Laptop color different from final print

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Just spent ages on photo shop making a picture of a night landscape correct.

Took it to the printer and was disappointed at the difference on what I fixed and what came out on print.

The brightness and colour are both off .

This also happens with my home printer.

Is there anyway to set a laptop monitor to match real print?
 
Thanks. Did not know that sort of thing was around.
Will look into it.
 
GSXR1 said:
Just spent ages on photo shop making a picture of a night landscape correct.

Took it to the printer and was disappointed at the difference on what I fixed and what came out on print.

The brightness and colour are both off .

This also happens with my home printer.

Is there anyway to set a laptop monitor to match real print?
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Is Photoshop set to match the colour space of the print shop?
 
st599 said:
Is Photoshop set to match the colour space of the print shop?
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I dont know.

Its Tesco and they use brand new Fugi film printers. I have my color space set on default in photo shop. I think its adode RGB

Everything is darker on print and detail has been lost in the stars in this print.
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this is a quick scan of the print. As you can see. loads has been lost.

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I saved in Tiff so I dont suspect the conversion

Im a pure novice by the way. I just wanted to print last nights trip as an experiment.
 
If you're going to put that much effort into editing a photograph, at least send it to a printer that will do it justice; ie loxley, DSCL etc.

Prior to that, if you're going to take colour sensitive images, then you really ought to calibrate your screen.
 
Its Tesco and they use brand new Fugi film printers.
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The second word says it all! you get what you pay for and T**co isn't the place for quality colour corrected prints no matter what printer they have.
 
As i said. New to printing . I will look into better printer people. Its just that the same thing was happening on my home printer. The man in Tesco said he could bump up the brightness but you know as well as me, it not that simple.
He blamed laptop screens. He said they are not the same as a proper PC monitor . He probably has a good point.
I have my eye on a device to help calibrate my screen. Seems like I will only use it once though.
 
Calibrate your screen... although, I would argue that unless it's a high end laptop with a IPS screen, even that may be pointless because of the very poor viewing angle of most laptop screens and the fact that it may not be in the same position twice. Still better than nothing though.

If you do calibrate it, make sure you have any auto brightness or auto contrast settings turned OFF! There's no point calibrating it if your computer is constantly making adjustments to it.

Spyder 4 Elite is around £70 ish.. that works well. I'd recommend the X-Rite i1 Display Pro, but that comes in at around £150.
 
Turn the brightness down on your monitor and see if t matches the print. Also send images as sRGB not RGB.

There is nothing wrong with using Tesco for prints. My local one was fine as we're asda.

The main issue here is your screen calibration - anyone local on here be able to help you out?
 
POAH said:
Turn the brightness down on your monitor and see if t matches the print. Also send images as sRGB not RGB.
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That depends on the printer, what equipment they use, and what they're profile requirements are. Plenty of printers can easily exceed the gamut of sRGB.
 
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