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Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers
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by Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins
Sales Rank: 47746
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Discount: 34 %
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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Rocky Nook; 1 edition October 1, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933952008
ISBN-13: 978-1933952000
Product Dimensions:
9.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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.
About The Author
Uwe Steinmueller, a native of Germany, has been a photographer since 1973. His first exhibitions were in 1978 in Bremen, Germany with photos from Venice, South Tirol, Germany, and France. He shares a joint copyright with his wife Bettina.
He moved to California in 1997 and began working seriously in digital photography in 1999. He currently lives and works in San Jose. He has written a number of books, two of which won the prestigious, German, "Fotobuchpreis" award two years in a row, in 2004 and 2005. Uwe is the man behind outbackphoto.com, a popular website covering quality outdoor photography using digital cameras. Juergen Gulbins has been a computer book author and a passionate photographer most of his life, so it was easy to convince him to become a successful author of books on digital photography.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Many photographers seem to have optimism that they can improve their pictures by more work and study. How else can one explain the many photography books on the market? Apparently some believe that they can improve the printing of the pictures that they've already processed in photo-editing software. Here's a secret. In most cases, if a photographer follows the instructions that come with his or her printer, the printer will produce as good a picture as possible. Why then do we have many books on the market telling us how to print? (Some of these books, like this one, call it "fine arts printing" or something similar. But the basic instruction is "set the switches the way the manufacturer suggests, and let the printer run".) What most of these books do is to offer some tips in photo preparation including some more unusual ways of using Photoshop. This book starts with a general description of printers and papers. It then discusses the importance of color management, which is the process of making the images taken by the camera, viewed on the computer monitor, and printed by the printer all look the same. After describing the software switches to set to use the printer, the authors discuss the use of raster image processors (RIPs) and other printing software not included in image processing software or a printer manufacturer's software. The book ends up with discussions of black and white images; viewing images in the proper light; and presentation of prints, which primarily emphasizes matting. Generally this book left me asking for more. For example, the chapter on papers included an excellent discussion of the technical aspects of printing papers, but when it came to the selection of paper finishes, a choice that one might find overwhelming given the number of papers available on the market, the authors tell us that it's a subjective choice. I would have a liked at least a discussion of how they made the choice for themselves. Similarly few people would be able to figure out how to cut a mat based upon the sketchy description the authors provide. I also have to confess that I have a predisposition to dislike books by authors who recommend that the reader purchase software that they created. In the chapter on tuning tonality and color, the majority of the processes that they offer require the use of plug-ins that they sell. The processes that use unalloyed Photoshop are ones that someone familiar with Photoshop will be acquainted with, and if the reader is not acquainted with, are not described in enough detail to learn. If the manual for your printer has you confused, or if you'd like to learn a few more technical details about things like paper and inks, this book may satisfy your appetite. On the other hand if you've already got one book that tells you how to use your printer, and you are getting prints that look good, this book won't add to your photographic skills.
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