Preparing Images to be sent for printing by an on-line company

[FrattonFreak]

Hi,

In the past I have wondered why images I've prepared in photoshop do not get printed by the on-line printing company the same as I see them on the screen.

So...

1. I have a screen calibrator which in fairness does appear to darken the screen which as a result I save images that were brighter

Colours
I still find that colours do not appear to match that on screen with what gets printed.
Using CS6 which options & settings should I have CS6 set to

Prints
If the online company in its technical notes requests images saved with an sRGB profile where does this actually get set so the image is saved

Finally
I dont want to have to set each image so I am assuming that there is a way to set CS6 so that it does this for me as a default for each image

PS - In CS6 my default images save as options are set to... Colour with ICC Profile : Adobe RGB (1998). For the image...of I go Edit > Convert to profile > and set to sRGB IEC...... it will then allow me to save the image as ICC Profile: sRGB IEC....

However I would prefer my images imported from the camera memory card by Bridge automatically converts the image profiles to sRGB rather than me doing this for each one...maybe I am missing something

Help and advice will be appreciated

Thanks

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Right, colour space is something to discuss with the printer.

The other problem is luminance… mainly due to the fact that
your screen is backlit and a print is reflective i.e. additive vs
subtractive light.

Ask your printer about the correction value in terms of limi-
nance. as well.

 

[FrattonFreak]

I can see CS6 allows me to automate this by Files > Scripts > Image Processor ticking the convert profile to sRGB.......wondered if there is a way to do this as part of bridge bring the RAW files over avoiding even this step

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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I don't think so many CS6 apps can do anything with RAW files!

 

[droj]

If you're set on srgb for everything, get the camera to export in srgb ... then in PS, set the working space and any other options to maintain that colour space. That's not what I do, but it appears from your brief explanation that such might suit your purpose, and no converting will be necessary.

Further to that, look into printer profiles from the print vendor, and soft proofing with them in PS.