Photoshop PC monitor VS real print

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Hi everyone,

I just went along to Boots to print my first actual photo after months of tinkering around on the laptop and in photoshop.

Pretty much thought I had it all sussed out. Had tinkered around with 'warmth filters', colour balance etc to get a really lovely looking photo on screen.

The photo printed out and looks absolutely terrible. The whole photo is bright yellow and nothing like it looked on the screen ! !

I can only imagine that a laptop screen is limited in range and so not a true image representation.

I have a feeling that all 200 photos Ive taken are going to look rubbish in print cos Ive messed around with them too much.

Any one else had this experience?
 
first laptops are no good for photo work(editing) due to poor viewing angle, 2nd you need to have your monitor calibrated properly.
3rd use a decent lab as said(and maybe even use there printer profiles if they supply them.
and even then a print will never match 100% due screens being backlit,
post a photo here. and we can tell you how good or bad they look.
 
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I am viewing on a crappy lcd monitor at the moment and they look a little yellow faced to me. Ill check on my callibrated pc up stairs and post but my photos generally look ok on this monitor.
 
Picture has a strong yellow/orange cast!
 
I loked at that pic on a really old lappy and they do look like they have jaundice!
 
They look very yellow to me! Get a decent monitor and even if you don't calibrate it properly, get some test prints done at a decent photo place and see how they come back, then adjust your monitor to suit.
 
Yep look on the yellow side on my HTC as well.
 
looks way to orange to me.
heres yours.
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heres just a quick edit which is alot closer to what it should be but still not perfect.
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5482014771_d9f5353432_b2a.jpg
 
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@scottthehat - the original shot i will agree is very warm due to wrong WB, but the edited shot looks rather blue - possibly due to editing from a jpg rather than the original raw.
 
scottthehat said:
first laptops are no good for photo work(editing) due to poor viewing angle, 2nd you need to have your monitor calibrated properly.
3rd use a decent lab as said(and maybe even use there printer profiles if they supply them.
and even then a print will never match 100% due screens being backlit,
post a photo here. and we can tell you how good or bad they look.
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Disagree with first, agree with second and third. I only use a laptop and do all my editing and retouching work on it.
 
Definitely yellow/orange cast, possibly due to WB and tungsten lighting. But hey, what do I know since I'm looking at it on my Macbook screen :)
 
Kerioak said:
Disagree with first, agree with second and third. I only use a laptop and do all my editing and retouching work on it.
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well if you happy with it thats cool, but i have both and both are calibrated i know that when on the laptop siting at slightly the wrong angle looks great then you move slightly look lighter or darker. dont get that with my pc monitor.
 
Kerioak said:
Disagree with first, agree with second and third. I only use a laptop and do all my editing and retouching work on it.
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If you could get a laptop with an IPS screen then the colour problem with laptops would not be so relevant, but sadly there seem to be no manufacturers who will put an IPS panel in a laptop, apart from I think the specialist option on the HP elitebook, but we are talking several thousand £k.

This means that if you use a laptop then you are stuck with a TN panel so you will only get 6 bit colour rather than the full 8 bits, and even small changes of viewing angle will mean that displayed colours will alter.
 
Your laptop monitor must be 'off' by a long way, as others have said the image has a strong yellow/orange cast.
If it is possible to adjust your screen and you have any colour controls you could use the 'Angelique' image you have on your flickr page. This image is fairly close to neutral and the wallpaper is a sort of grey. So if you adjust your screen to get rid of any colour cast on the wall it will be a lot better than it is now. You could also get it printed to use as comparison.
 
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The original looks just like a photo taken on daylight balanced film but under tungsten lighting. As people have shown, it can be rescued. Scott's second effort looks quite good and may print OK. Looks reasonable on my desktop - lappy's are all downstairs and I'm too lazy to go down to see how the pics look on them - sorry.
 
scottthehat said:
well if you happy with it thats cool, but i have both and both are calibrated i know that when on the laptop siting at slightly the wrong angle looks great then you move slightly look lighter or darker. dont get that with my pc monitor.
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agreed, even calibrated my laptop vary hugely to my calibrated IPS desktop screen.
 
Viewing on my trusty laptop - original is yellow and the edit is ever so slightly blue.

I have no issues with matching prints to my screen (Acer Aspire 1350) when printed through DSCL, they always come back identical (although they look a lot less noisy in print!)
 
scottthehat said:
first laptops are no good for photo work(editing) due to poor viewing angle, 2nd you need to have your monitor calibrated properly.
3rd use a decent lab as said(and maybe even use there printer profiles if they supply them.
and even then a print will never match 100% due screens being backlit,
post a photo here. and we can tell you how good or bad they look.
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Don't agree with your first point but what else you've said is spot-on. Calibration is deffo the key - we have calibrated printers at work to match our press printers and it's amazing how much they show up the shortcomings if an uncalibrated screen.
 
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My old macbook used to be bad for editing. always had that yellow tint. Got the latest macbook and its pretty much spot on.. New laptop screens have that whole "same view from any angle"
 
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