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Tips for Creating Beautiful Fine Art Prints

5 Steps to Creating Beautiful Giclee Prints

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Tips for Creating Beautiful Fine Art Prints

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One of our Epson giclee printers at work – a reproduction of an original watercolor on Hahnemuele Photo Rag paper

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Calibration

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Monitors need to be calibrated to industry standards to make sure that the image as you see it on your monitor

will match what the printer can print

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Use All the Colors Your Camera Can Capture

• We utilize all the color in your image when printing by converting directly to the color space of the printer/paper combination that you select

• Make sure your camera is set to RGB vs sRGB

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Notice the difference in the color spaces. AdobeRGB 1998 can capture a much wider range of colors than sRGB.

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the authenticity and accuracy

lovethe right paper, canvas and expertise to faithfully reproduce your original

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Coated papers have a larger colorspace than matte papers and canvas

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Sometimes the paper is capable of producing color beyond the color space

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Preview Your Image with a ‘Soft Proof’

• When printing, the colors in your image are mapped to the colors of the printer/paper combination that you choose

• A soft proof is achieved by temporarily restricting the colors of your monitor to the smaller range of color that your printer/profile can produce with a defined rendering intent

original screen image

soft proof enabled

www.americanframe.com/soft-proofing.aspx

http://staging.americanframe.com/americanframe/printing-profile.aspx

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After ‘Soft Proofing,’ make sure the image uses all the tones and make your final edits

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If your print is to have a full range of values from pure black to pure white, then your image must

use the full range of tones in PhotoShop

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