Art prints improve upon digital image - experimentation improves even more

Jazz 3 - digital painting and art prints - 2005 - Dan Beck

I just printed this piece today. I had printed it once, but for some reason not large - 13×19″ watercolor paper.  I printed it today because I was considering hanging it in a show with some other pieces which reference jazz.

I have already written more extensively on what went into the creation of this piece, but I did not talk about the printing.

Today, I find this art print to be surprisingly nice. I am printing a little differently than I was at the time of painting this piece. I have found that if I save the image as a photoshop document instead of a bitmap(bmp), I get richer results - tiff files tend to be too crisp and take away from the painting and jpg’s are compressed by their nature. 

I have experimented a lot with this medium and I am really proud of the printed results I have been able to achieve - results which are always much better than the monitor image.

See Also

• Jazz 3
  Purchasing options for art prints
• About Bitmap Images - Two Types of Graphics - Vector and Bitmap
  explanation of bitmap - seems bitmap is more inclusive than I had understood