Finally Getting Around to Printing Some Photos
Permalink |Back on my old blog, I “wrote”:1 about using Costco for your photo printing service. Well, I’m finally getting around to doing some prints. I must say that to do it right, it’s a pain in the butt. First you gotta configure Photoshop, calibrate your monitor, pick the shot you want to print, crop it, color correct it, enhance it, sharpen it, download the ICC profile for your local Costco’s printer, change the image profile, add any boarder necessary for the print size you want and, finally, save it to a @.jpg@ file. Only then can you run down to Costco, and get a print.
If you want to know how to do all this, it’s simple: Just buy this book, and read the whole thing.
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[2(Amazon link for Photoshop CS Artistry)]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/073571374X/qid=1120779473/
[1(Old Zoinger on Costco for prints)]http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/02/15/10.34.22/index.html
July 8th, 2005 at 7:59 am
Welcome to enthusiast photography. I had this issue to start, then decided to prioritize. “Personal record” photography, where you’re just recording a moment to remember (like that drive you had on hole 2 that rolled back to the tee), I run through a batch that does auto levels and a default minimal sharpening. Good enough. Photos I consider more like art deserve the grand treatment and get lots of hand tweaking. And if you really want to sink lots of time, start getting into the removal or enhancement of individual elements in a photo (like killing that annoying person in your nice landscape or removing that red tint from someone’s face without affecting the rest of the photo). It’s a full time job!!