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Hi all again,as i have taken alot of photos over the last few months i want to print some of the better photos now,however my printer is only a canon mp250(cheap) is there anywhere i can e-mail photos to get developed to a high standard at a reasonable price,when i print photos out on my printer they come out darker then they are on the screen,i do fix and mess around in photoshop and in the RAW images so any help would be most greatful,thanks eugene
The reason your prints come out darker, is probably nothing to do with the
printer it is more likely that your computer screen and your printer are not
calibrated to the same standards, so what you are seeing on your screen is
not what your printer is reading. I dont know much about calibrating but there
are plenty on here that will know what to do.In the meantime take a look through the sponsors of the site for printing before
you go to the highstreet, I am sure they will be willing to help you out. :)I had the same problem when I started doing home printing. Calibration won’t sort out the issues with the darkness of your prints but it will match the colour from your monitor to your printer.
When you are doing editing on your backlit monitor it will always be brighter than what you see on paper. I use Aperture for editing and when it comes to printing it allows you to increase the brightness before you print which isn’t stored in your edit and this is what I do. I’m sure in photoshop you can apply an action that will allow you to do the same but I don’t print from photoshop so I’m not sure. The easiest way to figure out how much brightness to add is to test print, try applying various factors and see which works best for you (mine usually require a 22% increase in brightness to get my print to match my screen)
Of course if you are editing on a laptop be wary that changing the screen angle will change the brightness you perceive each time you edit photos.
actually by doing calibration it should bring the brightness of your monitor into the right ballpark of prints, wont be exactly the same but close enough to not be as big of a deal.
the nature of the fact your monitor is backlit and prints are reflective will give you some difference but shouldnt be massive
the main issue is most monitors are not designed for photo editing. a very very quick and dirty thing to do is change the brightness of your monitor to 25%, and i bet the prints are way closer to what your expecting
hi,sorry for being THICK,but how do i go about calibrating the printer to the monitor,thanks again
well you need some hardware and software
have a read of some of the tutorials oncolour management on cambridgeincolour.com
depending on printer and paper combination you could possibly download a printer profile.
but the monitor calibration you do need some kit, talk to one of the site sponsors, sheldon photographic or barkerphotographic and they willbe able to supply you with a monitor calibration system
eugene123 wrote:
hi,sorry for being THICK,but how do i go about calibrating the printer to the monitor,thanks again
if you’re on a Mac you can do a very quick and dirty manual calibration…. and beware not all monitors are calibrateable
iMac’s for instance…. will only go to within +/- 1EV for brightness, colour’s okay though…. most monitors are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to bright, even with my iMac turned right down it was still too bright…
Hey don’t know if you’re still looking for somewhere to print off your photos (maybe you’ve sorted out your printer!) but I printed my first shots with Jessops and the quality was spectacular. On the other hand I also got (very very cheap) photos printed with aldi online, and it was super cheap. Not the best standard but great if you had loads you wanted printed.
Hope this helps,
Maj
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