What type of paper do I use?
Our images are produced on archival quality watercolor or matt finish papers designed to provide long lasting quality while ensuring vibrant colors. As the artist, I specially choose the appropriate paper based on each image's characteristics. It's been my experience some images look better on one type of paper while others look better on others. I'll make that choice when producing your image as the artist's purgative. Sizing of the actual printed image on the paper is also up to me based on my artistic assessment of the image. In most cases there will be a 2 to 4 inch margin of white space on each print. My goal is to make each print look great regardless of whether it stands alone on a mount or if you choose to spend hundreds on framing and matting. They'll both look great on your wall.
Color, or why does the web look different than the print?
Color fidelity is an interesting dicussion worthy of books far beyond what I can provide in this article. The bottom line is what you see on the web does not necessarily represent printed imagery. The major cause of this difference is there simply isn't the same breadth of colors available through the web as there are on prints I make. Next, I choose to print my images for use in daylight lighting conditions. Blue, less flattering light will make the images appear less accurate. The quality, capability, and calibration of your monitor is a huge part of how an print will compare with its web version you see at home. No two monitors are the same and thousands of dollars can be spent calibrating them to that allow consistent results. The biggest issue with any monitor is how its brightness and contrasting settings are set. A simple check you can do is set your monitor's brightness to make sure the graduated grayscale bar located at the top of each Keiko Natural Images webpage so you can see 20 distinct colors ranging from deep black to pure white. Too much black, your monitor isn't bright enough. Too white, your monitor is set too bright. This is a simple adjustment you can do to see the same on the web that I do .
How do I tell you what I want?
It's simple. Just send me an e-mail. Inquire as to what you specifically want. The two most important pieces of information is the size you're looking for and what file/image you'd like. Finding the file # can be a bit of a challenge. Every image in Keiko's Gallery can be expanded to a separate image that includes information about the image including its file number. This is how pick an image and get the info:
