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$0.00 Summary: Ofoto has been my favorite online printing service for more about two years. The feeling with them is mixed. There are sometimes that I feel the prints are great. But most of times, I have the color problem with skin tones. I was convinced to believe that I messed up with white balance after I called their customer service.
However, after a recent experiments with ofoto, ezprints and photoaccess. I decided to dump ofoto. And I am glad and proud to say that I discovered PHOTOACCESS as the winner of the all three highly claimed online printing services.
Ofoto:
a. apply some sort of automatic correction which will offset some of your efforts
b. some major color shifts. For example, the green leaf can even turn to yellow-green!!! And even with untag, the skin color is still having problem.
The winner is Photoaccess. I did not like this one at all in the beginning because I called three times and could not get a hold of their customer service. And their web display of photos are poor.
However, the 4 sets of prints came back and totally surprised me. Here are what I found:
a. It seems they do not apply some annoying automatic correction. For example, the sets with and without digital V have real difference in color saturation, while ofoto's colors look the same due to some correction applied.
b. The colors produced by photoaccess are very very accurate. The colors that I particularly had problems with ofoto are green and white. I was amazed by the white wedding gown that photoaccess produces! And the green is so accurate too!
c. Details!!! Photoaccess prints have noticeable much better details than ofoto by observing the wedding gown fabric! Both photoaccess and ofoto prints are A LOT sharper than ezprints. But photoaccess has more details AND the colors are clear and do not mess up. For example, the wedding gown color in ofoto's prints shifted to something close to one's skin tone. But photoaccess' colors have strong contrast and do not mixed up with adjacent colors.
See my web site: www.pengrus.com for the photos I refered to in the experiments Strengths: 1. Accurate and excellent color
2. Details and sharpness, significantly better than ezprints, marginally better than ofoto
3. Fuji archive paper
4. View large image
5. Do not require registration when you share with other people
6. Matte option at the same price
7. Unlimited space, no time restriction
8. For pro photographer, additional feature available Weaknesses: the web displace is not the best
web site a little slow
but the prints are excellent, and that's enough! Similar Products Used: EZprints
ofoto
imagestation - Sony Customer Service: average - good
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