Digital Photo Printing at Boots

Advantages: Quick and Easy Self Service - Quality - Professional
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest

...I have a digital camera, and keep my photos on my computer's hard-drive, but occasionally I like to get better and more interesting pictures printed, it just seems so much more natural to hold a real photo than look at it on the screen, plus it's better for showing them to people when a computer or TV isn't available, or giving photos to people who don't have a computer or DVD player. I recently therefore took a batch of my digital photos to Boots to get them printed. Boots now have self service machines for digital photos, which allow either instant, 1 hour or 24 hour printing from various sources. This can be a memory card, a photo CD, or Infra-Red direct from a compatible phone or camera. This has 2 benefits over the old over the counter method, firstly you can keep the media that the photos are on, very useful if it's your only...

C-J-C 14.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boots - Photo Processing

Developing your photos at Tesco

Advantages: Quick and Easy
Disadvantages: Can be more expensive and you cannot pay by cash at these machines

...I have found this service quite handy as now having a digital camera i tend to forget to develop my photos, which is a shame, and trying to hand your memory card over for someone to pick out the ones you want to develp can be quite stressful, which is why i use the self service photo developing. I have found it quite an easy self explanatory experience, you insert your memory card and follow the on-line instructions, you can either have the normal 4x6 prints, the option to select all photos or certain ones, you also have the option to re-size your photos as well. When selecting your photos it tells you how much it is costing you on the screen, so no nasty suprises at the end! You then simply pay for the selected photos by card at the machine and then your photos are printed while you wait, which i think is quite quick. The only down...

kimbo1484 22.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tesco photo developing

TescoPhoto.com = Average

Advantages: Good quality photos
Disadvantages: Random Duplicates which i didnt order

...Every few months I get around 50-70 photos developed, mainly of my family, nights out, birthdays, holidays ECT. I just have a ?thing? about having lots of photos! I always have my photos developed online (I?m just too lazy to go to a shop) so a few days ago I searched on the internet for any special offers because I had 50 to print out I thought I could look around for a good deal. My mum suggested looking on the Tesco website. I hadn?t considered them before so I wasn?t sure on what their prices would be, after typing in Tesco photos I came across their site, I was welcomed with lots of special offers on the homepage ?save up to £20...?, ?free premium gloss paper on photo books?, ?40 free prints?, ?prints from 5p? are just a handful of the offers that Tesco photos had. THE REST OF THE WEBSITE Besides the special offers, the rest...

x_dani_x 12.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of TescoPhoto.com

Tesco Online Photo Processing

Advantages: Earn Clubcard points, can have it delivered to your home or nearest store.
Disadvantages: Differing advice from their customer service.

...Overall Review I didn?t use my local store when processing my photos or ordering gifts, I used the online photolab - http://www.tescophoto.com/wpp/tesco/welcome.jsp. One of the incentives to join is 10 free prints, although I?ve found a lot more online photolabs that offer you a much higher quantity of free prints. With Tesco photolab you upload your pictures into a chosen album with 200Mb free storage, you can choose which album you want to have and name each of them. You can also share your photos online but I didn?t choose to do this so don?t really know how to go about it. I am not on broadband so it took a wee while to upload each of my photos. I chose to have my order delivered to my door (You can have your photos delivered straight to your door or collect them from store, delivery details below) and had my order within...

manicstreetpreacher 21.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Tesco photo developing

Sy the Photo Guy

Advantages: Superb performance from Williams
Disadvantages: Slow

...Sy Parrish develops photos at a supermarket. He's been doing it for years and his customers love him. He lives for his work. Whatever he's developing, be it family snapshots, pictures of pets or home-made porn, he does it with the precision and care of the ultimate perfectionist. Outside of work he has no friends and no family, and he lives alone in an apartment devoid of warmth and life. Except, that is, for a caged hamster and a wall completely papered with photographs of one particular family, the Yorkins. Nina Yorkin and her husband Will have a beautiful house and an adorable son, Jake. Nina documents the happy times in their lives photographically, and Sy develops the pictures, thus witnessing the family as it grows and changes. Unbeknown to the Yorkins, he always develops an extra set to put on his wall. To Sy...

sandrabarber 22.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of One Hour Photo (DVD)

DVD Photo Slideshow

Advantages: Quick and easy to use!
Disadvantages: None

...I?m a serious camera/photo nut so when I got my first laptop last year I decided to do a digital photography course at my local college. Among many other things I learned the art of taking and manipulating digital pictures and then displaying them on websites and creating other exciting features ? the most exciting of which, for me, was DVD slideshows. At college we used Nero for this purpose, however I wanted something a little more user friendly and a more simplistic interface. I found this programme among others using a straight forward Google search. I done some research and downloaded a few trial editions. Ease of use was my main priority and I felt that this programme was, by far, the most easy to use. The programme cost me around £27. I downloaded the programme and installed it onto my computer and I was then emailed...

sharkel 08.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of DVD Photo Slideshow

fantastic photo printing

Advantages: photos
Disadvantages: cost of ink

...HP are one of the leading printer manufactures in the UK at the moment, this is simple because their printers not only offer great quality of print but they also offer anyone printers for any needs which targets the whole of the printer market out there. The HP PhotoSmart D7360 touch screen is an quite large 86mm in size. This offers the ability to view photos on a great quality colour screen and the ability to even edit them too before you press that print button. The touch screen offers many buttons to change the pictures appearance and layout and there is still 7 actual buttons for various things on the printer itself. The screen folds up and down for easy storage and so that it doesn’t get damaged when its not in use. On the right hand side of the buttons and the screen are the memory card slots. There’s four card...

techno_man_37 08.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP PhotoSmart D7360

A quick look at One Hour Photo

Advantages: Robin Williams Performance
Disadvantages: None really

...I am not a big fan of pschological thrillers but i did really enjoy this one. The basic storyline is a lonely photo technician becomes obsessed with the family whose photos he has been printing for years. Robin Williams gives a wonderful performace as Sy the Photo Guy and a well written script really helps to keep the film going with it's creepy scenes as his obsession develops. You can't guess quite where the film will go next and the story progresses well. It has it's moments where you are in suspence and one piece which is quite disturbing, but i would still suggest it as a family film. (Just not for young children) Some moments are scarier than in horror because it is played out realistically and this is what makes it so good. There was no stand out soundtrack or complcated dialogue, it witheld a eerie normal feel to it. As the film...

joe-survey 12.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of One Hour Photo (DVD)

Photo direct

Advantages: very easy to use and great results
Disadvantages: ink is expensive

...The Epson Stylus Photo RX620 sits beside my iMac enthusiastically printing off the latest photo's of my son. As printers go its average in size, perhaps slightly bulky at 456 x 439 x 256mm, but considering that it is also a scanner/photocopier, its fairly compact. As I no longer work, my printers main function is purely printing of photo's hense, the reason why we purchased a photo printer and it performs its function with excellent results everytime. As mentioned above the printer also has a scanner/photocoping facility which is also excellent, scanning at a respectable 2400dpi, it is also capable of scanning negatives and slides, in essense, the printer enables you to function as a digital darkroom. Connecting easily with my computer this printer is both PC and Mac compatable, but this printer will function hapily...

mussonanna 03.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Epson Stylus Photo RX620

Why I'd never use Tesco Photo again

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: won't get your prints without major hassle

...I'm a photographer putting on my first exhibition, and decided to use Tesco Photo for my prints, as I've used them before, and was happy with their quality. The exhibition was to be on the 28th of October, and so about a month before the exhibition I placed my first order for prints, and waited for delivery. A week later I was told one of the files uploaded was corrupted, and so they cancelled the entire order. Fortunately I'd given myself a month to get the prints done for exactly this eventuality. I re-uploaded the corrupt image, and placed another order. On the next order, a different image was corrupt, even though I'd already submitted exactly the same set of files. After two or so hours of calls to Tesco Customer support, who were occasionally rude and often unhelpful I finally managed to find someone who said they'd look into it...

jeak 26.10.2009 · Read review
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