Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Chapter 35. Printing the Perfect Image

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

—SCOTT ADAMS

I still find that printing a photograph is one of my favorite ways to share my images. For me, printing is an integral part of my creative process. I enjoy taking the images out of the computer and into the world, where I’m no longer dependent on the size or quality of the screen to view them. I control the size and quality of the print and determine what paper it should be printed on, as well as how the photograph is displayed.

Once printed, the photographs become tactile and gain a new sense of permanence. We can hold them, move them around, and quickly reorder them to determine how the story progresses. They ...