donavan_freberg1 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Greetings, I am having some trouble and would appreciate any advice... I recently moved over to the Nikon camp (D80) from the Canon camp (350D). So far, so good. The D80 is an awesome tool. My question is as follows... When I print to my Canon ip6220D Photo printer using iPhoto, Photoshop or Nikon View, the colors look off. Skin tones too yellow or orange and colors all blown all to high heaven. On the screen of my MacBook, they look perfect. Printed? Terrible. I would think this has something to do with Colorsync profiles. I'm lost, and the most confusing thing is that when I print a photo that I took with my 350D, the colors match spot on perfect. Skin tones look great, foliage is green and colors punchy. If I print a D80 photo, the skin tones look like Tangerines, foliage looks like dog poo and colors look washed out. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it? Why do the Canon prints look great and the Nikon ones look like crap? Help! I've attached a photo of my girl taken with the D80. Manual white balance, 50mm 1.8 Nikkor, SB600 flash bounced into the ceiling. Skin tones look pale and creamy. Just like she looks to the eye. Printed out it looks like an Oompa- Loompa with a sunburn. I took an almost exact duplicate of this photo with the Rebel XT and it looks GREAT printed. Just like it does on the screen. What to do?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmene Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Monitor picture and printer must be calibrated. For details visit http://www.betterphoto.com/article.asp?id=163 There are many ways to calibrate you my also to search the internet for colr calibration monitor and printer. Happy printings on new 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan_parm_nides Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Hello, I think the first thing you must do is calibrating your monitor with a specific tool. The second is adjusting the color profile the same in the Mac and the camera. Use sRGB (in the Mac and the camera) for those kind of prints. It sounds like a color profiles mismatch. Cheers, and Happy New Year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot1 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I had 2 d200's and decided to get a d80 as an extra backup camera. My pictures from the d80 printed extremely oversaturated and, like yours, off in color. I turned down the saturation in the camera and also adjusted my printer's profile to get it right. The strangest thing is that the pictures looked great on my monitor. You are likely going to have to adjust to printer's profile (manual color settings) It may take some experimentation to get it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_ Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 And you might consider a test frame or two after going to the Custom settings menu and try shooting in Adobe RGB mode. Do you know if your Canon printer uses sRGB or Adobe RGB as the default profile setting? From the Popular Photography D80 review, the Adobe RGB mode offers more when you want to tweak colors in Photoshop. The D80 images (normally shot in sRGB mode) print without a hitch on a Fuji Frontier machine, and I've never tried to calibrate my monitor to exist with the prints on Fuji Crystal paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrengold Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 "Oompa- Loompa with a sunburn" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_sokal___dallas__tx Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Obviously Canon printers are optimized to work with Canon cameras and make Nikon images look like cr*p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham john miles Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Just make sure you are only preparing the image for print once. ie, either your software handles the colors or your printer, not both. I had that issue a few months back when I got a new Canon printer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis_de_la_orden_morais Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I have a Nikon D2Xs, a MacBook Pro and PictureProject installed. After reading this thread I decided to retweak my color settings and discovered that PictureProject installs several profiles for you to choose from in the colour profile tabs in the MacBook Pro, I chose Nikon sRGB. Does everyone use the same? I personally find the whole calibration process a waste of time and money if you use a laptop such as the MacBook Pro in several different environment settings (living room, train, office, light on, light off, etc..). Isn't it more practical to just download profiles and use them, mostly when Macs have far better screen an image quality? Any enlightment is mor ethan welcome! Cheers, Luis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagesax Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 I think the printers run hot and cold. Hard to get them just right. Even the same model will often vary from one to another. I have the Epson 2200 and gave up on it. I now use the Kodak 1400 and the colors are really close with the D2X I use. Interesting though, there are slight differences between the lenses regarding color, but I have the camera and the printer set to sRGB and only very minor adjustments are required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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