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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Editing for print (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by foulstream@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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So I am at a point where I am reasonably happy with my photo editing skills (experienced amateur photographer), but have an issue where pretty much everything I print is too dark. Whether I’m editing on my MacBook Pro screen or my 27” monitor, I think the screen backlight gives added brightness that doesn’t come across when printed. I’ve also found that I can’t always rectify the situation just by upping the exposure before I print - that will often result in the highlights being blown out in the print. I use a canon Pixma pro 100 printer if it matters.

Is there something I’m missing when preparing to print, because I can’t keep adjusting and test printing every photo multiple times…

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[–] foulstream@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thx, this is where I spent a lot of time - digging into the world of color profiles. It did help with getting the colors to look the same as on screen, but not the brightness. I’ll reconfirm that my histograms are good but might need to dim and/or calibrate the monitor with a dedicated tool as the other person suggested.