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Top 4 Photo Collage Apps for Mini Prints

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Persnickety Prints are made to last, even without a protective sleeve. We don’t use ink, but instead, we use the real darkroom photographic process to make it happen. Prints smaller than 3.5″ are lost (or drown) in the developing processing tanks. This is why we want to show our top 4 photo collage apps so that […]

4×5.3 True Digital Prints

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digital imaging is convenient but also complicated We’re taking MORE photos than ever before with the camera in our pocket. Losing our photos is one problem, but another issue that we’ve been seeing is unobtainable expectations. When users are printing phone photos, they expect the full photo will translate to a 4×6″ print. Sorry, but […]

How to Plan an Epic Road Trip

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How to plan the most epic road trip, take all the photos and then document the adventure with prints to enjoy forever! I grew up on the road in England, and now giving my own children the experience in the U.S.

How to adjust exposure on your mobile phone

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Screens are backlit. Prints are not. Images will always look brighter on screen than in print because all screens are backlit. To create the same brightness you see on a screen as a print, you’d need to hold a flashlight behind it. At Persnickety, our lab techs look at every image while printing to adjust […]

How to use a .png in Photoshop

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PNG stands for Portable Network Graphic. Here’s what you want to know about the .png format… the transparent background has no limits! PNG images have a loss-less compression.

Aspect Ratio for Print

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One of the big challenges of digital imaging is aspect ratio & cropping. Not only are there thousands of ways to take a photo, but all hardware is not created equal. You may not even know what aspect ratio your camera is shooting in? 3:2 or 4:3? What is the aspect ratio of a 4×6 […]