Photo Book from Film??

I wanted to get my parents a photo book for Christmas of our wedding photos ---- since it's been a year and a half since our wedding and they still don't have an albumn.

The problem is that I didn't have professional photos taken --- we had a small wedding and a friend took the photos and they were on film.

I've tried scanning in the photos and printing the files but the quality comes out horrible.

So I probably will need to work directly from the negatives, especially since I want them larger then a 4X6 size....

Does anyone know of a place that will do this? I know places like shutterfly, kodakgallery, winkflash do photo books but they are all from digital...not film...

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I would think that any type of photo developing place would do this.

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Check again on Kodak & Shutterfly. When it first opened, I know Snapfish took negatives to digital images. I know that Mystic Color Labs, but am unsure if they offer Photobooks.

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you scan them in at a low resoultion.....

try scanning them between 150-300 dpi. These are the recommend and standard scan res. for printing.

72 DPI is normally used for web pictures

The larger and better scan you get, you will be able to blow it up a little bit.

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I would strongly recommend that you do not scan them in at 150 dpi. If there is any smaller detail, you may get dot gain in your final printing, depending at the type of printer you use. I'd stick with 300 dpi.

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I did this for my uncle. He brought his negatives to Costco, and they put them on a disc for him. I then took the disc, and uploaded the pictures to shutterfly and then made a photo-book from that.
The quality was surprisingly good - there were a few pictures that were not perfect, but for the most part it came out great.

Good luck!