Oops, Adobe RGB 98 Mistake

I just got back from a vacation and realized that I had inadvertantly left my 20D in Adobe RGB 98 color space the whole time (my last client required this). Now, when I look at my shots on my calibrated monitor, they look great, but when I print them out on my Canon i950 via PhotoShop CS2, they're washed out and tinted toward the magenta.

I've tried converting to SRGB, and this doesn't help..what to do? I am a total novice when it comes to color management, BTW. I know PS CS2 has tons of color management options but none of them make sense to me at this time.

Thanks,
Dennis

http://yttrium.webserv​erdns.com …task=view&id=17​&Itemid=33

Theres a tutorial I wrote for ya.

jj1987 wrote:
http://yttrium.webserv​erdns.com …task=view&id=17​&Itemid=33

Theres a tutorial I wrote for ya.

James. Cool. Thanks. Unfortunately, your thumbnails don't load. Also, I think you wrote it for folks using commercial/pro labs. I have no printer profile available. The second half of your tutorial I already know about, as my images look great on screen.

Something horrible is happening within PS CS2 to change what is being sent to the printer. This has never happened when I've shot in sRGB, and I'm gonna have one cheesed SO if all our images are hosed because I forgot to change one setting

Dennis

If you want to turn the files into sRGB (though don't do anything to the originals - work on copies), Edit -> Convert to Profile..., select sRGB, and probably Relative Colorimetric for the rendering intent.


Your results imply that you're printing from Photoshop in a workflow that isn't colour managed at all - you're just sending raw data to the printer. If you like the results you get when printing in sRGB in that workflow, you could try printing using Print with Preview and sRGB as the printer profile for non-sRGB images - though this is not a usual setup. I'd try Print with Preview and choose "Let Printer Determine Colors" first, to see if that's any good.

David

David,

Thanks. I've tried all tose options and still no good results. Something serious is awry, I'm afraid. When I print with Mac's "Preview" App, things look OK, though.

Dennis