If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Hello all,
Strange: I have some images I recorded in the D70 Adobe RGB ---- then got them where I want them in PS CS2, Adobe RGB, and looking at them they look good. Then I took them on the compact flash to Walgreens, and ..... they looked great on the preview screen, you know on that card reader do-it-yourself machine thing. BUT when I got them back, they had an overwhelming green tint/cast to them. Of course I wasn't charged for them... And the guy said that his preview window on the big printer press machine showed them looking correct too. Somewhere in the printing they went green. Took them to Target.... same results, not as green, but still green. The images are he http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Allison.jpg and http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Lauren.jpg Thanks so much for any ideas / solutions!!! Tim |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Destin_FL wrote:
Hello all, Strange: I have some images I recorded in the D70 Adobe RGB ---- then got them where I want them in PS CS2, Adobe RGB, and looking at them they look good. Then I took them on the compact flash to Walgreens, and ..... they looked great on the preview screen, you know on that card reader do-it-yourself machine thing. BUT when I got them back, they had an overwhelming green tint/cast to them. Of course I wasn't charged for them... And the guy said that his preview window on the big printer press machine showed them looking correct too. Somewhere in the printing they went green. Took them to Target.... same results, not as green, but still green. The images are he http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Allison.jpg and http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Lauren.jpg Thanks so much for any ideas / solutions!!! Tim On my monitor, the backgrounds in both are green, as they should be. The skin colors aren't at all green. Perhaps both stores are using the same kind of photo printer and/or supplies. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Unless you print your own with a color managed workflow there is no real way
to control, much less troubleshoot, these types of problems. Many people who post to this newsgroup love their Walmart prints . . . |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Yeah, don't get me wrong... I love both Wal-Mart and Walgreens for prints! This
batch though was reallllllly green. I took 4 different files to print and they all had the same weird green cast to them. And looked great in the preview screen at the store, AND the preview screen on the big printer/press. I'm wondering if these drugstore printers/services just can't resolve or make work the Adobe RBG? I'm thinking if I took them back as sRGB they might be right. ??? When I ended up just doing them on my Canon Pixma they are perfect. T "bmoag" wrote in message m... Unless you print your own with a color managed workflow there is no real way to control, much less troubleshoot, these types of problems. Many people who post to this newsgroup love their Walmart prints . . . |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Destin_FL wrote: Yeah, don't get me wrong... I love both Wal-Mart and Walgreens for prints! This batch though was reallllllly green. I took 4 different files to print and they all had the same weird green cast to them. And looked great in the preview screen at the store, AND the preview screen on the big printer/press. I'm wondering if these drugstore printers/services just can't resolve or make work the Adobe RBG? I'm thinking if I took them back as sRGB they might be right. ??? When I ended up just doing them on my Canon Pixma they are perfect. That is a possibility. Those printers expect images to be in sRGB color space. Just for our own information, why dont you convert to sRGB, have them printed again and report back? "Inquiring Minds Want To Know" Bob Williams |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
I'll do it!
Tim ______________ That is a possibility. Those printers expect images to be in sRGB color space. Just for our own information, why dont you convert to sRGB, have them printed again and report back? "Inquiring Minds Want To Know" Bob Williams |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Destin_FL wrote: Hello all, Strange: I have some images I recorded in the D70 Adobe RGB ---- then got them where I want them in PS CS2, Adobe RGB, and looking at them they look good. Then I took them on the compact flash to Walgreens, and ..... they looked great on the preview screen, you know on that card reader do-it-yourself machine thing. BUT when I got them back, they had an overwhelming green tint/cast to them. Of course I wasn't charged for them... And the guy said that his preview window on the big printer press machine showed them looking correct too. Somewhere in the printing they went green. Took them to Target.... same results, not as green, but still green. The images are he http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Allison.jpg and http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Lauren.jpg Thanks so much for any ideas / solutions!!! Tim On my monitor, Allison appears a bit too green. Perhaps the surroundings were predominantly green and reflected light which actually affected the color of the light reaching the subject. Alternately your own monitor may not be calibrated correctly and adds a slight magenta cast compensating for the real "too green" output. Do all of your prints have a greenish cast? I'd try pinking up the images a little with your photo editor. Bob Williams |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Bob Williams wrote:
Destin_FL wrote: Hello all, Strange: I have some images I recorded in the D70 Adobe RGB ---- then got them where I want them in PS CS2, Adobe RGB, and looking at them they look good. Then I took them on the compact flash to Walgreens, and ..... they looked great on the preview screen, you know on that card reader do-it-yourself machine thing. BUT when I got them back, they had an overwhelming green tint/cast to them. Of course I wasn't charged for them... And the guy said that his preview window on the big printer press machine showed them looking correct too. Somewhere in the printing they went green. Took them to Target.... same results, not as green, but still green. The images are he http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Allison.jpg and http://www.hightidemediagroup.com/verytemp/Lauren.jpg Thanks so much for any ideas / solutions!!! Tim On my monitor, Allison appears a bit too green. on my profiled monitor, both images look very good. Lauren looks perfect. try costco, or kodak |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Yeah, see that's the thing, they look perfect here, AND they looked perfect both
on the load-your-compactflash-photos-machine-thing, and the actual print press. Allison is VERY fair-skinned to start with. I even bumped her up a touch from real life in CS2... I'm convinced this might be an Adobe RGB vs. sRGB thing - because remember at Target it was a KODAK machine and it crapped out the pictures towards green too. Tim _____________ on my profiled monitor, both images look very good. Lauren looks perfect. try costco, or kodak |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Color shift having prints done at Walgreens / Target
Destin_FL wrote:
[snip] Then I took them on the compact flash to Walgreens, and ..... they looked great on the preview screen, you know on that card reader do-it-yourself machine thing. BUT when I got them back, they had an overwhelming green tint/cast to them. Of course I wasn't charged for them... And the guy said that his preview window on the big printer press machine showed them looking correct too. Somewhere in the printing they went green. [snip] Thanks so much for any ideas / solutions!!! Tim I have not used Walgreens nor Target, but I have used CVS for my 4x6 prints. I have to *tell* the machine that I do not want any color correction nor enhancements for each print I upload. On CVS's Kodak machine there is an enhancement button for each pic which displays another screen allowing me to remove color correction. It's painfull to do for each pic, but I do get fairly quick at it. Len |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Bleaching Selenium- Toned FB Prints | Nicholas O. Lindan | In The Darkroom | 5 | March 24th 05 10:40 PM |
Bleaching Selenium-Toned FB Prints | [email protected] | In The Darkroom | 0 | March 24th 05 07:39 PM |
Price War Hits Digital Photos | MrPepper11 | Digital Photography | 3 | March 19th 05 12:32 AM |
free 10 4 x6 prints at Target | wayne | Digital Photography | 1 | October 31st 04 01:09 AM |
Archival inksets for inkjet printers. | Steve House | In The Darkroom | 29 | February 10th 04 10:52 PM |