The lower the number, the more valuable the print will be, allowing you to charge more. Never change the number of prints available for the edition, no matter how quickly they sell or how many people enquire about purchasing the prints after they have sold.
Number, date, and sign each print. You have the choice of signing the front, usually on the border or the back of the print. Just make sure that you are consistent with the edition.
Your profit is four hundred dollars. That is the amount you will be able to put in your bank account. What would you say if I told you that you could increase the profit margin by offering reproductions of your original artwork? For example, if you decided to sell one hundred prints at a hundred dollars apiece, and it cost ten dollars to create each print.
You would earn an additional nine thousand dollars just by offering a limited edition reproduction of your painting. Many people would love to purchase art for their homes but can not financially afford an original painting.
These are the people who are willing to invest in a limited edition print of an original painting. A limited-edition is an investment, just like purchasing an original painting because there is a limited number of prints available to the public. Not only can you market your art collectors who collect invest in original artwork, but you can also sell to people who have a passion for your artistic style who can not afford an original painting.
Limited edition prints are sold at a higher price than an open edition print because there is a limit of how many will be available. The lower the amount available will increase the print value , meaning you can charge more for each copy. Open-ended prints are when there is no limit to how many prints you can sell.
This will lower the print value to art collectors, but you can sell an unlimited amount of prints. Smaller editions can be priced higher than larger prints because the fewer prints available increases the value of the reproduction. The average number of prints available for a limited edition ranges between — copies. Start with to see how quickly they sell out. APs can be sold at a slightly higher price than the rest of the run and typically are not sold right away if at all.
This decision is made at your discretion. No matter how identifiable you believe your work to be, always remember to sign it. You can never be sure where it will end up in the future and the types of issues that can arise from a lack of signature or even an illegible or inconsistent signature. Chose a signature that is either easy to read or so unique that is very easy to identify and once you have made your decision, stick to it. This mark will forever serve to help authenticate a piece of your work.
Making informed choices around these issues from the beginning and then sticking to them will help you gain the trust of your buyers and help to build good long term relationships. Taking the time to decide on a signature and consistent way of labeling your work will also serve you well into the future and will go a long way towards preventing authentication issues from cropping up.
The more you know about the process the easier it becomes and you can spend your energy focusing on what you do best — creating your work. This special exhibition explores many components of photography, from landscape to cutting-edge graphic imagery. Incredibly popular with art collectors and artists alike, this exhibition is highly sought after by fine art photographers. What other factors do you consider when making limited edition prints? Let us know in the comments!
Liana Hayles Newton is a Greenwich CT-based professional photographer and a writer who enjoys travel photography, portraits, and getting to know subjects through photographing their homes. Her recent exploration into the world of film has opened up a new creative channel which she is excited to continue to explore. Liana is a contributor writer for Architizer and Apartment Therapy magazines. Your email address will not be published. Now, the rights have been handed back to me and I started testing papers and labs to create a limited Collection.
It is one of the most well presented and exhaustive information I found on the web. I would love to get feedback on how to find collectors bu especially how to prices such an images that is known to the world and what would be the number of prints that you would recommend based on your experience. Sincerely, M. Thank you for this informative article. I am fairly new at selling my photographs. So far I have been doing only small art shows and a small Town gallery near my home.
Up to this point signing and numbering has never been an issue. I am looking at moving up into bigger art shows and Galleries and now the issue of signing and numbering is coming up. My question is, what do I do about all the photographs I have sold before. Can I still sell those photographs as limited editions? If so, would I count them among the numbers and so start with say number three or number four?
Thank you. He was well known for his fine art nature photography and won many awards and was published nationally. He passed away in I have a rubber stamp with his signature and can provide authenticity as the owner of the copyright and heir to his estate.
Any thoughts on how to word the authenticating documents? Patty Urbanski. Do you tend to see more artists digitally removing their signature for prints, and then signing in pencil in the white space underneath, or keeping both?
Is that also ok? Thinking of having some of my paintings printed and been wondering where to put my signature. In todays digital world of prints, when I make a print I always add my signature digitally in the lower right hand side of my prints, but it is part of the print itself. Would this be acceptable practice with limited edition prints along with numbering it in the same manner, or should you have a physical hand written signature as you talk about in the article.
I am a photographer…. Thank you for your insightful information here. What is your thinking on this? There's just a handful of these and their quantity depends on the number of printers involved in the printing process each printer gets one proof. Proofs are particularly desirable among collectors due to their rarity, or in case of trial proofs, their ability to provide valuable insight into the artist's creative process.
With so many things to consider, collecting prints can seem like a complicated endeavor. But if you do your research right and find out who is the artist and the printer, how the print was made, how many of them were made, and how many editions have been made, you will be on a good way to determine the real value of a print.
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