5 Tips When Framing Your Giclee Prints
There are 5 tips I would like to share to help you with your framing: Enhance & Accent, Limit Framing Styles, Use Matting & Glazing, Add Borders to Your Print and Choose the Right Frame Size.
Read More... The Right Box for Your Art
So much more artwork is shipped today than before. And using the right box to protect an art print as well as elevate its value is incredibly important. Most of our customers do not bother to ship themselves and have their orders drop shipped through us.
Read More...Canvas Prints: Best Practices
Back in 2010, I posted an article on some best practices when having canvas prints made of your artwork or photographs. A lot has changed since then so I thought it would be a good idea to revisit this topic and update accordingly.
Read More...Packaging Prints – Part 1
A lot of our customers choose to ship their prints themselves, especially if they are taking advantage of built-in volume discounts on prints. It is not uncommon for them when they are first getting started to ask for advice or tips relating to best practices when packaging unframed prints.
Read More...Packaging Prints – Part 2
In part 1 on the topic of packaging your artwork, we focused on some best practices when shipping only a few prints at most by using either rigid flat mailers or shipping tubes.
Read More...3 Common Mistakes with Soft Proofing
Most people who have been printing their artwork or photographs have at some point, usually when they first began to have images printed, run into the issue in which some colors appear different in print compared to what they saw when they viewed the image file on their computer.
Read More...Cutting Your Prints
I recently discussed torn or deckled-edged prints. But people also ask how we cut and manage so many giclee prints.
Read More...Ordering a Deckled Edge Float Framed Print
A lot of people ask us how to order this. This walkthrough will teach you how to create a print with a deckled or torn edge and how to frame it.
Read More...Top 5 Fine Art Papers for Fine Art Photographers
Did you know the fine art papers used in Giclee printing can also be used by fine art photographers? Well of course you did. Or at least I hope so. The truth is that many photographers do not really print on anything other than regular photo papers.
Read More...Holiday Tips from FinerWorks
With the holidays fast upon us it is a good idea to consider some of the following tips when utilizing FinerWorks to print and fulfill your orders. This will not only improve things like production time but also make it less likely that problems will arise with an order getting to your customer on time.
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