2263 Fifth St. Berkeley CA 94710 (510) 649-8111 (888) 649-8111 toll-free Hours 9-6 weekdays See Contact Us link for map

We have started up Saturday hours on a trial basis, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and will keep them through the summer. If they prove popular, we will continue with the schedule. Until that time, we will not include them in the header at the top of our web pages, but will keep this paragraph in place.

The LightRoom will close Thursday, July 3rd, and re-open Monday July 7. We hope everyone has a good holiday weekend and takes lots of pictures!

Thank you for visiting The LightRoom. Our goal is to help you print your photography or other artwork using a variety of the tools currently available for fine art printing. For photographers shooting film we can provide raw scans for you to adjust or we can do all the scanning and preparation work for you. Digital photographers can bring in ready to print files or digital images for us to work with. Artists working in media such as watercolor, oil, pastels or just about any other form for which you need a print reproduction can bring in work for us to scan, or photograph on 4x5 film before scanning, or bring in your own film or digital file.

For clients too far away to visit, we are happy to consult with you over the phone or via email as we work with your images. Proof prints can be made and referred to before going to the final print.

Whatever your needs and abilities, The LightRoom would like to help you to the next step, the fine art print.

We offer two distinct methods of printing, pigment inkjet on acid free fine art papers, sometimes called giclée printing, and photographic printing from a LightJet 430, which takes a digital file from a camera or film scan and prints directly to traditional photographic color paper, in this case, Fuji Crystal Archive. Both produce excellent prints with the differences being primarily in the paper choices. Giclée prints can be on a variety of papers, from smooth and bright white to natural white or textured as well as canvas. From the LightJet we can print on standard photographic glossy and matte surfaces as well as Super Glossy, which has a polyester base with a mirror-like finish looking like the old Cibachrome, or Ilfochrome Classic, material that we printed slides on for over thirty years.

The Nocturnes is a collective of night photographers and seven of their members will be showing work in our gallery July 14-August 22. For information on night photography workshops run by Tim Baskerville, founder of The Nocturnes, visit their web site, The Nocturnes.

There will be an opening reception at the gallery Saturday, July 19th, from 2-6 p.m.

The links to the left will take you through an introduction to digital printing in general with more information on the specific services we offer. After many years of procrastination, the gallery page now has something more than lame excuses on it. Take a look at what some of our clients are doing, as well as to learn about current exhibits in our studio. The new location we have been in since May 2006 now sports a beautiful gallery with 100 linear feet of display space around the perimeter of the room for solo and group shows. Please drop in and take a look if you are in the neighborhood!

In re-designing the look our web site I have kept and expanded information on our current services. Since we have not printed in the darkroom since the end of 2005, there are no longer any links to information on Ilfochrome Classic. We encourage those photographers who used to use Ilfochrome to try the LightJet Super Glossy material, which will have all the benefits of digital imaging and the same mirror-like finish and polyester base as Ilfochrome prints. Our Master Image service will supply you with the best print we can produce, while the Custom LightJet print will give you quality better than what we could do in the darkroom days at a price comparable to what we used to charge for Ilfochrome printing.

The revolution in photography and printing has had its share of confusion and chaos, as most revolutions do, but the quality of what we can do these days is astounding. We at The LightRoom would like to help you take advantage of these new tools for printing. Welcome to the future!

The LightRoom web site and information contained herein are the property of The LightRoom and copyrighted 2007. Individual images are the property of the artists.

This site was last updated July 3, 2008. Rob Reiter, owner.