The Fine Art Printing Process

Step 1
To prepare the image for printing, I open the RAW file through Adobe Camera Raw and adjust exposure, contrast, and white balance (far right). Before opening the image in Photoshop I set my crop to a 2:1 ratio for a finished 20-inch by 10-inch print and choose to export the image at 16 bits-per-channel, since I know I will need to upsample the image in Photoshop to reach my desired print size.

Step 2
My first step in Photoshop is to bring the image up to its finished print size. I do this through three passes of Bicubic

• Print
• Stumble It