how do you view your images? what's your favourite?

[tyasa81]

i've been on a album making, printing lots of 4x6 lately... and been comparing the output with the monitor... i'm wondering if everyone have made the same observations..

album paper looks nice with a touch of texture from the paper, which i have no idea what they print it on... colours and details looks good so far...

4x6 is printed on photo paper, and i tried lots of labs... to the extend that i made a colour proof of rgb,cmyk gradations from 255 to 0 and chose the best lab that prints it... but they always came out drap and looks like they lost a lot of details...

soon enough i'll be moving homes and planning to print a couple on canvas but i have no experience in this...

so i'm wondering... my current preference is as follows

album>monitor>lab photo paper

i have no idea where canvas is going to lie on that scale and with all the new digital frames, is a digital frame going to look like a monitor? if so, then the colours will be richer and the details will be better rendered...

so what's your favourite medium? what's your least favourite medium? and why? is it because of the texture of the paper? or the way colours and details are rendered? or something else?

[Woody]

We have a 60" Sony Bravia and I generally run a slide show on that. Its connected to our WiFi network. But just for browsing and editing I use Lightrioom on my HP Pavilion Laptop.

For printing, I use the local kiosk and print on either matte or glossy. I have done some canvas printing and it came our great but my photo selection let me down.

Cheers,

John W

[OsmosisStudios]

I use a good, photo-chemical paper based wet-system lab, locally. Works a treat. Their output is a bit darker than my monitor, but I've adjusted to it over time.

[Jim Bryant]

On my laptop!