Wondering if anyone has printed grained images such as this and how they would turn out. Not sure of the size yet,but before I start wasting ink I'd like to know.... Are the dark parts of hull and base of buoys too black. I wonder about that contrast. Will the grain look funny? I want to print these three and have them framed to be hung all beside or around together.

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Use a good quality paper and a good profile and these should look great. I would print on canvas if you have the ability. Great shots! Magick Michael

I'm interesting to know if it worked well when you will have the results !

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dB - I've never printed such heavy grain before. But as long as you take care of where your black and white points are, your shadow detail should be fine. What I mean by that is, you really never want to go to a full 0,0,0 black (or 255,255,255 white) in an image that you want to print. Doing that for a web image is fine, but doing that for prints will make you lose detail in the shadows and/or highlights. I set my black point at around 8,8,8 and my whitepoint to around 247, 247, 247.

doug - it's hard to judge how they will come out. i usually use one fairly well calibrated monitor to make the adaption/selection of images to print - and then send them to photo finishing (without optimisation, of course- that would be deadly)... the outcome of the grain will mainly depend on the image size where you applied this kind of pw, shrinking 12MP to 10x15 cm prints makes no really sense...

I will try setting back the balck as Donald suggests. Something tells me from way back that when I printed too dark on the black it seems to draw attention straight to that point.All comments here have been taken and will find out results. I was also wondering if printing to one of those heavier art papers that resemble a canvas would work. Thinking the ink would just get blotted in too deep.Anyone tried!1?

be interesting to find out the final outcome... as i'm too stingy to print a lot of my work...

I am thouroughly impressed with the prints. Cropped originals to around 10 x 6 at 400dpi. My monitor must be calibrated really good because they came out as near as possible to the display. One I tried using the adobe RGB1998 rather than output and I goofed by putting the paper in upside down. Not all a loss, because it actually turned out cool. That will be a give away to someone.I lightened the sepia a bit and it leans more to a grayscale and kept part of that outside border effect.(without the shadow) Matted and framed I am going ot be happy.

Hey Doug - do print test strips on one piece of paper [or better yet on several different kinds of paper]- by creating different copies of a section of your image - at different saturations. I personally love certain images with a lot of grain - adds a little magic to the image :) Like Cyn said, be sure to let us know how the final prints come out. Dee-Marie

Dee LOL I did say how they turned out right above your post .....