Shutterfly for the win
So my Shutterfly prints arrived today – the replacement for the very poor job Kodak did for me via the Aperture built-in printing service.
They’re really good. I switched off the VividPrints color-correction option when I ordered them, and they look very close to what I see while looking at the images on screen – which is kind of what you want, especially if you’ve been adjusting levels, exposure, white balance and stuff.
Here’s an example.
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At the top is the Aperture/Kodak version, underneath the Shutterfly one. It’s not very scientific, but you can definitely see that the top version is darker and much more yellow than the bottom one, which is much closer to the original file.
I don’t know what Kodak did wrong, but I’m sticking with Shutterfly for now.