Re: [APML] Home made prints or photoshop?

[Philip Perkins <philip@astrocruise.com>]

Nicola,

You can go further and do everything 'in house'.  If you are using colour 
negative film, then C-41 processing is really quite easy.  And with today's 
state of the art colour printers you can achieve results that are very 
comparable to a top quality photolab.  As an example, I have been selling 
quite large quantities of this image as 13x18" prints: 
http://www.astrocruise.com/planets.htm  which have been produced totally 
'in house'.  The only downside I have found is that if you have a large 
number of 'daylight' type shots, then the process of producing 6x4 prints 
is a lot more laborious and time consuming compared to the automated 
equipment they use in labs.

--Philip

At 10:29 06/08/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>money-wise, and considering the large use of black ink in astrophotos, 
>would you suggest me to print my own pictures with my printer or sending 
>to a photoshop?
>
>I would print 4"x6" mostly and maybe sometimes an A4 with really smashing 
>shots.
>
>thanks!
>Nicola
>
>
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