This may be more a problem associated with early photograph processing, but what I'm seeing is very peculiar. I have a photograph (of my lovely grandmother) that was taken and processed and printed in about 1915. Here is a scan (scanner is Epson V600 Photo) of said photo....
However, this is the way it prints (printer is Epson Artisan 50)....
The print looks like this whether I use 'Photoshop controls colors' or if I let the printer do so.
It appears there was some material added by the photographer to scrub the lower part of the subject so that the image would look as it does. However there is no actual color in the original print, as you can see.
My system is a Dell XPS8700 with an i7 processor and 24gb of ram; Photoshop is version 24.4.1. The Epson printer has a mixture of Epson and generic color cartridges, but I've never had a circumstance like this in any recent prints.
I've considered using a color selection of the red, adding the selection to separate layer and change the color in that layer to a complementary green, but I doubt I could generate a perfect color profile to begin with and have no idea what the result would be. After all red plus green equals black.
I look forward to your suggestions, and I hope there's someone who may have worked on photos of the early 20th century in your staff :). Is there a way to suppress a certain color in printing? Perplexing issue.
Thanks, Bruce
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Hi @bruceb76700895 I can see the images in your last post. Yes it was me who requested that test. So there's likely an issue with your printer it seems - but you may want to try resetting Photoshop in case that helps? Maybe print using another image utility and see if you see the same error (albeit with inaccurate colour)
Perhaps try a thorough reset of Photoshop preferences?
(read this entire post before acting please)
Resetting restores Photoshop's internal preferences, which are saved when
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