A week in photography

Digital photographs only exist when electricity is applied to them. Turn off the power and they disappear back into the recesses of our hard drives, SD cards and phones. To make them permanent and tangible we need to print them. Most of us don’t do enough of this. One of the most cited reasons is the perceived complexity of printing, and to be fair, there’s quite a lot you need to know. So this week we present an expert guide to help you get better digital prints – and another one on traditional analogue printing.

Why not make it a New Year’s Resolution to rescue your photos from hard-drive obscurity? Print them, mount them on the wall, send them to friends; maybe even exhibit them. If you don’t want to print them yourself it’s never been easier to get them printed professionally. Nigel Atherton, Editor