How Do You Make Prints From An Original Painting?
Making prints from original paintings is a perfect way to create inexpensive wall art for home decor. Reasonably priced, high-quality digital prints can be made at home or at a photo lab. The main challenge is capturing the painting digitally, with a scanner or a digital camera. Once this is accomplished, printing is relatively easy, and there are many options available. If you plan to do the digital reproduction and printing yourself, you should be familiar with Photoshop or similar digital imaging software. Otherwise you can outsource these tasks to a lab. Decide whether to scan or photograph your painting. Scanning is the easiest choice, but only suitable for small, matte-surfaced paintings, like watercolors. Oil paintings, for instance, can be tricky because the scanner’s lights reflect off the glossy surface and create unwanted highlights. If your painting is smaller than 8 1/2-by-11 inches, it will fit on a standard flatbed scanner–although some labs have larger scanners. For la
