Printing

The Phototuts+ Printing Session focuses exclusively on teaching you everything you need to know about transforming your images into physical photographs. We’re bringing together a series of tutorials that feature both quick tips and in-depth guides that will allow you to make beautiful heirloom prints!

Posts in this series

Quick Tip: Practice Print Generosity
Different photographers take different approaches towards giving out prints. Some charge a fairly high fee and handle printing entirely themselves, others...
David Appleyard
5 Feb 2010
Theory
Finishing Your Photographs: Picking Your Medium
Photographers spend a great deal of energy capturing the best image possible and ensuring the image or print is faithfully reproduced. We may not, however,...
Dawn Oosterhoff
20 Oct 2011
Post-Processing
Finishing Your Photographs: Choosing Printers, Paper, and Ink
In the first article in this series, Finishing Your Photographs: Picking Your Medium, we considered the end use of photographs in order to choose the medium...
Dawn Oosterhoff
7 Nov 2011
Post-Processing
Quick Tip: Understanding Printing Paper Types
If you have just started doing digital photography, you might still be printing onto plain white paper with slightly dull results. Learn about what you could...
Peter Sawyer
28 May 2011
Post-Processing
How to Get The Best Results from Online Photo Printers
Photographers are printing photos again, but instead of automatically printing all photos we now select a few images from hundreds and order our prints...
Dawn Oosterhoff
30 Oct 2015
Printing
10 Top Terrific Tips on Creating Your First Photobook
In the last few years, it seems that one of the latest photographic fashions has been to creating your own photobook. Now widely available through online...
Simon Bray
26 Sep 2011
Photography Fundamentals
How to Set the Right Image Resolution for Printing
In this short video tutorial from my recent course on preparing images for printing, you'll learn how to make sure your image is at the optimal resolution...
Chamira Young
29 Dec 2015
Printing
Printing Your Photographs Professionally for the First Time: 10 Things To Know
Perhaps you’ve printed some of your photographs at home or simply had a purely computer-based focus up to now. This guide aims to introduce you to the world...
Grace Fussell
12 Sep 2016
Printing
How to Pick The Best Way to Print Your Photos
You’ve taken the perfect shot and edited it to perfection...now what? You want to share your image with the world, and to be able to display or sell your...
Grace Fussell
26 Sep 2016
Printing