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Preparing your images for print onto canvas
Normally when I’m sent an image to print onto canvas I have a little mess about about the brightness to make it look a little bolder when printed or else it looks a little flat
What does everyone else do to images before printing onto canvas?
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I tweak the dpi of the image to between 150 & 300, normally brighten the entire image & slightly oversaturate the colours for a more vibrant look.
The colour balance might also need pushed more blue, green or red depending on the time of day / indoors / outdoors to get a more neutral colour cast.
Will also do minor photoshopping FOC whilst I’m at it if it’s a client supplied photo. (Cloning out unwanted stuff like litter / improving faces if photo lighting was especially wrong with the dodge/burn tool etc.)
…all that takes is about 10mins max.
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quote David Rogers:I tweak the dpi of the image to between 150 & 300, normally brighten the entire image & slightly oversaturate the colours for a more vibrant look.The colour balance might also need pushed more blue, green or red depending on the time of day / indoors / outdoors to get a more neutral colour cast.
Will also do minor photoshopping FOC whilst I’m at it if it’s a client supplied photo. (Cloning out unwanted stuff like litter / improving faces if photo lighting was especially wrong with the dodge/burn tool etc.)
…all that takes is about 10mins max.
Do you charge for doing this or is it just part of the price?
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As I said – if it’s MINOR stuff that takes all of ten mins – it’s in with the price as I’d be resampling the image anyway for a more even result. That’s more to do with me giving something they’ll ‘WOW’ at (and getting recommended) than making some extra dosh.
If it’s proper photoshopping – like taking people out, growing borders, photo restoration then yes I charge for that at a fair rate.
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quote David Rogers:As I said – if it’s MINOR stuff that takes all of ten mins – it’s in with the price as I’d be resampling the image anyway for a more even result. That’s more to do with me giving something they’ll ‘WOW’ at (and getting recommended) than making some extra dosh.
If it’s proper photoshopping – like taking people out, growing borders, photo restoration then yes I charge for that at a fair rate.
Cool, I was on the same line of thinking….. just wish I had a decent enough machine to do the editing on so that it only takes me 10 minutes :lol1:
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Does anyone do any of the editing in there RIP? I’ve been having a mess about with the colour Adjustment within VersaWorks
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Resampling images for the sake of getting them to a proper dpi is useless.
If your image is 180dpi at 25% size then reduce your image to 90dpi without resampling. Your now at 50% size. Use fractuals to resample to 100% size.
I’ve done images at 72dpi on canvas and its fine and ripped them at 720dpi and people were amazing with the result.
Coating after you canvas after printing I find adds more punch then trying to adjust the image on an image by image basis.
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quote Jason Xuereb:Resampling images for the sake of getting them to a proper dpi is useless.
If your image is 180dpi at 25% size then reduce your image to 90dpi without resampling. Your now at 50% size. Use fractuals to resample to 100% size.
I’ve done images at 72dpi on canvas and its fine and ripped them at 720dpi and people were amazing with the result…
Just what I said…I resample (not SCALE) my images. I ALWAYS print at FULL SIZE – FULL FINISHED RES.
I (bi-cubic) resample the DPI to get a smoother image – not just increase or decrease the scale…that’s just dumb.
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