I have my new imac 27 inch and i love it. I was using an older pc with calibrated monitor. I Calibrated my new mac with the tool (imatch2 think it is gretag mcbeth). Once I did that, I made a pano that looked great on my screen. Sent it of to costco to see what it looks like as a bigger print 20x30 or so. I used costco as there smaller prints are pretty nice, and this was just a 6 dollar test. (i cut and paste from costco's website on to see what i printed. Sorry poor quality)
On the screen everything looks great. I was pleasantly supprised how good the print was. When I got home and put them side by side (screen and print) to see how close they were. Seems like an orangey hue over the entire pictures. You would never know unless you looked at side by side.
I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous with screen calibration and profiles. Read a bunch on here a while ago. I have an hp printer at home. Depending on what paper i use (hp premium plus photo 8x11 sheet or premium 4x6) will have different hue's to them. Since there are barely any printer profiles for this printer and THERE OWN PAPER, I play around with general profiles that came with print driver. I love how the bigger paper (the premium plus 8x11) really makes the oranges and reds richer. When I print same print on the 4x6 get slightly different hue.
I know costco has printer profiles where I can download the profiles and use photoshop to view what it will look like? I do most of my stuff in lightroom 3.0 and have photoshop cs5 which i made the pano with.
How would I use softproofing, or whatever to get a closer match? Can somebody point me to some place to read more, learn more, or simply help me through this.
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