How to prepare your files for Printing - Let's order a Fine Art print!
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- I've been asked about this a lot: how do you prepare your files for print? Well, this is it - how to prepare your files for printing - simple. Of course, make sure your screen is calibrated first, then you'll be all set up and on the right foot here. The rest is shown in here, plus the actual ordering of a print.
Actual print will be shared on IG Stories so check it out!
Hope this helps someone!
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Thank you! Super helpful for someone like me that’s never printed anything before
Thank you Jess. Very helpful as always.
Glad it was helpful!
So helpful!!! Thank you
Thanks so much! I was going crazy about a photo that changed color when I saved it as jpg but I didn't think about the color profile. You're a lifesaver!
Glad I could help!
Very helpful! Thank you!
Glad it was helful 😀
Helpful. But didn't understand u did aspect ratio 12x8 then again whts the use of image size to 12x8
This really is super helpful. Questions around color spaces give me fits. Small to big, big to small, so many little boxes to check or not.... It's maddening. Thanks for spelling out in such clear detail how you arrive at your award winning results. You rule, Jess. Thank you.
Glad that I postponed my order of prints so that I can use your tipps later on! Thank you so much for sharing 😊
Yes! Absolutely helpful to see this print ordering workflow.. Thank you. Might have also been helpful to hear how you chose your print service company: someone you admire recommended yours, you asked them to send you a sample, they came up high in a Google search, they are local to you, they had few complaint comments, or, how did you check them out?
For me I was in a bind, a photographer friend recommended Digitalab and I asked them if they could help me, they committed 100% to helping and for that alone they had my loyalty! I also love their products ❤️
Thanks for perfect tips.
thanks for the video, was thinking of printing something soon so perfect timing :)
Very useful info once again thank you very much
This is so helpful!! Thank you!!
Thank you Jess, I have been doing research about this but the workflow here makes alot of sense! Also, that photo of Bryt is just stunning.
Great video! I was just thinking about this the other day haha. The timing couldn't been better. Also love the everyday videos. Much appreciated❤
Very Helpful , do you self fulfill posting to clients or post straight from Lab?
I receive back from the lab and have clients collect in most cases ☺️
Thank you. This the first tutorial I have seen regarding printing. Can I ask if all companies do proof prints or can you tell me how this works? Thanks again.
All companies will send you paper samples if you ask them, but test prints is just a case of buying the print with a specific file on it and then tweaking and reprinting until you're happy 🤓
Thank you.
Hi Jess, (or Dan) for the fine art float frame, it this omega rag paper with varnish on top?
Do you ever print from Lightroom? Just curious...still getting comfortable with layers in photoshop.
What would be a good image for a test print? An image with a balance of lights and shadows? Not sure if I'm asking the question appropriately. I'm in the process of sending images to labs to check on quality and I know I should send the same image or images to each lab to compare. I just want to know what makes a good image to send for a test print. Thank you!!!!
Yes Patty exactly that - something with deep shadows and light lights, or print one light toned and one dark toned image if you can't find one with the right range in from your current portfolio 🤓
@@ThatPhotographySpot Thank you! I enjoy all your videos and your new puppy is cute!!!
Hi! :) Do you ever use ICC profiles from your printlab to make sure the colors are matching your edit?
Hey Nick, I answered this somewhere in the comments so I'll just use the same reply (hope that's ok!) - often if it's the very very very very first print I've ever done with the printhouse, yes - I will use the ICC profile. BUT, and a big but, these profiles only really show the effects of contrast, rarely colour, so a test print is always the best way to go and tweak until your monitor and the print matches nicely. At that point, really you won't need to ICC at all (well, I personally don't anyway - but you can if you want too!)
Hi, don't you have to use ICC paper profiles with this print firm... I have started look into printing and this video is brilliant... Did you not need to soft proof the image?
Hey Jamie, often if it's the very very very very first print I've ever done with the printhouse, yes - I will use a ICC profile. BUT and a big but, is that really these profiles only really show the effects of contrasts, rarely colour, so a test print is always the best way to go and tweak until your monitor and the print matches nicely. At that point, really you won't need to ICC at all (well, I personally don't anyway - but you can if you want too!)
@@ThatPhotographySpot thanks ever so much for the reply, makes sense to me now. Once feel your getting somewhere there's more skills and processes to learn 😂. Thank you
@@ThatPhotographySpot one more question if that's okay, I'm looking at digital labs like you mentioned. I brought myself a new monitor to edit on and calibrated the screen which came out at 99% srgb, when you mention tweaking the test prints what exactly did you mean... Along the lines of setting up an action to add subtract colour / contrast / brightness etc... Thank you Jamie.
Yes you've got it. So let's say for example the test prints come back and they are super super close to the image you see on your screen, but maybe they are a teeny bit too magenta, for example. You want to work out by how much that magenta is shifting, and when you've worked it out (I use use camera raw filter to test colour shifts), set up a correction by the same amount the other way. Let's say the print was +4 magenta vs your screen, you can then set up an action to run a -4 (to green) shift before you print. I would run another test print to check the correction personally! Hope this makes sense!
@@ThatPhotographySpot cool nice one, I'll be trying to do this next, and will definitely look into digital labs. Thank you once again 😉
Hi Jess
What do you use to calibrate your monitor ? ( I run Win 10).
SpyderX Elite (Pro is also fine). I did a step by step on how to calibrate last week I think!
Grazie))
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May I ask why you saved twice?
Do you need a website to open an account for digitalabs, I don't have one and would like to open an account?
Yes, but you can just put the That Photography Spot website 🙂
what can I do if my document format is 240 ppi?? thank you
It depends where in it's journey it got set to 240ppi but if you are using Adobe Lightroom Classic, the chances are that it was in there. You can switch to 300ppi afterwards though but if it is a JPG, you will be shrinking the dimensions of the file (usually no problem unless you crop a LOT). To do that, in Photoshop, go to image -> image size and then set the ppi/dpi to 300 :)
@@ThatPhotographySpot thank you so much =D