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

Well, I ran the experiment with Adoramapix. Great results from them (I usually print matte or lustre). These prints also mimicked my monitor. Good color and contrast.

When I placed the order, I had them turn off the auto-correction.

[Scott Stephen]

On a related note: What about the Lightroom tick-box for "add sharpness for printing" when you export your doctored-up RAW image to JPG for prints? Anyone use that?
I had never used it before, and I noticed my glossy prints were looking un-sharp. Lightroom seems to anticipate this problem, and offers a choice of even more sharpening for glossy prints than for regular.