WHO do you use? Printing company suggestions

[sma200]

I would like to order prints that look as if they came from a studio. Also a problem I have run into in the past is receiving my prints, and they were cropped down. Which meant it cut heads off, limbs missing, etc... I want to be able to tell it to print the print I send, and not change it.

what printing companies would you recommend? Thanks

[dcclark]

First, if your prints are cropped, then you've been asking your service to print them at the wrong aspect ratio. If your camera takes 2:3 ratio shots and you ask for an 8x10 print (which is in the 4:5, not 2:3 ratio), you'll have cropping just by the nature of the beast. That's probably your main problem! Photos taken at 2:3 (which most modern digital cameras do by default) can print without cropping at 4x6, 6x9, 8x12, etc.

Regardless, I use both adoramapix and mpix. They both allow you to choose your cropping, if you ask them for a print in an improper aspect ratio. Adoramapix also gives you the option of printing the image with white borders if it's in the wrong ratio.

[sma200]

Thank you, The pictures I ordered before were through walmart. They were just simple snapshots, and shot with a small $80 dollar digital camera. When I asked walmart about them being cropped, they said the system automatically does it to every photo. I will do a test run through mpix and see how I like it.