[Leica] I can't print my petunias!!

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Peter -

You can check in PhotoShop to see if the colors are out of gamut.  Go 
to View > Gamut Warning.  The out of gamut colors will show up as 
gray.  Adjust your saturation and/or color balance until the petunias 
still look good but are not out of gamut.  For out of gamut colors, 
the printer software will interpolate and choose colors that you 
might not want to replace the OOG ones.  It's always better to use 
the widest color space that both your monitor and printer can 
handle.  That would currently be Adobe RGB.  ProPhoto is a wider 
gamut but current printers can't handle the wider space and you end 
up not matching what you can see on the monitor.  sRGB is good for 
the web, not prints.

Hope this helps.

Tina




At 03:02 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote:
>I wrote:
>>I just could not believe these petunias.  Even in the shade, they 
>>seemed to be florescent.
><http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1001127UVPetunias.jpg.html>
>
>My printer couldn't believe the colors, either.  I just tried to 
>print the above picture, and the colors came out very different from 
>the screen.  Instead of the florescent magenta-purple, I get very 
>red flowers.  Red like a Poinsettia at Christmas.  The only place a 
>few petals look purple is on the very left, at the top right, where 
>the flowers are a little faded or shaded.  But
>
>--Peter