Printing

[playinhockey]

I just recently have been trying to learn to work with RAW files. After touching up the shots, I have been saving them as TIFF (16 bit). When I print them using PS element the prints come out washed out looking. Not at all what they look like on the monitor. If I convert the file to jpeg and print them, they look great. Should I just print JPEGS, or am I doing something wrong in printing the TIFF files?

Tom

[john_houghton]

For starters, I was under the impression that Photoshop Elements does not support 16bit files. The washed out colours may be a colour management effect. You don't say how you are converting your images. Some converters allow the image to be tagged with a colour space - e.g. sRGB, Adobe RGB or a camera profile. Maybe your tif and jpeg files are tagged differently.

John

[playinhockey]

I guess this will be trial and error. I'll give 8 bit a try. I changed the print space to printer color management and that seems to be much better. I just wanted to make sure I was getting the most out of my setup. Thanks for the help.

Tom

[scottbergerphoto]

Photoshop Elements 2.0 will not even open 16 bit files. When you try to open them it asks you specifically if it can convert them to 8 bitt. (Photoshop can open 16bitt files). I use PSE 2.0 as my primary image editor after BreezeBrowser conversion. I convert Raw to 8 bitt Tiff NEVER JPEG, and open in PSE 2.0. The reason to avoid JPEG is that each time you edit and save in JPEG you lose data. Even if you shoot JPEG you should save as tiff in your image editor and only edit as tiff. This has been written about on Roger Cavanaugh's site.
Scott

[robertwgross]

I've been doing 48-bit and 24-bit TIFs, of course, but also 48-bit and 24-bit JPEGs. I know, a 48-bit JPEG seems odd, because there is so little information in the extra bits, and then JPEG steps on that, even with compression off.

---Bob Gross---