Hi,
Last week I decided to get 4 of my best bird photos printed at the local branch of a photography store, however, the resulting prints were pretty disappointing - they were all darker and more yellow than the originals.
I took this up with a member of staff and he immediately brought up the issue of whether my monitor was colour calibrated (which it isn't, only adjusted using Adobe Gamma), I then explained at present I couldn't afford £130 to purchase a 'Spyder', and sadly he wasn't prepared to offer any advice as to how else I could get any future prints closer to my ideal.
I was left feeling slightly frustrated and not completely convinced that he was 100% correct on everything he said.
For example; he said that their system actually applies a slight boost to image brightness before they print them.
On getting home I checked the Histogram of one image, and just as I thought, the data pretty much touches the righthand side - so how on earth did the white cheeks of the Blue Tit in that image come out a light grey in the print!!? :confused:
Does anyone know a way in which you can get satisfactory results from having other people print your images, short of actually getting my Laptop monitor colour calibrated ?
Any other useful advice would also be welcome.
Thanks,
Julian.







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