Glossy.Photographic paper with a shiny reflective finish.Glossy prints tend to have slightly better contrast and detail than matt prints, but the shiny finish shows up fingerprints and reflections of light rather badly.cf. matt. Entry last updated 2002-04-03. Term 561 of 1487. Previous term: global positioning system. Next term: gobo. This document is copyright © 2002-2008 NK Guy, PhotoNotes.org. This information is provided with neither warranties nor claims of accuracy or completeness of any sort. Use this information at your own risk. All trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. You may copy and print this document for your own personal use. You may not, however, reprint or republish this work, in whole or in part, without prior permission from me, the author. Such republication includes inclusion of this work in other Web sites, Web pages, FTP archives, books, magazines or other periodicals, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM compilations or any other form of publication or distribution. Please do not frame this site within another. Please send comments or error reports using the feedback form.
Photographic paper with a shiny reflective finish.Glossy prints tend to have slightly better contrast and detail than matt prints, but the shiny finish shows up fingerprints and reflections of light rather badly.cf. matt. Entry last updated 2002-04-03. Term 561 of 1487. Previous term: global positioning system. Next term: gobo. This document is copyright © 2002-2008 NK Guy, PhotoNotes.org. This information is provided with neither warranties nor claims of accuracy or completeness of any sort. Use this information at your own risk. All trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. You may copy and print this document for your own personal use. You may not, however, reprint or republish this work, in whole or in part, without prior permission from me, the author. Such republication includes inclusion of this work in other Web sites, Web pages, FTP archives, books, magazines or other periodicals, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM compilations or any other form of publication or distribution. Please do not frame this site within another. Please send comments or error reports using the feedback form.
Photographic paper with a shiny reflective finish.
Glossy prints tend to have slightly better contrast and detail than matt prints, but the shiny finish shows up fingerprints and reflections of light rather badly.
cf. matt.
Entry last updated 2002-04-03. Term 561 of 1487.
Previous term: global positioning system.
Next term: gobo.
This document is copyright © 2002-2008 NK Guy, PhotoNotes.org. This information is provided with neither warranties nor claims of accuracy or completeness of any sort. Use this information at your own risk. All trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
You may copy and print this document for your own personal use. You may not, however, reprint or republish this work, in whole or in part, without prior permission from me, the author. Such republication includes inclusion of this work in other Web sites, Web pages, FTP archives, books, magazines or other periodicals, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM compilations or any other form of publication or distribution. Please do not frame this site within another.
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