Chapter 16. Custom Contact Prints

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT that we live in the digital world. Information, music, movies, and photographs flick from one side of the globe to the other in moments. Our lives often center around our computers and our cell phones. There’s a secret. As much as we love our digital lives, there is an innate desire to hold our photographs in our hands as paper prints, to hang them on our walls, to decorate our lives with non-backlit low-tech ink on paper. It’s not a stretch that the process of choosing the image that becomes part of the art of our lives includes wanting to see a proof on paper before choosing the “one.”

My clients love having proofs on paper when they are making the final choice from an emailed PDF ...

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