Edwa Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Canon Pro 100 prints are too dark. Is there a way to lighten a photo by percent? (I am an amateur trying to print photos of wife's oil paintings.) I was told by a pro photographer who uses a 100 that she uses uses Photoshop to lighten her photos by 10%. I bought a Spyder5Pro and calibrated my monitor (Samsung 24" model B2430H) and Canon still prints darker and with less color vibrancy than I am seeing. I need the colors to "pop" more and am not being successful enough using the brightness layer level and trying the auto levels. Should I buy Canon paper. I'm using Red River Pecos River Gloss 60lb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikerofoto Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Are you using the icc profile of this paper or the Canon printer colours? have you add a filter/softproofing to see if your image will print as your screen? you can always add a brightness/contrast layer and bump the brightness 8-12%, sometime your computer screen brightness isn’t set properly. If it print darker maybe your screen brightness is set too high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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