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I’ve recently gotten to a stage of proficiency in PShop where I’m creating photo collages, embellishing scanned photos with logos or other vector art, or simply scanning old prints or negatives for reprinting. After burning ’em to CD I scurry down to my local digital print shop so as to have a glossy tangible hardcopy created. Invariably the machine operator will tippy-tap away on buttons and tweak contrast, brightness and color to their liking before hitting ‘print’.
I want to know the best way to have my original intent reproduced. After all I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking curves on my computer and I want to compare my on-screen efforts with the unmolested image(at least by the operator – I assume the machine will reinterpret the file according to its driver’s profile when printing).
If my images are tagged with my working color space, should the output look as I intended (assuming my monitor is calibrated OK) without further intervention by the machine operator?
Do I need to choose a ‘rendering intent’ in the color settings dialogue and save it along with my image (and which intent is most suitable for color photographs?).
Color management makes my head spin so feel free to also correct any misconceptions I might have revealed!
With thanks……….Jon May
I’ve recently gotten to a stage of proficiency in PShop where I’m creating photo collages, embellishing scanned photos with logos or other vector art, or simply scanning old prints or negatives for reprinting. After burning ’em to CD I scurry down to my local digital print shop so as to have a glossy tangible hardcopy created. Invariably the machine operator will tippy-tap away on buttons and tweak contrast, brightness and color to their liking before hitting ‘print’.
I want to know the best way to have my original intent reproduced. After all I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking curves on my computer and I want to compare my on-screen efforts with the unmolested image(at least by the operator – I assume the machine will reinterpret the file according to its driver’s profile when printing).
If my images are tagged with my working color space, should the output look as I intended (assuming my monitor is calibrated OK) without further intervention by the machine operator?
Do I need to choose a ‘rendering intent’ in the color settings dialogue and save it along with my image (and which intent is most suitable for color photographs?).
Color management makes my head spin so feel free to also correct any misconceptions I might have revealed!
With thanks……….Jon May
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