Opalessence
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Hi, thanks in advance for any help with this...
I've been trying to make small (4 x 6") prints of some photos - which are screenshots of Instagram posts of landscapes, to which I've added 1 inch "white" borders. I did this by adding rectangles to the edges via the markup tool on my MacBook Pro. (I want the photos to be small to keep the images phone screen sized, and to not lose resolution in printing. I'll trim the prints I get back, if I can get a decent print made...)
[These photos are to accompany paintings I made from these references, but to also gift them the Insta post with the captions so it gives the painting more context.]
I used the dropper tool to pick up the "white" of the background of the IG post's text, but when I did test prints at the CVS/Shutterfly, and Walmart , the "white" of the border and background of the captions aren't fully white. Some show the faint edge of the rectangles and in some, there's splotching, which might be the low-quality printer issue.
I'd like to get these printed like postcard-sized artist cards that would be at a gallery show, but I know I need to get the white text background and edges to be purely white.
I can see that a solution would be to "select all" of that supposedly "white" color and replace it with the white on the Photo app's color selector.
I really should get Photoshop-like software for how many photos I take, but I'm not in the budget for it right now.
Is there any way to do this without spending a bunch of money on a subscription to an Adobe product? I did a quick search on this on Reddit and some ppl mentioned Darkwave, Mubi, and a couple others, but I thought I'd ask here first for any help.
Also, if I can fix this issue with the white background, where's the best place to print these? Locally, I can't find a photo lab that will print smaller than 5 x 7 and they only work with artist giclee prints.
I don't want to spend more than a couple dollars per photo, if that, on this aspect, since the paintings took so much time and the photo prints don't need to be super-high quality. I just want to fix that issue w the white and thought there might be a way to do a "select all" and "global replace" for it.
Wow, I didn't mean to write out so much detail, but thought this info might be helpful in figuring out solutions. Thanks so much!!
I've been trying to make small (4 x 6") prints of some photos - which are screenshots of Instagram posts of landscapes, to which I've added 1 inch "white" borders. I did this by adding rectangles to the edges via the markup tool on my MacBook Pro. (I want the photos to be small to keep the images phone screen sized, and to not lose resolution in printing. I'll trim the prints I get back, if I can get a decent print made...)
[These photos are to accompany paintings I made from these references, but to also gift them the Insta post with the captions so it gives the painting more context.]
I used the dropper tool to pick up the "white" of the background of the IG post's text, but when I did test prints at the CVS/Shutterfly, and Walmart , the "white" of the border and background of the captions aren't fully white. Some show the faint edge of the rectangles and in some, there's splotching, which might be the low-quality printer issue.
I'd like to get these printed like postcard-sized artist cards that would be at a gallery show, but I know I need to get the white text background and edges to be purely white.
I can see that a solution would be to "select all" of that supposedly "white" color and replace it with the white on the Photo app's color selector.
I really should get Photoshop-like software for how many photos I take, but I'm not in the budget for it right now.
Is there any way to do this without spending a bunch of money on a subscription to an Adobe product? I did a quick search on this on Reddit and some ppl mentioned Darkwave, Mubi, and a couple others, but I thought I'd ask here first for any help.
Also, if I can fix this issue with the white background, where's the best place to print these? Locally, I can't find a photo lab that will print smaller than 5 x 7 and they only work with artist giclee prints.
I don't want to spend more than a couple dollars per photo, if that, on this aspect, since the paintings took so much time and the photo prints don't need to be super-high quality. I just want to fix that issue w the white and thought there might be a way to do a "select all" and "global replace" for it.
Wow, I didn't mean to write out so much detail, but thought this info might be helpful in figuring out solutions. Thanks so much!!
