Some members print their images at home and take a pride in the quality of prints they produce. For the rest of us, we're lucky to have Loxley Colour, one of the best commercial printers in the country, on our doorstep.
Here's a suggested workflow to use them.
1. Create a new folder either on your desktop or hard drive, call it Loxley
2. In Lightroom, Affinity, or whichever editor you use, select an image that you want to print, after doing all your adjustments export it, straight to the Loxley folder. Do not size, add a stroke or watermark to it. Make sure it is the biggest and highest resolution of JPEG that affinity allows.
3. Do this for all the images you wish to print.
4. Now go onto the Loxley website - www.loxleycolour.com - and log in, or create an account if you don't already have one.
5. Click products, then click Photographic Prints, then the green Order button which appears at the top of the page.
6. Click the blue Add Images button on the left.
7. In the box that appears, click on Browse, then select the folder you called Loxley. Click on the images you wish to print. You can select more than one at a time. Alternatively, you can drag and drop them onto the loader.
You will then see them uploading, a small green tick appears at the right when they've uploaded successfully, close this box using the X in the top corner.
You will then see them uploading, a small green tick appears at the right when they've uploaded successfully, close this box using the X in the top corner.
8. Your images should now appear on the left of the previous screen. Click one image and drag it into the big box on the screen, then go to the boxes below and select the size you wish, you don't need to go as big as A3, A4 is ok and there's also various other sizes, 12x10 etc, just make sure the whole image is in there. If you're going to use pre-made mounts think carefully about the size that will fit.
I've printed stuff previously and not realised I've chopped a bit off, if you are unsure hit the fit button.
Select Lustre, no Mount board and no laminate. You may wish to put a small border of 1/4 inch around it makes it a bit easier to mount, but it's personal preference. Play around with sizes until you're happy with the size, then hit add to cart.
I've printed stuff previously and not realised I've chopped a bit off, if you are unsure hit the fit button.
Select Lustre, no Mount board and no laminate. You may wish to put a small border of 1/4 inch around it makes it a bit easier to mount, but it's personal preference. Play around with sizes until you're happy with the size, then hit add to cart.
9. Repeat for all the images you wish to print.
10. Don't forget to put the club discount code in - 24KCC10 - but if you are a new customer you may be offered a bigger discount.
11. Allow colour correction
12. You might want to select collection as their postage rates are costly.
13. Pay for your images.
14. Order before 1pm and the prints will be ready to collect first thing the next day.