Hi, Niranjan! 1. Without calibrating of your workflow is hard, almost impossible, to help. 2. Calibrating your monitor is a "must do". Some monitors come pretty close to sRGB (at least I don't see HUGE improvement after calibrating them), professional have wider gamut and most laptops are shipped with some sort of display profile of unknown quality (which is lost after OS reinstallation). 3. Printers are even trickier. They are to be calibrated for every paper type you use. My own personal preference - turboprint commercial driver. It comes with good quality profiles (at least I didn't manage to get anything substantially better) but equipment support is limited. 4. Color proofing workflow is something many users forget and I don't remember any darktable specific videos about it. If you don't proof your edits against your printer's profile then you will get gamut mapping of some sorts which translates into problems like uniform dark blobs or lack of details in lights (but darkening is the most common).
Timur. On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 21:37 -0800, Niranjan Rao wrote: > Greetings, > > darktable 2.4.1, Ubuntu 20.04 > > > I am just a beginner and first time I tried printing some of photos > I > had. Commercial service from typical drug store on the corner where > you > can upload photos for printing was used. No calibration of my monitor > or > anything except tinkering with few styles until preview and exported > image was acceptable. > > > After printing, photos look little dark - not too dark, but not as > bright as they show up on my monitor. Most of the photos were > captured > on sunny day outside. > > > I am trying to learn why this can be happening. It could be my > laptop > monitor which is showing brighter than it should be or printing > service > could be processing uploaded jpeg image. > > > Any thoughts or hints? Should I be tinkering with any other settings > such as color profiles so that photos don't look dark. > > > Regards, > > > Niranjan > > _____________________________________________________________________ > _______ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
