Just ordered Spyder 4 Elite on TDP's reccomendation; used TDP link

[Scott Stephen]

Well, my very first Shutterfly order arrived today. Interestingly, the images that I bumped up the brightness on? They looked washed out, just like on my monitor.

The ones I left alone? They looked great. Color, contrast, highlights where they were supposed to be.

As I mentioned, I purposely turned off the "vivid" correction on all images.

Shutterfly is now on my top list. Next up, Adoramapix. I'll run the same experiment.

Sounds good, but I believe you had already calibrated your monitor? I hope my photo book arrives from Shutterfly looking OK (neither muddy nor over-saturated) for my Dad's 80th birthday.

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Sounds good, but I believe you had already calibrated your monitor? I hope my photo book arrives from Shutterfly looking OK (neither muddy nor over-saturated) for my Dad's 80th birthday.

Yes, it was calibrated, but the Walgreen's photos were just like yours: dark, unacceptable. And, that was with me standing in front of the lab guy, telling him to shut off the auto correct. Maybe it's as Sean says, and they aren't trained on how to use it. Don't know if that's what happened in my case, but they have been consistently bad from Walgreen's. Walmart was better, but still too dark.