Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ernie. I had a similar problem a while back. Roy Feldman gave me a lot of help with e-mail and sites to visit and I was able to get close, but not perfect. I then got desperate, did a "bad" thing, and it works for me. Here is what I did. I know it is not kosher, but it worked. I fiddled and fiddled as you did and did not get the perfect results I wanted, so I decided, in my scientific way, to go backwards. I loaded a download of a test print then printed it. Now, the print did not match the screen, though it was fairly close colorwise thanks to Roy (not perfect, but good). I then tweaked the monitor settings so it matched the print. Now, I went into photoshop and looked at a file I wanted to print. Of course, it did not look the way I wanted it to because the monitor settings were not correct. So, using photoshop, I tweaked the file so it looked the way I wanted it to. Then I printed it and it turned out just like it looked on the screen. So, what I see on the screen, I can get on my printer. A kludge, but it works for me. The monitor settings are not too bad for other things. It has a slight color tinge, but perfectly acceptable. That is why I chose a print that looked fairly good, just not perfect. I didn't want the monitor to be way off. Of course, when looking at other people's pictures the colors are not perfect. They are close enough that they look fine. I don't have the original to see, so what I don't know doesn't hurt. If I think about it, I just go back to the monitor default settings and their photo looks the way they intended (I think). But I just recently upgraded to photoshop 7, so the auto color gives results that are off, but they are fairly consistantly of, so a manual tweak of the color setting is easy. My system is different from yours. I am running a PC with Windows 98 SE and an HP 970 printer. Photoshop is set to sRGB and the printer is set to the printer profile. Now, all this said, I still attempt every once in awhile to get things the way they should be, expecially since using PS7. I think I need one of those screen spectrophotometers, or I need Roy to pay me a visit. Give it a try. Aram This message is made of 100% recycled electrons. No new atoms were destroyed in making it. Aram Langhans Science Teacher, Naches High School 101 W. 5th. St / P. O. Box 159 Naches, WA 98937 "Science Rules" - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html