.
Yes, our software allows you
to upload Black & White images
Some
digital cameras allow for a choice of quality level, which
refers to the level of compression of the image: low, medium
or high. The higher the quality of image required, the lower
the level of compression, and hence the larger the file size.
Compression is irreversible: you cannot 'decompress' and
recover the original look of your image. The compression
factor is independent from the resolution of the image. When
you compress, you don't reduce resolution, but simply
intentionally deteriorate the image. Our software will warn
you if compression is too high.
Because we use state of the
art digital printers to print on conventional photographic
paper, the photos we make are of the highest quality. If you
use a good quality digital camera or scanner at a high
resolution and with minimal compression, you will be very
happy with the results. 'Resolution' relates to the number of
pixels. In order to produce a satisfactory photographic print,
your Digital Photo should have a resolution of at least 400 x
600 in its original size for a satisfactory 4" x 6" photo.
When you select your images using our PhotoDirect Software, an
alert will be displayed on screen if they have insufficient
resolution or number of colors, and you can delete the
selection. You will still be able to send the image to us if
you so wish, but the result will be of a lower quality and our
money back policy does not apply to these images.
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