Thanks to all for these responses Will be checking out these vendors

tks

Thanks for the questions
I wasn't sure what specs are required for me to give the printers.
So that let's me know what I need to provide.
Your questions reminded me to recalibrate my monitor using windows 10. From what I've read on Google it works well enough for most non
professional jobs and in fact when I had some printing done by mpix on small photos the contrast was low and in fact when I recalibrated it indicated I needed to increase the contrast. Color seemed to duplicate very well.
I was surprised to see that the pixel dimensions before cropping was required.
I had not been saving my pix in raw, just cropping and editing jpegs etc and not paying attention to original data.
I am going to use raw from now on so I will know what my pix looked like at first (datawise)
But I'm curious as to why I need the original size before recropping and resizing?

Tks I thought that at a given standard resolution, giving the 50 Mb size sort of defines what the pic size is, assuming that its not weirdly skinny or fat Is that not true?

tks will definitely look them up

tks
its nice to have two people confirm the same place

tks
will look them up

Could someone recommend several venders to produce a good quality 24x36" print
Could you give me plusses and minuses of two venders for comparison sake
Also are there size limitations
Quality is more important than price to me for this particular picture
My pic will probably be about 50Mb Tiff

I may just have to stop using my antiquated Adobe Bridge and start using the software I received from Nikon and then once my Raw pix are adjusted and converted I can use Photoshop which I was able to adjust to give decent font sizes.

Thanks for the suggestion
I had no problems after I installed windows 10. The problem didn't occur until after I installed my new screen with the high resolutions. The problem goes away when I lower my resolutions but then that undoes the benefits of having an hd screen.

Seems that when photoshop cs3 was in vogue there were no hd screens
They have corrected the situation for their later software ( Photoshop cc ) but have not gone back to correct it for their old software
The screen problem is not a Windows problem, I was able to correct that when I installed my hd screen, It is an application problem
I found a solution for Photoshop cs6 that I may try (involves telling windows to look for external manifest file and then creating the external manifest file) but am a bit afraid to do so

tks

also thanks for taking the time to read this question

Hi I'm new to this site so I hope this question is ok
I have a photoshop CS3 and its adobe bridge partner. I love using bridge for raw files but since I now have a 4 Gb HD screen, my adobe bridge font is miniscule
(I was able to increase the PS CS3 font.) I found a method to increase the font on bridge but it is very very complicated and for later version of PS CS6 and may or may not work on my CS3. I will only try to make bridge bigger font if I hear that switching to Nikon's system doesn't make sense.
I just recently downloaded the Nikon View NX-i and Capture NX-D and Nikon Picture control and the font is bigger. However using this for my raw files seems a bit more cumbersome and less easier to manuever than the adobe bridge. And I would have to learn their processes.
Any comments about bridge vs the nikon system for handling raw files.
I do have a nikon d800 camera if that info helps.