How Do I Do That in Photoshop?

Chapter 9

How to MakeBeautiful Prints

Here’s How It’s Done

When does an image become real? This is a deeper question than it sounds because when you think about it, our images are trapped behind a sheet of glass. We can’t touch them. We can’t hold them. We can just look at them trapped behind these sheets of glass on our computers, and so even though we know they exist, they don’t seem real. That’s because they’re not real. Yet. To bring your image to life, you have to print it. Once you print it, you can touch it, you can feel it. It’s real at that point, and once something is real, it’s going to start asking you for things, like an allowance, and wanting to stay up past its bedtime, and to eat pie after 10 p.m. (which is strictly forbidden ...