How to store and print your digital images
Digital Media Preservation
USB flash drives are not suitable for long term storage as they are vulnerable to damage,
content can be lost easily and technology can one day be obsolete. Create “master” copies of images
and save them on an external hard drive as well as your internal hard drive.
Printing Recommendations
For the best results, please print with a professional lab with no color corrections. Because print quality varies greatly from lab to lab, no guarantees can be made about print quality from a non-professional lab.
Framing Recommendations
When framing your prints, I recommend to keep it simple; a medium-thick white frame with thick white mat looks clean and fresh and draws the eye to the image rather than adorments or bright coloured surrounds
Cropping Guide/Aspect Ration
When you take your images to print, choosing a print size will affect the cropping of your image.
Why? Because cameras produce images with an aspect ratio (ratio of photograph width to height) of 3:2.
That means the images will fit the following print sizes perfectly:
4x6, 6x9, 8x12, 10x15, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30
As soon as you print any other sizes, cropping is unavoidable. Make sure your print lab allows you to preview
your image and crop as you desire before you print.
Here is a cropping guide for your reference.
USB flash drives are not suitable for long term storage as they are vulnerable to damage,
content can be lost easily and technology can one day be obsolete. Create “master” copies of images
and save them on an external hard drive as well as your internal hard drive.
Printing Recommendations
For the best results, please print with a professional lab with no color corrections. Because print quality varies greatly from lab to lab, no guarantees can be made about print quality from a non-professional lab.
Framing Recommendations
When framing your prints, I recommend to keep it simple; a medium-thick white frame with thick white mat looks clean and fresh and draws the eye to the image rather than adorments or bright coloured surrounds
Cropping Guide/Aspect Ration
When you take your images to print, choosing a print size will affect the cropping of your image.
Why? Because cameras produce images with an aspect ratio (ratio of photograph width to height) of 3:2.
That means the images will fit the following print sizes perfectly:
4x6, 6x9, 8x12, 10x15, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30
As soon as you print any other sizes, cropping is unavoidable. Make sure your print lab allows you to preview
your image and crop as you desire before you print.
Here is a cropping guide for your reference.
