ARLEYART MOTIVATIONAL PRINTS

 Arleyart.com is a platform where Arley Clark, the owner, sells his unique motivational art. Arley, born in 1947 and raised in Bremerton, Washington, has always been inspired by words of wisdom. This includes quotes, phrases, song lyrics, and even advertising taglines. Throughout his career, motivational or thought-provoking messages were always on display on his office walls. Frustrated by the limited selection of display-worthy plaques, posters, or art prints available in the market, he decided to create his own. Upon retiring from a management career in the sporting goods industry, Arley decided to check the market for his kind of motivational art, leading to the birth of ArleyArt​1​.

 At Prodigi, printing is at the heart of everything we do and every product we create. Each substrate is individually profiled for our printers, ensuring fantastically accurate and consistent reproduction.

 While it ultimately comes down to personal preference in terms of texture, size and finish, we’ve pulled together our most popular Art Print products so you can find the perfect match….

 When it comes to luxury paper for Art Prints, Giclèe is where it’s at. These papers were designed especially for high-quality reproductions of art and photography. Not usually used for bulk printing, Giclèe is one of the best choices for short high-quality runs of artwork.

 So what makes Giclèe so special? While products like Flyers and Posters use standard four-colour printing (known as CMYK). Giclée prints use a 12 colour printer so that your artwork colours can be matched exactly. Plus, each paper has been specially selected from the experts at Hahnemühle, so that you don’t have to worry about fading over time.

 Posters are a great choice if you’re looking to print larger designs in bulk or on a budget. For example, if you want to offer cheaper prints of your original artwork or create an affordable collection of large prints. Keep in mind that Poster prints are only available in two paper stocks, Matt and Satin, but both offer great colour vibrancy and a quality finish.

 Posters are also an ideal option if you’re planning on displaying your Art Prints outside thanks to our outdoor and weatherproof options.

 Whether at your home or in a gallery, eye-catching Photographic Prints are perfect as feature or standalone pieces. They can be ordered as flat prints, finished edge to edge or wrap mounted onto your choice of board. Available in two premium papers, Epsom Premium Luster and Kodak Photographic Gloss, your photos are ready to be brought to life!

 If you want to go all out sparkle with your designs, Foil Art Prints are the way to go. Available in seven shiny shades, including gold and silver, your designs are guaranteed to turn heads when they catch the light.

 The humble Postcard is one of the most customisable and flexible prints…so naturally it can be used to create stunning Art Prints too! Besides the obvious choice for turning your art and photography into unique postables, they’re a fast and affordable way to create small decorative art pieces or a mini collection.

 Another thing Postcards include? Special Finishes. Whether you want to add some shiny highlights to your art or highlight features using White Ink, Postcards are a great place to start. Both of these finishes take a couple of extra steps to set up for print, so check out our video tutorials.

 An absolute advertising favourite, Leaflets and Flyers are also great for creating Art Prints on a small budget. One of the main advantages to Leaflet printing your designs is volume. As one of our most affordable prints, they’re ideal for printing designs both quickly and in bulk.

 Not everyone is looking for Poster-sized art, so Leaflets can make perfect pocket-sized Art Prints. You’ve also got a much broader range of papers to choose from compared to Poster printing or traditional Art Printing. Soft Silk? Fine-lined Nettuno? Shimmering Pearl Oyster? The choice is yours!

 Throughout my artistic career, I had to prepare my images for printing probably thousands of times. Preparing photographs before sending them to magazines, for a gallery show, or for a fine-art print sale. But in photography, you rarely face the necessity to upscale an image.

 Or to upscale an image that has indistinct details and a lot of... uncertain spots. :) And most definitely, it is the rarest event to upscale a 1024x1024 pixel image for high-quality printing.

 Yet here we are, with Midjourney's beautiful but elusive results that, in V4, can only go as big as 1024x1536 pixels. What is the best way to upscale them and prepare them for printing?

 There are many ways to upscale an image, and it's not this study's goal to cover all of them. I will, however, try some of the most popular options, both free and paid.

 After considering each option's speed, quality, and user experience, I settled on using Gigapixel AI. Despite a hefty 99,99$ price tag, my time and mental health seemed more valuable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 Someone with a stronger will, more dedication, time, and a technical mindset could squeeze better results out of some of the methods in this study. For instance, selecting a correct Upscaler model can drastically affect the upscaling outcome. But going through lists of literally hundreds of them, let alone downloading, installing, and waiting between ten to ninety minutes to see each result—that's a task for a dedicated research institute. :) Instead, I went with the most common models and (mostly) default values in most cases.

 All the initial files were sharpened in Lightroom before sending them to upscalers. After LR export (HQ PNG), each file was ~9 Mb and 1024×1536px.

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 For printing, keeping files as PNG isn't necessary—JPEG with lowest compression works perfectly fine. But I kept the initial file format to make the experiments more consistent.

 I ran all tests (except for Google Collab that works in the cloud) on 2013 Mac Pro with the following configuration:

 My upscaler of choice for many good reasons—Gigapixel AI—is an all-in-one AI-based upscaler with a buy-once-own-forever license. When you launch the app, it offers to download the most recent upscaler models. Afterward, it will regularly download updates and occasionally add new models.

 Gigapixel AI offers a minimalist and clean interface. Every control is in its place, and the overall experience is straightforward and intuitive.

 You drag and drop your images to Gigapixel AI's window. They appear as a list with parameters for each position (that can be changed individually or for all images simultaneously).

 A handy Auto mode lets Gigapixel AI decide which model best applies to your images and with what parameters. Or you can set everything manually. That includes Suppress noise, Remove blur, Fix compression, Face Recovery, and Gamma Correction.

 To help you with these choices, the central part of the screen is occupied by a before-after comparison preview. You can zoom in and out and drag the loupe across your image. The preview only runs the selected upscaler model on the zoomed part of the image, so it works faster than complete upscale—to show how this particular fragment will look after you launch the upscaler.

 To help you with these choices, the central part of the screen is occupied by a before-after comparison preview. You can zoom in and out and drag the loupe across your image. The preview only runs the selected upscaler model on the zoomed part of the image, so it works faster than complete upscale—to show how this particular fragment will look after you launch the upscaler.

 In this comparison, Gigapixel AI upscales are put against original images resized to have the same resolution. In all the following tests, I will be comparing the results from the upscaler in question to those of Gigapixel AI.

 Also, I won't be posting all results for each upscaler. You can download all fragments via the link at the end of this study.

 Gigapixel offers several built-in AI models (see specs below). However, I found the Standard mode the most useful, delivering the best results in each benchmark position. Here is a comparison of Lines vs Art & CG vs Standard models with Line Art test.

 PNG file size: at ~130Mb per image, Gigapixel AI is top of the list at this, too. However, with the use of a fantastic free tool ImageOptim↗︎ I could reduce the file size to 40Mb with 90% lossy optimization and to around 25Mb with 80%.

 Gigapixel AI is capable of upscaling to up to 6 times the original size—and you can set it to an even higher multiplier, but after that, "the quality is not guaranteed."

 After trying alternatives, my choice was clear: I was ready to pay for a clean design, intuitive user experience, almost no waiting time, and overall convenience.

 Most importantly: Gigapixel AI didn't make me think. I don't want to lose time and energy struggling with tons of settings, lines of code, and unexpected errors. I want the infrastructural software to

 Super Zoom is a neural filter in Adobe Photoshop that uses artificial intelligence to—as its name suggests—increase the resolution of an image. The feature uses deep learning to analyze the details of an image and generate new pixels for smooth upscaling.

 SuperZoom has an additional option called "Enhance face details." Let's check what it does: we have a benchmark exactly for that.