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Posted on 17/12/06 03:31:44 AM |
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tank172
ThreeDee Thriller Posts: 692 Reply  |
Photo Printing
Hi everyone! I'm making a christmas gift for my friend. Right now, it's three separate photographs; one of him, his baby, and his wife. I'm planning to knock out the backgrounds and replace with black and paint strong shading on the faces of the parents, fading into the black background. The placement will have the Husband towards the top left, the wife mid right, and the picture of their baby crawling across the bottom center. The finished project will be printed on 8"x10" photo paper at the local photo processing shop. My main concern is that I want to ensure that the faces will blend seemlessly into the black background (with no gradient banding) when printed and for the black background to be "true" black. Is there a color setting for photo printing? CMYK or RGB? 8 bit or 16? 300 dpi or less? Thanks, Chris |
Posted on 17/12/06 2:53:35 PM |
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mguyer
Incisive Incisor Posts: 799 Reply  |
Re: Photo Printing
Use RGB, 8 bit and 200 dpi or more. Try printing it at home first to see if you get the banding that you are concerned about. If you get the banding you may have to go through a series of steps to shrink the face by a few pixel to get rid of the banding. Hope this helps, Marty |
Posted on 18/12/06 00:16:01 AM |
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tank172
ThreeDee Thriller Posts: 692 Reply |
Re: Photo Printing
Thanks, Marty. That definately points me in the right direction. Initially, I started the project in CMYK, but I've switched back to RGB. The image is lookiing better already, but not good enough to post, just yet...  |
Posted on 24/12/06 8:22:50 PM |
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tank172
ThreeDee Thriller Posts: 692 Reply |
Re: Photo Printing
Well, after an endless fiddle with my original concept...I trashed it and came up with this. The original was two separate photographs of the baby, merged to this. I was aiming for a soft sepia effect, but with slight pink coloring on the skintones and lips. The original photographs were taken at 400 ISO, as well as being out of focus. So, I had to enhance this quite a bit... Comments & Criticisms welcome! Merry Christmas everyone! Chris 
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