Saving Files for Fine Art Printing

I hope you enjoy this look behind the scenes, and as always, let me know if you have any questions!

[FilmFactry]

I have a fine art printing business. You are giving yourself extra steps you don't have to.

1) 16-bit TIFF is your best master format over PS. Tiff is universal, PS is proprietary. Tiff stores all the same layer data as PS.

2) You don't need to flatten your images. When you do SAVE AS... "TIFF". there is a checkbox that says "LAYERS" if you leave that unchecked, it saves a flattened tiff.

3) As a Fine Art printing service, I prefer you leave your image at its NATIVE resolution. We have special techniques to get the most detail from your image. Once you up size or down size, you are throwing away pixels, or interpolating new pixels. As a printer, I need to make subtle adjustments to match your image to the characteristics of the paper. D-Max, Saturation etc. ONLY after that I resize you image to the printer's NATIVE resolution. In my case Epson requires 360 DPI or 720 DPI. If you send it any other resolution, it must resize within the printer to that resolution. Which is bad, because its algorithms are not optimized for quality, but speed..

[AnnaDBruce]

Thank you! Always cool to see how other artists do things 😊

[gabriel-ceausescu]

something I will add up to notice easier the dust/edges.

short version - Rise up the saturation and Overexpose/Underexpose a lot, notice the imperfections, clean them and delete the layers which oversaturated and overexposed the image

long version:
- insert Hue Saturation Adjustments Layer and super saturate the composition
- insert a new Level Adjustment Layer
- if you have dark tones, then over expose a lot the picture... if you have to investigate over light zones, you should under expose the area

- place the layers into a group and turn the group On and Off during the inspection/cleaning
- clean the dust, scratches and the hard lines from the layer you desire
- delete the group you created before saving the document

[HannaRooks]

How do you keep the resolution 300 when changing the size to 40x40? Whenever I do that my resolution decreases

[lauraabbott]

Out of interest which colour profile to you print in?

[fitbmx]

I seem to be behind on your videos. 😬 But it was great. 🥰

[thebarberfrombrampton]

What’s the difference between flattering and merge visible?

[mauricebighi]

I have an action created for my sizing for print saves me heaps of time

[drwatsonismine]

Who does your printing?
Do you ever do your own printing?