I find your comment about printing smaller size images on textured paper interesting. I have some images similar to those you show in this post and they just don't work on letter-sized textured paper. They do work well on matte paper and as soon as I'm finished evaluating Arches 88 and BFK Rives Pure White, I will print on one of those and see how well they work. It is difficult from a financial perspective to have too many paper options particularly for larger size prints. I need to be satisfied that an image looks good on letter size before making the investment on a larger size.
Thanks for the overview of these papers!!!! It's always better to have some good choices.
We'll be exploring these papers together as I'll be sharing my observations on the entire Arches line. As for deeply textured papers and how they play with various images, if in doubt you can print a section on smaller paper but at the target scale to get a better idea how the texture interacts with the image at any given size. It's a bit of a pain using LR but other apps like Photoshop will easily allow you to do this very precisely via the image size options (IE do not resample, just use the final dimensions of the image on larger paper) the print options will gladly allow you to print that larger image on smaller paper or merely add a temporary crop of the section you want to see. The image magnification will stay the same. I'll explain more fully in an upcoming newsletter if that wasn't clear.
I totally understand how one would not want to waste a large sheet just to see that a paper doesn't work.... The Arches even at small sizes is more expensive than the basic 11x14 frame I am using to display these.
I find your comment about printing smaller size images on textured paper interesting. I have some images similar to those you show in this post and they just don't work on letter-sized textured paper. They do work well on matte paper and as soon as I'm finished evaluating Arches 88 and BFK Rives Pure White, I will print on one of those and see how well they work. It is difficult from a financial perspective to have too many paper options particularly for larger size prints. I need to be satisfied that an image looks good on letter size before making the investment on a larger size.
Thanks for the overview of these papers!!!! It's always better to have some good choices.
Alan,
We'll be exploring these papers together as I'll be sharing my observations on the entire Arches line. As for deeply textured papers and how they play with various images, if in doubt you can print a section on smaller paper but at the target scale to get a better idea how the texture interacts with the image at any given size. It's a bit of a pain using LR but other apps like Photoshop will easily allow you to do this very precisely via the image size options (IE do not resample, just use the final dimensions of the image on larger paper) the print options will gladly allow you to print that larger image on smaller paper or merely add a temporary crop of the section you want to see. The image magnification will stay the same. I'll explain more fully in an upcoming newsletter if that wasn't clear.
I totally understand how one would not want to waste a large sheet just to see that a paper doesn't work.... The Arches even at small sizes is more expensive than the basic 11x14 frame I am using to display these.
Thank you. This was very helpful