How do I turn my oil paintings into prints?, How do I turn my oil paintings into prints? Beállítások

[bining]

Hello painters here on Etsy. Before I became a dollmaker I was a actually a painter. I hope to go back to it some day. Dolls just worked better for me with little children around the house...

[Guest_Vendég_*]

Your first step is to get the paintings into the computer. You can do this by either photographing them or (if they're small enough) scanning them. If you're going to try photography, do it at the largest image size/resolution that your camera can hold, and be careful of your lighting--outside on a cloudy day is good if you don't have a studio setup. Make sure that there is no glare off the surface of the painting. (The photos in my shop will show you what happens when you *don't* take these precautions--the background I use is actually white!)

[bining]

Your first step is to get the paintings into the computer. You can do this by either photographing them or (if they're small enough) scanning them. If you're going to try photography, do it at the largest image size/resolution that your camera can hold, and be careful of your lighting--outside on a cloudy day is good if you don't have a studio setup. Make sure that there is no glare off the surface of the painting. (The photos in my shop will show you what happens when you *don't* take these precautions--the background I use is actually white!)

Your second step is to take a look at what you've got and adjust it so that it looks right, so haul your images into Photoshop or the GIMP or whatever and fiddle with the Levels or Curves tools until what you've got on the screen looks like the actual painting. (There are other, more sophisticated things you can do, but Levels/Curves will be enough to fix most basic lighting problems.)

[Guest_Vendég_*]

And finally, you have to decide how you're going to go about printing. You have three choices here: do it yourself at home, get it done by a local print shop, or find a printer over the Internet.

[Guest_Vendég_*]

If you're going to do it yourself, make sure you have a good quality *ink jet* printer with pigment-based inks--Epson makes good ones. There are plenty of printer-recommendation threads here at the forum that you can read to get exact model numbers.

[fillerjupiter]

The cheapest option is to use jelly jars with lids. Pour a little solvent into the bottom of one jar. Use it to thin your paints and clean your brushes (which isn’t necessary all that often, if you wipe the paint out of the brushes between colors). Put a lid on it when not in use. When that solvent gets yucky, pout it into the second jar. Let the gunk settle to the bottom, and pour off the reasonably clear stuff back into your first jar to use again.

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[Guest_Boris_*]

Digitise Your Artwork
The first thing you need to do is to digitise your artwork i.e. create a digital file from the original canvas/sheet of paper. You can either do this yourself with the help of a good scanner or you can employ a photographer/print shop with a large scale scanner to do this for you. I’ve always done this myself because good quality scanners aren’t actually that expensive AND you are in control of how the final image comes out. I’ve just found that doing things myself is quicker, easier and cheaper although I can fully understand why you would prefer to outsource this step as it isn’t exactly a thrill a minute!

If you are going to digitise your artwork yourself then you will need a scanner that can scan in at a good enough resolution.
Once you have your scanned jpeg image you will need to do some editing to ensure the colours are as true as you would like them, that the whites are white and the dark areas and shadows are correct.

I resize my image to a ‘standard size’ – for me this is 16×20″;
I remove the shadow and outside edges of the scanned image;
I clear up any blemishes/paint splats etc on the print that I don’t like the look of.At this point I also adjust the colour.
I’ve only ever had an issue once with photoshop not merging my images correctly – in this instance the image was quite subtle so I can see why it had problems knowing where the joins were. In this case I merged the images myself manually which obviously took a bit longer.

This is the end of this section and I hope that you now understand
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[Hermanjaf]

Thank you Greeny for your prompt help.

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[berinchs]

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