Printing Your Photos

Printing your photographs is extremely rewarding. It can be expensive, time consuming, and sometimes frustrating, but it's one the best investments you can make in a quest to improve your photography. The vast array of textures, colours, and complex details make woodland a very special and fascinating environment to photograph. Those qualities are begging to be printed! 

In this episode I print one of my favourite woodland images from autumn 2022 and a magical hoar frost image from December 2022. Although I cover some practical details, this video is about WHY you should print. 

Today's question is, “Should I spend the money to buy a printer and make my own prints? Or should I use a printing lab? Which option is better for a photo enthusiast?”

In this video Tim is here to take you through 10 things that you will need for Fine art and Photography printing. 

Alright, so you've taken a photo you love. You go to print it out and you are devastated because it looks cra%.  Well, we all experience this and I hope this video helps you.  I'll share my workflow for preparing my images to print. My advice, tips, and techniques for ensuring the print does the photo justice! 

At Valid Consumer, we've researched the Best Photo Printers 2024 on Amazon saving you time and money.

Sean Tucker talks about working with a commercial lab to make photographic prints.

Printing your photos is one of the most rewarding parts of photography.  It is the culmination of all the hard work.  In this episode I share with you the 7 mistakes I made when starting to print and how to avoid them.  Nigel also talks about different printing paper types. 

The photographers taking advantage of the latest quality printers and printing their work themselves have an advantage over those who aren't. Here's why ...

Printing your images is the essential final step to bringing your photography to life. In this video we will be focusing on printing as we discuss why, how and the costs involved. We’ll also compare a photo printed on a high end printer, a mid range printer and also using an online lab. The results are pretty surprising. 

Want to feel like a pro on set? We’re talking about making better choices so you can grade faster, get better images, and encounter fewer problems as you grade.

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Every Photographer should use a calibrated display. A cheap display, properly calibrated is usually better than a top monitor that's not calibrated.

In this video Tim looks at if the printers quality setting make a difference to our prints. By using the Canon Pro1000 Tim prints test prints at the High and Highest setting to compare to results and if we can see any difference to the prints. 

I LOVE printing…but it wasn’t always the case. I wasted a lot of time and money in the past because when I thought my monitor / display was calibrated correctly…it wasn’t! So, in this video I show you the settings that DO WORK so you get the best from your display AND the best possible results when printing!  

As part of the series of videos called the printing basics. Tim asks the question; What are ICC profiles and do they make a difference to our prints.

In this tutorial, I explain the ins and outs of Soft Proofing in Lightroom.

So what is Baryta and how does it effect your prints? Join Tim this to answer this question and also to hear his thoughts a few tips to picking papers. 

Join Tim this week to look at my top picks for Black and White papers. Which paper are going to make his list.  

Have you ever wondered about how best to use paper test packs? Tim has made a video with his top tips for getting the best out of test pack and getting the best value for money.

In this weeks Tim will take you through his process in printing one of his photographs.

Join Richard Young as he takes a comprehensive introduction to the Lightroom Print Module to show how easy printing can be. The video concludes with a look at a few of the Epson Signature Worthy Fine Art Papers and the different finishes each one delivers. 

In this video learn how to print the custom profiling charts needed to send us for Free Custom Profiles for your printer.