[Leica] Re: on line albums

[john at scocca.org (John Scocca)]

I have had this trouble with on-line printers of digital images too.  I 
think I have found a work-around.   The Sony ImageStation service will 
do prints and booklets, and it appears that if one specifies <<NOT 
PERFECT CROP>> they will print the full image in  their standard frame 
sizes allowing  white space to fill the gaps.

Most on-line services seem to use fill-the-paper as their theory of 
cropping, and if one's pics don't fit then the cropping is random 
(machine made I bet).

I have not yet tried to request no cropping from image station yet, so 
this isn't guaranteed.  Shutterfly ought to be able to provide this 
service too, and if I were you I would call customer service and see 
about an adjustment.

cheers

John Scocca

On Jan 16, 2005, at 4:09 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:36:26 -0800 (PST)
From: "V.Roger" <vroger@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Leica] Albums
To: lug lug <lug@leica-users.org>
Message-ID: <20050116183626.83452.qmail@web60702.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi All:
When my son recently got married he made up gift
albums from his "all digital" professionally
phtographed wedding which he presented from an on line
company called "Shutterfly". He thought this would be
a great way for me to produce a coffee table book of
my photos and I agree. I went on line, uploaded a
group of photos and started the ordering process. To
my horror, the company apparently crops the photos
randomly. Totally unacceptable. I wonder is there a
more professional on line company out there which
would not crop the photos- but is commercial enough to
be relatively reasonable in cost? -vroger