 Jeff Quiggle |
Best way to acquire small prints? I have invested considerable time enhancing my favorite images with Photoshop and archiving them in 100mb files to CD-R's. I now would like to create a portable, 4X6 portfolio of my life's work. Would this best be accomplished by rescaling the images with Photoshop and print them by inkjet, or convert my files to small jpegs and send them to a service bureau that utilizes long-life laser technology who will print them very reasonably? Currently I do not own an inkjet printer because I am leery of its current limitations in archival stability and high cost per print. I am more confident of my past work having been committed to Fuji Crystal Archive processing from quality slides. I now have a body of digital images I am proud of but I am not quite confident of how to proceed in acquiring quality output. Thanks so much for you help. JQ
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Dave Cross |
Hi Jeff. This is how I do it. Copy all the files I want onto a CD, no resizing, no resampling, no scaling, nothing. The only caveat is that if you have a camera with a 4:3 aspect ratio (rather than the 3:2 aspect ratio of 35mm or DigitalSLR) then you need to tell the photolab chaps NOT to crop the image, you will end up with a 6x4 with white bands at each side that you can trim off later. Try it with a few images first, to make sure you are getting what you want. ALTERNATIVELY If you don't have vast quantities of images one of the cheap little Sony dye-sub printers will produce reasonably long lived borderless 6x4s at home for around 50c each. Cheers
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