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cyberwasp
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March 30, 2017
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printing

  • March 30, 2017
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I just came across a frustrating problem in PS and LR. In PS there is no way to adjust a photo by F-stops. In LR you can adjust by F-stops but when you import to photoshop is messes with the photos dimension. I did not touch or alter the dimensions in LR but it reduces the photo size by 2/3rds no matter what photo I open in PS from LR.

I just want to increase the brightness by 2/3 stops, edit and print from PS. Or if possible to get my printer to print what I see on screen. My monitor in calibrated with a spyder 4 pro. The prints are coming out darker than what I see on the screen.

PS 2017

HP officejet pro 8600

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2017

If your prints are too dark, your monitor is too bright. Simple as that. Set your calibration parameters so that monitor white is a visual match to paper white.

As for the size reduction - check the resolution setting in Lightroom Preferences > External editing. Print size is just metadata, determined by the resolution setting expressed as pixels per inch, ppi. That means exactly what it says, btw, so consider for a second what it means for print size. You can change ppi arbitrarily without altering the file (as long as you don't resample).

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cyberwaspAuthor
Inspiring
March 30, 2017

Ok, what your saying about brightness makes sense. However when I use the spyder 4 pro to calibrate the monitor it choose 120 which turns out on my monitor setting of 44 brightness. If I turn the brightness down to match the print it ends up around 4. Doesn't that throw off the colors? Confused!!

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2017

cyberwasp  wrote

If I turn the brightness down to match the print it ends up around 4.

Then just do it. Some displays can't be turned down low enough, and then you have a problem.

It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that you need to be confident that you're looking at the print in adequate light first, to determine that the print really is too dark. And of course, that you have the right printer settings and profile.

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