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SoDoSoPa

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DS Colour Labs users. Do you use there colour profile for standard printing on matt lustre? Perceptial or Reletive colorimetric?

As I understand it, I have there downloaded colour profile installed on my computer, do you open an image in photoshop then after your happy with any adjustments, click edit - convert to profile and save the file before sending them it for printing.

Or should I just send a sRGB file as standard?

What have you had more success with as regards to a close match to your monitor?
 
I use lightroom and just export with their lustre profile.
I ran some tests in the past with sRGB and their profile looked better for me, but there wasn't much in it.

It will only cost a few pounds in prints and postage to run the tests yourself to see what you prefer.
 
I use photoshop but just send rgb I have friends whom do the same.

Gaz
 
If you want full control, yes, proof in PS/LR with their profile and make any adjustments you see fit. I personally just send them SRGB files and be done with it, I shoot in SRGB anyway so faffing about proofing is just extra time wasted this end.
 
Always converted to include their profile, because that's what you're supposed to do?? Pretty sure it's cheaper that way too.
 
I'd say send 'em as is (sRGB) - it's pretty universally recognised, & there ain't much to lose. You can obsess forever about this stuff with no visible gain.

The main discrepancies that people find when sending to print are most likely to do with tonality, not colour - and no colour profile, whether soft-proofed or embedded, is gonna help with that.

Labs can screw up in worse ways than whatever you're currently imagining.

Perceptual.
 
OK thanks everyone I will send for some test prints to see if there's any difference, I guess your never gonna get an accurate rendition to what you see on your monitor anyway. One of my biggest problem is getting prints back that are too dark and have muddy whites, I've tried giving them a bit more contrast only to have the blacks go too dark. Sometimes I don't even know where I'm going wrong.
 
Please do come back and post what you find. There is very little information on results from different printing places.
 
SoDoSoPa said:
OK thanks everyone I will send for some test prints to see if there's any difference, I guess your never gonna get an accurate rendition to what you see on your monitor anyway. One of my biggest problem is getting prints back that are too dark and have muddy whites, I've tried giving them a bit more contrast only to have the blacks go too dark. Sometimes I don't even know where I'm going wrong.
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I export using the DSCL lustre profile (DS-Colour-Frontier-for-Lustre - obviously for lustre prints!) and the results always come back an exact match for what I see on my screen.

If you are not getting good results I would question your screen calibration, how are you profiling your monitor?

I should also say I've compared the DSCL profile with sRGB and there is very little difference.
 
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