Oh, and I should mention that getting to ofoto.com was a long and winding path. Ah, the sad story begins like this:

After getting feedback here, I found this wonderful place down the street (oh my gosh--it wasn't online!) that's a division of Ritz Camera. They said they could do 6x8's at the same price as 5x7's. So I got a test print done (as described a few posts back) and it had this weird pixelated, LCD-like look to it, which I chalked up to my using a relatively low resolution (180 dpi/ppi). No problem, so my wife and I worked on a 300 dpi version.

After tweaking it to absolute perfection (well, I'm not all that creative, but it looked fine by me) I take it back to the store and find out that--oh, that price was for prints from *film*. Eh? Yes, sir, if you want prints from a digital image it's about twice the price. <sigh>

OK, I'm the world's worst procrastinator (it's not unusual for me to send out holiday cards in, say, February) but I insist I'm not going to do that this year. So I resolve to print them at 5x7, even though they were designed for 6x8. I know I can do that from iPhoto.

So, I convert my PSD to a TIFF and a JPEG and import it into iPhoto. I've got 1-click enabled, so I click and . . . get an error. It starts to upload the file but errors out. OK, I've done this before, it must be something wrong on their end.

I will not send out cards in February, I will not send cards out in February. . .

So I come back to this thread and decide I'll try Costco as Beth recommends. I have to be a member, but I'm not yet. What if I try to send the order and I'm not a member? What does it take to join? How long does it take to process? What if they get my order while they're still processing my membership--will my order end up in never-never land, and be delivered in July? Ack! I couldn't take the uncertainty this close to the holidays. Just bite the bullet and sacrifice the 10¢ per print and go to ofoto, I tell myself.

So I go to ofoto, but I've got to sign up for that, too. No membership fee or anything though. I've blown so much time on this now, I just need to get this finished.

I will not send out cards in February, I will not send out cards in February . . .

It was after all this that I finally got my cards back. Ofoto.com was very quick: I ordered 2nd day service, uploaded my image on Wednesday morning and had 50 copies by Friday afternoon delivered to my house. Not bad.

Next year, I think I'll start working on my holiday cards in, oh, July. :-)

cwheeler

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