Its so important to find a quality lab rather than just the most affordable one. I can't tell you how much money I spent on prints that just did not come back even close to what they should have been.
Great resource for learning how to make better prints. I'll be rewatching this one every few months when I go to print more work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
Always refreshing to see your videos videos progressing us as artistic photographers and not reviewing lenses taking taking portraits of ladies saying how sharp the gear is
This came at just the right time for me, I've been putting off printing my photos for a while due to a lack knowledge about how to get the print to look the way I like it. Thanks Kyle
I’m now rescanning my current project on a flextight x5 and will be using it moving forward. I’m definitely gonna come back to this video when it comes time to print.
Thanks alot, Kyle. Since starting my journing as a passionate hobby photographer your channel has always been my go-to for tutorials, seeking inspiration or just simply looking up what you're up to. And thanks for that particular video as well, currently I am playing around with printing at home on different kind of Hahnemühle papers and a low budget inkjet printer. What I am producing with my setup is FAR from professional, but the process of learning and printing itself is so much fun and I'd love to get better at that. Your video has given me some good tips to improve my printing, especially for doing prints at my local professional lab. Keep up the great work! I am just enjoying every second of it :)
It's always a good day when a video from you drops. Always find your videos tries to push everyones craft/skill forward all the time. Looking forward to the next one!
This video just popped up in my feed and I think is the first one I have seen. Printing has always been the most arcane part of the process for me but being able to watch you gave me a new starting point. I am a Photoshop dummy so will need to watch this several times and walk through with one of my images to fully process. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. I am now a subscriber!
Don't know what to write other than the 2D photography in a 3D world always amazes me,. same goes with Wes Andersson's movies it's such a theatrical feeling to it instantly that make you observe everything like a painting looking for details. It gives the idea that I should try to find some minor detail that you've hidden in this photograph almost.
Thanks for putting this video together. I just started creating prints of my paintings and have found the process of translating what I see on my screen to what I get from the printer to be a daunting task. Your workflow makes sense and is a huge help in understanding how I can make my process a little easier. Cheers. 🍻
Appreciate the walkthrough of the workflow. I try to resize as little as possible and have the printer vary it's DPI setting to match. I believe most professional printers are capable of much higher than 300 DPI, so for smaller prints, I deliver full resolution for printing at really high (480+) DPI.
Great to see you recommend my favorite lab. I have been working with them for probably 15 years and never had anything but perfect results. And that print is absolutely gorgeous.
Well Klaas, let’s hope you never have need to question an issue and reach out to customer service. A problem? Even if their error - No care given. “We are correct” attitude.
With your help I had a new confidence in getting a higher quality print so I used your process and made the adjustments necessary to my specific photo. Now I can't wait to get my print from Whitewall. Thanks, Kyle. Keep up the fantastic work. It is always extremely helpful for the rest of us.
I took to printing my own images up to A3+ at home but anything bigger than that goes out to a lab. I like the look of Whitewall and will add them to my very short list (now standing at 2 labs). I recently got a BenQSW270C monitor and already own the same calibrator as you. The BenQ is an astonishing monitor and provides hardware calibration. I also love that I can switch from SRGB to AdobeRGB at the press of a button and the same for monochrome. Another thoughtful, helpful and insightful video. Cheers Kyle.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have some photos I've been meaning to print but have been afraid to spend the money on because I didn't know how to go about prepping a photo for sending to a lab. This finally got me to do it and I sent in an order today!
Thank you for such a detailed explanation of your process. Printing is something I don't do often enough, so I am somewhat intimidated by the best way to proceed. This has helped a lot!
Often I just print without taking all of these variables into account, usually I’m very excited with the result of just having a physical print. With that said it’s very nice of you to show your process of a more curated/precise process of prepping for print :)
Fantastic Video, I lived in LA for 5 years and bought a printer, Canon from Eric Joseph at Freestyle, he set me up with profiled paper, it was Canson, I just loved it....
Finally! Can you also make a video on how you prepare files to print a book? Is DSLR scanning good enough for that? Do you get darkroom prints and then scan those? I don’t know, so many questions…
Thanks so much for another great video! Printing is such an important step, but for me a challenging one as well. This has been very informative, helpful and inspiring!
Thank you for showing us the way, White Wall is an amazing print lab, love the fact that they offer test prints on the cheap before commiting to something bigger.
Look forward to every video… with each one I take away something thought provoking and inspiring for my own daily photography. Also I find watching your videos relaxing and calming, so please keep up the amazing work with your prints and photo books 📷
Brilliant video, I have been worried sick about getting some of my first medium format scanned film prints done but this is going to help massively so thank you very much :) Keep. up the amazing work dude!
Such a helpful video. Printing has always been extremely intimidating & you broke it down so well. Looking forward to trying to print some of my own work thanks to you and this video.
What timing! I've just got a few A3 frames to hang images from my project from around the hills of the Welsh valleys, to live with them on the walls for a while and help with the selection process for hopefully a book at the end. I'll try your method for the first prints. Thanks Kyle.
its so true that the last step you can do for your work is enlarging/printing. the same photo hits differently when its on physical photo paper. its so beautiful
In regards to calibrating your monitor: that device you’re using is a colorimeter. They have colour filters inside them that can change over time, they also can give inconsistent results depending on the type of display. Your best bet is to use a spectroradiometer which is the most accurate. In CalMan, you can use run a test with both meters - because the spectro is super accurate, it can build you a profile for the colorimeter for that particular display. From there you can run the calibration with just the colorimeter. I would never trust a colorimeter on its own, though.
By way of contrast I was processing and printing at home when I was in middle and high school (in the late fifties through mid sixties), but now I let the labs do that.
Hi Kyle, I’m a big fan of your work so I’d love to have one of your prints on our wall. This Union Hotel image looks very much like the something you’d find here in the Canadian prairies. Fingers crossed, all best Ted
Even for home printing a (preferably hardware) calibrated monitor and soft proofing is such a godsend. Having a print right in one go saves a ton of money and (arguably more important) frustration.
I did print my pictures without any adjustments and i wondered why there are color shifts in the print and i thought for some time that my printer was broken but i guess i have to do some corrections. Anyways, great video as always and i learned something useful today, so thank you for that. Keep on doing the videos, they are really something special
Thanks so much for sharing your process! Especially the photoshop workflow and sort proofing with ICC profiles! I just ordered some prints after prepping them using this process. Once I see the results, I will order at least one on some fine art paper!
Although judging from the video might not be very precise, these prints seem pretty consistent, especially considering only light proofing. The detail seen in those close up shots looks amazing on that large print, surely there's plenty more room for up-scaling when needed (which is always good to know, especially for shooters with smaller formats or under 50+ ultra-giga mp sensors). But most importantly, the image looks great itself. Lovely results, I wish I had such a lab in my country (most are confused when you ask them for a proper profile, and wish to prepare the file yourself).
This is a super helpful video. I particularly liked your discussion about re-sizing the image, in my case the part about upsizing to a larger size was helpful. Thanks.
Such a stunning image. I’ve fairly recently got into home dev which has been great if I ever want quick turnarounds but don’t trust myself for the good stuff! Such useful info here. Thanks.
The finished acrylic looked absolutely stunning. Thank you so much for taking us through those steps, I learned so much - I may have to watch this vid again! Cheers Kyle 😊
I have alwasy wanted to print some of my photos off though i dont feel like they are very good, i am no way near a professional like your self, but often this video has helped an awful lot wih infomation as well as the anxiety of sending photos to be printed, thank you an awful lot Kyle for all of your videos!
This was such a great video! You went in such depth which is really helpful! I've got to get a color calibration tool for my screen sometime soon. Also, I really like the way the Hahnemühle paper looked right off the bat on your screen! I would love to win one of those prints! That is a beautiful shot!
What a Great rundown of your printing process. Whitewall looks like a really good resource and partner. I'll give them a try for my next project. And as usual, great photography. Pictures like these needs to be seen as a print.
Thanks a lot for showing your workflow for prints. Over the past years I also started printing more my work. In the beginning I sent out my files to Whitewall or theprintspace and I am/was happy with the results. However, I developed a love for printing and for me, printing completes my photography. I ended up buying a printer and had a chance to experiment with a lot of different papers. Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl is one paper I fell in love with too and also with PhotoRag or Canson's Rag Photographique as a very smooth paper. In my opinion some motifs are only coming fully to life with a specific paper. For one of my projects I'm currently testing C-Type prints on Fuji Crystal glossy laminated behind glass in cooperation with a small local lab and I can't wait until I'll get the final prints - the test prints looked amazing... Thanks again for your educational and inspiring videos!
No joke, this is one of the most useful videos I’ve seen in a while. Super timely for me, thanks so much!
Happy to hear that. Cheers.
Its so important to find a quality lab rather than just the most affordable one. I can't tell you how much money I spent on prints that just did not come back even close to what they should have been.
Great resource for learning how to make better prints. I'll be rewatching this one every few months when I go to print more work. Thanks for the awesome vid!
many thanks for this video Kyle!
Always refreshing to see your videos videos progressing us as artistic photographers and not reviewing lenses taking taking portraits of ladies saying how sharp the gear is
Thanks, Alasdair.
This came at just the right time for me, I've been putting off printing my photos for a while due to a lack knowledge about how to get the print to look the way I like it. Thanks Kyle
thank you for this video. very informative and can't wait to use this information in my printing.
I've just started printing my photos and I've been using Whitewall. This was an incredibly valuable video. I'll watch again and again!
Cheers, Jim. Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for choosing WhiteWall!
I’m now rescanning my current project on a flextight x5 and will be using it moving forward. I’m definitely gonna come back to this video when it comes time to print.
wanted to print my work as well this helped thanks
Thanks for sharing man!!! So many things I've never thought about!!!
Love the image color contrast - the warm colors of the building vs. the cold colors of the clouds
Thanks alot, Kyle. Since starting my journing as a passionate hobby photographer your channel has always been my go-to for tutorials, seeking inspiration or just simply looking up what you're up to.
And thanks for that particular video as well, currently I am playing around with printing at home on different kind of Hahnemühle papers and a low budget inkjet printer. What I am producing with my setup is FAR from professional, but the process of learning and printing itself is so much fun and I'd love to get better at that. Your video has given me some good tips to improve my printing, especially for doing prints at my local professional lab.
Keep up the great work! I am just enjoying every second of it :)
absolutely outstanding
It's always a good day when a video from you drops. Always find your videos tries to push everyones craft/skill forward all the time. Looking forward to the next one!
This video just popped up in my feed and I think is the first one I have seen. Printing has always been the most arcane part of the process for me but being able to watch you gave me a new starting point. I am a Photoshop dummy so will need to watch this several times and walk through with one of my images to fully process. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. I am now a subscriber!
Awesome Video!
Awesome shot ❤
Don't know what to write other than the 2D photography in a 3D world always amazes me,. same goes with Wes Andersson's movies it's such a theatrical feeling to it instantly that make you observe everything like a painting looking for details. It gives the idea that I should try to find some minor detail that you've hidden in this photograph almost.
Always look forward to your videos. Something new to learn every time. Thanks Kyle !
That image is awesome
Thanks for putting this video together. I just started creating prints of my paintings and have found the process of translating what I see on my screen to what I get from the printer to be a daunting task. Your workflow makes sense and is a huge help in understanding how I can make my process a little easier. Cheers. 🍻
Appreciate the walkthrough of the workflow. I try to resize as little as possible and have the printer vary it's DPI setting to match. I believe most professional printers are capable of much higher than 300 DPI, so for smaller prints, I deliver full resolution for printing at really high (480+) DPI.
Great to see you recommend my favorite lab. I have been working with them for probably 15 years and never had anything but perfect results.
And that print is absolutely gorgeous.
Well Klaas, let’s hope you never have need to question an issue and reach out to customer service. A problem? Even if their error - No care given. “We are correct” attitude.
Congrats on 100K subs ❤. Commenting to get an awesome print
Always a good day when a new Kyle vid drops!
With your help I had a new confidence in getting a higher quality print so I used your process and made the adjustments necessary to my specific photo. Now I can't wait to get my print from Whitewall. Thanks, Kyle. Keep up the fantastic work. It is always extremely helpful for the rest of us.
Cheers, Drew! Glad you found this one helpful.
Watched it all, 4 times. Have it saved on my learning list, I print some myself but there are quite a few improvements I can learn from here.
I took to printing my own images up to A3+ at home but anything bigger than that goes out to a lab. I like the look of Whitewall and will add them to my very short list (now standing at 2 labs).
I recently got a BenQSW270C monitor and already own the same calibrator as you. The BenQ is an astonishing monitor and provides hardware calibration. I also love that I can switch from SRGB to AdobeRGB at the press of a button and the same for monochrome.
Another thoughtful, helpful and insightful video. Cheers Kyle.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have some photos I've been meaning to print but have been afraid to spend the money on because I didn't know how to go about prepping a photo for sending to a lab. This finally got me to do it and I sent in an order today!
I've been using a tweaked version of your workflow for a while and it works great!
I’ve been trying to get smart on the best ways to print my work and then your video comes out a few days later. Thank you for the info!
Thank you for such a detailed explanation of your process. Printing is something I don't do often enough, so I am somewhat intimidated by the best way to proceed. This has helped a lot!
Your prints look great Kyle!! Thanks for sharing all the important info!!
Often I just print without taking all of these variables into account, usually I’m very excited with the result of just having a physical print. With that said it’s very nice of you to show your process of a more curated/precise process of prepping for print :)
Fantastic Video, I lived in LA for 5 years and bought a printer, Canon from Eric Joseph at Freestyle, he set me up with profiled paper, it was Canson, I just loved it....
I am actually planning on printing some of my photos for the very first time! So this info is VERY USEFUL! Thanks Kyle!
Very welcome!
another great video - thank you. sharpening for print is such a personal technique and it's very kind of you to share yours.
100k!!! So glad for you! You got me back into photography, well deserved!
Thank you!
Finally! Can you also make a video on how you prepare files to print a book? Is DSLR scanning good enough for that? Do you get darkroom prints and then scan those? I don’t know, so many questions…
Thanks so much for another great video! Printing is such an important step, but for me a challenging one as well. This has been very informative, helpful and inspiring!
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME HOW YOU PRINT. IT WILL HELP ME WITH MY FUTURE PRINTING.
Thank you for showing us the way, White Wall is an amazing print lab, love the fact that they offer test prints on the cheap before commiting to something bigger.
Cheers, Ryan. Glad to hear you've been happy with them.
Look forward to every video… with each one I take away something thought provoking and inspiring for my own daily photography. Also I find watching your videos relaxing and calming, so please keep up the amazing work with your prints and photo books 📷
Thank you!
Thank you for your service to the community!
This was such a genuinely useful video! Thank you for being so thorough and not skipping over any step of the process.
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant video, I have been worried sick about getting some of my first medium format scanned film prints done but this is going to help massively so thank you very much :) Keep. up the amazing work dude!
Such a helpful video. Printing has always been extremely intimidating & you broke it down so well. Looking forward to trying to print some of my own work thanks to you and this video.
Thanks for this guide. I feel like I finally slightly understand the photoshop/lightroom printing prep process.
Your channel is always so calming, informative, and inspiring! thanks for your works!
What timing! I've just got a few A3 frames to hang images from my project from around the hills of the Welsh valleys, to live with them on the walls for a while and help with the selection process for hopefully a book at the end. I'll try your method for the first prints. Thanks Kyle.
Glad i watched this since i was having trouble with sizing my images for my print service at university
its so true that the last step you can do for your work is enlarging/printing. the same photo hits differently when its on physical photo paper. its so beautiful
I've been getting some images printed recently. It's my first time doing that, so as a beginner these kind of videos are very useful! Cheers Kyle
stunning video and print. big ups. been gnarly watching your development through the years mate.
In regards to calibrating your monitor: that device you’re using is a colorimeter. They have colour filters inside them that can change over time, they also can give inconsistent results depending on the type of display. Your best bet is to use a spectroradiometer which is the most accurate.
In CalMan, you can use run a test with both meters - because the spectro is super accurate, it can build you a profile for the colorimeter for that particular display. From there you can run the calibration with just the colorimeter.
I would never trust a colorimeter on its own, though.
By way of contrast I was processing and printing at home when I was in middle and high school (in the late fifties through mid sixties), but now I let the labs do that.
Congrats on the 100K, you totally deserve this milestone. You've been one of my favorites since day 1!!! :)
Again great of you to share like this! Helped me to see I was on the right path when printing. Thanks Kyle😀
Hi Kyle, I’m a big fan of your work so I’d love to have one of your prints on our wall. This Union Hotel image looks very much like the something you’d find here in the Canadian prairies. Fingers crossed, all best Ted
Awesome! I’d like to have one of those on my wall
Even for home printing a (preferably hardware) calibrated monitor and soft proofing is such a godsend. Having a print right in one go saves a ton of money and (arguably more important) frustration.
Looking forward to testing out my own prints using this method
I did print my pictures without any adjustments and i wondered why there are color shifts in the print and i thought for some time that my printer was broken but i guess i have to do some corrections. Anyways, great video as always and i learned something useful today, so thank you for that. Keep on doing the videos, they are really something special
Cheers, Adrian. Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for the tips and I'd love to own that print!
Thanks so much for sharing your process! Especially the photoshop workflow and sort proofing with ICC profiles! I just ordered some prints after prepping them using this process. Once I see the results, I will order at least one on some fine art paper!
Glad you found it helpful, Ruben!
Although judging from the video might not be very precise, these prints seem pretty consistent, especially considering only light proofing. The detail seen in those close up shots looks amazing on that large print, surely there's plenty more room for up-scaling when needed (which is always good to know, especially for shooters with smaller formats or under 50+ ultra-giga mp sensors). But most importantly, the image looks great itself. Lovely results, I wish I had such a lab in my country (most are confused when you ask them for a proper profile, and wish to prepare the file yourself).
Very cool, and I definitely learned a lot from this! Just need to take the plunge and get one of my own images printed up like this now
Very interesting all the steps that you go through. Worth watching. thanks.
I really need to start printing more of my work. Thank you for the inspiration!
Such a good breakdown of this process! Invaluable stuff, thank you 🙌🏻
Been looking for a video that explains this better, thanks!
Fantastic information. Thank you for sharing.
This is a super helpful video. I particularly liked your discussion about re-sizing the image, in my case the part about upsizing to a larger size was helpful. Thanks.
Such a stunning image. I’ve fairly recently got into home dev which has been great if I ever want quick turnarounds but don’t trust myself for the good stuff! Such useful info here. Thanks.
I love watching your videos whenever a new one gets released !
Wow turned out great in that black frame
The finished acrylic looked absolutely stunning. Thank you so much for taking us through those steps, I learned so much - I may have to watch this vid again! Cheers Kyle 😊
I have alwasy wanted to print some of my photos off though i dont feel like they are very good, i am no way near a professional like your self, but often this video has helped an awful lot wih infomation as well as the anxiety of sending photos to be printed, thank you an awful lot Kyle for all of your videos!
Thank you, this video was immensely helpful (as your vids always are)!
thanks for the info , great watch
All the prints are great. Thanks for sharing Kyle
Greetings from Osaka, Japan! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love this photo as well as your videos!
Perfect level of detail with the information provided. Much appreciated! What do you look out for when adjusting the radius?
I would love to have a piece of yours in my home, Kyle! Keep up the good work ;)
Love not only your photography work but also these informative videos!!
Cheers, Edward.
A lot of great information, I haven’t printed anything yet and this is very helpful.
Love the work that you are doing!
Love the orange tones in that print
Love this. Super informative and really makes the printing process seem a lot less daunting. Can’t wait to try some of these tips!
Thank you so much for all of that great information. I found it very helpful.
This was such a great video! You went in such depth which is really helpful! I've got to get a color calibration tool for my screen sometime soon. Also, I really like the way the Hahnemühle paper looked right off the bat on your screen! I would love to win one of those prints! That is a beautiful shot!
What a Great rundown of your printing process. Whitewall looks like a really good resource and partner. I'll give them a try for my next project. And as usual, great photography. Pictures like these needs to be seen as a print.
I love your vids man, you really inspire me to become a better and more well rounded photographer. Thank you for all you do!
Love your work and thank you for this video. Very informative, definitely my next step to start printing my work.
Thank you so much for the quality of your work and video ! 🤩
Thanks a lot for showing your workflow for prints. Over the past years I also started printing more my work. In the beginning I sent out my files to Whitewall or theprintspace and I am/was happy with the results. However, I developed a love for printing and for me, printing completes my photography. I ended up buying a printer and had a chance to experiment with a lot of different papers. Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl is one paper I fell in love with too and also with PhotoRag or Canson's Rag Photographique as a very smooth paper. In my opinion some motifs are only coming fully to life with a specific paper. For one of my projects I'm currently testing C-Type prints on Fuji Crystal glossy laminated behind glass in cooperation with a small local lab and I can't wait until I'll get the final prints - the test prints looked amazing... Thanks again for your educational and inspiring videos!
Really helpful stuff as I begin to look at making some prints of my own. Thanks Kyle!
Great information. I find that a lot of the time it is actually harder to prep a file for sending out rather than printing it yourself.