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Quick Tip: Get Your Adobe Creative Cloud Receipts Quickly
At Red River Paper, we have at least four Creative Cloud accounts at any one time. Since it is a subscription service, we get charged monthly or in some cases yearly. The accounting department needs receipts to make it all legal. Here is where the problem starts. Adobe cannot (will not?) send a monthly email...read more
Inkjet Paper Sizes for Full Frame Images Cameras
If you have a full frame camera, why not print a full frame image? Many inkjet paper sizes force you to crop to some degree. If you want to print a full frame image in all its glory you need one of Red River Paper’s inkjet photo papers in these sizes. Each size has enough...read more
How to Shoot, Stitch, and Print Stunning Panoramic Photos
You can shoot stunning panoramic images with a digital camera or smartphone, stitch them together with free software which you probably have as a feature on your imaging program and then output them– even on a humble, letter-sized desktop printer. And it can all be done in just an hour or so....read more
How To Turn TV Images Into Beautiful Prints
With months of bad weather facing most parts of the country why not shoot images from the comfort of your living room?With a simple click of its remote, your TV can whisk you to locations and events all over the world where you can capture images and turn them into beautiful prints....read more
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Use Free Old-time Card Images For Your Holiday Greetings This Year!
Old-time images from Christmas (and other) holiday cards that circulated during the late 1800s and later have been digitized and can be used free of charge to give your own holiday cards some nostalgic flavor....read more
NEW EYE-CATCHING WAYS TO DISPLAY YOUR IMAGES!
Theres no reason to frame every image under glass constrained by four corners of a rectangle. Thinking outside the frame can yield some eye-catching results....read more
Free AI App Converts Grainy Photos Into Grain-free Digital Images
Simple AI software can remove unsightly film grain to give those old photos new life....read more
How To Create A Handmade Photo Book
You can easily create beautiful handmade photo books that you can give as gifts or sell. All it takes is the inkjet printer you already own. Here's how to do it....read more
Document Climate Change In Your Own Community
With the right images, you can alter peoples perception of climate change and inspire them to take action. Here's how to begin to do that, rifght in your own community....read more
Try These Indoor Photo Techniques To Shorten Winter
Winter is coming and, for most photographers who live in temperate climates, it means outdoor photography Is going to be curtailed for a few months. But dont put that camera away!...read more
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Jacob A. Riis: The Camera vs. Social Injustice
Newly arrived immigrants in New York City during the late 1800s quickly found that rumors they night have heard about the “Promised Land†were just that; the streets of America were not paved with gold. In fact, if you were poor, just finding a place to sleep was incredibly difficult....read more
Back To Basics: For Great Images, Think Like The Pros Do
ost professional photographers ask themselves these questions before they shoot… and so should you. After you memorize them, they'll become part of your thought process and will go through your mind in a flash....read more
Photographer's Guide to Four Corners USA - Part 2
The moderate temperatures and wildflowers of spring (March to May) with the changing fall colors (September and October) make these the most desirable times to visit most of the Four Corners sites. Even in the busier summer season, the remoteness of Hovenweep and Chaco Canyon mean that they will be less crowded options for your photography....read more
Tips For Great Summertime Photos
t shouldn't surprise you that more photos are shot during the summer months than at any other time of year. The weather is great, the sun shines more and that gets photographers in the mood to get outside and, hopefully, make some great images. But it also means that more bad images are made. To avoid that, here's some advice that will tip the scales in your favor and elevate your images from ho-hum to wow. Let's begin....read more
Best Places to Take Pictures in El Paso: From Historical Buildings to Nature
Stuck at the extreme western point of the state of Texas, El Paso is too often forgotten as a photo destination. Yet it offers an amazing nexus of Hisopanic culture, Old West history, varied architecture, and mdern convenience....read more
How to Color Calibrate Your Prints to Your Monitor
You may think think your monitor is accurately displaying the exact colors that are in your image file, but it may not, leading to prints with disturbing color casts. Here's how to fix that problem....read more
Upscale Photos With AI to Make Stunning Image Blow-Ups
Many Red River Paper users complain that increasing the size of their images often produces a print that's blocky and blurry. New Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software is changing that. But first, let's review some of the basics of image enlargement....read more
Success on Paper - Lynn Goldsmith Rocks the Photography World
From Elton John to Miley Cyrus, Lynn Goldsmith has built a reputation as a photographer to the rock stars. "I don't take pictures, I make them."...read more
Shooting Environmental Portraits: Back to Basics
An environmental portrait ties your subjects to their occupations or interests while focusing on direct eye contact that mirrors the soul of the subject and defines them in a unique visual context...read more
Russell Lee: New Mexico Homesteaders in Pie Town
Russell Lee photo documented Homesteaders in Pie Town. Documenting adversity, he also relished shooting the good times that hard times spawn, showing the indomitable American spirit...read more
Revealed! The Secret Life of Your Inkjet Printer
To get the most out of your inkjet printer it helps to understand exactly how your printer technology, ink, and paper work together to capture the right settings for the perfect image....read more
Tricks, Hacks, Super Apps and More
Summer is upon us once again and here are some tips and product snippets to help you get back into the swing of things. Let's talk mice, monitors, ink, light, calibration and more....read more
Bill Frakes' Nebraska: Wide Open Spaces, Classic Faces
Bill Frakes, with a passion for place and a relationship to nature developed over a lifetime, documents a photographic essay to create the Nebraska Project adding to it regularly...read more
ProTalk: David Bergman On Using Remote Cameras
David Bergman says Photographically, it would be easy to fall into a rut and make similar images at every show. To combat this, I challenge myself to come up with new ways to shoot...read more
Thoughts on Wilderness and Repentance. Part 2
Andrew Slaton's friend Mike taught him a sensible western knowledge, while Andrew found an attitude of ownership over places much like like a drug addict chasing that initial bliss...read more
Thoughts on Wilderness and Repentance. Part 1
Over many years Andrew Staton, struck by the beauty of nature, has always felt a powerful ally at his side that has kept a watchful eye over him when needed during his National Parks Odyssey...read more
ProTalk: Chris Crismans ‘Womens Work Project
Cris Chisman says whether shooting on location or in the studio, the process should be an adventure of exploration portraying every subject with grace, strength and dignity...read more
Boxing Images Are Challenging By Richard E. Baker
Richard E. Baker, professional boxing photographer for 40+ years says if you can handle the violence, he recommends it to stretch your photographic skills. Get pointers...read more
