Embedded Signatures for Prints

The signature on prints is an aspect that is often overlooked, yet it holds great significance for both artists and photographers. While signing a print is crucial for limited edition pieces, many artists and photographers tend to settle for an embedded signature within the image file when it comes to open edition prints. Since our focus primarily lies on producing open-edition prints, let’s delve deeper into what this means.

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How AI is Revolutionizing the Visual Arts…or Not

If you have been keeping up with trends lately, you probably know that AI has been a major topic of conversation from media circles to individuals. Various questions arise such as how will AI affect one’s ability to use it for investing in stocks to controversies surrounding its usage in higher education to write term papers. One topic I have not heard a lot about has been how will it affect the visual arts. My plan is to make this at least a 3 part series where we explore how it could affect photography, how it will affect more traditional arts like painting and drawing, as well as how it will affect an artist’s ability to be more successful.

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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. There is nothing wrong with that but when I talk to many of these photographers, it is something they either had not considered previously or maybe they were waiting for that special something to print.

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Glazing: Not Only Glass in the Frame

Why custom framing smokes ready made frames. Working at a few custom frame shops, I have often heard the gasp statement of “the frame is more than the art”.  As an confessed art addict of works on canvas and various papers from $20-$2,000, I can tell you why I choose custom framing over say a chain store ready made frame.

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Poll Results: Best Way to Advertise Art

Over the past two decades I have had a front row seat when it comes to observing how people promote and sell their artwork. I have also said that when it comes to promoting your artwork, you are also promoting yourself as an artist. Interesting to me is how the methods have changed. Today, in 2020 the top method was not even in existence 20 years ago and barely there almost 10 years ago when it first started.

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How Artists Can Treat the Crisis

We have been asked how we think the news of viruses and possible recession will affect our customers and how it has impacted FinerWorks when it comes to the fulfillment of your prints. Sometimes some of the staff may need to take an extra day off here and there to take care of their kids due to the extended “spring break”. Nothing much has required major changes in FinerWorks’ operations that would affect the ability to produce and ship your prints.

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Creating That Perfect Photo Print

In today’s digital age for a lot of new photographers, printing photos is relatively novel and sometimes even rare. For photographers whose talents date back to the darkroom era, it was all about the prints. In between somewhere are those that may print on special occasions for that image which really means something to them, or they are providing a print to someone. No matter where you are in the range of printing your photos, there are some ways to make your photo print stands out.

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