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Blue colors printing up as purplish on Canon S600 with Canon photo matte paper, and causing other colors to be inaccurate.
I downloaded a jpeg of color test patterns for my monitor. It had circles of
red, green and blue, and where the colors overlapped there are the colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and white. I was taking nite photos on my dcam and the streetlights were making white things yellow (so I needed less green from my videocard to make them white again), and the brightness became extremely critical on my monitor or else parts of buildings would disappear (too dark) or blue noise would appear (too light). I did a print of a fractal awhile back and it came out purple in spots where it should have come out bright blue. I'd have to turn the monitors' Blue down (from 48% down to 28%) to get the same effect and to get the other colors on the monitor to match up with the print. I couldn't believe that my monitor would require so little blue. So I did a printout of the above-mentioned "overlapping color circles" and the blue came out purple and causing the other overlapping colors to be inaccurate to some degree. How do I get blue to show up where purple shows up now on my prints? |
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:57:47 -0500, Gary Tait wrote:
[quoting Cymbal Man:] =should have come out bright blue. I'd have to turn the monitors' Blue down (from =48% down to 28%) to get the same effect and to get the other colors on the =monitor to match up with the print. I couldn't believe that my monitor would =require so little blue. So I did a printout of the above-mentioned "overlapping =color circles" and the blue came out purple and causing the other overlapping =colors to be inaccurate to some degree. How do I get blue to show up where =purple shows up now on my prints? Hi, Cymbal Man: There is no guarantee whatever that the colours you see on your monitor will be the colours you see in the printout. Even if you've "calibrated" the monitor with a colour card, as you have. In addition to the problem identified by Gary below, different papers will show colours differently (some not for a day or two, as the paper and the inks interact over time.) It's possible to set "colour profiles" for specific printing jobs - if your software and/or printer driver have this facility, explore it, and you will find that you will be able to print colour pictures with the correct colour balance much more reliably. There's also the issue that different programs will have subtly different colour palettes, which can also affect the colours of your prints. Pick a couple of such programs, one for quick'n'dirty printing, one for major image manipulation, learn them thoroughly, and ditch the rest. Finally, if you use 3rd party inks, the colours will almost certainly be off; you will have to adjust the colour profiles to match. =Look at the cartridge/head to make sure the blue ink is blue. When I =changed my colour carts a while back, the yellow somehow got =contaminated by Cyan, but I caught it early enough, and printed a few =sheets of yellow, and it cleaned out. HTH&GL -- Wolf Kirchmeir If you didn't want to go to Chicago, why did you get on the train? (Garrison Keillor) just one w and plain ca for correct e-mail address |
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To get more flesh tones, I turn up the magenta a bit.
How do I get blue to be less purplish by adjusting any or all of yellow, magenta, and cyan? |
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To get more flesh tones, I turn the magenta up a bit to +10 (more magenta).
How do I get blue to be less purplish by adjusting any or all of yellow, magenta, cyan, and black in the "manual color adjustments"? There are sliders that go from -50 to +50. I also have an "intensity" slider that some pictures demand be turned to -18, but others can get by at 0. Darker pictures wind up "muddy" if the printing "intensity" is too high for the picture, (like an avalanche of ink on a denuded forest hill). |
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