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How to adjust exposure on your mobile phone

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Screens are backlit. Prints are not. Images will always look brighter on screen than in print because all screens are backlit. To create the same brightness you see on a screen as a print, you’d need to hold a flashlight behind it. At Persnickety, our lab techs look at every image while printing to adjust […]

Print Art from your iPhone with the Brushstroke App

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Illustration and creative art is #trending. Digital technology makes it possible to create art without a physical brush! You become the artist with a few clicks in the Brushstroke app. You won’t need an oil or canvas painting class to make beautiful art, it’s so easy to create and print from your phone. 7 years […]

How to use a .png in Photoshop

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PNG stands for Portable Network Graphic. Here’s what you want to know about the .png format… the transparent background has no limits! PNG images have a loss-less compression.

Mobile Apps for 2×2″ Prints

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Printing a REAL photograph that doesn’t retain fingerprints and will last forever without a protective sleeve is what we specialize in. No ink, real dark room photographic printing. Your image is converted to a digital negative and processed like film. Prints smaller than 3.5″ are lost (or drown) in the developing processing tanks. This is […]

Aspect Ratio for Print

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One of the big challenges of digital imaging is aspect ratio & cropping. Not only are there thousands of ways to take a photo, but all hardware is not created equal. You may not even know what aspect ratio your camera is shooting in? 3:2 or 4:3? What is the aspect ratio of a 4×6 […]

Free Peachy Lightroom Mobile Preset

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The Adobe Lightroom Mobile App is climbing the popularity charts. We’ve got all the tools here! Free Lightroom App Presets and Instructions to making your photos pop.

5 Winter Photography Tips

5 Winter Photography Tips

1. Use snow as a big white studio Horses in a studio? Not happening. A field of white fluffy snow is the perfect alternative!Capitalize on snow, go outside, fields of white are waiting.Remove unwanted objects easily in Photoshop (content aware) or the Snapseed App (healing brush). 2. Add a Pop of Color My favorite shooting […]