Fine Art Printing for Photographers

Author: Uwe Steinmueller
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457100711
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
Today's digital cameras provide image data files allowing large-format output at high resolution. At the same time, printing technology has moved forward at an equally fast pace bringing us new inkjet systems capable of printing in high precision at a very fine resolution, providing an amazing tonality range and longtime stability of inks. Moreover, these systems are now affordable to the serious photographer. In the hands of knowledgeable and experienced photographers, these new inkjet printers can help create prints comparable to the highest quality darkroom prints on photographic paper. This book provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing: The understanding of color management, profiling, paper and inks. It demonstrates how to set up the printing workflow as it guides the reader step-by-step through this process from an image file to an outstanding fine art print.

Using Japanese Paper for Digital Printing of Photographs

Author: Carl-Evert Jonsson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665588829
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Using Japanese paper on digitally printing photos can yield tremendous results for photographers who are interested in experimenting with new methods. But beware: The common concept of how photographs should look will be challenged if you decide to use this technique. Carl-Evert Jonsson shares his experiences using the experimental technique in this book. After using Japanese papers (washi) for paintings and collages, he started to use the papers for his photos. This technique is not an alternative to classic film-based photography. Ink is injected from a cartridge in a printer connected to a computer then the image is reproduced on printable washi paper. Darkroom facilities are not needed. All you need is a computer, printer, washi, and photos. The liveliness of washi fibres gives a softer result, and washi is more absorbent than Western papers, with the ink appearing integrated rather than sitting on the printed surface. Find out how to use a method that will give new life to photos with the insights in this unique photography book.

The Digital Print

Author: Jeff Schewe
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0133375749
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Whether you’re a digital or a film photographer, you can learn to leverage today’s technologies to create masterful prints of your work, and this unique book is devoted exclusively to teaching you how. In it, renowned photographer, educator, and author Jeff Schewe presents targeted chapters on digital printing from Lightroom and Photoshop and shares his expert techniques for optimal output and fine-art reproduction. A companion to The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop, this book teaches you how to take your already perfected images and optimize them for the highest quality final printing. Jeff teaches you about printer types and principles of color management so you get the results you expect. He also shares his strategies on proofing, sharpening, resolution, black-and-white conversion, and workflow, as well as on identifying the attributes that define a perfect print. Learn techniques for optimizing your images for printing Discover how color management can work for you instead of against you Develop an eye for the perfected print

Fine Art Inkjet Printing

Author: Jim Nickelson
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN: 1681982064
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
In an era of digital capture, digital darkrooms, and online galleries, serious photographers still have a deep respect for the photographic print. There is a profound difference between posting your image to a website and printing and sharing your photographic work. For many, the photographic print is the only way to complete the photographic process that begins with the image’s capture. In Fine Art Inkjet Printing: The Craft and the Art of the Fine Digital Print, photographers learn all they need to know to be able to create beautiful prints worthy of building a print portfolio, selling to clients, or hanging in a home or gallery. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Avenir Next'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Avenir Next'; min-height: 16.0px} span.s1 {font: 11.0px Symbol} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} Author Jim Nickelson—photographer, master printer, and educator—guides you through the entire process step by step, beginning with the principles of creating a fine print. In Fine Art Inkjet Printing, you’ll learn all about: • Hardware considerations, including Epson and Canon printers • The color management process, from camera to software (Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop) to your printer’s color profiles • The best ways to capture images for maximum post-processing flexibility • Both global and local adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop • Sharpening and noise reduction for printing • Creating black-and-white conversions for optimal printing results • Soft-proofing • Print settings for both hardware and software • Different paper options, including surfaces, substrates, brightness, color, thickness, and optical brightening agents (OBAs) • Finishing and protecting your print (flattening, drying and outgassing, trimming, signing, and using protective sprays) • Printer maintenance • How to make artistic choices based on intent and interpretation

Digital Masters

Author: George DeWolfe
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600591655
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
"Learn how to consistently create high-quality black-and-white digital prints from one of the best in the field. Author George DeWolfe has studied with Ansel Adams and is one of the creators of Adobe Lightroom, the state-of-the-art image-processing software. He takes you through the entire process, from seeing tonal values in a scene the way the masters do, to optimizing images using Lightroom, to making gallery-quality prints. DeWolfe's stunning images throughout the book provide instructional examples and inspiration"--Back cover.

The Digital Print

Author: Martin C. Jürgens
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369604
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. --from publisher description.

The Printed Picture

Author: Richard Benson
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Relief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printing : hand coloring and multiple-impression color -- Bits and pieces : modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors -- Early photography in silver : daguerreotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes -- Non-silver processes : carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others -- Modern photography : developing-out gelatin silver printing -- Color notes : primary colors and neutrality -- Color photography : separation-based processes and chromogenic prints -- Photography in ink : relief and intaglio printing : the letterpress halftone and gravure printing -- Photography in ink : planographic printing : collotype and photo offset lithography -- Digital processes : binary issues, inkjet, dye sublimation, and digital C-prints -- Where do we go from here? : some questions about the future

The Last Layer

Author: Bonny Pierce Lhotka
Publisher: New Riders
ISBN: 0133373002
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 601

Book Description
In The Last Layer–the follow-up to Digital Alchemy, her successful book on alternative printmaking techniques–Bonny Lhotka teaches how to make prints that take their inspiration from early printmaking processes. In this book, Lhotka shows readers step-by-step how to create modern-day versions of anthotypes, cyanotypes, tintypes, and daguerreotypes as well as platinum and carbon prints. She also reinvents the photogravure and Polaroid transfer processes and explores and explains groundbreaking techniques for combining digital images with traditional monotype, collograph, and etching press prints. By applying these classic techniques to modern images, readers will be able to recreate the look of historical printmaking techniques and explore the limits of their creative voice. Best of all, the only equipment required is a desktop inkjet printer that uses pigment inks, and a handful of readily available materials and supplies–not the toxic chemicals once required to perform these very same processes. Leveraging her training as a traditional painter and printmaker, Bonny Lhotka brings new innovations and inventions that combine the best of centuries of printmaking technique with modern technology to create unique works of art and photography. After years of experimentation and development, these new processes allow alternative photographers, traditional printer makers, and 21st century digital artists to express their creative voice in ways never before possible.

Gumoil Photographic Printing, Revised Edition

Author: Karl Koenig
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136090290
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
There is renewed interest among art photographers in a number of historic printing techniques because of the remarkable effects they produce. The reader will discover how to create beautifully tinted mono- and polychromatic gum and oil images using the author's version of this 19th century technique. Step-by-step illustrated instructions with directions for further experimentation provide a perfect source for learning this new, yet old, printing technique. Gumoil printing involves contact-printing a positive transparency onto gum-coated paper. Oil paint is then applied and rubbed into nongummed areas of the print. With bleach etching, mono- and polychromatic variations are possible. A chapter on digital printing combines the new and the historic, making this technique even more accessible for the art photographer.

The Business of Fine Art Photography

Author: Thomas Werner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000182568
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
This guide for aspiring and exhibiting photographers alike combines practice and concept to provide a roadmap to navigating, and succeeding in, the fine art photography marketplace locally, domestically, and internationally. Join former New York gallery owner, international curator, and fine art photographer Thomas Werner as he shares his experiences and insights from leading curators, gallerists, collectors, auctioneers, exhibiting photographic artists, and more. Learn how to identify realistic goals, maximize results, work with galleries and museums, write grants, develop strong nuanced imagery, and build a professional practice in a continually evolving field. Featuring dozens of photographs from international practitioners, and a robust set of resources, this book will ensure you have the tools to give you the opportunity for success in any marketplace. Whether you are a student, aspiring photographic or video artist, or a photographer changing careers, The Business of Fine Art Photography is your guide to starting and growing your own practice.