|
Complaints from Giclee print makers
I use at least two giclee houses, and both complain that my work is too "shiny" and that they have to fight glare when copying my work. They blame the retouch varnish I use to keep values nearly the same while completing the painting.
I understand, and sympathize with them. I, too, have had to fight glare from a shiny canvas surface when trying to take a simple digital photo for myself.
They have asked repeatedly that I not use this stuff until after the work is scanned.
Of course, not using something like a light spritz of retouch means your fighting the problem of mismatched values -- dry paint tends to dull down, while fresh paint tends to be shiny and lush -- one of the reasons for using retouch varnish.
My question is -- WHAT TO DO? I just can't forego retouch, or in some way bringing all values into alignment, so to speak.
To their credit, they seem, in the end, to get very good reproductions even though they have a glare problem.
Does anyone have anything special they do or use to combat and deal with this problem?
|
Threaded Mode
