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Every digital artist is aware of the many tools and procedures available to edit their RAW files. Getting those initial images ready for a variety of uses from print to online media can involve a series of steps that arent so straight forward.
Knowing your usage case will help in deciding how to edit your images and help you to prepare them step by step to get the results you expect. Whether for print media, or online media viewers want to see sharp images with good contrast whether in color or black and white.
Getting your images ready for print can take extra steps to produce best final results when transferred onto the paper mediums of your choice. Spending the time removing dust spots, and fixing blemishes and artefacts throughout your digital files will mean that data isnt visible when printed to paper.
Putting images to print mediums requires attention to paper sizes and depth of print quality in dots per inch. When looking at a gallery exhibition with the requirements of framing, image processing and sizing is recomended before final printing of the image at full resolution to print quality.
Most photographers and graphic designers are aware of Color Management and Color Profiles for use between their equipment, especially in choosing things like monitors that need to represent colors accurately.
When preparing images for archival quality print or gallery exhibition the artist is confronted with a choice of papers to present their artworks on. When printing, these papers often require a using a variety of color profiles suitable for the bleed of ink into the paper type. Rag papers will tend to soak up more ink than cold pressed smooth papers.