How To Start An Art Business In South Carolina
STARTING A BUSINESS CAN BE CONFUSING We're often asked by artists if they should start a business and how. While there are many advantages to setting up a legal business, it can be very confusing to figure out where to begin and what steps to follow. That...
Camera Design: Tools Can Be Beautiful
Anyone who knows me knows that I love photography. This is probably why I am both a photographer and a printer. Since I was a child I enjoyed making things. When I was around 15 or 16 I decided to get a camera as another means of creating. I had no idea at that time...
Is This A Giclée Print (And Did I Say That Right)?
"DO YOU DO GICLEE PRINTING?" When someone asks me if we do giclée printing, or if a particular print is a giclée print, I have learned that I cannot say simply yes or no without first asking "What does giclée mean to you?". That question often gets me funny...
About Art Reproduction And Giclee Printing
How does art and painting reproduction work? What is giclee printing? We address that in detail in this article.
Megapixels, Print Size, and Photo Quality
If you have a 16MP camera how large will that print? What about a 24MP camera, what size prints can you make from that? Here are some things that affect photo and print quality.
What Size Can I Print My Photo Without Cropping: About Photo Sizes and Aspect Ratios
You’ve decided that you want to have a photo printed, but you aren’t sure what size yet. In fact, you don’t really even know what sizes are possible. Where do you go from there?
Why Do My Print Colors Not Match My Monitor?
You’ve spent lots of time editing your photo to look exactly the way you want it to. Excitedly, you send it off for printing and your heart drops when you get your print back and it looks noticeably different from the way it looked on your monitor, the way it is “supposed” to look. What’s up with that?
Introducing: Custom Canvas Print Frames
You may not know this, but our stretcher bars we use for stretching canvas prints are custom milled for us to a profile which we designed. We then receive them in long sticks which we cut down and hand join when we stretch a canvas print. This allows us to make just...
Are These Prints Archival? Will They Fade?
"ARE THESE PRINTS ARCHIVAL? HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST?" These are questions we get asked regularly, and rightly so. Unfortunately, it's a question much more easily asked than answered. It's important to understand what someone's understanding of archival is before...
Why Quality Printing Matters
A few years ago I was on the panel of judges for local photography competition. The competition accepted both digital files and printed photo submissions. Of all the submitted photos not a single printed photograph even placed in the competition. It wasn't that we...
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