Setting up Shop

Hopefully, I'll have an online shop set up in about a month! I'm planning to start selling digital art prints (professionally giclée printed) on etsy, on online place where people buy and sell handmade items from art to fashion.

The thing that's key right now is getting my prints to a level of quality I'm satisfied with . I've had one proof already printed up, and discovered that my attempt at calibrating my monitor properly was apparently insufficient! Now I've been fiddling around with it fussily to try and get it just right, and am having another proof printed. I hope it won't come to me having to buy some fancy device that will tell me exactly how off a color on my screen is from what it should be, but if that's what it takes, I may have to invest in one.

I am, luckily, very pleased with the quality of the Somerset Velvet paper that my printer offers. It has a nice weight, a gorgeous texture, and the colors -- even if not quite right -- are smooth and rich. No dotty home printer images, but true professional quality, including the archival nature of the inks and paper. Of course, all of this means that a single print costs a decent bit just to have made, but I think quality sells, and beyond that, I don't plan on offering anything of a quality I would hesitate to buy, myself.

I'll have to see if I can find an example of the color difference I was ending up with in my prints; I'll be sure to post those up!