When and how do you decide to have photos PSA-certified?

[Johnphotoman]

Originally Posted by TCMA

I like your thinking but would this account for the photos of other sports sold by National Sports Photos? Also, we have seen two examples thus far of original news service photos with the cursive writing sitting on top of the emulsion. Both examples have credit stamping from International News on reverse. Either way, I feel as though PSA would treat the National Sports Photos prints as "souvenir photos," which they will not render an opinion on. There is no official stance from PSA online about these but really any commercially available photo are treated as such. Best example I can give are modern photographic prints from Photo File (aka TV Sports Mailbag in the early days) that can be found all over ebay.

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Please explain what you mean by the cursive writing sitting on top of the emulsion. I understand what it means in printing terms, but how are you applying it here? In the case of printing the cursive (name) was added to the print after it was made, thereby it is sitting on top, if you were to flip the photograph over you would see an indentation, impression on the back. Meaning it was not part of the imaging process.

If you would use a Printers Loop on the photo you would see the ink or whatever was used to put the cursive on top of the photo. You can tell it is on top of the emulsion and not part of the emulsion. If I am correct, the cursive was added after the photo was made/printed. Do I understand correctly? John