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Hi all,
I know that someone is going to tell me that it is a color management issue. It very well may be, but I don’t know why. Here is my problem. On Thursday of last week I took a photo and brought it into Photoshop I sharpened it, leveled it and then printed it on an Epson 2200 with Enhanced Matte. It looked stunning. Everything was fine. I then saved the photo. I opened it back up did a save as and proceeded to turn it into a grayscale image. I did this by changing to LAB mode. My intention was to select the Luminance Channel, copy it and then paste it as a new layer after I switched back to RGB. On the PC you select the Luminance channel by pressing Ctrl+ 1. This is where I think it went wrong. I must have pressed the wrong combination of keys, because instead of getting the Luminance Channel, the colors went really bad. Everything became quite dark. I went under the History Palette and just undid everything until before the LAB conversion. I redid what I had intended to do and turned it into a beautiful grayscale image. I then went to print it on my second printer an Epson R300. It came out with a very Green cast. I dismissed it as not having printed many B&W images and decided to try again later and called it a night. The next day, yesterday I decided to make a second copy of the first print on the Matte paper on the 2200. It now came out with the same Green cast as the B&W on the R300. I then tried printing the same picture on the R300 on Premium Glossy Paper and it looks way over saturated. Very dark with no highlights. I checked all my color management options. Nothing changed. I recalibrated my monitor. Still printed the same. I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer drivers. Still bad. I then opened the same image in Nikon View and printed it from there on the R300. The photo looked great. I tried again in Photoshop still bad. At this point I don’t know where to go. I have read quite extensively about color management and have up until this point gotten wonderful results. I just can’t figure it out. Please please please help.
-Rod
I know that someone is going to tell me that it is a color management issue. It very well may be, but I don’t know why. Here is my problem. On Thursday of last week I took a photo and brought it into Photoshop I sharpened it, leveled it and then printed it on an Epson 2200 with Enhanced Matte. It looked stunning. Everything was fine. I then saved the photo. I opened it back up did a save as and proceeded to turn it into a grayscale image. I did this by changing to LAB mode. My intention was to select the Luminance Channel, copy it and then paste it as a new layer after I switched back to RGB. On the PC you select the Luminance channel by pressing Ctrl+ 1. This is where I think it went wrong. I must have pressed the wrong combination of keys, because instead of getting the Luminance Channel, the colors went really bad. Everything became quite dark. I went under the History Palette and just undid everything until before the LAB conversion. I redid what I had intended to do and turned it into a beautiful grayscale image. I then went to print it on my second printer an Epson R300. It came out with a very Green cast. I dismissed it as not having printed many B&W images and decided to try again later and called it a night. The next day, yesterday I decided to make a second copy of the first print on the Matte paper on the 2200. It now came out with the same Green cast as the B&W on the R300. I then tried printing the same picture on the R300 on Premium Glossy Paper and it looks way over saturated. Very dark with no highlights. I checked all my color management options. Nothing changed. I recalibrated my monitor. Still printed the same. I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer drivers. Still bad. I then opened the same image in Nikon View and printed it from there on the R300. The photo looked great. I tried again in Photoshop still bad. At this point I don’t know where to go. I have read quite extensively about color management and have up until this point gotten wonderful results. I just can’t figure it out. Please please please help.
-Rod
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