There's no substitute for a high-quality image. Although you can sharpen images, you can't sharpen blurry areas to any decent effect it will just pronounce the pixelation. Today's printers are very fine, and will reveal every glitch and blurry or over-shaped patchy area on the print. You can get much subtler and precise images this way, converging on continuous-tone. 6.Have a bright working environment to assess your colors not only for your image processing, but for your examination of the finished prints, as well.
Colors look very different, depending on lighting conditions.
If there's a constant in the world of printing, it's that color matching is a pain. The unsharp mask or other sharpening filter in your image-processing program enhances the edges in your print. Careful it's easy to over-sharpen a photo, so before saving the changes, zoom in and make sure there aren't many pixel aberrations. 8.Experiment with different media, relegating some time to trial and error. You have a wide gamut of textures at your disposal, such as canvas, watercolor paper, metallic paper and more.