10-26-2010, 04:30 PM
[quote name='Vieux loup' timestamp='1288108775' post='3792']
Jenbenn thank you very much for the time you took so fast. I actually tried to use the software colour management AND the printer software at the same time. I had edited the pic's and they were maybe a little dark, but the main problem was that blue colour was too dominating and the greens turned blue and the skin colour in one pic was too red. Which of the 4 colours in the print menu do I reduce or augment? Otherwise, the paper is not the very best but it is Canon and should be OK. Can you confirm that you never print from a RAW file or does it not matter? I actually had one jpeg file and one RAW. Thanks again <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Vieux Loup
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I dont know the Nikon software, but it shouldnt matter whether you print from raw or jpg. If printing from raw the computer must process the image in any event, otherwise you would not get any kind of visible image in the first place. In any event I suggest you print from photoshop or Lightroom for reliable results. Photoshop also offers softproofing, which creates a preview of your image as interpreted by the printer.
Regarding the colors, I suggest you calibrate your screen first, because adjusting colors is far easier within the image editing software than it is within the printer dialogue. Adjusting printer colors on the basis of an uncalibrated screen will result in a time and paper consuming trial and error process, that needs to be repeated for every image individually. The printer adjustements are only for fine-tuning. You should also use good canon paper, by that I mean their higher end glossy stuff.It is my own experience that other media than high gloss and pearl gloss do not reproduce good colors (with low cost inkjets, fine art printers can handle more media with and deliver good quality).
If you insist on messing with printer colors now, there should be a dialogue in the printer menu where you can chnage the colors by moving sliders. to counter the blue tint you move the blue/yellow slider more towrds yellow and maybe the cyan/red slider a little towards red. If you have a differnt menu and you can only reduce colors, I'd try to take down cyan and magenta. By how much, you have to figure out for yourself through trial and error.
Regarding the skin tones: you may want to decrease color saturation (in nikon software and/or the printer dialogue. You have to try it out). Reddish skin is often caused by oversturated images. To be honest however, skin tones are very difficult to reproduce for a four ink printer. If skin tones are important to you profiling may be a solution, but not before you have calibrated your screen and used high quality paper.
Jenbenn thank you very much for the time you took so fast. I actually tried to use the software colour management AND the printer software at the same time. I had edited the pic's and they were maybe a little dark, but the main problem was that blue colour was too dominating and the greens turned blue and the skin colour in one pic was too red. Which of the 4 colours in the print menu do I reduce or augment? Otherwise, the paper is not the very best but it is Canon and should be OK. Can you confirm that you never print from a RAW file or does it not matter? I actually had one jpeg file and one RAW. Thanks again <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Vieux Loup[/quote]
I dont know the Nikon software, but it shouldnt matter whether you print from raw or jpg. If printing from raw the computer must process the image in any event, otherwise you would not get any kind of visible image in the first place. In any event I suggest you print from photoshop or Lightroom for reliable results. Photoshop also offers softproofing, which creates a preview of your image as interpreted by the printer.
Regarding the colors, I suggest you calibrate your screen first, because adjusting colors is far easier within the image editing software than it is within the printer dialogue. Adjusting printer colors on the basis of an uncalibrated screen will result in a time and paper consuming trial and error process, that needs to be repeated for every image individually. The printer adjustements are only for fine-tuning. You should also use good canon paper, by that I mean their higher end glossy stuff.It is my own experience that other media than high gloss and pearl gloss do not reproduce good colors (with low cost inkjets, fine art printers can handle more media with and deliver good quality).
If you insist on messing with printer colors now, there should be a dialogue in the printer menu where you can chnage the colors by moving sliders. to counter the blue tint you move the blue/yellow slider more towrds yellow and maybe the cyan/red slider a little towards red. If you have a differnt menu and you can only reduce colors, I'd try to take down cyan and magenta. By how much, you have to figure out for yourself through trial and error.
Regarding the skin tones: you may want to decrease color saturation (in nikon software and/or the printer dialogue. You have to try it out). Reddish skin is often caused by oversturated images. To be honest however, skin tones are very difficult to reproduce for a four ink printer. If skin tones are important to you profiling may be a solution, but not before you have calibrated your screen and used high quality paper.