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Hi all,
New to this forum and first time posting. I have recently purchased a new desktop computer and edited my first lot of images on it yesterday and took them to print today however when they were printed they were very dull and sickly looking when on my screen and having had the image sent to my phone to view on my phone also they colours were truly vibrant and beautiful.
Can anyone advise why this may be occuring?
NOTE: I had other images printed at the same time that were edited on my old laptop and the colours in them came out fine so I cant see it being an issue with the printers.
Thanks in advance!
Anna
There are a few things could be wrong here.
1. Does your laptop have a wide gamut screen (often decribed by marketing as displaying 90+% of Adobe colors)? If so you need to use a calibration device to ensure the monitor profile in your operating system matches your screen. No ifs or buts, a wide gamut monitor must be profiled correctly.
Adjusting photographs on a monitor with the wrong profile is like painting the house through coloured sunglasses. You think you have perfect colours until someon
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Look up Color Management – there are a number of online video tutorials on Linkedin Learning.
You can get 30-days free access.
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You can not expect to print vibrant images as you see them on your screen because screen and printed material are different mediums.
If some images comes ok while others are not as you expect then you have problem with color management as already suggested. Ensure that you are working with files using same color space/profile like Adobe RGB and if you must convert them to CMYK then ensure that you are converting to same CMYK profile.
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There are a few things could be wrong here.
1. Does your laptop have a wide gamut screen (often decribed by marketing as displaying 90+% of Adobe colors)? If so you need to use a calibration device to ensure the monitor profile in your operating system matches your screen. No ifs or buts, a wide gamut monitor must be profiled correctly.
Adjusting photographs on a monitor with the wrong profile is like painting the house through coloured sunglasses. You think you have perfect colours until someone else views them without the same glasses.
2. You don't say what color profile you used for your document. In itself that does not matter as Photoshop can work with a variety of color spaces , but if you are sending documents on to be printed you must embed that document profile with the images. If you are using a local high street printer that ignores the profile, then change printers, but you may get away with converting the documents to sRGB profile (but again embed the profile) and then getting them printed.
3. If you are printing yourself , then you need to set Photoshop to manage the colors and ansure that the correct profile for your printer and paper combination is chosen in the print dialogue.
Forget trying to match with a phone screen - they are not color managed and tend to show colours over-saturated.
To add to the above,
I just opened your first jpeg image. It has the ProPhoto color space embedded. That should never leave your computer and will only work with an external printer if they are fully colour managed. Convert your images to sRGB then send them to the printer.
A bit of background reading for you :
Colour Management simple explanation
Digital images are made up of numbers. In RGB mode, each pixel has a number representing Red, a number representing Green and a Number representing Blue. The problem comes in that different devices can be sent those same numbers but will show different colours. To see a demonstration of this, walk into your local T.V. shop and look at the different coloured pictures – all from the same material.
To ensure the output device is showing the correct colours then a colour management system needs to know two things.
1. What colours do the numbers in the document represent?
This is the job of the document profile which describes the exact colour to be shown when Red=255 and what colour of white is meant when Red=255, Green = 255 and Blue =255. It also describes how the intermediate values move from 0 through to 255 – known as the tone response curve (or sometimes “gamma”).
Examples of colour spaces are (Adobe RGB1998, sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
With the information from the document profile, the colour management system knows what colour is actually represented by the pixel values in the document.
So what can go wrong :
Colour management is simple to use provided the document profile is correct, always save or export with an embedded profile, and the monitor/printer profile is correct. All the math is done in the background.
I hope that helps
Dave
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To add to the above,
I just opened your first jpeg image. It has the ProPhoto color space embedded. That should never leave your computer and will only work with an external printer if they are fully colour managed. Convert your images to sRGB then send them to the printer.
Dave
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I hope that Dave's thorough explanation will help you get to the bottom of this issue.
You may also like to do a nozzle test on the printer to see if its missing one ink pattern perhaps.
If you have a green tint and lack of saturation, that can be an issue caused by misfiring magenta nozzles.
If its an Epson and you use Epson paper, then you may get a decent result by selecting 'printer manages color' and selecting the media by name in the printer driver software options.
AND here is some reading on ICC profiles and how they work for you to provide accurate colour through the digital workflow: https://www.colourmanagement.net/advice/about-icc-colour-profiles/
I hope this helps
if so, please "like" my reply
thanks
neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer
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The only advantage to using Photoshop is the ability to create document by using layers. You can't blame my printer....I have never had issues like oranges replaced by greens by any service other than Lightroom and Photoshop. Even those two programs are incapable of working with each other without further corruption. My iMac came witha completely free "Photo" program that is capable of editing photos in a way that puts Lightroom to shame and the colors come out EXACTLY as I see them on the computer. I used to be a real fan of Lightroom until I had to run photographs through Photoshop to print them and the reds and yellows faded away. Adobe Photshop is almos 35 years old and I seriously doubt a single step has been taken since then to create a user-friendly system. It's time to stop worrying about bells and whistles and to start worrying about a relatively simple way to create documents that come out with true colors.
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'It's time to stop worrying about bells and whistles and to start worrying about a relatively simple way to create documents that come out with true colors.'
That is exactly what color management does. Set it up correctly using a profile of your screen, a profile for your printer, ink and paper combination, and an appropriate document profile and colours will work accurately and predictably.
If colours change when you move from Lightroom to Photoshop, then you do not have colour management set up correctly on your system. The most likely culprit is an incorrect or broken monitor profile in your operating system.
Dave