File Preparation
To ensure the best possible print is produced, make sure that the file you
send is at least 300 PPI (pixels per inch) at the final image size desired.
For example: If you wish to have a final giclée print image size of
24” x 30”on paper or canvas, then your file, when viewed in Photoshop,
should have an image size of 24” x 30” with a PPI at that size
of at least 300. A file of this size will be 154Mbs, if this isze file is unrealistic
for you to prepare then produce a file with an image size of 8" x 10" at 300ppi
(about 20Mbs) and we will use software to increase it to the final size desired.
Acceptable file formats are:
PSD (Photoshop) this is the best format to use when possible, TIF, JGP, GIF
or BMP.
Since different computers, scanners, cameras,
and printers have very different characteristics, color proofing the giclée
print based only on your file is problematic. For us to properly color
correct the giclée proof so that it closely matches your original and
or expectations, the following procedure is necessary.
From within Photoshop, select and printout, at full size, one, two or more
significant
8” x 10” subsections of your image and print them on High Gloss Photo
Paper using the finest setting of your desktop printer.
We will use these printouts as our color guide for color correcting. Please
note that if you do not like these subsection printouts that you have produced,
then
you
must
adjust your image file using Photoshop, i.e. adjust color, contrast, brightness,
saturation,
etc. and reprint your file until you get an output
