Processing of developing film and sending reprints

The present invention is directed to a process for developing photographic film and distributing visual prints. The process includes the steps of receiving a roll of exposed photographic film from a photographer; developing the roll; scanning the negatives to produce digital images; assigning an authorization code to the digital images; uploading the digital images to at least one image server; encoding the authorization code on a physical medium; storing the digital images and the assigned authorization code on the image server; returning the developed negatives and the physical medium containing the encoded authorization code to the photographer; receiving the authorization code from the physical medium at a kiosk from a second photographer; retrieving a set of thumbnails representing the digital images represented by the authorization code from the image server; displaying the thumbnails to the second photographer; receiving an order for a visual print from the second photographer; producing the visual print; and distributing the visual print.