Category: Help With My Prints

So what’s the deal with those little green stamps of approval? That is a question that is bound to come up within the next few days as the first batch of order shipped with those stamped on the package begin to arrive.

We have several local customers who like to paint over photographs. Recently a new customer came in to pick up his canvas print. He told me he wanted to completely paint over the photo printed on canvas so that it looked like an original painting.

Our calibration print is a special 8×10 print you can order which allows you to adjust your monitor to try to match the print. Once you have done this and start working on your images on your computer you will be working on an image which is more closely aligned to industry color standards versus.

Our upcoming Archival Canvas Paper is a bright white matte paper which will be available within a few more days. This new paper is the same but texturized version of our popular Archival Matte Paper.

Canvas is a funny thing when it comes to printing. Over the years we have learned a lot about printing on this once hard to print on substrate.

Both online and offline we always seem to be talking about what happens when images are too dark or not being properly color balanced but we don’t talk enough about overexposed images.

Today I’m going to show you how to soft proof your images through Photoshop. Why is soft proofing important? Simply put, soft proofing your images before having them printed is a great way to simulate how they will appear based on specific printer and paper combination.

I was in a meeting with some artists/photographers who were very interested in the topic of digital printing and we were discussing how producing prints from photography and artwork has changed over time. One of the questions brought up was what I expected the future to bring about.

Nothing like the month of October, one of my favorite months of the year. Living in south/central Texas Fall usually does not begin to hint it even exists until sometime this month so the change from upper 90s to lower 90s is always welcome.