Colour Balance and Brightness help needed.

tert · 11th August 2003

I've a waterfall picture that i had just recently taken at kota tinggi. Colours and brightness looks ideal on my 6 year old toshiba notebook (wise grey sage of 154 years old in real computer life-years). There'd been no calibration done on the monitor (can't even adjust the brightness)...

Upon receiving the prints, i noticed that there is a green tinge (the infamous d30 green) off the waters. Also, the brightness (or the lack of it) is totally off. After some adjustments in PS, an increment of +30 of green in the magenta/green colour and a decrease of 30 in the brightness department would render the "on-screen" image the same of the print.

Could the quick fix solution be to decrease the green by 30; i.e shift the magenta/green slider left by 30 for remedy the green and correspondingly increase the brightness by 30 correct the brightness? Is the colour relationship "linear" in the above sense?

P.S A CRT monitor + spyder calibrator is out of reach for the moment...

Thanks a lot for all the help.

3rd September 2003

Just a quick question...was the image converted to CMYK before you had it printed? Or did you print it yourself? (In which case, best to stay in RGB since printers are geared for this?

ace2001 · 13th September 2003

Since it's a generally shift towards a greenish colour, jus feel that the shop to dev the prints should hav adjusted for you......hummm

11th August 2003	#1
tert Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Melbourne Posts: 373	Colour Balance and Brightness help needed. I've a waterfall picture that i had just recently taken at kota tinggi. Colours and brightness looks ideal on my 6 year old toshiba notebook (wise grey sage of 154 years old in real computer life-years). There'd been no calibration done on the monitor (can't even adjust the brightness)... Upon receiving the prints, i noticed that there is a green tinge (the infamous d30 green) off the waters. Also, the brightness (or the lack of it) is totally off. After some adjustments in PS, an increment of +30 of green in the magenta/green colour and a decrease of 30 in the brightness department would render the "on-screen" image the same of the print. Could the quick fix solution be to decrease the green by 30; i.e shift the magenta/green slider left by 30 for remedy the green and correspondingly increase the brightness by 30 correct the brightness? Is the colour relationship "linear" in the above sense? P.S A CRT monitor + spyder calibrator is out of reach for the moment... Thanks a lot for all the help.

3rd September 2003	#2
Mikishots Guests Posts: n/a	Just a quick question...was the image converted to CMYK before you had it printed? Or did you print it yourself? (In which case, best to stay in RGB since printers are geared for this?

13th September 2003	#3
ace2001 Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 82	Since it's a generally shift towards a greenish colour, jus feel that the shop to dev the prints should hav adjusted for you......hummm