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No Easy Batch Photo is some software I found on the web. It was cheap and seemed to work but it may be what's causing the lines. I'm not sure. Yeah I'm trying to print Tiff's now with 300ppi so hopefully this will fix the problem. thank you

I'm printing around 40: 12x18 prints and then 10: 20x30 prints.

The 12x18 run around $3.50 and the 20x30 go for $9.99. At Sam's though, if you print big orders like this, they'll give you a discount. In my case they're taking off another $45.00.

 

That's why I'm using them. Just wish it wasn't a nightmare trying to get the correct values.

Yeah I'm sure using a real lab would be much easier and maybe I could find one close in price, but the fact that I need them so soon and if I have them sent to me, if there's a problem, then I can't fix it immediately and get a new print. I was only given about week and a half notice about the show.

I'll check out that lab though and thanks for the advice.

 

Rand- Yeah what the hell kind of "software" is that that they are using on the Sam's site. It's circa 1998 nonsense in my opinion. I'll check what happens if I change my settings to sRGB. Thanks for the heads up.

HI EVERYONE

 

I have a show coming up April 18th in Tennessee and I'm printing around 50

portraits. I'm printing at Sam's Club because of the prices and because the

color there was much better than the color at Costco (at least for these images).

 

So I took them in RAW with my Canon Rebel. Then I convert them in PS-CS3 to Tiff

files and do minor toning and exposure changes if necessary. I am always having

to back up my files so I found some software that's called "Easy Batch Photo. I

use this to convert the tiff to a jpeg.(I think all they can take at Sam's is a

jpeg but hopefully I'm wrong). I keep the dpi at 300 and use the highest quality.

 

When I print my tests in 4x6 everything is fine. Sometimes I need to desaturate

the colors but they are good quality. When I print larger however, I start to

get lines running down the photos and some really enhanced red and green

tones.Everything looks blotchy and there doesn't seem to be a control because

sometimes a photo will come out decent and then others come out all messed up.

 

I use a Mac laptop with OS X. When I printed using jpegs I had converted in

Photoshop, the color was drained in comparison to the ones I converted in the

EasyBatchPhoto. My screen is displaying at Color LCD because I don't know (they

don't either) Sam's Club's printer profile. I'm so lost.

 

What should I do? What am I doing wrong? Is there a pro photographer that uses

Sam's that can give me some tips? I have to get these all done by Monday and I

can't afford to go to a prophoto shop.

The thing is that I'm using a external hard drive for my photos because I didn't want my

computer to get too clogged up. I have plenty of gigs in the hard drive and my Mac is a

Powerbook G4.

 

What kinds of changed should I make in my LR configuration?

I love my iPHOTO and if it could handle thousands of raw images I would stick with it. I have tried

MediaPro and have Light Room now. MediaPro was way too confusing for my non computer savvy mind

and LR is really slow since I have an external drive and also has some other problems. Does anyone know

of a good reliable but somewhat simple Mac software? I'm on my way to becoming a professional

photographer and use Photoshop for editing so I really only want to use the software for importing images

and organizing them.

 

Thanks so much!

So, I had iView MediaPro and felt like I was back on a PC trying to learn Greek so I just got Lightroom 1.2. I

like it much more than iView already but it does seem to be pretty slow and I'm realizing now that I am

having a problem with having only thumbnail versions (perhaps) of some photos. These photos also seem

to have copies but neither one will "load or work" into a full, in focus photo. When I find the original

photos on my Lacie, where I have been importing all my photos from, and try to import the file again, the

program says it won't import the specific photos because they already exist in the catalogue.

 

So here are my main questions I guess>

 

1. Is there a way to go through the library and find all duplicate files and then delete them other than

doing it all one by one?

 

2. How can I get it to run faster? I am working from a Mac Powerbook G4.

 

3. Does anyone understand what I did wrong when importing the files and how I can get the original files

imported? De-selecting the "suspicious duplicate" option doesn't work.

 

4. Other than Mediapro and Lightroom, is there another program people like more?

 

 

Thanks so much for your time.

 

I'm an aspiring fine art photographer and I guess my brain doesn't work so well with computers.

 

Sincerely,

 

troppassai