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  | Artists! Please Don’t Do This… I’ve had many calls from artists who want me to color correct, up-rez (increase details) and print their art from smartphone photos. It’s always a challenge to politely tell them that their smartphone photo isn’t good enough to print large images to be hung and sold in galleries. After my […] The post Why A Smartphone Can’t Reproduce Your Art appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. The Science of Digitizing Art The two main processes for converting your 2D art into a digital file are photographing and scanning. In reality, they’re just two sides of the same coin. A scanner is simply a large, slow, bulky camera. In the old days (5 years ago,) dedicated, special purpose scanners costing $10,000 or […] The post Converting Art into a Digital File appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. Monitors can display ~16.7 million colors (~1 billion for wide gamut displays) but inkjet printers use 6 to 10 discrete colors and print dots so close to each other that the human eye sees them as a continuous tone. Due to inherent limitations, inkjet printers can’t reproduce all 16.7 million colors of a monitor. The […] The post Printer Profiles: Key to Accurate Colors appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. All artists know that light is the key. Chiaroscuro is a known, understood, thoroughly documented and well accepted school of art that depends on light and dark. Indeed, without light, art would be as bland and boring as medical illustrations. Although chiaroscuro was known before the Renaissance, it came into its own during that period. […] The post Lighting for Art Reproduction appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. Inkjet printers are incredibly complex devices that depend on extremely tight tolerances. The post Inkjet Technologies appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. Quality inkjet paper goes a long ways toward good reproductions The post Fine Art Reproduction Inkjet Paper appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. For our purposes, I’m covering only Epson and Canon printers in this short primer on ink jet printers. Fine art prints require a wide gamut (range of colors) which requires printers using 6, 8 or 10 colors. Other than size—13″, 17″, 24″ are the most common—the main difference in printers is dye versus pigment inks. […] The post A Short Primer on Ink Jet Printers appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. When the Right Color is Critical When reproducing art for artists, matching colors is important. But, even when the client is just across town, taking time to meet and compare prints against the original is time consuming. Using video conferencing, we can cut out the hassle of driving to a meeting. Unfortunately, most people don’t […] The post Is Everyone Seeing the Same Color? appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. Collaboration with Video Conferencing Today, anyone who can fog a mirror uses Zoom, the video conferencing app du jour. To hear some talk, you would think they invented video conferencing. I first used video conferencing in the early 1990s to conduct engineering project status reviews. We were in San Diego, the customer was in Japan […] The post Collaboration in the Age of Covid-19 appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. The More Things Change… As I mentioned previously, I recently presented a talk to a retirement community photography club. I could tell my talk was way over most members’ heads. At the same time, having taught college and corporate classes, I’m always loath to “dumb down” my talks for several reasons. First, I don’t like […] The post Photography in the Age of Cell Phones appeared first on Giclée Yoshimatsu. | ||
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