rleonetti Loc: Portland, Oregon

When you work in Lightroom you use an Adobe RGB color space. If you export the file as a .jpg and import it into a Blurb book, Blurb imports it as sRGB 1998 color space. But when they print it it becomes CMYK color space on paper. The result is the photo you see in Lightroom undergoes a color shift from a bright monitor color, to a different set of inks on paper which is less bright.

My question: has anyone worked with this color-shift/paper-shift to the point you have developed export pre-sets in Lightroom that will get you a printed photo in a Blurb book that looks very much the same as you edited it on your (hopefully) color corrected monitor?

My suspicion is it will take adding some blue and brightening to the black end of the histogram, but I would appreciate anyones experience that might get me closer without going through too many Blurb books.

louparker Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

A print version of a photo is always going to look less bright and have less color saturation than how it looks on your monitor for the simple reason that monitors are backlit. This isn't just a phenonomen with Blurb, but with all photo books and printed photos unless you use 4-color lithography like the National Geographic does, which obviously neither you nor I can afford.