Colour Problems

Keltic Ice Man

Keltic Ice Man

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Im using CS3, and recently decided I would send some wedding pics to photobox to print in Matt.

In CS3 I converted them to profile fujica_04_07_06 The pics look fine in CS3, so I then save a jpg and make sure it uses this profile and then upload to photobox.

Pics come back and the green is so so bright - as in "is there life on mars"

I then go back to the computer and look at the jpg in windows and the green is really bright, but when i got back in CS3 the green is reasonable.

Anyone got any ideas why this might be ?
 
I use a Huey to calibrate.

Now in test I have just tried changing my Working Space RGB to Huey. The pics is now showing in CS3 with the awful green.

But when I load it in CS3 says it is stripping out the space assigned to it and giving it Huey. Is this what i want?

What should my setting be if i have a huey?
 
Dave I think you have probably hit on the problem. I don't think my profile works. I can't remember where i got it, but thought it was what i needed to use for photobox, but I think your right Rgb or Srgb is prob best for photobox.

A really good link about colour profiles is http://www.normankoren.com/color_management_2.html#Setup (Big thanks to Janice for showing me the link)


I Just noticed this from photobox site "Profile support

Please bear in mind that if you supply the same image for printing posters and smaller prints, with an embedded profile you're likely to notice a difference in the printing. This is due to the profile being used in the posters but not the smaller prints."

So now my big question should i send prints as Srgb or Rgb?
 
I'd stick with sRGB for Photobox. They have a profile for the larger prints but their results aren't very consistent and can vary day to day.

You shouldn't use the huey profile as your working space in CS3, that's basically turning off colour management as you're saying the image colour space matches the display so no translation is needed.
 
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