Printing color question

OhiohikerOhiohiker Registered Users Posts: 117 Major grins
edited September 17, 2009 in SmugMug Support
I have had several requests for a large prints of a photo I took of a local landmark seen below. I just began color calibrating my monitor and using printing ICC profiles. I use GIMP for editing and think I have the settings correct for soft proofing. I want to get a few of these printed in different sizes as a trial but I am unsure whether to leave color management on or off. Is there any way to tell for sure how this photo will look printed or is my best bet just to order some 8x10's and see what they look like? Can I order color corrected prints and non-color corrected prints from the same gallery at the same time or do I need to create a 2nd gallery? BTW they photo shown here is a lower res file.

634642645_WfLKo-M.jpg

Thanks

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2009
    Save it as sRGB and don't embed any profiles. Print away :D
  • thaKingthaKing Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2009
    Let me see if I've got this straight - when saving in Photoshop there is an option for embedding a color profile. Are you saying we shouldn't embed this profile in order to print (remove the checkmark)? If so then I have to upload my photos again (not many as I'm just getting my site up).
  • thaKingthaKing Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2009
    bump....
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2009
    yeah we don't need you to embed the lab profile. Just save as sRGB and away you go :)
  • thaKingthaKing Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2009
    thanks Andy...thought that's what you were saying, just wanted to clarify...
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2009
    Andy wrote:
    yeah we don't need you to embed the lab profile. Just save as sRGB and away you go :)
    You SHOULD embed the sRGB profile. If you don't, then color-aware browsers won't give you color management.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2009
    jfriend wrote:
    You SHOULD embed the sRGB profile. If you don't, then color-aware browsers won't give you color management.
    Yes, I'm sorry - my workflow has included this automatically for so long I neglected to state that more clearly.
  • thaKingthaKing Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2009
    shoot...so now, if i'm reading this correctly, i DO want to check that box for embedding the sRGB profile while saving jpgs?
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