From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Paper choice for prints

Paper choice for prints

- Photo printing is a complex subject. Fortunately, I have an entire course on it that will teach you pretty much everything you need to know to get good inkjet prints from your photos. In that course, I talk some about photo paper choice. And we shot that course a few years ago. Everything in it is still valid. I've now got some additional things that I want to say about paper choice, because there are lots of papers on the market these days, and I've noticed that most people tend to try out a few papers with the idea that, well, I need to find the one paper that I like, and that's what I'll print with. Maybe they pick two. Maybe they pick a matte finish, and a glossy, and they're done. You're missing out by not having a broader vocabulary of papers to work with. So let's quickly define some terms. I've got four, I've got the same image printed on four different papers here, and they look pretty different, and the big reason for that, mostly, is because of something called Dmax…

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