You have great solo digital camera shots and wonderful moments with your friends, family, and loved ones.
These photos would be great images to keep in your album or scrapbook, and you decided to print them out.
It is good that your images are of high quality.
Your printer is one the latest models; so printed out a few copies.
However, the pictures did not look how you have expected them to.
You were dismayed and simply rushed to the nearest photo printing shop to print out the rest of your most coveted pictures.
Then, you get depressed at the pricing of your printed photos.
Your photos are truly pricey and you barely have the money for a few of them to get printed.
What could have gone wrong? What could have been the difference between your home prints and the prints from the photo printing shop? Perhaps you might want to take a second look at the materials you used to print your home photos.
There is a good chance that the problem is not the printer or the quality of the photos taken.
The culprit could be your photo paper.
So check and pick a great photo paper when you print your photos before you grumble.
It is important to pick great photo paper when you print your photos and understand that these photo papers have different types, such as glossy and matte, which you can pick between depending on the result you would like to create.
If you prefer a glossy finish, there are several levels of gloss, but be careful because high gloss paper is easy to smudge.
The matte papers on the other hand are popularly used for scrap booking.
Some photo paper types are lightweight, while others are as thick as a cardboard paper and will have difficulty feeding through a typical computer printer.
You should consider the heaviness of the ink that you are going to use when selecting the weight of the paper.
This should give you a finer output and keep the prints from getting soggy.