What do you do with each digital photo you shoot? Was it carved into a CD and shared it with friends on the digital TV, or on a hard disk, using a small computer screen to be alone? In fact, good works are printed on inkjet printers, and they can be framed to become artworks. This sense of accomplishment goes far beyond putting photos on blogs and community websites.
Digital print is popular
With the popularity of digital cameras, people can see digital cameras taking pictures everywhere. Digital photos are easy to save and share, they can freely output their desired size, and they can also change the photos they have created through post-production. With such advantages as perfection, many people are heading into the wave of digital photography.
Unfortunately, digital photos are not like the traditional silver salt photos (silver salts in traditional photo printing systems, inherently called). Most people don’t burn photos into CDs and distribute them to relatives and friends. Upload photos to personal blogs and share them with netizens. The last one is on the hard disk, which is saved as a life diary.
To be honest, these methods are not the best way to save. In the current situation where the digital camera's pixels are frequently broken by 10 million, the computer screen cannot fully present all the details of the 10 million-pixel digital photo. It feels like it is using traditional television to play high-definition video. The best way is to return to the processing method of the silver salt era. First of all, through post-production, the unsatisfactory parts of the photos are modified, and then printed on a printer with A3+ format or more to make a “digital printâ€, and then It is placed in the living room and bedroom, allowing photographs that were originally digital files to become a piece of artwork.
Digital prints have just sprouted in Taiwan, but they have already become commonplace in Europe and the United States. Especially in large-scale foreign exhibitions in recent years, a large number of digital works have appeared. The effect of using computer to render traditional prints is not available, such as the texture of objects on the surface of paintings. The result is accurate reproduction, and the digital print's shelf life can be as long as 75 years.
Digital printing costs high
There is one word that can't be avoided when making high-quality digital photo prints – Giclee. It is a term that was created to refer to the process of printing an artwork on an inkjet printer. This term is often used to replace "inkjet" in the sale of fine arts. The word Giclee comes from the French word "legicleur," which means "nozzle," and more precisely "giclee" means spouting, shooting, or spraying.
Giclee output is different from the traditional large-scale four-color printing, is also different from the general photo paper output, and more is not digital proofing. In the past, when the artists remade (not copied) these works, it was difficult to control them from beginning to end. However, in the Giclee output process, artists must create, polish, edit, and color their own works. Even artists must personally operate high-quality sprays. Ink printers output their fine arts and photography. For high-level works, even the use of high-grade materials such as photo paper, super-smooth art paper, and canvas can be used to achieve the purpose of art collection. Therefore, the print output by Giclee is much more expensive than the traditional four-color output flat print. A Giclee output map costs about 50 US dollars.
Limits make it more valuable
Although the print is a plural work, because Giclee's production process is complex and costly, it cannot be printed in large quantities. In addition to the artist's determination of quality, the number of prints is usually expressed in a few fractions below the work. For example, If it is marked as 10/25, it means that the work has only printed 25 copies and you have 10th in your hand; if it is labeled 1/1, then this work is the only one in the world! Therefore, the prints produced in this way are worth a lot of money.
The explanation here is that Giclee is a copy printed by an inkjet printer, so the number does not represent the print order, and it will not affect the value of the collection. And after the printing is finished, the artist must destroy the original and avoid the reproduction of the work. At the same time, the artist must sign under the signature with a pen, because the signature is not easy to fade.