Prints from Lightroom/Photoshop dark, iPhoto fine

[nightfly]

So I know I need to calibrate my monitor for true color accuracy but the Eye One Display LT I have no longer works on my machine (it's PowerPC only, can't believe I bought it that long ago) and I'm not looking to spend another $250 on another piece of hardware/software.

My question is why when I print to my Epson 3800 from iPhoto or I guess it's called Photos now, the default Mac OS X photo app, the color is reasonably accurate, but if I print from Lightroom or Photoshop it's way too dark?

I absolutely hate the whole black magic of calibration and color management, but there has to be some sort of setting where the default in Photos is one thing but the one Lightroom and Photoshop uses is entirely different.

Any clues? Speak very slowly like you are talking to a two year old. At one point I had this printer working correctly but it was awhile back and all I remember was that it was an unpleasant and tedious experience.

 

[Sparrow]

... it sounds like you have set up a different default colour-space in the programs ... try looking in, Edit/Colour Settings to see how photoshop is handling your colour management

 

[nightfly]

Thanks for the hint. Took of screenshot of what they are, but not sure what they should be.

 

[Sparrow]

... try opening one of the iPhoto files in photoshop and see what colour space that uses, then change photoshop's defaults to that

You'll probably need to check they are both using the same printer profile too.

PS ... I just looked and couldn't find anything in iPhoto as to how in handles colour, it looks to me like it hands colour management over to the printer. I'm just about to setup a this new iMac, I've not used it in anger yet.

I had to buy a new colour-monkey as my ancient spider refused to work along with lots of other stuff, I'm determined to do it before I go to Greece so if find anything relevant I'll let you know.