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New Photoshop & Printing Tutorials & Forums! If you have any questions that arise from these tutorials, or you want to catch up on the latest photoshop & printing tips from the author, visit his new website: Digital Photography Community Bair Art Edition's Tutorial on: Epson Professional Printing Workflow File Preparation This tutorial assumes that you are printing on an Epson Pro Stylus Printer (anything from a 1280 and 2200 to a 4000, 7600, or 9600) from Adobe Photoshop version 5.0 or later. We suggest you use version 7.1 or CS. Photoshop Elements works as well. If you don't have Adobe Photoshop 5.0 or greater or Photoshop Elements, consider purchasing them. Professional digital imaging and high quality print output is best achieved with this program, and it is the software "lauchpad" we will be using in this tutorial. If/once you have Adobe Photoshop installed on your computer, please (for your own sake) use the following tutorial to prepare your file in terms of color correction, exposure, contrast, file format, etc. Here are a few of the topics (the tutorial has many more) you should be familiar with in order to make a decent image for printing: ________________ Adobe Photoshop Tutorial for Photographers: How to Correct Color and Exposure Using Layers How to Use Adjustment Layers Correcting Exposure How to Use Levels to correct exposure How to Use Curves to correct exposure How to control Contrast/ Brightness Using Curves Color Balance How to use Color Balance How to use Curves for Color Balance How to Separate Adjustments in Photoshop ________________ Once you have created a file that looks good ON A PROFILED MONITOR!!!, follow the rest of the file preparation procedures in this tutorial. These include: The Prefered Colorspace in Photoshop - With so many options for colorspaces, which one gives you the best output. Target Output Resolution For Optimal Print Quality - That mouthful of words can be quite confusing, wait until you try to understand ppi vs. dpi! Resizing your image in Photoshop - Boy is this a controversial topic! I'll give you the basic way, and let you read the myriad of sites purporting "improved" methods. Tricks on Adding Borders and Cutlines - You may know this already, but you might learn a new trick. All images ©2003 Bair Art Editions Copying is Prohibited Feel free to give us feedback on this, or any page. We welcome submissions of pertinent material as well. Contact us at printshop@tssphoto.com and include the subject heading as "tutorial". Also, feel free to link to this site, and use any information for personal and/or commercial use. However, any reproduction of the information in this tutorial, including electronic publication, is prohibited without proper notification and citation of this site. This includes crediting our site and a link to this page in a conspicuous position relative to the copied information. - Stephen Bair, Printing Technician, Utah Portrait Photographers For the most comprehensive, and step-by-step guide to our services, read and fill out our ordering and submission checklist. Phone: 801-484-1028 Fax: 801-467-2729 E-Mail: heath@masterlabdigital.com Mail: BAE c/o MasterLab, 2992 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 © 2007 Bair Art Editions