[Leica] OT: Photoshop help!

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard F. Man)]

Karen, some of these info you may already know, apology for that. The two 
words that will solve your problems is "Color Management." Looks like even 
though you may not have calibrated and profiled your scanner, at least you 
are happy with the color you see on your calibrated screen, so you are more 
than half way there.

The rest is basically the same thing you do with your screen - make sure 
you have a good profile from Epson for the printer and paper you are using. 
Then under Photoshop, when you do a Print (assuming you are using PS6,7 or 
8), select source space as Adobe RGB, then Print Space as your printer 
profile for that paper. Go to the Advanced setup and disable printer color 
management.

You can even set up soft proofing so you can preview the colors w/o going 
thru print. Very handy.

What is the current price of the R-D1 in Japan :-)?

At 08:54 AM 8/15/2004, Karen Nakamura wrote:


>Argh! I'm a bit frustrated. I just bought a new printer here in Japan (the 
>Epson PM-G800, I don't know what the equivalent is in the U.S.) and have 
>been trying to print to it in Photoshop. On topic, I'm printing all the 
>photos from China that I took with my M7.
>
>I'm scanning in from my Nikon LS-4000 and getting great rich colors. My 
>LCD screen is calibrated using a Spyder calibrator.
>
>In Photoshop, everything looks great while I'm editing it (in Adobe RGB). 
>The problem is when I go to print.
>
>The Print With Preview shows a very desaturated version of my image -- a 
>good amount of the color is drained from it. This is despite everything 
>setting I can think of changing (the source/destination color space, 
>etc.). When I go to print, the final printed image is just as desatured as 
>the Print Preview.
>
>Can anyone help? What setting am I setting wrong?  I want the rich colors 
>I'm seeing!
>

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