Lightroom Print Workflow: How to Easily Match Your Screen to Your Prints

Lightroom Print Workflow: How to Easily Match Your Screen to Your Prints with Andrew Darlow

Date: Wednesday, September 28 at D&R Greenway, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ
Time: 7:30 (sharp)– 9:30pm

Investment: $30 (includes $5 materials fee)
PLEASE NOTE: Registration here on Meetup.com is not necessary, but feel free to let us know if you plan to attend the workshop. Anyone may attend, even if you are not a current member of the Princeton Photography Club.

PLEASE PAY AT THE DOOR and please have exact change to help speed up the registration time.

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Above: Andrew Darlow teaching a workshop at D&R Greenway.

Have you ever been disappointed when you compare your prints to your screen? Today’s print technologies make it easy and affordable to make your own prints and to find outside photo labs, but there are so many moving parts it can be very confusing, even for experienced printers. In this workshop, award-winning photographer and consultant Andrew Darlow will provide step-by-step advice to help you turn your photos into printed works of art that closely match your screen.

Each attendee will receive a printed handout and a test print to help you match your computer screen to prints from your own printer or an outside lab.

Who Should Take This Workshop: This workshop is ideal for those who have some working knowledge of Lightroom and inkjet printing (or printing with a photo lab), and who want to learn how to streamline the process and start making consistent, high quality, color-managed prints.

What will be covered:

• How to quickly and easily see if your monitor is the right brightness and color;
• An overview of Lightroom 6/Lightroom CC's Print Module;
• How to use the Print Module to do a color test for any desktop printer or Pro lab;
• How to choose affordable lighting to make sure you are viewing your prints correctly;
• How to use paper profiles (a.k.a. output profiles) properly, and how to find and test profiles from different paper companies;
• Sharpening techniques for popular types of photos; and
• How to save Print Presets and apply them to one or many images.

Mac OSX will be used, but Windows-specific information will also be explained for those who use Windows. Samples of a few different print processes, including canvas, paper, wood, satin and metal print options will be briefly shown. Each participant will also receive a list of hand-picked suppliers that Andrew uses or highly recommends.

Each attendee will receive 5 sheets of a semi-gloss paper plus 5 sheets of a matt paper for a total of 10 sheets. These papers are ideal for proofing on your own printer before sending the files out for printing at an outside company.

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Andrew Darlow at a solo gallery show opening. photo by Jim Roselli

BIO-Andrew Darlow

Andrew Darlow is a photographer, author and digital imaging consultant. He is the former Editorial Director of Digital Imaging Techniques Magazine, and the current editor of ImagingBuffet.com (http://imagingbuffet.com/), an online imaging magazine. His photography and how-to articles on topics from marketing to fine-art printing have been featured in numerous magazines and websites, including Photo District News, PDN Gear Guide, Popular Photography, Rangefinder, and Studio Photography magazine. For more than 15 years he has taught thousands how to improve their photography, workflow and digital print output at conferences, industry events, and educational institutions, including the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, the Arles Photo Festival (Arles, France), Columbia University, and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. He regularly exhibits his work and his prints are held in many private collections.

His book, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers, (Course Technology PTR), is a resource that covers many aspects of digital printmaking, and includes the imagery and advice of over 20 photographers and other artists. He also publishes the Inkjet & Imaging Tips Newsletter, available free to subscribers at www.imagingbuffet.com (http://www.imagingbuffet.com/).

He is also author of Pet Photography 101:Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or Cat -http://www.PhotoPetTips.com (http://www.photopettips.com/) and
Biscuit for Your Thoughts:
http://www.biscuitforyourthoughts.com