I am admittedly a relative newcomer to any kind of remotely advanced PP. So, I guess in the past I have not been very meticulous about color on my prints. Now, as I look toward doing more work for other people, this has become more of an issue.
The last two sets of pics I have had printed I sent to a local camera store, one that has a very good reputation overall and a number of locations. Both sets ended up looking considerably warmer than the shots did on my computer. Now granted, I have not invested in monitor calibration equipment yet. But, I reviewed the pics on two separate monitors I have at home, and then a different monitor at work. On all three monitors, the pics look much better, less warm, and like what I originally saw on my computer than the printed pics did.
That got me wondering, am I following the proper process to submit them? Here is how I have been submitting them recently: when I get finished with a shot in ACR/PS, I save it as a jpeg to a folder on my desktop. I then upload from the folder to the camera store's online photo services site. When I save them as a jpeg to my folder, I am not adjusting any of the "default" settings.
Is there some really important step here, or some default I need to set in PS, that I am just being a boneheaded noob and missing?
EDIT: Pardon the jumbled English in the thread title, changed the original title and obviously didn't change it all the way!
