Hi Barb

-> I do print out nearly all personal pictures from vacations and Christmas. I
-> do cull out the bad ones and spend time fixing up the good ones before I
-> send them off. I'm a "pro" member of Dotphoto.com (I pay
$9.99/mo) and I
-> just upload my prints there and get 4x6 prints or whatever. But, I can also
-> just run my card or cd down to Walmart and get prints if I'm in a hurry.
-> I've only done inkjet once using the smaller roll paper, but I won't do this
-> again. Not worth it.

Ah, see.....I've asked about that before, but maybe it's you I need to talk
to.  

What happens if, when you "fix" your pictures you happen to crop them to
something that doesn't print to your perfect 4x6. At home that's fine, but
if you send them to be printed, do they print what you have within those
boarders, so you end up with extra white on the cropped edges, or do they
try to force them into their standard sizes and end up cropping off some of
what you left.....like when a standard 8 x 10 gets printed off a negative?  
Everytime I mention thinking of sending something out to get printed,
someone here asks why I would do that.  

My main reason would be to get something bigger than what my home printer
is capable of. The pictures come off my camera with a print size of 13.3 x
17.8, but the resolution is only 72 ppi.  When I print at home I often
boost that to 300 ppi, but the biggest I can go on my printer is 10.3 x
whatever.  So, lets start at the beginning....if I wanted to do like you,
and get regular 4x6's, should I just leave the resolution and print size
alone on the original file, and just tweak for colour, exposure, and crop
out any crap?  If I wanted a bigger size than what I can do at home, is
that even possible with the file showing the resolution that comes off the
camera?  

I've gone to the Kodak site and uploaded pictures I'd like to see at 11 x
14, but that never seems possible. This shop print stuff is a mystery to
me. 
  
 It's difficult to keep 'em flat and they don't look as
-> nice as the real Fuji Crystal Archive 4x6s that I get from Walmart.

I just copy and paste 4 pictures on a page in PhotoShop and print them off 
like that here.  Then I cut them apart with either an exacto knife or a one
of those big blade slicers (that I borrowed once).  But I seldom print
pictures except for cards.  All the family stuff is just on file.  Too much
work, and my printer seems to like to stall in the middle of a page these
days. :(

Karen
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