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Never occurred to me til now but what colour profile should I be using? I've always uploading them in RGB and they are coming back very nice but should I be sending them in CYMK?
 
Hacker emailed me two profiles he got his hands on for photobox which I use. They have produced better quality prints. If you PM me your email I will send them to you and you can load them straight into Photoshop.

Cheers,

Bob
 
Thanks Bob :thumbs: they arrived safely.
The instalation is a bit "above me" I'll get one of the kids to do it tomorrow :D
 
Cobra said:
Thanks Bob :thumbs: they arrived safely.
The instalation is a bit "above me" I'll get one of the kids to do it tomorrow :D
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If you save the profiles to your desktop, just right-click and then click install and hey presto next time you start PS the profile should have loaded.

Thaks Bob mine loaded just fine and just by switching a couple of my shots to the profiles sent there was a difference in colours. (my monitor has not been profiled apart from the adobe profile which I set from the control panel) I hope the prints match my monitor now.
 
tiler65 said:
If you save the profiles to your desktop, just right-click and then click install and hey presto next time you start PS the profile should have loaded.
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:thumbs: that works! Cheers Tiler
Now I will have to fire a few over to Photobox to see what happens "On-screen" 1st impressions are looking good
 
tiler65 said:
I hope the prints match my monitor now.
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Prints shouldn't match your monitor, you monitor should match the prints (assuming the printing is colour managed) :thumbs:
 
Why can't I see the image? I have turned all my blockers off but still no joy.
 
Well I fired a few test shots off to photobox having set "profiles" as above and the results were pretty good, the prints were a tad darker and slightly saturated, (oranges and greens) if I hadn't held them against the images on the PC screen to compare I would have probabley not have noticed the difference
 
I suspect that if you sent two versions of the same image in, one sRGB and the other using the "Photobox" profile they'd both produce identical prints. I'll check it next time I send an order in...
 
pxl8 said:
I suspect that if you sent two versions of the same image in, one sRGB and the other using the "Photobox" profile they'd both produce identical prints. I'll check it next time I send an order in...
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I for one would be interested in the results :thumbs:
Actually, if I had thought about it I would have done that recently.
That begs the question though, if you are correct in your assuptions How do you get prints without the "slight differences"? The "test card" looks Ok to me.
 
I guess it depends if the file is converted to or assigned the profile in the first place and what Photobox are doing at their end, assigning sRGB, converting or simply ignoring. I'll order some test shots on Monday....
 
pxl8 said:
I guess it depends if the file is converted to or assigned the profile in the first place and what Photobox are doing at their end, assigning sRGB, converting or simply ignoring. I'll order some test shots on Monday....
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I think that they are "mostly" ignoring it to be honest, generally, as stated above, images do come back a little "dark and saturated" by matching the profile I can see the before and after, if you see what I mean, but when they came back there was definatly a slight improvemnet on the sRGB profile but still not "smack on"
Are "we "being too critical I wonder?
 
It's my only disappointment with Photobox - the lack of printer profiles.

There's been a message on their website for well over 12months stating they hope to be able to provide profiles for their printers, haven't achieved it as yet. Should be easily possible particularly for a print company as popular as these

simon
 
simonkit said:
It's my only disappointment with Photobox - the lack of printer profiles.

There's been a message on their website for well over 12months stating they hope to be able to provide profiles for their printers, haven't achieved it as yet. Should be easily possible particularly for a print company as popular as these

simon
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Hmmm - especially as they're affiliated with Fuji.

FujiHunt (old name now) used to build some pretty awesome ICC profiles. I think now it's got more into a consumer market than specialist and people are paying less and less attention to it :bang:

I dont know why photobox dont support their own profiles yet - especially as they can process a millions pictures per day...!

Bizzarre...!
 
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