| Digital photography printing has opened a | | | | In the end, your digital photography printing |
| completely new world for amateur and | | | | will be only as good as the paper you are |
| professional photographers alike.For most | | | | using.There are many new coated papers |
| photographers, the backup of digital | | | | available specifically for this purpose, and |
| photography printing offers unprecedented | | | | you should look at what is recommended for |
| freedom to get the best digital shots. No | | | | the printer you are using.These digital |
| more worrying about that precious piece of | | | | photography printing papers don't come cheap, |
| film running out too soon - all without you | | | | so plan carefully. Print only after final |
| knowing for sure that anything worthwhile is | | | | cropping, or on completion of other changes, |
| on it!However, when it comes to getting the | | | | such as adding a border with your imaging |
| actual digital photography printing done, | | | | software.The longest-lasting paper is acid |
| there are some things to keep in mind to | | | | free, usually called archival paper in the |
| prevent wasting too much of your quality | | | | world of inkjet printing.Regular color inkjet |
| photo paper - not to mention your costly | | | | and laser printers are good for text and |
| printing ink.With digital photography | | | | charts, but not always great for digital |
| printing in mind, the first thing to look at | | | | photography printing. Printers which are |
| is to ensure that you download the pictures | | | | PictBridge-enabled, allow you to do digital |
| at their full resolution. If you end up with | | | | photography printing directly from the |
| 72dpi (dots per inch) pictures, your print | | | | camera. Portable printers, such as the HP |
| quality will be useless. A 72dpi resolution | | | | Photosmart 320 series, allow you to take a |
| is only good for viewing on your computer | | | | snap and print out 4x6 digital photography |
| screen, but 200 - 300dpi will give a good | | | | pictures anywhere on the move.Incidentally, |
| quality 8x10 print.Large prints are usually | | | | for smaller 4x6 inch prints, dye-sublimation |
| viewed from a greater distance, therefore for | | | | printers give excellent quality prints, and |
| a 13x19 inch print 200 pixels per inch is | | | | they are usually waterproof - like the film |
| probably enough, whereas for a 5x7 inch print | | | | prints you were used to! However, the |
| you might need around 300 pixels per inch.By | | | | materials for such digital photography |
| looking at the file size you will quickly | | | | printing do not come cheap!If you can't get |
| learn to be an expert judge on quality. A | | | | good enough results with your own digital |
| picture of 100kb (kilobytes) or less, is most | | | | photography printing, especially if you're |
| probably too low-resolution for good quality | | | | printing larger than 8x10, you may want to |
| digital photography printing. Once you get up | | | | try one of the brick-and-mortar, or even |
| to a minimum of 400kb, you are working with a | | | | online photo labs which make use of dedicated |
| more useful resolution for an 8x10 print.When | | | | photo printers with excellent results.Photo |
| doing digital photography printing, you will | | | | labs can handle digital files directly from |
| mostly work with the JPEG file format. Keep | | | | your memory card. Take your homemade CD, your |
| in mind that every time you open and save a | | | | digital camera, or your memory card along for |
| JPEG file, you lose some of the image | | | | professional quality digital photography |
| information. You'll therefore want to do all | | | | printing.For more information visit |
| your changes in one sitting, and then save | | | | Best-Digital-Photography.comRika Susan of |
| them only once.If you're proud enough of your | | | | researches, writes, and publishes full-time |
| photographic effort - or if you want those | | | | on the Web. Copyright of this article: 2006 |
| family shots to be available for the next | | | | Rika Susan. This article may be reprinted if |
| generation - you'll want your prints to be | | | | the resource box and hyperlinks are left |
| done on decent paper, just like you were used | | | | intact. |
| to in the 'old days' of photographic paper! | | | | |