Section 10.3. Ordering Prints Online


10.3. Ordering Prints Online

Even if you don't have a high-quality color printer, traditional prints of your digital photos are only a few clicks awayif you have an Internet connection and you're willing to spend a little money, that is.

Thanks to a deal between Apple and Kodak, you can order prints directly from within iPhoto. After you select the size and quantity of the pictures you want printed, one click is all it takes to have iPhoto transmit your photos to Kodak Print Services and bill your credit card for the order. The ratessome of which are much lower than they were in iPhoto 4range from 19 cents for a single 4 x 6 print to about $23 for a jumbo 20 x 30 poster. Within a couple of days, Kodak sends you finished photos printed on high-quality glossy photographic paper.


Tip: If you plan to order prints, first crop your photos to the proper proportions (4 x 6, for example), using the Crop tool as described in Chapter 8. Most digital cameras produce photos whose shape doesn't quite match standard photo-paper dimensions. If you send photos to Kodak uncropped, you're leaving it up to Kodak to decide which parts of your pictures to lop off to make them fit. (More than one Mac fan has opened the envelope to find loved ones missing the tops of their skulls .)By cropping the pictures to photo-paper shape before you place the order, you decide which parts get eliminated. (You can always restore the photos to their original uncropped versions using iPhoto's Revert to Original command.)

Click an album in the album list to order prints of everything in it, or select only the specific photos you want. Only the photos you select will appear in the Order Prints window.

Next, below the main iPhoto window, click the Order Prints icon. Now the Mac must go online to check in with the Kodak processing center. (If you've never before ordered an iPhoto book or iPhoto prints, click Set Up Account to surrender your identity and credit card info .)

Figure 10-10. The Order Prints window lets you order six different types of prints from your photosfrom a set of four wallet- sized prints to mammoth 20" x 30" posters . Use the scroll bar on the right to scroll through all the photos you've selected to specify how many copies of each photo you want to order. If you need to change your shipping, contact, or credit card information, click the Account Info button to modify your Apple ID profile.


If you want 4 x 6 or 5 x 7 prints of every photo you've selected, use the Quick Order pop-up menu at the top of the dialog box; otherwise , fill in the quantities individually for each photo, scrolling down through the dialog box as necessary.

As you order, pay heed to the alert icons (little yellow triangles ) that may appear on certain lines of the order form (visible in Figure 10-10). These are iPhoto's standard warning symbols, declaring that certain photos don't have a high enough resolution to be printed at the specified sizes.

Click the Buy Now button to order the prints. Your photos are transferred, your credit card is billed, and you go sit by the mailbox. A batch of 24 standard 4 x 6 snapshots costs about $5, plus shipping, which is about what you'd pay for processing a roll of film at the local drugstore.

Better yet, you get to print only the prints that you actually want, rather than developing a roll of 36 prints only to find that only two of them are any good. It's far more convenient than the drugstore method, and it's a handy way to send top- notch photo prints directly to friends and relatives who don't have computers. Furthermore, it's ideal for creating high-quality enlargements that would be impossible to print on the typical inkjet printer.




iLife 05. The Missing Manual
iLife 05: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596100361
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 314
Authors: David Pogue

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