Who should attend?

Photographers and lab staff contemplating purchasing an inkjet printer to make high quality canvas prints. Advanced amateurs or part time professionals seeking to get the best out of fine art printing or photography with a focus on canvas printing.

Class Size:

2-4 students per class to maximise hands on instructor interaction.

Prerequisites:

Students need to bring a single file in TIFF or JPG format, which will be converted into a canvas image. Participants of the three day course are requested to bring a DSLR to be used during the day. Image will be RAW converted into high quality canvas images.

Knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP and Photoshop CS are assumed. Course materials will include MAC and Windows Vista support after October 2007.  Epson K3, Canon Lucia, X-rite i1 Photo materials will be included during all courses, HP Z3100 and X-rite i1 IO with profile Maker 5 will be included after October 2007.

Description:

Intensive classroom course featuring hands on color profiling, printing, retouching, liquid lamination and canvas stretching.

Students will produce high quality colour correct canvas prints from supplied digital files and learn how to present them in an archival manner.

Students will have a choice of producing results on the latest Epson, HP (after Oct 2007) and Canon wide format printers and can use these results to formulate purchasing decisions. The printing and presentation of fine art papers, signage and inkjet photographic papers are also addressed.

The course focuses on the financial aspects of canvas printing, loss and reprint rates and supplier material costs.

If the student has attended all three days and produced images of an acceptable standard GMS will grant that business the right to use The Giclee System logo when canvas prints are sold to customers using the process.

This logo carries a GMS guarantee of archival life, backed by fade tests for certified canvas and laminate types.

Material Supplied:

GMS will supply access to an Epson 9800 with 36 inch canvas materials. Students will also have access to an x-rite i1 and/or i1 Io, i1 Photo and/or Profilemaker 5 software, Apollo 700 HVLP turbine spray unit, Aquathane-UV liquid protective coatings and GMS stretching machine. 

Curriculum:

Day 1. An introduction to inkjet based fine art printing.

The Media Types

What makes a good canvas print?

Description of printer types

Initial setup costing and equipment

The truth about inkjet longevity

Input sources

RIP or not to RIP?

Color Profiling the Printer

Day 2. Printing and coating the image.

Media Selection

Calculating gallery wrap edge sizes

Printing the Image

Printing Faults

Retouching

Liquid Lamination Techniques

Day 3. Stretching the canvas and review of the process.

Discussion of canvas stretching tools

Discussion of Matt boards and other mounting techniques

How to use a canvas stretching machine

Review of the total print cost

Differentiating your output from chainstore canvas images

The Giclee System Logo and what it means

Free time

Who should attend?

Photographers and lab staff who need to make colour accurate copies of fine art such as watercolours, line drawings and non-reflective oils.

A one metre by one metre acrylic painting will be copied and a colour perfect life-sized reproduction made on fine art paper.

Class Size:

2-4 students per class to maximise hands on instructor interaction.

Prerequisites:

None, although it is preferred that students have knowledge of Canon full frame DSLR cameras. Knowledge of Canon or Nikon APS-C sensored cameras is acceptable.

Description:

Students will learn how to light low reflective artwork using common studio flashguns and make colour perfect copies using RAW converters and the Swedish QP 101 grey card system.

Students will also learn how to use professional 16bit stitching programs to increase the megapixel count of common DSLR cameras to make them suitable for enlargements.

An opportunity will be provided for the use of modified Canon and Pentax Medium Format lenses for fine art copying. 

Curriculum:

How many Mpixels is enough for fine art?

Using common equipment

Using stitching to eliminate the need for scan cameras

Modified lenses – Tilt and Shifts, The Zoerk Shift adapter

Studio flash guns and equipment for fine art

Arranging the light sources

Shooting the image

RAW conversion

Stitching

Color and levels balancing

Correcting .icc  colour profiles

What media types do I need?

Printing the image – RIP or not to RIP?

Printing the result on canvas

Discussion of true print longevity

What can't I copy?