
See the references for links to editing techniques. Any color casts or lack of saturation can usually be fixed by minor curves tweaks.An intelligent levels adjustment, or slight boost to saturation is usually all it takes to give your prints the needed pop.
By adjusting the Soft Proof image you can visually compensate for some of the discrepancy.
What's going on? The problem is that your monitor screen is capable of showing a much wider contrast range (usually 300-500x between black and white) than is the printed page. The ideal setting is usually the point right before clipping occurs. This will show any shadow or highlight clipping that occurs. In Photoshop, hold down Alt/Option while adjusting the level sliders. Set the highlight and shadow points in the Levels dialog box. (88, 249, 17) in Adobe RGB The same RGB value in sRGB This is shown below, using colors as close to the actual values as most web browsers can display. If, on the other hand, the same value is interpreted using the sRGB color space, it is a pale, sickly yellowish-green. If our example of 88/249/17 is interpreted using the Adobe RGB color space, it is a vibrant, attention getting green. A value such as 88/249/17 is given meaning by the color space in the same way as an otherwise random sound has meaning in a particular language. This is where color spaces come in.Ī color space provides the definition for what color the numerical combination represents. Without any context, it is a meaningless triplet of numbers. Each pixel in your camera captures light and encodes it as a combination of discreet Red, Green, and Blue values. Somehow, the color information needs to get passed along as well. In the real world, your camera has to talk to your computer, which needs to talk to a printer.