The final prints I am printing at Burton College, where I will have full control over the final stage of the process.
For this example I am printing the image 'Water Chase'.
So the first stage will be sizing the image, for the printing stage:
the size 420 mm by 297 mm was entered into the size options with a resolution of 300 dpi.
Then the crop tool was dragged out across the image to select what I wanted to keep. I kept the option of using the rule of thirds grid selected.
Once I was happy with the crop, I saved the image as a PSD (Photoshop image) file:
One advantage with this way of working is that you don't end up working on part of the image that will later be cropped off, which is a waste of your most valuable resources - time.
The next stage involved checking the histogram:
When making adjustments like this, I use adjustment levels because I can make changes to the adjustment, or text in the case of a text layer, or even hide the level if I am not happy, but still want to keep the adjustment for editing later.
In this case the levels were ok.
Next came the printing stage
First thing to do was to change the orientation of the print from portrait to landscape, then change the printer from a laser printer to one of the colleges A3+ printers.
Next it was changing the paper size from the default A4 to the A3+ paper we were using for the printing:
Then came the attack of the Gremlins !
After a few glitches, they solved the problem and I managed to print out the final image.
Thanks to Mr Steve and Steve B for their hard work in solving this problem.
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