How do I turn my art into greeting cards 🤔?

[JoyGirl]

I could go the digital route, but my art has a special paint glitter on it. I want that to be captured.

How can I turn it into greeting cards I can sell, without redrawing it digitally? 🧍🏾‍♀️

[es20490446e]

What I use is a vintage high quality HP scanner that I got unopened for $50 on eBay.

The quality is so good that it even shows the texture of the paper.

I combined that with a vintage HP ink printer with original ink. Original ink shows better the gradients than toner, or recycled ink. Very old printers last longer, and are way cheaper.

Sometimes I use laminating pouches to protect the print from being damaged. I cut the corners with a Japanese Kadomaru corner cutter, which was the only one that did it properly from what I tested.

The paper is also quite important. I use paper from the brand Clairefontaine, which is relative cheap for being premium paper. The thickness is good, and the colors greatly increase their quality.

So it's just about testing and comparing. It usually takes a while.

Where I live printer shops rarely get great quality. They are more about printing documents, and casual art. But nothing that looks nicey.

[TheSpaceGnome]

How are you getting old ink refills for an old printer thats no longer supported?

What model scanner and printer are they?

[es20490446e]

@TheSpaceGnome They still made them, at least till recently.

[nawtee_me]

How much are you willing to invest in it? You can get a good printer and scan the pictures into it and print them onto paper you fold yourself. Or, the price goes up from there with card stock and digital printers and so on.

Maybe you can crest a few and send to some of the greeting card companies who may hire you to do a set for them? By set I mean like holidays or get well or maybe a baby animal collection for kids birthdays.

[DubiousIntentions]

Try going to DeviantArt. com. There are lots of artists there that can help you, and you can even sell your art there.

[bowenw]

You could have them printed by a good printing shop and then add glitter to them by hand. They should be able to scan your art if you don't have a way to do it yourself.

[es20490446e]

In my experience they rarely get it right. There are usually small defects, and the finish doesn't look sexy.

They are more about quantity than quality. Documents and casual birthday art.

[humanearth]

Mid to high end DSLR camera

Would do it the best

Another way is use a flatbed scanner, not as good as a camera.

But will work

[Batsy01010101]

actually that's a good idea i never would of thought of that

[humanearth]

@Batsy01010101
See I'm a film photographer and I use a DSLR to digitize them.

I found it to be a lot cheaper then using a darkroom for every photo.

See I used to make prints in the darkroom, then use a flatbed scanner.

But as digital cameras got better then a scanner. It was time for me to buy a digital camera for that reason.

I put the film negative and the DSLR in a jig I made. Then take a photo of the negative.

It works pretty good

The only problem I have. Is film photography has better image over digital. So I digitalize them, I lose some fine details that digital can never get.

But it mostly because I have trained eye to see the differences. Most people won't notice

[Batsy01010101]

i worked with dslr and i work with mirrorless from canon T7 to canon eos RP then canon eos R then sony a7riii then sony a7riv
when i was a kid i worked with those old polariods and kodaks and that negative film strip

[Batsy01010101]

i have yet to find a good flatbed scanner though every one i worked with has left that nasty damn blue tint on the image which had to be removed through paint or photoshop elements

[humanearth]

@Batsy01010101

I love 120 film and some of favorite cameras are them old box cameras and folding cameras from the 1940s

For 35mm. I love my Minolta Collection starting from 1959 - 1990s

I also do wet plate collodion with cameras from the late 1800s

I may not like digital, but use it to save money

[Batsy01010101]

wow that's impressive, you should post some of your work

[humanearth]

@Batsy01010101 i have many times on here,

[Kelly6]

I’m not very good in art so can’t say much

[exitseven]

Can you scan them into JPG format?

[Batsy01010101]

TIFF format then when all the neccessary alterations are done then save it to JPEG format

[exitseven]

@Batsy01010101 that would work too.

[collie22]

A print shop Can do that stuff

[Anonymous]

you have to scan it to your computer