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December 1, 2018
Question

Different colors for half of photo

  • December 1, 2018
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This is something I have not come up with before.  I have 4 photos which I've put into one psd file as a collage.  On the screen, all colors look fine. in all 4 photos of the collage  However when I print the collage,  2 of the 4 photos print with very different colors, even though on the monitor they all look perfect.  It should be noted that if I print the ones that look incorrect from the original file, again they print abnormally even though on the screen they look fine.  What am I missing here?  Thanks.

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    skronwithAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 2, 2018

    Foolish me, looking for a paper clip icon.  Anyway here first the screen shot in PS and the second an iPhone picture of the printed shot. Colors not showing that well, but you'll see what I mean  In the first of the 4 on the left and the top right, the color representation on the printed page is a pretty perfect copy of the screen.  It looks even closer in real life.  But on the lower and middle right printed photos you can see a big difference with the green being blue on the middle right one and though it doesn't come out great in the iphone picture the bottom is printed a very dark greenish-blue.  Also you'll note that the border between the photos on the screen is green, but when printed is bluish-green.  Now I did take the sample of that green from one of the 4 photos (I forget which) to paint the border with so if there's a problem with the particular photo it might explain the border color also being screwed up.  I did do soft proofing and found that the gamut of the bottom pictures were indeed out of whack (there there were problems with the good printed ones too) but I fixed this in photoshop and got the almost exact printed results as you see here with now no gamut warnings.  The PS color settings are shown in the last screenshot.  The problem is only in the greens since as you can see in the bottoms of the photos, the red/yellows there come out fairly close, even more so when you look in real time.  Thanks for any help.

    Chuck Uebele
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    Community Expert
    December 2, 2018

    You can also just paste the screenshot into you post, skipping the saving part.

    skronwithAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 2, 2018

    I don't see here an icon for attachments.  How can I do it to get you the screen shots?

    D Fosse
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    Community Expert
    December 2, 2018

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    Community Expert
    December 2, 2018

    What are the images’ Color Mode and bit depth?

    Could you please post a screenshot taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible and a scan or photograph of the print?

    skronwithAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 1, 2018

    I should add that the problem seems to only affect green colors, turning them blue.  Other colors like orange and red are not affected.