Darken photos for display (not for print)?

codonnell

Hello -

After doing a round of test prints with Bay Photo, the files that I send off to them to be printed need to be adjusted in order to obtain the same result as the images displayed on my website. This has resulted in me "brightening" my images before uploading them to smugmug.

I don't know if this is possible, but is there some way that I can darken the images for display in the store without altering the original (the one that gets printed)? As of now, the photos in the store are slightly brighter than what they will receive in order to match what is displayed on my website/portfolio. I'm using smugmug for print ordering only as I already have a portfolio/website set up.

It's rather minor, but it's been on my mind since I've been tweaking my store and would like the images to represent exactly what they will be receiving.

Thanks for any help with this.

rainforest1155

It's not possible to display photos any other way than they are uploaded. The originals you upload are used for creating the SmugMug display copies and are also sent to the lab for processing.
If you don't need SmugMug as your portfolio site and there won't be any visitors coming to view your SmugMug galleries, perhaps you could just unlist the galleries or password protect them so visitors can't access them?

In case you still want visitors to see your SmugMug gallery, you could create a separate unlisted / password protected gallery that you just use for ordering prints where you could have your specifically brightened photos for ordering.