A Unique Valentine’s Day

February 13th, 2012 | Posted by KristinG in Inkjet Photo Paper | photo paper - (Comments Off)

Valentine’s Day is only a few days away. If you haven’t made reservations at your favorite restaurant or ordered your flowers, don’t panic. You don’t have to go out and buy chocolates or teddy bears, why not make this Valentine’s Day a special and unique day for both of you. Why not go a different route? Why do the things that everyone else does for Valentine’s Day? Why not make it your own?

This is supposed to be a day for romance, and to show that you care. You don’t have to fit the mold. Why not try to make dinner at home this year? Be romantic. Make your partner’s favorite dish. Make a photo book of your favorite memories with inkjet photo paper. Pick out the photos that represent all of the fun times that you’ve had as a couple.

If you want to go over the top, why not get a fun gift like a spa day for the two of you or a romantic vacation away. Try leaving clues around the house as a scavenger hunt. Print out pictures on matte photo paper leading your loved one around the house or apartment until they find the great, and unique Valentine’s Day gift!

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Visual Learning

January 30th, 2012 | Posted by KristinG in photo paper - (Comments Off)

When I was in high school, each and every one of my classrooms were equipped with an overhead projector. Teachers would print out pictures, graphs, and diagrams from the textbook or other places on transparency film. They would then be able to show the entire class and write on the diagram etc, for everyone to see.

This was particularly wonderful for students like me who are visual learners. Studies have actually shown that 83 percent of human learning is visually based. This was the learning method used in most of my classes in school. It did a lot of my fellow classmates well. That’s not to say that we weren’t exposed to other sorts of learning like auditory (lecturing), but we didn’t seem to respond as well to that.

Times are changing. Classrooms no longer have overhead projectors in them unless it’s a very antiquated system. Nowadays, teachers use visual aids printed on large format paper or handouts in full color on professional photo paper. The days of transparency paper are far behind us, but the way that people are learning is still very visual.

This is why it’s very important for teachers to recognize this and use quality materials to use in their classrooms.

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Displaying Photos: Mat Your Own Pictures

January 24th, 2012 | Posted by KristinG in photo paper - (Comments Off)

If you’ve gone through the trouble of picking out the best professional photo paper and printed it out in stunningly beautiful high quality, why should you let it languish in a drawer or a barely opened photo album? If you take a great picture of your family or a sunset that you absolutely love, you should display it! It should be in a frame in the living room or the hallway.

There’s no reason you need to take it to a store to get framed and matted. You can do this yourself! Don’t believe me? Here’s how easy it is. Grab yourself a mat. This is basically a sturdy piece of cardboard that is usually colored on one side. It’s like a really thick cardstock. Take your photo (which you printed on photo quality paper, right?) and measure it. You want your mat to cover a little bit of the photo, maybe about a quarter of an inch on each edge should be covered. So when you measure the mat, make it about a quarter of an inch SMALLER on each edge. Draw your lines and use a ruler to make sure they’re absolutely straight. Then punch a hole in the middle of the piece you’re going to remove and cut it out carefully using an exacto knife. See? You’ve made a mat! Now that photo will look great hanging on the wall where it belongs.

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Scrapbooking With Professional Photo Paper

January 9th, 2012 | Posted by KristinG in photo paper - (Comments Off)

Scrapbooking can sometimes be a very intense sort of hobby. It’s the kind of hobby that some people go a little over the top about. However, this isn’t really a bad thing. Scrapbooks are great ways to preserve memories and recap a year or specific event. They’re also a great deal of fun.

For those people that do go slightly overboard with their hobby, they only use the absolute best products. They’ve been around the block and know the tried and true products that will make their scrapbook head and shoulders better than the last.

They know that photo quality paper is one of the most important pieces of any scrapbooker’s arsenal. This is especially true when you are printing your own photographs. You should try to look for professional photo paper to give you the best results.

Pictures are the backbone of a scrapbook. Without them, you have nothing but stickers, captions, and descriptions. What is the point of having all of those wonderful ballerina teddy bear stickers if you don’t have any photographs of your daughter’s ballet recital to adorn the pages?

Because you are going to want the absolute best quality products, you should try out professional photo paper.

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Luster Paper for Panoramic Photos

December 27th, 2011 | Posted by KristinG in photo paper - (Comments Off)

For a long time now I have wanted a print of my friend’s photography. She takes fantastic panoramic photos of my hometown. They make me feel a little nostalgic and homesick. They’re absolutely gorgeous. However, she is an absolute perfectionist and refuses to print any of her panoramic photos until she has found the right type of paper for them. A while back, she tried professional photo paper but didn’t enjoy the quality. Then she found luster photo paper.

This paper is absolutely perfect for large format prints of photography, especially panoramic photos. This is because the paper is a little thicker. It doesn’t curl as much when saturated with ink like other types of thinner paper do. If you have a great printer that has good rollers on it, you can print without any curl at all!

Luster photo paper also comes with a pebbled finish to hide fingerprints and other smudges that are put on the photo after printing. During printing, these little pebbled marks are intended to help the ink saturate the paper at a faster rate so as to dry faster. This decreases the chances of the ink smudging while printing.

Luster photo paper is absolutely phenomenal for large scale panoramic prints.

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Eco Friendly Large Format Paper

December 19th, 2011 | Posted by KristinG in Inkjet Photo Paper | photo paper - (Comments Off)

If you’re in the market for some large format paper but have a guilty complex about killing acres upon acres of rainforest trees just to get your artwork hung on the walls of a gallery, check out eco-friendly large format paper!

At Photo Paper Plus you can get Inkpress Eco Matte Inkjet Photo Paper on a 60 inch by 100 foot roll! That definitely qualifies as large format. If you’re skeptical about the quality of the paper, there’s no need to worry. The whites are very bright. Actually, the paper is rated at 95% brightness! It’s got incredibly high resolution and very vivid coloring when printed on. Surprisingly, this paper is also water resistant!

It’s true that some paper that is economically friendly is also not very smooth or maintains a singular pigment throughout the clean unmarked sheet. But that’s not the case here. This paper is actually quite smooth and even on the roll is visibly only one color.

So what makes it eco-friendly? Well, the paper is made only from sustainable resources and recycled materials. It also does not use any hazardous chemicals in the manufacturing of the paper.

For your next purchase of large format paper, I suggest going with a sustainable source of paper that will also look great. Photopaperplus.com definitely has what you’re looking for.

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DIY Holiday Card Ideas

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by KristinG in photo paper - (Comments Off)

I admit that I got started a little late on the holiday cards this year. I meant to get them done right around Thanksgiving but that never happened. I guess I procrastinated a little too long because when I went to the store to buy a pack of cards, I was met with an almost empty shelf. The cards that were left were not my style and would not fit the myriad of friends who do not celebrate Christmas but other holidays.

So I had little choice, it was time once again to make my own holiday cards. I’ve done it before by printing out winter-y photos of my fiancee and me on photo quality paper and sending them out postcard style. That’s certainly a fun and easy way to go! The year before that, I sent out hand painted snowflake cards with hand painted greetings on them. While these met great acclaim, they took up a lot of time!

This year, I decided to go the easy route with my wingdings font on my computer. In my word processing software, I made my own card. The nice thing about this is that I can make it any size, color, shape, and give it any message my little heart desires. It’s completely customizable. Perfect. I printed out my test card last night on matte photo paper and was very pleased with the results. You should try making your own cards this year!

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What is Luster Photo Paper?

December 5th, 2011 | Posted by KristinG in Inkjet Photo Paper | photo paper - (Comments Off)

Shopping online for photo paper might be a little frustrating if you don’t know all the lingo. Matte, glossy, luster, inkjet, professional and quality papers are available online at several sellers, but what kind of paper do you need for your project?

Luster photo paper is actually a great compromise of all the different types of paper. It falls somewhere between the flat look of matte paper and the shiny finish of glossy paper. The surface of this paper is a little textured to hide finger prints when it is printed on. It also means that there will be no puddling of ink on the page as it is drying.

But what exactly is the best use of luster photo paper? This extremely high definition paper is meant for very high quality images. A lot of photographers are using this kind of paper for actor headshots and wedding photos. The kind of photos that need to look their best for a long time to come.

This kind of luster paper is a great product but not without it’s own vernacular. Now that you’ve settled on luster photo paper for your project, you must decide what KIND of luster paper. You can choose between adhesive, two sided, silky, and heavy luster.

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Adhesive Vinyl for Scrapbooking

November 28th, 2011 | Posted by KristinG in Adhesive Vinyl | photo paper - (Comments Off)

Lots of photographs get taken over the holidays. With the invention of digital photography, more pictures than ever get taken when families are together. With no worries about wasting film, you can snap seemingly silly pictures over and over again. Granted, some of those photos should never see the light of day. You know the ones I’m talking about, the ones of Uncle Paul passed out on the couch in a tryptophan induced nap with a teddy bear sitting on his chest. Those ones.

But others deserve a place of honor in your life. A great way to keep them and display them is in a scrapbook. This hobby has really taken off over the last few years. Hardcore scrapbookers have every sticker under the sun and every color and pattern of paper. They print on professional photo paper and some even have machines that die cut vinyl.

This vinyl is usually used to punch out letters to label pictures or pages in a scrapbook. With more and more people using vinyl, there has been a great leap forward in scrapbook technology. Now there are adhesive vinyl sheets. No more gluing or messy adhesive backing to apply, now you just need to punch out the vinyl, peel off the paper backing and attach it to your scrapbook!

Scrapbooking is becoming as easy as taking pictures!

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Metallic Glossy Inkjet Photo Paper

November 21st, 2011 | Posted by KristinG in Inkjet Photo Paper | photo paper - (Comments Off)

Thanksgiving is only a few days away. You know what that means? No, not turkey and mashed potatoes. (Although those are certainly things to look forward to!) It means that Christmas card season is right around the corner. When I was little, my mother would start signing cards right after the pumpkin pie was served. I can also remember the premium metal cards she used to get with Santa or a snowman embossed on the front of a gold card. I thought they were beautiful!

These days, I wait a little longer than my mother to start my Christmas cards, but I still love the idea of metallic cards. That’s why I’m really glad that I stumbled upon Metallic glossy inkjet photo paper. Not only do I love metallic cards, I love do-it-yourself cards. You can print out great quality photos on this metallic paper. These are the kind of photos you’ve never been able to do without the aid of a darkroom before.

This anti scratch inkjet photo paper ensures that your cards will arrive at their destinations unmarked and in pristine condition. I can’t make any promises about them being on time. I like to enjoy my pumpkin pie without the stress of addressing envelopes!

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