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Old 03-21-2013, 02:17 AM
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Ryan, the site seems to be be working its PayPal. I've been trying for three hours now to no avail.

Is anyone else having an issue?
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Old 03-21-2013, 02:19 AM
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Giclees stomp all over any litho (in terms of overall print quality) that I've ever owned.

Gicless produce better color contrast, deeper blacks, lusher colors, and slightly higher detail over lithographs. All giclees that I've seen are printed on archival cotton paper as well; which trounce the standard stock litho paper.
We're selling the giclee in the store, but as was talked about elsewhere, the original plan was to have them be exclusive to the art shows and do a litho on the store a little later. This means we have one of each, printed off the same art....




Jed (our CEO) liked the giclee better. Chris (our head artist) liked the litho better. I was kind of torn.




The litho has better saturation, I think, but the blacks are darker/better on the giclee.




The overall fidelity of the giclee strikes me as being a bit finer.







The litho is full-bleed and has a glossier finish to the paper (and is signed), but the giclee is undeniably nice. You guys were clamoring for the giclee, so I'm guessing we made the right choice, ultimately, but I'm not totally sure....
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Old 03-21-2013, 02:23 AM
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Oh nice. I had actually just asked in another thread whether there were plans to still sell the litho. Will you still sell the litho?

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Old 03-21-2013, 02:33 AM
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giclee looks better i think, although the litho seems to have somewhat more natural colors.
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Is it just me or is the difference in colortemp (if that's the right term) too great for it to only be caused by the difference in paper, inks and method used?
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Old 03-21-2013, 02:39 AM
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Definitely Giclee for me in this case
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Is it just me or is the difference in colortemp (if that's the right term) too great for it to only be caused by the difference in paper and inks?
Not just you. These aren't the greatest photos, but there is absolutely a difference. That was what I was referring to with the saturation in the litho that I preferred. I think somewhere in the middle would be perfect, but they are what they are.

It's probably related to differences in inks and paper, but the two were also printed by different printers, so I imagine there are quite a bit more variables involved than just those two things....
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Old 03-21-2013, 04:29 AM
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Default Re: Official limited Tomb Raider screenprints and giclees now live!

Im sorry but this interest for this kind of art started a couple of weeks ago can anyone explain me the difference between Giclee and litho ?? What is being sold on TRstore ?? litho or Giclee
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read description lol

hint: giclee
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Old 03-21-2013, 08:43 AM
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Ordered one each of "The Island" by Jeffrey Alan Love and "Tomb Raider" by Sam Spratt. Does anyone else find "The Island" amazing? To me it has a pseudo "shadow of the colossus" feel to it, it's incredible!
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