Problem with printing my digital photographs?

Question

I have a Sony Cyber-shot and I believe its the W-180. We got it the day before our honeymoon because the day before our wedding out daughter smashed our old one. This was on May 3rd of 09. We took lots of photos on our honeymoon and sent them to Walgreen's to get printed and they turned out great. But as of recently we have been having problems with picture quality. We will take a photo and it looks great on the camera display. then we upload it to our computer and still, great quality. But when we send it to either Walgreen's or Wal-mart, the pictures come back pixelated and not very sharp/high quality. I have looked all online and read everything from dirty lens, needing to adjust shutter speed to even a fungus growing inside my camera. Please, if anyone can help and give me some ideas as to why all of a sudden my camera is producing great photos when i see them on the computer but poor ones when we print them.

Answer 1

If they are pixelated, somehow they may not be getting transfered properly to the photo department. Take that memory stick personally to Walmart or Walgreens and make a print of something that looked bad on an earlier order.



Secondly, you aren't looking at the contents of the memory stick directly in your computer are you? Hopefully you are doing a copy and paste and not trying to manipulate the images by rotating them or cropping them diretly from the memory stick. You can do this, but just on the copies. With some viewers, especially Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, you are permanetnly altering the image on the memory stick as you view them if you do things like rotate them in the viewer. This will cut down on the resolution and result in a low res, pixelated print.

Answer 2

The artwork of constructing movie has long past down hill seeing that locations that hire staff, name the lab paintings access stage. Which it's; One simply a lot the movie unto a conveyor belt mounted and unloads the movie at the different facet. You must use filters in case you wish your snap shots to end up proper, now not rely at the lab. So give up blaming the labs in your ineptitudes and be taught learn how to use your apparatus.

Answer 3

Have you tried printing any at home and see how they turn out, sounds like something is going haywire when you download them to walmart or walgreens especially if it has happened at both places.