High Res has been reproducing art for over 45 years and works with Australia's top artists, museums, galleries and institutions to provide high quality, colour accurate digital files and archival prints.

Here in our specialised studio, we mount your artwork on our counterweight easel and light it using Broncolor lighting equipment and cross-polarisation. We use the highest quality lenses and cameras to copy artworks for any size up to 300 x 500cm. Using this method we can enhance or reduce texture, eliminate shine, and we can even photograph your artwork framed behind glass.

We can reproduce almost any artwork of any size and medium - we can take the smallest of artworks up to sizes large enough for wallpaper and beyond.

For specific projects, we use customised stitching technology and multiple frames - in 2022 we reproduced an artwork for the National Gallery of Australia with a native resolution of 10,000 megapixels and with a final file size of 78 gigabytes.

We use a variety of lighting techniques to produce the best interpretation of an artwork. Our standard lighting uses 1x 1 metre sized polarising filters over our Broncolor light sources with a crossed polarising filter on the camera. This is varied to whatever extent is required to help achieve accurate reproductions and minimise light reflections – essential for the reproduction of oil paintings. Heavily textured works, works with foils or metallic elements may often require variations or combinations of copying techniques to accurately represent the work, this is something we specialise in.

Apart from the quality of our scanning and printing, many artists particularly enjoy that the fact that we can copy the artwork, prepare the file and print it in the one premises. We have a wide range of paper and canvas stocks. We copy paintings of all sizes, editioned prints can be smaller or larger than the original work (our largest archival stocks are 1620mm rolls).

We produce limited edition prints for many artists and major galleries and institutions. Depending upon which materials an artist has worked with, our prints are often more stable than their originals. Some artists often only sell our prints and not their original works.

We also do digital restoration – often in collaboration with Australia’s leading art restorers.

We can manage your prints, hand deckle edges, ship, emboss etc as per your requirements.

For a deeper dive into Artwork Reproduction, click here.

If you’re looking for information on Film Scanning please click here.