Photographic Digital Painting by David Taylor

By David Taylor

So much electronic photographers will desire to output their pictures for demonstrate reasons, or to exploit in promotional or publishing paintings, so its necessary to understand the printing method and the choices on hand. How, for instance, do you make sure that your print suits what you notice in your visual display unit? How do you get the main from the records enthusiastic about your digicam? specialist photographer David Taylor bargains valuable tips and specialist suggestions for all prepared photographers at the fundamentals of printing, from deciding upon an appropriate printer and printer software program to choosing the perfect papers and inks. recommendation is given on the way to use photograph manipulation software program to regulate publicity and distinction, enhance highlights, right color, sharpen a picture, decrease electronic noise, get rid of dirt and different marks, crop and resize ahead of printing. Theres additionally suggestion on capturing and printing black and white pictures, plus the best way to produce sepia, split-toned, old-style grainy or inventive lith prints. ultimately, theres info on print on call for companies for generating calendars, photograph books and greetings playing cards.

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At f/13 ISO: 100 SOFT The choice of media you use to create a print often depends on the subject. This long-exposure black-and-white image has a soft quality. To me, this makes it ideal for printing on matte paper or even onto canvas. indd 41 41 22/10/12 12:28:55 Camera: Pentax 67 Lens: 55mm lens Exposure: not recorded ISO: 50 (Fuji Velvia) 42 DETAIL This image is far more detailed than the one on the previous page, and this detail is important to the success of the image. This would make a gloss paper more appropriate.

This was paper coated with a light-sensitive emulsion of silver-halide salts that could be used to make prints by projecting light through a negative onto the paper. The image was then developed and fixed by washing the paper in a series of chemical baths. Digital photo paper shares many of the qualities of darkroom photo paper with one important difference: it is not light sensitive. One of the problems with printing an image on standard office paper is the absorbency of this type of paper. Ink, being a liquid, spreads easily through the fibers of office paper, resulting in muddied colors and a reduction in sharpness.

Paper that feels slightly tacky to the touch probably has a polymertype layer. CLEARER Using an inkjet printer the same text was printed onto two different types of paper, one uncoated (left) the other coated (right). The text on the uncoated paper is far less sharp because of ink spread. indd 37 37 22/10/12 12:28:51 is that it is reasonably scratch resistant. However, very little ink is absorbed with this coating, so the resulting image appears to sit on the surface. The ink will take longer to dry and can feel sticky several hours or even days after printing.

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