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by Mj Johnston, Mj

By now, you are probably aware that you can order prints of photos that you have uploaded into online galleries through the online gallery website. Maybe you're also aware that the quality of these prints is outstanding. But were you aware that you can print LARGE using online photo printing? It's true. Different online gallery websites have different printing sizes, but most offer at least an 8x12 printing option.

From an aesthetic point of view, it's worth remembering that just because online photo printing gives you the option to print large, that doesn't mean you should always print that large. Large prints are a specialized application and you must take the nature of the image into account when deciding to print large. There are also some technical considerations.

Most people are aware of ‘megapixels.' Megapixels give you an idea of the re3solution of the photos that your camera takes. But did you know that megapixels don't tell the whole story?

Indeed, megapixels are a quite overrated. Chances are you can't tell the difference between an 8-megapixel photo and the same image shot at 12 megapixel with your naked eye unless you enlarge the image to a massive size. Paradoxically, the higher megapixel image might be blurrier due to cramming so many megapixels onto such a small image sensor. The nature of the image matters. An image where tiny details are essential needs to be higher resolution. However, something like a cityscape—where the broad sweep and scope f the shapes and colors and dark and light of the picture matter more than niggling little details—is an outstanding candidate for large size online photo printing.

Another consideration when using online photo printing to make an image large is the viewing distance. How far away do you expect people to be when they look at the image? The greater the viewing distance, the less detail you need. The closer your viewer, the more detail. Thus an image that is large and designed to be seen from close up requires a really high resolution file, whereas a billboard, perhaps counter-intuitively, wouldn't require a very large file at all.

Online photo printing from online galleries is a great options for top quality printing. These printers are designed to print at a quality almost indistinguishable from actual photos The better online printers use Kodak photo paper, just like the paper used for printing enlargements from film negatives optically (the old fashioned way). They use very good quality photo printers to get vibrant, clear, accurate color. Most services offer a variety of sizes to suit your printing needs as well. Compare printers to get the size you need. You may find that you are quite satisfied with 8x10, or you may want something larger. Shop around. Prints can be ordered in either glossy or matte, with an easy online form. If you're in a hurry, many online galleries offer express shipping. Of course, the larger you print, the more expensive the shipping.

Digital online photo printing is one of the earliest online ecommerce businesses. The availability of low prices digital cameras and low price broadband Internet access allow those sites to attract more and more users. But the positive growth came at a price. As technologies such as storage and Internet bandwidth became more and more commoditized the barrier to entry got lower and lower and more and more web sites were established offering the same printing service. With a large number of options users could chose the cheapest site and easily switch between sites at no cost. The result was a quick drop in digital prints prices and in return a sharp drop in digital photo printing services profits.

In order to keep up with market developments the digital photo printing site had to find ways to both attract new users and also up sell unique products with high margins and more lucrative profit prospects. One site that has done exactly that and more is the successful and well known digital photo printing site Snapfish. Snapfish successfully changed its positioning and was flexible enough to not just survive the harsh competition but to become a winner winning more market share and collecting more profits.

Snapfish took a three prongs approach. From a corporate perspective Snapfish decided it was better not to fight alone. Instead the small San Francisco based startup chose to be acquired by Hewlett Packard thus enjoying the economy of scale that HP could provide together with its high expertise in photo printing and its reach to lower cost printing techniques and facilities. From a brand perspective Snapfish has done an remarkable work. Instead of converting the HP brand which is old boring and not very Internet style it has chosen to keep its own brand and just mention the HP name as a side note thus enjoying both worlds of being a small young company but backed up by a well known high quality giant at the same time.

The other approach taken by Snapfish was to attract users for great service and low prices while making money from up selling higher margin unique product to these exact users. Snapfish has kept its standard photo prints products at a very low and competitive level. It also offered new users with plenty of free prints and free trials in order to capture more market share. When users got user to the service Snapfish also offered them unique products that were priced higher and provided much better margins. Products like photos printed on coffee mugs calendars and photo books were the profit engine for Snapfish.

And lastly Snapfish kept up with other Internet trends offering more free unlimited services to its users. The obvious example is Snapfish unlimited photo album uploads and storage for everybody regardless if they print photos or not. The idea behind these free services is simply to keep as many users as possible inside the Snapfish web site hoping that eventually those users will end up buying prints or other products.

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