The process of creating a physical printed image from a photograph.
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Where can I print a panorama?
You scout the location, bring your tripod with you, wait for the right light, become victim of weather in the meanwhile, take an insane amount of photos, work hours on getting the stitch right, and ...
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What is the difference between Canon's black inks?
My Canon MP560 printer requires one PGI-220BK black cartridge and one CLI-221BK black cartridge (which is a part of a CMYK bunch). What is the difference between the two?
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Prints: Pro labs vs. supermarkets - what's the difference?
While there was a good discussion of using a lab vs. a personal printer, I'm curious what folks see as the advantages to using a pro photo lab as compared to the local drugstore or supermarket. Why ...
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Should I adjust a print knowing that it will be hung in a fairly dark place?
I am about to have a digital image printed to be mounted and framed and hung in a fairly dark hallway that has very little natural light and only one light bulb.
Should I prepare the print in ...
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How can I self-publish a photography book?
I took thousands of photos for a book I want to publish. I am a graphic designer, so creating the layout of the book, pages, covers, etc is not a problem. I know how to process my images for print.
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How should one sharpen differently depending on the target usage for a photo?
In an answer to another question, a statement is made:
Sharpening is the only (? I can't
think of any others ?) edit which
needs to be done differently depending
on the target medium. E.g. ...
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What is metallic paper?
I am having a black and white digital landscape photo printed to frame and hang on the wall and one of the options on offer is 'metallic paper'. What is it and would it be appropriate in this ...
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Good economy photo printer for 200+ people/night, low operating costs
What sort of printer options do we have to deliver photo prints quickly for low operating costs?
We tried to set up our HP Color LaserJet to work for the speed. The image is just not good enough to ...
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How to make my digital photo prints to stand in the face of time?
I'd like to print my photos, but I'd also like to see prints' colours stand time. What good options do I have?
I've considered the following:
Inkjet printers with good inks. For example:
the Epson ...
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Questions to ask when using a professional printing service
I do lots of landscape photography. A friend of mine wants one of my photographs printed; I've never done this before! All of my photos are post-processed in Photoshop, and I only generate JPEG's for ...
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Why do my prints look different from what I see on my computer monitor?
I haven't printed any of my photos yet but I decided to give it a try. I am thinking of getting a printer of my own but before that I wanted to see how they would look. So, I simply printed one at the ...
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What does DPI mean?
What does DPI mean and how does it affect images displayed on screen versus printed?
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Are any generic/off-brand ink cartridges a good deal in terms of cost and quality?
One of the big costs of ink-jet printing at home is the ink.
A quick visit to google shows that there are plenty of companies out there willing to sell ink cartridges and refills for the major ...
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Where can I find good test image(s) to send to a print lab?
I am looking for a good test image to send to a print lab, to test my system's color calibration.
I'll be sending my own photos too, of course, but I would also like to include one or two test images ...
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Is it possible to print a photo so it can be mounted on a globe?
I'd like to transform an image so that it can be mounted on a sphere. I'd like to use an image of a map (see the One Piece world map on the image), but it could be anything. Here is a kind of Family ...
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What are the recommendations for getting best color matching when using a photolab?
So I want to use one of the many online printer photolabs to send my photos to and have them print them and send them back. What is the best way to make sure the colors I see on my monitor match what ...
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Is there a photo print provider I can use to offer a “Buy a print” feature on my own website?
I do host my own photo gallery online and want to share my photos with my community. It should be possible to purchase copies of my photos online. So I asked myself if there is a service provider for ...
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How can I keep skin color from coming out too red in prints?
I've noticed lately that subjects with darker skin, especially brown hues, tend to come out with lots of red in prints.
When shooting against red or brown backgrounds, this effect is significantly ...
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What is the best technology for large, permanent digital printing?
Few questions:
What is the best printer/plotter for printing large format images (best means best visual quality)
What material and inkjet is the most permanent?
I'm thinking of printing images ...
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How do you optimally resize and sharpen images for printing?
What is the best way to get the clearest, sharpest print without pixelation or blurring? I have tried some sharpening techniques in Photoshop, however they are geared towards sharpening for viewing on ...
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What adjustments do photo labs apply to a digital image when printing it?
What adjustments do high-street photo labs make to a digital image when printing it?
I recently took some wedding photos which I adjusted in lightroom mainly using the histogram as a guide to ...
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Online Printing API?
tl;dr: Is there a way to have SmugMug-like + printing service integration
hosted on your own website? (The API to the printing service is the piece I am missing)
I am looking for an automated ...
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What's it called when two photographs are printed on triangles so you see a different one from different angles?
This is kinda hard to explain, but I've seen it several places before. I'm looking for a special way that two photographs are printed — they're printed so you from each angle can see just one of the ...
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What colour space to use when printing digital photos?
As is customary with preparing images for print in a magazine or newspaper, I convert my digital photos from RGB to CMYK before inserting into my publishing application. However, when I'm printing ...
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Where can I buy actual poster prints in the UK (as opposed to poster-sized photographs)?
Does anyone know of a print shop in the UK where I can have proper paper posters made from my photos? Note I'm talking specifically about posters made from paper (exactly like the ones you'd buy ...
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How should I use Lightroom for processing for photo lab prints?
I'm a recent Lightroom convert, and I've come to appreciate its built-in workflow for library management and developing. I'm still stymied by printing, however, because I want to use an online lab ...
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How well do dye-sublimation printers perform with black & white pictures?
Most of the dye-sublimation cassettes have CMYO (= cyan, magenta, yellow, overlay) panels.
Are there any cassettes designed specifically for black & white pictures?
For example (and as jrista ...
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What recommendations do you have for high-quality hardback printing of photo albums?
I have a set of 600 photographs from my wedding that were supplied to me on DVD by the photographer to do with as I wish. I'd like to put them into a wedding album, but in the style of a printed ...
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Alternative media for printing photos
The standard way to print photos is on paper, but I'm noticing in particular two alternatives that are starting to make a bit push, namely Metal and Canvas. So, my question is, why would I want to ...
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How to produce a huge photograph on a hard surface?
What are ways to get a trouble-free photo-quality image on a large hard surface?
It's been a while I am considering selling panoramas between 6 and 12 feet wide on Neoluminance but I have been ...
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Alternative photosensitive materials
Apart from film and photographic paper, what are the most interesting photosensitive materials on to which photographic images can be successfully exposed?
For example, the artists Heather Ackroyd ...
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What DPI should I resize my image to for best printing quality?
And my apologies if this sounds a bit too basic but I can't get my head around this.
I have a digital image I took with my camera. 4000x3000 pixels, and GIMP claims that its resolution is 72x72 DPI.
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What is Fine Art Paper?
What is fine art paper and how is it different from standard photo paper? Is it just a marketing term? When should it be used?
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Does EzPrints.com Terms of Use try to grab my copyrights?
I generally don't like legal questions, however in this case my choice is either to accept an agreement or move on to a different print service, and I'll gladly do the latter if necessary. I was ...
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Is it possible and/or a good idea to print digital photos to slides?
I've been thinking about ways to project large images onto a wall or screen, since that's a fun way to share them with a group: i.e., the classic slide show. But LCD projector resolutions are still ...
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What advantage does giclee have over traditional photosensitive print making?
I'm trying to figure out why I would want to print giclee.
Let me set some background. I'm a gallery represented artist entering my third season. My sales are good. I print with Bay Photo (via ...
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Can leaving a print in fixer too long cause damage/staining?
This is a question for you oldskool B&W photographers, I'm hoping there's some of you out there ;)
I am just getting round to sorting out my darkroom and thought I'd give it a test run now the ...
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Is there any post processing required for printing images?
What kind of post processing, if any, would you suggest when printing images (besides cropping to the printing aspect ratio)? Would the post processing change depending on where the print is made ...
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What should I look for in a good print to put on Metal?
So, I got a deal where I get a deeply discounted photo print on metal. I'm trying to come up with a good photo to see what metal can do for me. What should I look for in a good photo to test it out ...
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What is a good material on which to print photo postcards?
I'm looking for a suitable material to print photos and send them as post cards. Is there a special type of paper that could be used to that end?
Most photo paper is flimsy, and while it's great for ...
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How do current home photo printers compare to prints from a studio?
I am looking for a printer that can be used at home for printing photos. I am not expecting very high quality prints, but want ones that can last for a couple of years without much color loss.
And ...
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What is a suitable image resolution for canvas prints?
I would like to create a 60 inch x 20 inch canvas print using an image with a resolution of 4759x1798 (240 pixels per inch) and I would like to know if the image quality will still be good at that ...
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Should I have my lab color correct my images?
The labs that I deal with to get my images printed offer the option to color correct my images prior to printing. One example of what they do is:
Per file color correction is available. We color ...
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What's a good automatic way to resize square images for online printing
I have a bunch of photos I want to print at the local costco. Many of them are not the standard 4x6, 5x7 aspect ratio.
When I try to print them from the costco website, it insists on cropping the ...
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Printing rotated pictures
this may sound as a very stupid question so please don't laugh at me. My old digital camera (Nikon Coolpix s6) was recording the EXIF orientation tag in the JPEG file, so my picture viewer software ...
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Tips for printing my photos at a Costco-esque printer?
I have 2 shots I would like to print out as large as possible, probably at Costco given the prices. What steps should I take to prep my images for printing? The only thing I was planning so far was to ...
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What resolution would be needed for a billboard advertisement?
Does anyone know the required resolution for a photograph to be used on a billboard? Would the Canon 7D be able to provide a large enough file size to meet the requirements?
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Is there a good way to physically clean prints if they get gunk on them?
Cry for Help
I have just mounted a large (24" x 16") print onto mounting board using a spray adhesive. This is for an exhibition in 3 days' time.
Some of the adhesive got on the front of the ...
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What is the difference between a lambda print (RA-4) and a color inkjet print?
I can't seem to find any good information about the differences between the lambda printing process (on RA-4 paper, also known as a C-prints or chromogenic color prints) and inkjet printing (also ...
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Is there a way to have Lightroom include the cropped aspect ratio in the filename when the file is exported?
I am exporting my files to be printed by an outside service and I know before hand when working in the develop module what size I want the print to be. So I set the crop aspect ratio to be what I ...
