Drugstore Prints
Jan 28, 2020 11:49:14 #
New to UHH so hoping I'm in the right area for this.
I shoot a Canon 7d ,jpeg and raw. Most of my work is for online only but sometimes need prints.. I do my RAW PP in LR then the final edits in PS. Everything looks great on the screen but when uploaded to WG or CVS for some quick prints they loose some color , desaturate if you will. When I do the jpeg PP in PS and then upload they look good on the screen and the prints look good too. Thoughts?
I shoot a Canon 7d ,jpeg and raw. Most of my work is for online only but sometimes need prints.. I do my RAW PP in LR then the final edits in PS. Everything looks great on the screen but when uploaded to WG or CVS for some quick prints they loose some color , desaturate if you will. When I do the jpeg PP in PS and then upload they look good on the screen and the prints look good too. Thoughts?
Jan 28, 2020 11:51:50 #
Make sure your images' color space is in sRGB when you send to third parties or post on the web. Being in Adobe RGB will do what you are saying.
Jan 28, 2020 11:57:59 #
Fotoartist wrote:
Make sure your images' color space is in sRGB when you send to third parties or post on the web. Being in Adobe RGB will do what you are saying.
Is your monitor calibrated?
Most monitors will not match prints.
Jan 28, 2020 12:05:14 #
Every image display device has a color pattern (wrong word but my memory fails - experts correct). computer displays, iDevice screens, image software, paper prints. And each are different. But your retina sees the difference. But if you have cataracts a dirty yellow brown is introduced, but your brain learned the colors so you will not realize the effect. Most Physics text books will have charts of light intensity per color wavelength as determined by instruments - this what your eye saw and your brain learned.
Jan 28, 2020 12:05:35 #
B Boyd wrote:
New to UHH so hoping I'm in the right area for this.
I shoot a Canon 7d ,jpeg and raw. Most of my work is for online only but sometimes need prints.. I do my RAW PP in LR then the final edits in PS. Everything looks great on the screen but when uploaded to WG or CVS for some quick prints they loose some color , desaturate if you will. When I do the jpeg PP in PS and then upload they look good on the screen and the prints look good too. Thoughts?
I shoot a Canon 7d ,jpeg and raw. Most of my work is for online only but sometimes need prints.. I do my RAW PP in LR then the final edits in PS. Everything looks great on the screen but when uploaded to WG or CVS for some quick prints they loose some color , desaturate if you will. When I do the jpeg PP in PS and then upload they look good on the screen and the prints look good too. Thoughts?
Welcome to the forum. Consider COSTCO. You can download their profile so colors match
Jan 28, 2020 12:08:49 #
Yes, saving in sRGB color space and no, not professionally calibrated but jpegs look good on screen along with the prints.
Jan 28, 2020 12:11:47 #
B Boyd wrote:
Yes, saving in sRGB color space and no, not professionally calibrated but jpegs look good on screen along with the prints.
sRGB good.
Yup, that's because you edited it to look good on your screen.
My images look even better on my AMOLED phone screen.
Jan 28, 2020 12:15:41 #
sRGB color space was devised for color television. And is smaller than other color spaces. Maybe this chart will help.
Fotoartist wrote:
Make sure your images' color space is in sRGB when you send to third parties or post on the web. Being in Adobe RGB will do what you are saying.
Jan 28, 2020 12:29:23 #
Smaller color spaces like sRGB give more contrast, and counterintuitively large color spaces will look dull on the web. And no, it's not your monitor that needs calibration, that's usually a red herring thrown out there frequently.
Jan 28, 2020 12:38:52 #
Fotoartist wrote:
Smaller color spaces like sRGB give more contrast, and counterintuitively large color spaces will look dull on the web. And no, it's not your monitor that needs calibration, that's usually a red herring thrown out there frequently.
Calibrating my monitors makes them look quite different than not, and is very important to getting the files to print right.
...Cam
Jan 28, 2020 12:49:35 #
CamB wrote:
Calibrating my monitors makes them look quite different than not, and is very important to getting the files to print right.
...Cam
...Cam
So what you see is what you get.
Jan 28, 2020 13:36:34 #
Be sure where you are uploading them to does not try to do their own corrections and adjustments and prints them as is.
Jan 28, 2020 14:13:30 #
Thanks jimcam. Never crossed my mind that they would do that but I still question why the edited raw files are the only ones I have the issue with. Edited jpegs, no problem.
Jan 28, 2020 16:16:12 #
jimcam wrote:
Be sure where you are uploading them to does not try to do their own corrections and adjustments and prints them as is.
Yes!
Costco offers two options: color correct or print as is.
I always print as is.
Jan 28, 2020 16:17:26 #
B Boyd wrote:
Thanks jimcam. Never crossed my mind that they would do that but I still question why the edited raw files are the only ones I have the issue with. Edited jpegs, no problem.
Are you sending RAW files?
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