One thing I haven’t done at all really is play around with different ink jet papers.  My thinking is simple - there is so much to master in all the tools I use - Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. - and so many techniques to learn that adding one more variable is something I just wasn’t interested [...]

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The 2008 Encinitas Street Faire this past weekend (4/26 & 4/27) was very successful.  We’ve added note cards to our product line and they sold really well.  But more importantly we were able to talk with hundreds of wonderful people who enjoyed our photographs.  We got some very fine complements.
While over 21 different photographs sold [...]

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Boy, it worked out just fine, the Christmas cards I mean.  I got the card stock from Red River Paper and worked through the issues of my printer recognizing the odd paper size - 7X10.  And got the right ICC profile for the paper.  We ended up selecting their premium matte paper.  It is two-sided so [...]

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The idea of creating note cards is taking shape.  Tonight I printed a series of Christmas cards on sampler set from Red River Paper in Dallas, TX.  For a first cut, they turned out very well - after I figured out how to get my Epson 4800 to accept such small paper (7×10).  That only [...]

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It’s become clear after the first year of shows that one needs to have more than large photographs to offer.  The small 8X10 photographs have been reasonably popular.  I’ve had it in my mind to offer 11X14 photographs also.  But I think the next thing I’ll work on is note cards.  In fact,  Christmas will [...]

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