I just printed out the website referenced. Guess what; the colors in
the print out are very realistic to what I'm seeing on screen. Now
I'm really confused.
On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Richard Starr wrote:
--- You wrote:
A scanned photo at 600 ppi looks great on my monitor with the colors
correct, etc. But, when I print it from either Preview, iPhoto or
Elements, the colors are off and the shadows are enhanced. How do I
correct this? I've tried reseting my Epson Stylus Photo RX500 and
attempted to calibrate the monitor.
--- end of quote ---
As Len suggested, there are an awful lot of things that can affect
the print.
Having your monitor look really close to the print is called Soft
Proofing. I'm
not sure what Express does for soft proofing, but Photoshop 7 and
CS can do a
pretty good job of it. You don't need to spend thousands.
Here's a website that covers it pretty simply:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/softproof/softproof_1.htm
There are lots of others too.
Basically, you need three profiles...the printer profile which is
tailored for
the paper you are using. Epson supplies these if you use their
papers.
The monitor profile, which you create during calibration. (Use expert
calibration, and when you look at the grey scales, make sure you
can almost not
see the difference between the darkest samples.)
The image profile which is actully the image's color space. This
is probably
where you are running into most of your trouble. You are using a
scanned image
and it may have a color space that does not match the space you've
set up in
Photoshop...or wherever.
This shouldn't be a problem if you know what you are doing, since
Photoshop can
display and convert most color spaces. Even if you have Photoshop
set to work
in srgb or Adobe rgb, if your image has a different colorspace
included in the
image file, Photoshop can display it in that space. But it
probably will not
print properly unless it is converted to the color space expected
by the print
settings. Photoshop can do this if you ask it to. Read the docs
or look up
some of the resources on the web. I have Photoshop set to display
my camera
files in their native colorspace (srgb as it comes from the camera)
but it is
set to ask me whether to convert it before display. I say NO since
I don't want
to modify the camera files, but when I drag the image onto a page
that is set up
in Adobe rgb, which is what I use in Photoshop, the program warns
of a mismatch
of color spaces and asks if I want to convert. Now I say YES.
Some scanners don't save files with a colorspace name at all. So
you have to
make sure you are looking at them in the chosen colorspace of
Photoshop or
whatever program you are using. Correct the color manually, and
you should be
ok, if all else is in order.
If you have camera images that print fine but your scanner images
are trouble,
the scanner is probably the problem. If nothing else is wrong make
sure your
INTENT setting, either in the Epson driver, or Photoshop is either
perceptual
or relative colormetric, usully perceptual. Any other setting can
make the
colors crazy.
There's a lot to this, but I hope this helps/
Rich
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