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Hi!
I just found this board and am DESPERATE for some professional advice before I tear the rest of my hair out! I’ve tried to read up on other advice in photography forums, etc. and am now so confused, my head is spinning! If anyone could please help me answer these questions definitively, once and for all, I would be SO grateful!
1) I use PS 2.0, have a Canon G3 and a Nikon D70 digital camera, and I print my photos both at a regular developer and at home on my Epson 2200P. Should I save my .jpgs in a certain color profile when downloading them to my HD or use the automatic ones that come with each camera? Do I need to use different profiles and keep separate folders for each of the different output options?
What’s the best calibration to set my monitor to? I’ve tried using the Adobe Calibrator program that came with my iMac but my pics always seem to print darker with a red cast than what’s on my screen. When I try using the Epson-Adobe file my pics print out really yucky and dark!
2) I’ve read that I should turn off all my color managment and convert my files to Adobe 1998 instead of sRGB to get the best results–is this true? If so, how come I don’t see any other options to tag a file with other than the one I set up when downloading my photos (ie. a .jpg from my Canon only offers their sRBG profile while one from my Nikon only offers the Adobe 1998 I set it up to download with)? Shouldn’t there be some other options to click on later on if I want to change a profile to something else?
3) And finally, I just noticed today that when I tried to change an embedded sRBG profile by unclicking the box and doing a "save as" to replace it over the same file, the next time I looked at the file info, it had gone back to showing the original sRGB profile again! Is this a glitch of some sort in the program?
I just spent hours doing step #3 last night and today, thinking that would help me get better print results at my developer, and was so upset to realize that almost none of my converted files kept the change, even though it said it had in the file info right after I had saved over it! GRRRRR!!
So as you can see, I’m one tired, frustrated and confused person right now! Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me!
* Ü* Lori
I just found this board and am DESPERATE for some professional advice before I tear the rest of my hair out! I’ve tried to read up on other advice in photography forums, etc. and am now so confused, my head is spinning! If anyone could please help me answer these questions definitively, once and for all, I would be SO grateful!
1) I use PS 2.0, have a Canon G3 and a Nikon D70 digital camera, and I print my photos both at a regular developer and at home on my Epson 2200P. Should I save my .jpgs in a certain color profile when downloading them to my HD or use the automatic ones that come with each camera? Do I need to use different profiles and keep separate folders for each of the different output options?
What’s the best calibration to set my monitor to? I’ve tried using the Adobe Calibrator program that came with my iMac but my pics always seem to print darker with a red cast than what’s on my screen. When I try using the Epson-Adobe file my pics print out really yucky and dark!
2) I’ve read that I should turn off all my color managment and convert my files to Adobe 1998 instead of sRGB to get the best results–is this true? If so, how come I don’t see any other options to tag a file with other than the one I set up when downloading my photos (ie. a .jpg from my Canon only offers their sRBG profile while one from my Nikon only offers the Adobe 1998 I set it up to download with)? Shouldn’t there be some other options to click on later on if I want to change a profile to something else?
3) And finally, I just noticed today that when I tried to change an embedded sRBG profile by unclicking the box and doing a "save as" to replace it over the same file, the next time I looked at the file info, it had gone back to showing the original sRGB profile again! Is this a glitch of some sort in the program?
I just spent hours doing step #3 last night and today, thinking that would help me get better print results at my developer, and was so upset to realize that almost none of my converted files kept the change, even though it said it had in the file info right after I had saved over it! GRRRRR!!
So as you can see, I’m one tired, frustrated and confused person right now! Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me!
* Ü* Lori
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