Enter now to be in the running to win one of the great prizes up for grabs in our FREE Giveaway! It’s not every day you can win a FREE 24×36″ Hahnemuhle 400gsm Fine-Art Canvas printed by InkFX Printing of one of your photos absolutely FREE!
Winners will be selected completely randomly by the system. The more entries the more chances to win!
(Example only – The winner can use any one of their own images)
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Hey there guys and gals, I’ve had a lot of feedback on Facebook and email saying that many of you love seeing photos of the canvases that we’ve printed. So I thought I’d post a few here for you too!
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Hey there groovers, well in todays little tip I’m going to show you how to SUPER SUPER Quickly tell if your image is the right ‘Ratio e.g. Width and Height for the Canvas or Photographic Prints you want to order.
STEP 1: Select the Crop Tool.
STEP 2: Enter the Width e.g. 30 in or whatever you want to check. For this example let’s check to see if a 30″ wide by 20″ high will work.
STEP 3: Enter the Height (20 in), then click the TAB key or hit the Enter key.
Then our crop tool will show us, either it will go to the edges of our image or it will crop part of the top or the sides off. This does not actually crop our image UNTIL we click the Commit button, hitting enter/return or double clicking inside the crop area. If part of your image needs to be cropped that’s fine you can take care of it immediately and position the crop box where you want it on your image for the best result.
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So you want to order some prints, canvases or other printing from Ink FX Printing! Great stuff.
The first thing you need to do is place your order!
Order all the products you want.
Once your order is complete and your payment has been made you can then upload your images for your order.
You can always find all of your orders (Order History) here: https://www.inkfx.com.au/store/order-status/ it will look something like this (see below).
You just need to click on the ‘Orange‘ order number to check the full details of your order and then upload your photos for your order. Once you click on the link to your order or enter the Order number you will see something like this below.
Then just click on ‘Upload Files’
Then you can just click the ‘Select Files’ OR Just drag and drop your files to be uploaded into the box (dashed border box) and they will begin to upload.
This is How you Upload Your Images at InkFX Printing. If you have any questions, feedback/suggestions or issues let us know!
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Hey there guys and gals. We’re excited to announce that we now have Gift Certificates available all sorts of prices from $20.00 up. We can do custom amounts if we don’t have the amount you’re after.
Click here to get your InkFX Printing Gift Certificate now that can be used for any of our products or services!
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WOW!!! What a super cool competition. Some incredible entries. I’d like to thank everyone for entering and putting your art and incredible photography skills out there!
*****WINNER Derek Byrne*****
Here’s the link to the actual entry. Amazing Photo. …
Landscapes Competition Winner Derek Byrne Read More »
UPDATE: It doesn’t matter now if you resize your images for print as we are more than happy to do that for you and this will also ensure you’re getting the highest quality resize/result for your images.
One of the biggest challenges or problems that we see with files that are submitted for printing are that they are not sized or in the correct dimensions for the size that is ordered correctly either the actual size of the image is too small or too big or the resolution is not correct.
Here’s a few instructions to help you get it right first time every time.
Go to IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE (In Photoshop or Elements or whatever program you’re using) If it’s not the exact same menu there will be something similar.
BUT, it is MOST important that your images are the correct RATIO for print. See below image. The only trick is to make sure that you have Unchecked ‘Resample Image’ (that means resize) and you don’t want to resize your image, you just want to see what dimensions that it will work with.
So this is where you can have some fun and just now enter whatever Width (24 as this example) or Height (36 as this example) that you want to check. If the dimensions match for the size you want to order that’s great and it means that your image does not need to be cropped to work.
If it does not match as example if you wanted a 24 x 36″ Print but you checked in here (IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE) menu and found that your image was actually 24.5″ x 36″ instead. All this means is that we have to crop 0.5″ off. Ideally you would crop it to the correct size that way you know exactly what has to be cropped and what can stay! Or if you want to trust us to do it that’s fine and we can email you a proof before printing so you can see what will be cropped etc.
Image Size Menu explained:
So for this image you can see that the size is set to 30 Inches by 30 Inches (Square) at 300 Pixels per Inch.
If 30 x 30″ was the finished size this would be perfect. But if the client wanted it to be 24 x 24″ or 12 x 12″ then it would be incorrect.
So what do you do or how do you make your image smaller? or Larger?
Let’s try a smaller one first. Here’s how it should look for a 12 x 12″ Image. After the settings are like this just click “OK” to apply them.
This will allow Photoshop to work it’s magic and resample the image. You don’t have to worry it will do a wonderful job and most importantly reduce the size of the file! That makes all of us happy!
You might be thinking or wondering what resolutions do I need to provide my images.
300dpi is great for all photographic prints at the FINISHED SIZE e.g. if it’s a 12 x 18″ that size and 300dpi. 300dpi works great for Canvas prints but 240dpi is fine too or even 210dpi is fine too. For a fine-art canvas I’d personally stick to 300dpi or 240dpi.
Now to enlarge your image your settings should look something like this:
You can see the size is set to 60 x 60″ the Finished size with 300dpi (PPI) as the Resolution and we’ve used Bicubic Smoother as the Interpolation method (that’s fancy talk for the way that Photoshop will interpret the data and how it will work out what new pixels to add to your image to make it look awesome!) – Don’t worry Photoshop does a good job at this.
If you want a better/best job you will want specialist enlarging software like Genuine Fractals ‘Perfect Resize Pro’ OR ‘PhotoZoom Pro‘ but normally Photoshop will be fine for enlarging up 200-300% But if you’re unsure or you don’t have the software leave it to us as we are happy to take care of this! 🙂 Just get your IMAGE SIZE RATIO correct and and give us the biggest file you have (most pixels) and we’ll be laughing!
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Take advantage of this special offer now! Only 5-Disc Sets available for the first 5 who order now! You can give us your images ‘later’ / after you order (e.g. if you are not ready to print your files right now that’s fine. Order now and then give us your images in a few days or next week or whenever!). Offer expires this Friday 11th August 2012.
If you are an ‘Elements’ user then I will give that DVD to you instead. Just make sure you write ELEMENTS TRAINING DVD in the comments section when checking out!
