burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

You're welcome. Good luck!

I agree that your image should have printed without incident. I'd bet there was operator error...

BushDog Loc: San Antonio, TX

I hope they don’t close the photo center in the Costco I use. They do about 95% of my printing. I’m very satisfied with the quality. I no longer use Walgreens except in rare necessity.

tiphareth51 Loc: Somewhere near North Pole, Alaska

The new Costco here in Fairbanks, Alaska does not have a photo department. They do have a brochure for on-line ordering. Sam's Club here closed rather abruptly. Their photo department was awesome!

azi Loc: Columbia, Marylamd

Costco has processed all the prints I've sold, from 8x10s to 20x30s. The key is in the quality of your post processing.

Red in Colorado

I am kind of envious of these responses. I am almost done getting my AAS in Professional Photography at our local community college. We routinely bring in prints for critique as part of our assignments. Around here it is said that The photo department puts the "green" in Walgreen's because the photos have a nasty green tint. There is one store about forty minutes away that doesn't have the green. One.
Our Costco has done proper work, but usually, they come out too dark even if we send them in using the proper Costco color profile they recommend. They just upgraded, but it doesn't help. Once I picked up a series of 25 4x6 prints that were all half brown.
There is one guy here who is an artist at printing. His work is beautiful. It costs even more than sending it out. If we want good printing, we send out to a lab or to expensive guy depending on what we need the prints for. I find that weird in a town of 600k people.

Marilia Loc: Dallas, TX

Just had this enlargement (20”x30”) done at my Costco in Dallas, $9.99 +tax...super fun, I change the print frequently whenever I have a new favorite! 😉

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JoeM845

Prints being too dark is often the result of incorrect calibration/profiling on your post-processing computer. Generally the monitor is too bright.

Please forgive me if I am covering old ground for you.

woodweasel Loc: bellingham Wa

I have used Costco many times. And been Happy with the results .

BushDog Loc: San Antonio, TX

I’ve encountered the same thing with prints being too dark. To correct, I’ve reduced the (transmitted light) brightness on my MacBook to around 6, then increased exposure in Lightroom. I also try to get histogram exposure balanced when adjusting exposure. Now, my prints from Costco are usually correct on exposure (with the reflected light on the print).

There are probably others on here who can explain that better.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

This seems to be somewhat old news from a couple years ago. Yes, COSTCO consolidated some photo services in to fewer locations or created centralized online printing at some locations. But for some reason this only seemed to be in the Eastern US. Not in the West. In California for example services in-store have increased if anything! I have no idea why any of this happened. I asked at my local COSTCO and they said it was news to them that any Photo centers were eliminated, but perhaps consolidated as I said in some Eastern locations. Perhaps older earlier smaller stores?

Poppa

Our Sparks NV Costco closed but we still have the Reno one at least for now.