printing photos

"jbuch" <jbuch RemoveThis @revealed.net> wrote in message
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 > Sender wrote:
  > > Just got a Kodak LS633, took a few photos and they looked fine on the
cam
  > > display. Loaded them to PC and viewed them in Photoshop. They looked
nice
  > > for me too on the mon. Then, without any touching, I printed them out
using
  > > HP Deskjet 990cxi at highest quality with Kodak's photo glossy paper.
The
  > > printouts were too dark and the colors were faded. Light yellow became
muddy
  > > and lips looked like pink. Is there a way to make the color and
brightness
  > > of the printouts more accurate (refer to the display) so that I can make
use
  > > of Photoshop to enhance the photos? It will even be better if there is a
way
  > > to make the printouts look like the display on the camera without any
  > > processing.
  > >
  > >
 >
 > What you are looking for is called "Color Management".
 >
 > There are three devices involved 1) camera, 2) monitor and 3) inkjet or
 > other color printer.
 >
 > Pretty soon, I will be moving to the print-out stage of my color
 > photography, and I know I will have to take the trouble to learn how to
 > do this.
 >
 > In color photogrphy with wet chemistry, every time you got a batch of
 > new paper, with a different emulsion, you had to recalibrate your color
 > balance if you were real fussy.
 >
 > Really good color always seems to take work, time, equipment and some
 > study of the color forming process.
 >
 > Jim Buch
 >
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Good advice. The procedure I follow is at
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.campratty.com/1faq/faqpages/b9a.html." target="_blank">http://www.campratty.com/1faq/faqpages/b9a.html.</a> It is written for Paint
Shop Pro users, but it isn't too hard to adapt to other image editing
software. And it isn't as hard as Jim Buch's last sentence suggests, but
for the very best results you should spend time learning about the process
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I've been printing up one of my favorite porn stars from her web site. I use
a Canon S600 printer and regular Kodak Inkjet 110+ Brightness paper, since I
haven't gotten into trying photo paper yet. I had to set magenta to +15 on the
scale there and the intensity to +5, and set the brightness from "normal" down
to "dark". I also set the quality of the print to the highest instead of
settling for the 2nd highest. It takes much longer to print a sheet of paper on
the highest setting, like 3-5 minutes a sheet..but I have time for this subject
coming out of the feeder. If I set the brightness to "normal" instead of "dark",
the background wallpaper of the photo would wash out. This subject has pinkish
skin that a healthy dose of magenta really helps out to more accurately
represent the flesh tones I see on the monitor, but nothing is as good as what I
see on the monitor with this printer in photos.
A brown leather recliner that is very reflective in the photo comes out dull
and muddy in the print. Maybe glossy paper would clear that up?
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Sender wrote:
 > Just got a Kodak LS633, took a few photos and they looked fine on the cam
 > display. Loaded them to PC and viewed them in Photoshop. They looked nice
 > for me too on the mon. Then, without any touching, I printed them out using
 > HP Deskjet 990cxi at highest quality with Kodak's photo glossy paper. The
 > printouts were too dark and the colors were faded. Light yellow became muddy
 > and lips looked like pink. Is there a way to make the color and brightness
 > of the printouts more accurate (refer to the display) so that I can make use
 > of Photoshop to enhance the photos? It will even be better if there is a way
 > to make the printouts look like the display on the camera without any
 > processing.
 >
 >
You will find that you get surprisingly different results with different
brands of paper, and sometimes with different types of paper within a
brand. If you try some HP paper you will probably get better results.
If you go to Kodak's website you should be able to find settings for the
use of the Kodak paper with your printer, or at lest your brand of
printer. You'll still have to do fine tuning.

This website should provide you with a lot of help:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints.html" target="_blank">http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints.html</a><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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