Archival Arts Impressions

We love to receive referrals from our artists. To us it is the ultimate praise to know that our clients want to share their positive  experience at Archival Arts with their colleagues. We are now offering you the opportunity to complement those referrals  with a gift card from us. And on the flip side, you can strongly suggest to your family and friends that a gift card from Archival Arts would be an ideal  present for you! You decide the amount you want to give. We offer them in any denomination - modest or grand!   Since this is something new we are trying we  are happy to report that recently a customer purchased a card to surprise her mother who had always wanted to have the family portrait professionally reproduced but never thought it possible. Thanks to her daughter's generosity she will be able to realize that ambition. On Thursday, a long-time customer got one for his highly admired art teacher. So we know we are on the right track ...

We continue our discussion here about preparing and presenting your art digitally before a jury. Once you have your monitor calibrated, investing in Adobe Photoshop Elements will give you the ability to edit and convert it into any format you need for shows, cards, ads, prints and websites.  With just a little research it is very easy to learn how to get your images into the formats you need. There are many programs out there that will do the same job, we prefer Photoshop because it doesn’t have the gimmicky consumer type shortcuts that try to do everything for you.  Competitions are looking for specific requirements and many of the less expensive programs do not have the capabilities Photoshop offers. Utilize the internet to help answer the many questions you have.  It is amazing what you can learn on the internet just by going to Google.com, asking a question and doing a search.  Your first question might be “How to crop an image in Photoshop”  We guarantee...