Fun Gifts With Inkjet Photo Paper

February 20th, 2012 | Posted by KristinG in Inkjet Photo Paper - (Comments Off)

Do you love surprising your friends with little thoughtful gifts? Do you sometimes find yourself at a loss as to what you want to give out as little trinkets of your care and friendship?

Fear not, inkjet photo paper is here!

If you and your friends like to cook, why not gather some of your favorite recipes together, print them out on professional photo paper and give them to your friends as cards? This can be as simple as your favorite recipe for chicken noodle soup when your friends are sick or it can be as personal as Grandma’s secret recipe for cookies at Holiday time.

If you’ve already found the perfect gift for a friend, why not make it extra special with the wrapping paper. That’s right, I said wrapping paper. Find some of your favorite photos of the two of you or things that represent your friendship or relationship. Print them out on photo paper and use these sheets of paper to wrap the present. The sillier the picture the better and it doesn’t matter if the gift is oversized. All you need to do is tape all the sheets together until it’s a large enough sheet to use as wrapping.

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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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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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Print Beautiful, Glossy Photographs with Photo Paper

January 25th, 2010 | Posted by Ajax Union Blogging in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

When it came to buying a digital camera, I held off longer than any of my friends. I didn’t care about the features, the megapixels, the sleek new designs, the memory cards… All I cared about what the photograph. Could I hold it? Could I frame it? Could I incorporate it into a collage? And unless you’re printing on photo paper, the answer is always a big fat no.

On regular paper, the colors and depth of your image fall flat on the page. Plus, when you pick it up, it doesn’t even feel like a photo.

Fortunately, photo paper allows you to experience the best of both traditional and digital photography. I get the satisfying feeling of holding my art in my hands, and the flexibility of digital cameras. (As it turns out, those megapixels are pretty cool.)

But wait, isn’t all photo paper expensive? I used to think so, but then I found www.PhotoPaperPlus.com, a website that specializes in paper for the printing of photography, art, and even film and video—all at a great price! Whether you’re shopping for casual use or looking for professional photo paper, you’d better zoom in on Photo Paper Plus.

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