Joined: 27 Jan 2012
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Location: Seattle, Washington
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject: Converting from LAB back to RGB, will it cause print issues?
I'm doing some freelance editing for a photographer and he wanted the Jill Greenberg effect of that sort of plasticy looking skin. I had followed a tutorial similar to this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt49XtCNNqg, it has you convert to LAB then dodge and burn on the Lightness layer. When I finished, I switched back to RGB, saved as a Tiff and sent it to him. He says it looks great on screen but when he prints it, its off. Also I was on sRGB mode accidentally instead of Adobe RGB 1998..I switched back before saving it as Tiff now, but not when I'd sent it to him. He converted it while it was already a Tiff.
Anyway, does either of those issues cause print problems? And does switching from sRGB to Adobe RGB while still working a .psd file ruin colors? I just don't want to have to redo everything, thanks a lot!
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:04 pm Post subject:
Welcome to the forum. Keep your profile as sRGB, 99% of print is set up to handle/understand it. The conversion from LAB should make no difference in the equation.
What is the specific printing problem? Does it print lighter or a different colour than expected? _________________ If life serves you lemons, make lemonade!
Joined: 27 Jan 2012
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:58 pm Post subject:
Thanks for your reply, the photographer says he wants it in Adobe RGB, but also claims he doesn't know too much about that sort of thing. He says he normally prints on his Epson printer in that profile and the images I sent him look fine on screen but are too yellow and look about 50% darker when he prints them.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject:
If he has a set profile (which he sounds like he does), and conversion brings drastic changes at your end, it's going to be a fairly good bet it's either bad colour management or iffy hardware (monitor), this could be at either end, I'm in no position to say.
Not sure that it is a conversion issue, although you are coming from a much wider gamut into a lot smaller. _________________ If life serves you lemons, make lemonade!
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