they only screwed up one image which I'll need to get reprocessed
I'm pretty sure that if you alert them, they will do this for free. It's happened to me a couple of times; and even better, you get to keep the off-print for yourself. I've found that the keys to getting consistently good prints are to get copies of their ICC profiles (obvious, I suppose), which they will email to you, and to make sure to turn their color correction feature off.
Yeah, I think I'll be sending them an email at lunch. It was the one shot of Molly on the stairs that everyone liked--it was over-corrected and thus gave her blotchy spots where there should have been none.
I used their color correction feature, actually, just to see what differences I was getting between my web proofs and the prints. Most of them came out well and/or identical to the color adjustments I'd already made--that shot of Molly was the only flop. It was a good experiment.
I've never experimented systematically with their color correction, but so much of my image post-processing is getting color balance right that it never really seemed like a good idea to me. I once sent them some scans of old slides to print. The slides had gone pink-ish, which I corrected in photoshop before I sent them out. I left the color correction box checked, and when the images came back, what did I find, but that the pink-ish tint had returned. I emailed them and they sent me replacement, non-corrected images, that were much better.
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*laughs* i wish i still had any version of my peacock hair cuz we would have made an awesome photo together!
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I'm pretty sure that if you alert them, they will do this for free. It's happened to me a couple of times; and even better, you get to keep the off-print for yourself. I've found that the keys to getting consistently good prints are to get copies of their ICC profiles (obvious, I suppose), which they will email to you, and to make sure to turn their color correction feature off.
Anyway, glad you like mpix.
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I used their color correction feature, actually, just to see what differences I was getting between my web proofs and the prints. Most of them came out well and/or identical to the color adjustments I'd already made--that shot of Molly was the only flop. It was a good experiment.
Thank you!
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stunning as always.
purple rocks.
you know, we are overdo for some lunch es-CAP-aee!!!
early next week?
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