Originally Posted by
markw
Hello paintergirl11 and welcome to the ArtRage forums
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Also although not connected to size you are also going to have to get to grips with colour accuracy.
What you see on your monitor is not necessarily how it will look when printed.
A painting in the real world only reflects light, a digital painting on screen is actually emitting light. And therefore can sometimes be brighter, more vibrant than it will actually print.
You will want a good quality monitor, and the screens on modern Macs do tend to be pretty good to start with, but you may want to consider getting a quality graphics monitor. Either way the screen/s will still need to be correctly calibrated for colour accuracy. For this I use a DataColor Spyder but there are many other makes out there to choose from.
I hope some of this is of help to you and I’m sure other forum members will have advice too.
To paintergirl11:
Only regarding color accuracy, a whole lot depends on your printer. If you're working large I would think you are going to a professional printer. The proofing stage is where you're going to want to connect. But it's rather essential to develop a relation with the print rep to get a better idea what the strengths and limits are for the particular type of print job you're doing. Sometimes you have some leeway as the artist, and other times the colors have to be spot on and you have to communicate to the printer what's required of them.
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