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<blockquote data-quote="slsl6" data-source="post: 762431" data-attributes="member: 49470"><p>In my experience, even if the histogram is what you want, this doesn't mean that a print will be what you want. The reason--at least as far as I can tell--is that what you see on your particular monitor may not be what the printer sees. Monitors and especially smartphones screens are typically quite bright (so the printed image will come out darker than what the monitor displays) and sometimes oversaturated. Ideally you should calibrate the monitor. I use a gamma checker (quickgamma) to set a value I like and set the brightness on the monitor. Then I use Gimp to softproof the image (you need to find the ICC code for the printer you will be using--they're available on-line), which helps. But I find that to print properly I have to lighten the image quite a bit for it not to print overly dark and lower the saturation so the print is not too oversaturated. Everybody's different and every printer is different.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="slsl6, post: 762431, member: 49470"] In my experience, even if the histogram is what you want, this doesn't mean that a print will be what you want. The reason--at least as far as I can tell--is that what you see on your particular monitor may not be what the printer sees. Monitors and especially smartphones screens are typically quite bright (so the printed image will come out darker than what the monitor displays) and sometimes oversaturated. Ideally you should calibrate the monitor. I use a gamma checker (quickgamma) to set a value I like and set the brightness on the monitor. Then I use Gimp to softproof the image (you need to find the ICC code for the printer you will be using--they're available on-line), which helps. But I find that to print properly I have to lighten the image quite a bit for it not to print overly dark and lower the saturation so the print is not too oversaturated. Everybody's different and every printer is different. [/QUOTE]

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