River City Silver | Photographic Imaging

Holiday Schedule

River City Silver will be closed from 1:00 PM December 24th until 9:00 AM on January 2nd.

Best Wishes from all of us for the holiday season

In The Gallery:
Steve Oleson - Botanicals

Banished From Paradise 2 - © 2004 Michael Philip Manheim

Agave Morning Glory
Steve Oleson

Our new show features a series of beautiful toned photographs from Austin photographer Steve Oleson. Steve calls them "Botanicals", and they are really lovely toned black and white prints. Check out Steve Oleson's website for more info.

For additional details about the show call 210.734.2020 or contact .
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Find Out About RCS
Print-Ready Pricing

For those of you familiar with setting up digital files for output, qualifing for River City SIlver's Print-Ready pricing is easy! The file basically needs to be a specific file type and color mode, have an embedded color profile and be sized and named correctly for the output desired. RCS will print your file exactly as you have specified. If you're not sure about the Print-Ready process, RCS still offers our full-service printing to ensure you get the highest quality print available.

To find out about the specifics, consult the LightJet Print-Ready or Giclée Print-Ready pages.

Space Images - Photos from Hubble and Apollo

Part of an awe-inspiring collection of NASA images available through SpaceImages.com of San Antonio. A refreshing perspective of our place in the Universe.

Click here to find out more about how RCS helps companies like Space Images create and market these stunning prints.

Hot Stuff:

Lower Prices on LightJet Photographic Prints

E-6, C-41 and B&W Film Processing

Drum Scanning

Custom Color and Black & White Printing

Giclée Information Sheet

RCS has a newly published Information Package with detailed setup info, as well as pricing and packages. The Giclée Information Sheet introduces new, discounted Print Ready prices for customers with files set up to the specifications listed.

With the introduction of Giclée Archival Pigment Printing with the new Epson 9600 Pro printer, River City Silver is blending the sensibilities of traditional fine art printmaking with the exacting world of digital imaging.

The Epson 9600 Pro printer is among the best piezo inkjet printers available. With the ability to print variable droplet sizes down to an incredibly small four picoliters at a resolution of 2880 x 1440 dots per inch, this printer can produce museum-quality prints. The seven color inkset has a broad tonal range and excellent color saturation to produce prints with smooth color blends and excellent shadow and highlight detail.
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The Graphics Guy:
Adobe Photoshop CS2

Pinch me. No on second thought don’t…if it’s a dream I don’t wanna wake up. Adobe has a new version of Photoshop, their mammoth flagship image editing application and this one is choke full of new features that I don’t know how I ever lived without. Let’s take a closer look at the latest version of my favorite program.Now, before I get too far ahead of myself swimming the pool of new features, here’s the basic scoop for those new to Photoshop or who have been using Photoshop Elements. Adobe Photoshop CS2 is the ninth version of Adobe’s principle application. Photoshop derives the appellation ‘CS2’ from its inclusion in Adobe’s Creative Suite, which includes Illustrator (for vector illustration) and InDesign (for page layout) in the Standard Edition and adds GoLive (web page authoring) and Acrobat 7 Professional (PDF creation) in the Premium Edition. Photoshop is also available as a standalone application and this review focuses on it primarily.
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