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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 11 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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[–] JJh_13@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What editing software are you using? The better ones have the possibility to brighten the dark parts without changing the lights. Raw converters usually have softproof for printing, too.