OUTPUT
This is where we provide information on the many ways to output your images, from printing to making Audio Visuals and everything in between.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Making a Photo Book by Michael Smyth
Creating a photo book can be a great way to share and preserve your valuable photographs. There are a number of things you need to consider before making your photo book and, in this tutorial, we go through these in detail, plus we provide a step by step method to ensure your photo book is printed at the best quality possible. In preparing this tutorial I have assumed users are familiar with both Lightroom and Photoshop.
These are the written notes that accompany the 3 part YouTube videos on this subject.
To open and download the PDF notes click HERE…
Making a photo book can be a creative way to use your photos, as well as making ideal gifts for family and friends
Understanding Soft Proofing by Michael Smyth
Soft Proofing is regarded as an important means of evaluating an image before commiting ink to paper. There are, however many pitfalls and caveats to trap the unwary and in this paper we explain the methods of soft proofing in both Lightroom and Photoshop as well as explain how to make it work for you. Read More…
How to make a Proof copy in Lightroom
Printing to Perfection by Michael Smyth
Many photographers believe that producing a beautiful print is the final step in the image making process. Yet many people have difficulty in translating the image from the computer screen to an image on paper. Here we explain how to avoid the pitfalls and produce consistently good prints.
Before you can contemplate printing it is essential you have in place the following systems and procedures:
1. A properly colour calibrated and profiled monitor. No, you can’t do this by eye and guesswork, you need a comprehensive solution including a colorimeter and software (such as Colorvision’s Spyder, Spyder Pro or similar products). Calibrate your monitor regularly for consistent colour reproduction. If what you are looking at on screen is not accurate, then you will have no chance of printing accuracy, you will only waste a lot of time and money trying to work around colour casts that might be your image, or might be your monitor, printer or both.
2. Colour management settings correctly applied in Photoshop and images tagged with the appropriate colour space. See our separate tutorial called “A Colour Managed Workflow” for information on how to set up your software correctly. Read More...
