Saving as JPG for online prints - ICC profile??

I spent all day editing some photos to be printed online (using EZprints). Should I be checking off the ICC box when I save them? Will it matter? I want to be sure my efforts were not a waste!

thanks,

brian

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"Brian Huether" wrote:

I spent all day editing some photos to be printed online (using EZprints). Should I be checking off the ICC box when I save them? Will it matter? I want to be sure my efforts were not a waste!

Do you have your system profiled? Do you understand which profile you are including? Does the service you are using use a profiled workflow?

If the answer to any of these questions is "no" or "I don't know," then opting to embed profiles is likely to do you little or no good, and may actually give you poorer results.

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I spent all day editing some photos to be printed online (using

EZprints).

Should I be checking off the ICC box when I save them? Will it

matter?

Most of these online print shops assume your files are sRGB and proceed accordingly. I doubt it matters whether you tag the files or let them do it but to be sure I'd email EZprints and ask them. It probably helps if you do your edits in the same working space as they are using, ie, convert to sRGB before you make your edits.

"Brian Huether" writes:

I spent all day editing some photos to be printed online (using EZprints). Should I be checking off the ICC box when I save them? Will it matter? I want to be sure my efforts were not a waste!

If your system color management is properly configured, it's better to include the profile in the jpeg for sending to a print service. I don't use ezprints so I don't know if they actually use it, though.

If your system color management is *not* properly configured, anything that works right is doing so by chance, and you shouldn't change *anything* until you're ready to go to a fully color-managed workflow; because anything you change is very likely to cause the prints to suddenly become all wonky.

Some print services including the one *I* use <www.whcc.com> say in their preparation guidelines that you must put the image in their preferred color space (usually sRGB) and tag it as such before submitting the image.
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