Art collectors: What's the difference between giclee, lithograph, canvas, and print?

so hang in there with me this may take awhile a giclee in usually nothing more than a very high quality REPRODUCTION of something usually a photo of a painting or a photo itself. These can be made in the thousands and regardless of what guarantee you get... more can be done anytime by simply changing then a Small fractional amount and calling it a "second state" then a third yadda yadda yadda you get the picture A lithograph can be one of three things it can be offset litho "read magazine and repros in the 1000s" or original litho from either a stone or plate printed by hand either by the artist or a professional who is trained in that kind of work, me for instances. that litho is a 40 step process by hand in fairly small editions and they are numbered ands signed by the artist with a certificate of authenticity that gives date paper type... artist ..printer.. and amount in the edition and how that amount is split up, artist proofs, printer proofs collectors proofs museum proofs ...  more

so hang in there with me this may take awhile a giclee in usually nothing more than a very high quality REPRODUCTION of something usually a photo of a painting or a photo itself. These can be made in the thousands and regardless of what guarantee you get... more can be done anytime by simply changing then a Small fractional amount and calling it a "second state" then a third yadda yadda yadda you get the picture A lithograph can be one of three things it can be offset litho "read magazine and repros in the 1000s" or original litho from either a stone or plate printed by hand either by the artist or a professional who is trained in that kind of work, me for instances. that litho is a 40 step process by hand in fairly small editions and they are numbered ands signed by the artist with a certificate of authenticity that gives date paper type... artist ..printer..  more