Many reasons for using canvas – what are yours?
Michaela Davidson and Ashley Marston both rely on canvas prints, Find out why…
About printing in general, or printing with Turning Point Arts in particular
Preparing images for printing, part 3: The Facebook illusion
Every once in awhile someone sends me a favourite, special image from Facebook or some other web site or blog and they ask me to make an enlargement print. They are often surprised or disappointed when I have to inform them that this is unlikely to work, despite how amazingly good the image might appear on their…
Preparing images for printing, part 2: How best to sharpen for the print
In part 1 of this series, I answered the very important question “How many pixels do you need?” to get the best prints at Turning Point Arts. In that article, I explained why it is unnecessary, and in fact undesirable, to resize or up-sample your image before submitting it to me for printing. This leads to the question…
Preparing images for printing, part 1: How many pixels do you need?
It is very easy to prepare images to get outstanding prints at Turning Point Arts. In fact, it might require fewer steps than you think. I have noticed that some clients perform resizing and resampling steps that are actually unnecessary and had they not been done, very likely would have produced better prints. It would also…