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... USPS Gound Advantage Replacing First Class
First-Class Package is a popular shipping option offered by USPS that allows businesses and individuals to send lightweight packages that weigh up to 15.99 ounces. Many artists and photographers we know who do their own shipping use this service to ship their prints.
Read More...Canvas Prints: Advantages for Resale
As part of my next topic in a two-part series discussing canvas, prints, I want to bring to your attention some of the advantages canvas prints have for the person reselling their artwork as prints or even for the photographer.
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...How to Offer Sales On Your Prints
I have known a lot of artists that struggle with the concept of offering sales for their prints. Some have even asked me as they sit on the fence, is it okay to offer print sales? The answer is not a simple yes or no.
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.
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