What do you do when you need to print your photos? You would either do it at home or give your negatives or digital images to your local photo studio. The studio would ask you to hand over the images either via a pen drive, CD/DVD or they could ask for the camera itself. They will then make prints for you and have them ready within a day or two.

Amateur photographers click photos under variable lighting conditions and these images are often over/under exposed, out of focus, etc. The result is an unsatisfying print and the photo studio guy usually blames the original images. More often than not when images are given to the studio for printing, they need to be processed. Most photo studios would ask you if the image needs to be altered in any way or if they should be printed as they are. But the job of the photo studio is to process the images using an image editing software, such as Photoshop. This software can clean the images of spots and dirt, remove red-eye effect, correct exposure levels, and more. The treated images finally look better, brighter and the prints turn out to be sharper than the original image itself.

Photo studios such as Kodak Express have more than 1,500 franchise outlets all over India and all you need is to go to the outlet with your images - on flash media, CD/DVD, mobile phone or the camera itself. The image is transferred to their computer and you need to inform the person at the counter about your need.

There are other alternatives to avail these types of services without the trouble of stepping out of your house. The Internet helps as the medium and online photo studio websites offer the quick services. powered by Hewlett Packard (HP) offers services such as photo sharing and storage, photo printing and also photo gift articles such as mugs, calendars, frames, and more also features online photo albums and ordered prints delivered to your home for a price.

Additional services like online photo editing where you can add special effects and convert your photos into posters, canvas and greeting cards too. You can also play around with your photos without the need to download any utility on . The website also offers additional tools such as eye color changing, focus modes and more for a premium price.

So go ahead and correct your photos, add special effects and order prints without stepping out of the house.


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