Category Archives: printing
Framing your work
Framing your work can be an expensive proposition. Once you get an archival mat, conservation glass, and a custom frame created for your print – you can start spending upwards of $100 for something as small as an 8×10 print. Depending on what it is you want to accomplish though, you could easily be spending as little as $10 per print to mat and frame. Here’s a few things to consider, and some explanations why: Classics are called classics for a reason – they work! I like classic looks, and the museum style frame suits that look – a thin … Continue reading
Making Money off your Photos
In the tightening economy, many of us are considering additional ways of supplementing our income, and as hobbyist photographers, we all have wondered at times whether we could parlay our hobbies into sources of revenue. For a short time I even considered this blog as a possible method for generating revenue. By and large though, I found that the blog was not well-positioned to be a significant source of revenue, for a number of reasons. So, I decided to turn the idea arond, and think about whether my photography could be considered as a source of revenue. Thus far I … Continue reading
Printing, matting, and framing your pictures
As I’ve recently moved to outsourcing my printing to Mpix, I’ve had to adjust my work flow accordingly. Prior to the Mpix migration, I had a set of sizes that I would print to, that allowed for matting and framing while not cutting into the picture itself. That set of procedures has been to print on the next largest paper size, which allows me to apply a mat to a photo before framing it. So, I had the following defined printing outputs: So, what does this mean when using an online resource like Mpix? Well, since they usually print borderless … Continue reading
Aspect Ratio adjustments explained
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve gone to print pictures I’ve taken only to find that I had composed it in a way that a portion of the image was lost when printed because it had to be cropped out to fit on the paper. Today I am going to share a technique in Photoshop that will help you get around that pesky limitation. First a little background – the reason why we are losing part of the picture is because we are changing the aspect ratio. What is aspect ratio? Simply enough, it’s the relative size … Continue reading
You Want Fries With That?
We live in a world of super-sizing everything: From sodas to coffee, fries, meals, cars, and houses, bigger always seems to be better. This is no different in photography. From larger bodies, to larger bags to more Megapixels, we are constantly in pursuit of something “bigger and better.” The idea behind all of this is that the bigger the camera is, or the more megapixels you have, the larger you can print (or the more you can crop and still get a decent print). This is true for the most part. Higher MP counts translate to higher sensor resolution (note … Continue reading
Top Ten Tuesday
Sorry folks, not much to do today. My busy weekend and a rather odd chain of events from Monday night has set me back a we bit in the sleep department. I spent last night catching up a bit – will try to piece together a tutorial after work today, but no promises. It may be a day or two before I can get things together again. In the meantime, here’s another of the “Top Ten Things” for Tuesday to add to your daily hit list. This week I take a look at online print labs. Remember, these are not … Continue reading
Printing your pictures online
I know it’s unusual for me to make posts on the weekends, but I felt this subject warranted an extra post. One of the things that’s always a hassle to deal with is taking your prints from not only the camera to the computer, but then from the computer to the printer. Often times we are limited by the quality of our desktop printers. To combat that, we turn to local printing outlets. Even more so, in this day of technology, online printing has become much more consumer-oriented, with a lot of the mystique and confusion, (i.o.w. – hassle), alleviated. … Continue reading
