bayphoto question

mmmatt

Please forgive if this has already been discussed. I did try to search it!

Anyways, this is in reference to the color correction feature when printing through bayphoto on smugmug. In my client galleries I usually have 20-30% of the images in black and white. I like the color correction as long as it is a human and not a machine but with black and white it seems a waste of $$$. Isn't there any way to default the gallery to only charge color correction on color images? Although I guess smugmug doesn't ncessarily know which are b&w as some b&w images are still rgb and some are grayscale... It would be nice if we could select this per image in our galleries with a page of thumbnails or something. I wouldn't want to go through and customize each image through menus, but some easy way or add it at checkout would be nice.

Anyone else scratching their head over this one?

Matt

Phyxius

Usually you can set prices by three tiers, portfolio, gallery, or image. However, you cannot specify a color correction preference for a specific image. Images automatically inherit that setting from the gallery level.

So, unless you put color and B/W into two seperate galleries you can't elect to just have the color ones color corrected.

More info on print pricing -
http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-pricing

Thorsten

If I'm not mistaken, a major part of the color correction is the adjustment of the contrast (or "density"), to make sure the image does not end up too dark or too light when printed. This would be applicable to B&W also.

cabbey

Thorsten wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, a major part of the color correction is the adjustment of the contrast (or "density"), to make sure the image does not end up too dark or too light when printed. This would be applicable to B&W also.

Yes. I asked the folks at Bay about this when I was visiting them the first time and saw their awesome toys, er I mean tools, for doing the color work... B&W images *do* get some adjustments if needed for density, so it is no less a waste of money to send those images through their color assurance folks than it is the color ones.

mmmatt

Cool. Thanks for the info.

Matt

catspaw

AWESOME info, thanks so much for bringing this topic up!! clap

WaterfallRich

Thanks
I'm setting up a black and white gallery and that just answered a question I had. Good info