At 08:01 AM 12/5/2005, Bob Sullivan wrote:
The final result is nice, but a little disappointing. The original had plenty of detail, enough for the 24x36. The resulting print loses something in the bright orange at the middle of the print. There is a central maple tree in full fall colors. The jpeg shows some color variations. The print has some larger areas (1 inch blotches) where the color is very consistent and all detail disappears.
I haven't read through all of the answers you have received, but it seems everyone is concentrating on the JPEG compression issue. I have a feeling that isn't the culprit here. If you can see the details when you view the JPEG on your monitor, then the details weren't lost in JPEG compression.
Have you considered the possibility that you might be a victim of trying to print an image this runs out of the color gamut of that printer? I had a picture of a girl in a bright red lacy cape. It looked fine on the monitor, with lots of detail in the lace, but it printed horribly. The whole cape was a solid blob of red.
I edited the picture, and reduced the saturation of the red cape. When the image was reprinted, it looked much more like it should have in the first place. Bright, saturated colors are a problem for many printers.
Are you making your edits using the same color space as the printer? Does the printer even make use of embedded color profiles such as sRGB or Adobe? The lab which printed my photo didn't even know what a color space was, and neither did their printer apparently. ;)
take care, Glen
