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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 835842" data-attributes="member: 48483"><p>Getting a photo print right is a bit of a gamble each try. You are tuning the photo color and brightness for an average computer display, which is a direct-view color science of combining Red-Green-Blue. On a print you are using paper that must reflect the ambient light on stock that can have differing reflective properties, and must convert to Cyan-Yellow-Magenta color science for masking reflected light. And consider the wide variety of light color temperature that can only be controlled by your selection of light bulbs or time of day.</p><p></p><p>Every year when I print my calendars for Christmas gifts I just upload the photos I carefully worked over and just hope for the best when I open the box. Shading / contrast really gets auto-adjusted by most commercial printers and it sometimes can ruin the details in the images. You just have to have some faith in the print driver (only use a driver downloaded directly from the printer manufacturer) to match the color well (some color will be wrong nearly every time) and be ready to reprint with adjustments made.</p><p></p><p>I wish I could have recorded some of my past conversations with customers regarding what black is. Black is Hex FF. Anything else is a shade of gray which will print as a mismatch if you use 2 grays of different Hex values layered on an image. Even when it looks perfect on your never-calibrated computer display. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 835842, member: 48483"] Getting a photo print right is a bit of a gamble each try. You are tuning the photo color and brightness for an average computer display, which is a direct-view color science of combining Red-Green-Blue. On a print you are using paper that must reflect the ambient light on stock that can have differing reflective properties, and must convert to Cyan-Yellow-Magenta color science for masking reflected light. And consider the wide variety of light color temperature that can only be controlled by your selection of light bulbs or time of day. Every year when I print my calendars for Christmas gifts I just upload the photos I carefully worked over and just hope for the best when I open the box. Shading / contrast really gets auto-adjusted by most commercial printers and it sometimes can ruin the details in the images. You just have to have some faith in the print driver (only use a driver downloaded directly from the printer manufacturer) to match the color well (some color will be wrong nearly every time) and be ready to reprint with adjustments made. I wish I could have recorded some of my past conversations with customers regarding what black is. Black is Hex FF. Anything else is a shade of gray which will print as a mismatch if you use 2 grays of different Hex values layered on an image. Even when it looks perfect on your never-calibrated computer display. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]
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