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Using Win XP Pro and CS3. 2 gig of ram and when printing from my own machine, using an HP 8250. This question is about uploading prints to a professional lab and having them color accurate.
I have my monitor calibrated using Spyder 2 Pro and this monitor profile shows up as the active profile on my video card settings and as the working space in edit/color settings..
I would like a professional lab to print some of my larger prints but when I upload them, the resulting print colors are a little off. The lab provides ICC profiles (I believe they are printer profiles, for glossy, lustre and matte). Mostly, the colors are less vibrant than those I achieve on my own inkjet and also from the ones I see on the screen.
Therefore, I installed the lab’s icc profiles for their printers, but I don’t know how and where to enter them into CS3.
So, if I want to take a photo and adapt it to the lab’s ICC and then upload it to them, how would I go about it? The lab says I should not "convert" my picture to their profile and that I should not "embed" their profile in my picture. But the person I’m talking to is not very conversant in CS3 and additionally, there is a language barrier.
The lab says to look at my picture on the screen using their ICC and adjust it accordingly and then upload. But when I try to do this, their ICC seems to become embedded. This is ok with me but they say it isn’t right and I’m very confused.
Where should I put the lab’s ICC profile so that I can adjust my picture to look the way I want it to look when they print it?
Should I "assign" a profile – should I "convert" ?
I spoke with Adobe tech support and they weren’t clear as to what I should do either so I decided to try posting here.
Thanks.
Louise
I have my monitor calibrated using Spyder 2 Pro and this monitor profile shows up as the active profile on my video card settings and as the working space in edit/color settings..
I would like a professional lab to print some of my larger prints but when I upload them, the resulting print colors are a little off. The lab provides ICC profiles (I believe they are printer profiles, for glossy, lustre and matte). Mostly, the colors are less vibrant than those I achieve on my own inkjet and also from the ones I see on the screen.
Therefore, I installed the lab’s icc profiles for their printers, but I don’t know how and where to enter them into CS3.
So, if I want to take a photo and adapt it to the lab’s ICC and then upload it to them, how would I go about it? The lab says I should not "convert" my picture to their profile and that I should not "embed" their profile in my picture. But the person I’m talking to is not very conversant in CS3 and additionally, there is a language barrier.
The lab says to look at my picture on the screen using their ICC and adjust it accordingly and then upload. But when I try to do this, their ICC seems to become embedded. This is ok with me but they say it isn’t right and I’m very confused.
Where should I put the lab’s ICC profile so that I can adjust my picture to look the way I want it to look when they print it?
Should I "assign" a profile – should I "convert" ?
I spoke with Adobe tech support and they weren’t clear as to what I should do either so I decided to try posting here.
Thanks.
Louise
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