Side Entrance to Hampton Court Palace. Howard J King 2011
A few days ago I posted an article about optimal print sizes, resolution and scaling up an image. Call me racked with self doubt as I always find myself going back and checking the spelling and grammar. This time it was the image. I noticed the heading image was kind of flat. I knew what I did, or failed to do. You can go back and look, but I fixed it… didn’t need that picking at my brain any longer than it did.
I’ve done it before and learned. People have asked me to print them 13 x 19 prints from photos they captured with their iPhone and I ended up warning them off. It’s not a good idea. It would be a waste of time and money. How about a nice 8.5 x 11?
Soft proofing a photograph is one of the least understood aspects of making a hard copy of an image I have ever discussed with photographers. Prosumers (consumers with a taste for the professional) rarely check their images before sending it to their printer, risking the possibility of printing a poor representation of their work. Even some professionals make a hard copy then adjust from there. Waste of ink and paper in my opinion.
Photoshop Elements, Photoshop CS6 and CC6 can save you a ton of aggravation, as well as wasted ink and paper, by using a very helpful tool under the View Menu called Soft Proofing. Continue reading Learn to Soft Proof and Save Some Money→
Printing photos is one of those things that everyone does eventually, but relatively few people do right. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. If you are one of the millions who purchased that Kodak all-in-one color printer at the local Best Buy and are reasonably happy with the quality of your prints, more power to you.
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