Art Reproductions

Have you ever wanted a reproduction of an original print or painting? We can make a photographic print that looks exactly like it! Through color matching techniques, we can make you an archival reproduction that can be sold as digital editions, given as gifts, put on display, or kept as copies in place of the original print or painting.

This method is great for any painter, printmaker, or traditional photographer who wants to recreate an original. It is also helpful for people who have darkroom prints that they would like to digitize without the negative present or to reproduce a print but cannot quite seem to do it the same way again.

Here are some of the steps we take to color match original paintings, prints, and documents:

·      Scan or photograph the original at a high quality with the best, even light you can get. If the image is too big, we might have to make more than one scan or photograph that we later stitch together in Photoshop.

·      Upload the image into Photoshop and begin correcting the file to make it look closer to the original. This includes cropping out parts of the file that are not the image and sizing the image correctly.

·      Make lots and lots of TEST STRIPS! Test strips allow us to compare the printed reproduction to the original. We carefully compare the test strip to the original to see what parts of the image we need to adjust.

o   We make sure to keep all of the test strips to track the progression.

·      Once the test strips match the original painting or print, we make the full size printed reproduction!

New Bedford Dockside by Jim Earl

Check his work out HERE

Fox by Mary Gilmartin

If you are interested in this service, please call, email, or stop by the shop and we can make you a beautiful digital reproduction!

Photographing and Matching a Painting

At Panopticon we work directly with many mixed media artists, painters,  and watercolorists. Depending upon your medium we have many ways of capturing your artwork for reproduction.

We recently received and image from the Hingham Historical Society for photographing. This image is an original oil painting titled "Marsh Homestead". The original date of production and artist are unknown.

Chris, one of our Digital Techs, went to work meticulously adjusting lighting to create the ideal conditions for capturing the image. Then begins the process of color matching. We will create as many test strips to ensure the color is exact.

We work our way from the test strips adjusting the color and contrast to the final file. From the finished digital file the client now has a high quality digital representation of their work as well as the option to make an edition of archival pigment prints. At Panopticon we try to give each piece of artwork the same amount of time and attention that the artist put into the original.