Why Are My Prints Too Dark

This is the first in what we hope to be an educational series called Lobby Talk, where we try to provide illustrations and screen casts to get the best quality prints possible. In this first one titled ‘Why Are My Prints too Dark’, hosted by Brian Wells, Art Director at FinerWorks and myself, we discuss how the truth to the problem of prints being too dark can actually be found in the file itself. Most of the time people’s monitors are exceptionally bright therefore images seen on screen appear brighter than they really are. Along with our discussion I provide a Photoshop tutorial which shows you how you can check an image to see if it might be too dark and how to make the necessary corrections to the file if it is.

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Creating Gallery Quality Prints

This video is a great resource for those that want to see what goes into producing optimal prints for selling and display. It is a little long but quite comprehensive. Fortunately FinerWorks does a lot of the work for you so you do not have to do everything seen in the video however having the knowledge or at least a little understanding into what is involved will help you in the long run with your prints. Enjoy.

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Gloss Canvas Upgrade

We have upgraded out gloss canvas to a new version which has a more refined and consistent glossy finish on the surface. Many of our customers have indicated that they felt the previous version of our glossy canvas just was not glossy enough. This has been especially true with many of our photographer friends who may have been more used to a glossy canvas versus a matte.

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