That is wonderful what you do with the veterans. Thanks to all that have served.

Thank you for continuing to support people like me who benefit from your expertise, experience and no-nonsense approach to explaining the art and science of photography/photoshop/lightroom/printing et al. I've revisted this video and your later video on priniting and I've sent you an email which I hope you could find time to have a look at. Best wishes and keep doing what you do to help people like me.

@glyndewis

2 жыл бұрын

Terry thanks so much for watching and for the kind words. I’ve got your email and have now replied so hopefully you have that…hope my answer makes sense 😃👍🏻

Many thanks for more great advice as well as sharing more veteran stories. You're an honorable man, Glyn. Cheers from Texas, Troy

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Very kind of you to say Troy...thank you

having just stumbled on your channel I watch both your printing video and I have to say you have saved me. I was having trouble getting the right results on my pro 10s and becoming very despondent to the point where I thought about selling the printer I have followed your processes and hey ho its worked, thank you

@glyndewis

3 жыл бұрын

So good to hear :)

Thank you very much for your sharp work!

Thanks for explaining this from your perspective in a concise and honest way. It is a subject that many shy away from but you have it covered well.

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you mate

Probably one of the best overview.... Thanks

Thank you Glyn. Great video. This has made me want to give printing another try.

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

;)

Fantastic entertaining video Glyn, thanks

Awesome video Glyn, I couldn't make it on the night but well worth watching afterwards :)

Thank you Glyn for another great tutorial

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jack

Thanks so much for making this video. Sorry I missed the live broadcast, looking forward to giving your techniques ago.

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Gareth

Pretty good vid! One thing of note, I also have a small notebook. In it are notes for out put adjustments for prints that might be reprinted in the future. Also in LR I'll make a virtual copy ( rename with a p added to the name) for pics with any print adjustments needed for different papers. If I was a working professional I would create a e- file with this info & store in an e- folder. Thanks for putting the vid up.

Great video and thanks for putting it together. I myself gave up years ago trying to get prints just right, You may have just changed that !. I just popped over on the 3945 portraits and WOW What can one say at such beautiful images, AMAZING and also kind of sad.

Hi Glyn, great video. One thing that I would ask is do you use the soft proofing facility in lightroom before printing? I, like you, calibrate my monitor and also my printer for each type of paper but when I run the image through soft-proofing it highlights some colours that won't print but when I adjust those colours the print looks insipid.

In the USA here, where do I find a copy of your closing video to share? It is short, concise, and to the point. I loved it and a well deserved tribute to "our greatest generation"! Thank you for sharing.

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Hi There. Thanks for the kind words. The video is over on my offical 39-45 Portraits Project website; here's a link to it: www.3945portraits.com/education

Hi Glen, I have a BenQ PD 3200U monitor and I was wondering if your monitor hood was included with the monitor? I can't seem to find 32' Monitor hood any where. Do you know of a company besides BenQ that sales a 32' monitor hood?

Great video, thanks Glyn. Is there still a need for Soft Proofing in your workflow or does the print match the one you see in the normal LR development screen?

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

To be honest I never found the Soft Proofing in LR very helpful or accurate. Now I'm profiling the paper along with calibrating the screen I genuinely couldn't be happier.

@IanWhiting

4 жыл бұрын

@@glyndewis Thanks Glyn. I guess that confirms what I found but was never willing to admit it to myself. I kept trying to use it to adjust the colours.

@markrigg6623

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanWhiting He's got an issue somewhere because with a full managed workflow like he's demonstrated he shouldn't have to make those brightness / contrast adjustments right at the end in the lightroom printing module. To make matters worse he says later in the questions section that he gets things " bang on" when 10 minutes before he had demonstrated that he didn't! . I don't custom profile my paper, I just calibrate my screen and even I don't have to make crude tonality adjustments that waste ink right at the end like this. So obviously he will still get good prints in the end but for a tutorial that's supposed to show how to get "perfect" prints through accurate calibration its a complete failure. And as inaccurate soft proofing could be to blame in all this I thought it was worthwhile to point this out to you!

Hi Glyn, I've just profiled two matte inkjet papers (150 and 130 GSM respectively) and one seems to print much darker and with more contrast, whilst the other prints brighter. The soft proofing in Photoshop for both is fairly accurate, but is it normal that there should be this kind of disparity between what is on screen and the resulting prints? Are there adjustments that need to be made for each particular type of paper (and, if so, would you make these changes to the image or via the print settings)?

@markrigg6623

3 жыл бұрын

No, it's not normal. If the screens properly calibrated and the paper profiling and soft proofing is accurate, you shouldn't get this disparity. He's just done a tutorial on correctly managing all the steps in the workflow but it hasn't worked. He's had to make ink wasting trial and error tonality adjustments right at the end in the printing module. Hes not getting "perfect prints", and it amazes me more people haven't realised this. Colour is the easy bit. Its brightness and contrast matching most people have trouble with!

You failed to mention or show perhaps the most critical steps in printing the patches when creating the printer/paper profiles. If the proper media type, proper quality setting and, most importantly, no color adjustment are not set properly the profile created will be less than optimal if usable at all. Screenshots of the printer driver where these choices are made would have been greatly appreciated.

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Works great for me the way I do it. If you know better then feel free to record a video and share.

Do you connect your printer directly to your computer or you use the Wi-Fi or remote version?

@glyndewis

Жыл бұрын

Definitely connected directly 👍🏻 Lots of reasons for it but one in particular is to prevent buffering which can cause drying lines.

But is that compensation file really applied to the printer for it to make those adjustments (as you describe) or does it merely characterise your printer and then apply those compensation to a file on your PC?

@glyndewis

2 жыл бұрын

Oh sounds like a test. The ICC is used so the instructions sent to the printer bring the colours printed out more closely aligned to what they should be. Even printers of the same model and even batch number ‘can’ print slightly differently and have a different gamut. The icc profile (file) is used to compensates for this.

Hi Glyn, I tried a sublimation printing on a very light linen fabric. My reference photo sent to the computer was in a JPEG format. The printed work had colours off, it came out looking pink_ish far from the reference photo which had good realistic skintones.. Is there any tip on how to make my sublimation printing better with good colour as seen in reference photo??

@glyndewis

2 жыл бұрын

Mann...that's a great question. I'm heading to a printing lab to do some filming this week for a printing course I'm putting together. I don't do sublimation printing so will ask them. If they don't know I can speak to a friend who knows Aaron Draplin and see what we says 👍

@mannegar7650

2 жыл бұрын

@@glyndewis Thanks Glyn, hope to get a feedback once again. I Appreciate

How would you color calibrate if you were to use a print shop or somewhere around your town? Do you send them two rectangle prints one after the other and then create a profile like you did for your home printer?

@glyndewis

Жыл бұрын

If I was using a lab I would see if they had profiles I could then use in my software; this would show me what to expect from them so I can make any adjustments before sending them the file

which one is better in quality digital or offset print

@glyndewis

2 жыл бұрын

I guess that all depends on personal taste and the desired end result 👍

What printer would you suggest, Glyn?

@glyndewis

2 жыл бұрын

If you're looking at A3+ , I'm VERY happy with the results coming out of the Canon imagePROGRAF Pro 300 mate

Hi Glyn, I have a Canon Pixma 100S and the latest software from Canon doesn't support it. Have there been ant tutorials to talk me through printing from LRC to print via Print Studio Pro? I cant't seem to get satisfactory results. Thanks

@glyndewis

Жыл бұрын

David...the Canon Pro Print Software is for use with the latest models printers. I do have something coming out though for the older versions like the 100-S and the 10-S that I had 👍🏻

you didnt mention the color space u are calibrating the monitor to. on the software says dci p3, but, not all the calib softwares allows to even choose an space or don't even tell u what color space are they calibrating it to. then, why dci p3, and not calibrating for srgb or adobe rgb?...

@glyndewis

2 жыл бұрын

No worries. I use Adobe RGB but all this is being updated in a new video coming soon. Thanks for messaging.

@MrDvneil

2 жыл бұрын

@@glyndewis i was a bit busy want to finish to watch ur video, i'm printing amateur since 2 years ago, and had to go through a lot of unknown things these years, different kind of papers / price, glossy, matte, satin, textured, paper papers color profiles, alternative inks, monitor and print calibration, learning about color space, how it works in photoshop at the time of printing. there is a lot of stuff. even doing all the steps u even have to learn all the processing posibilities, to tweak it a bit to match display -> paper, to reach ur zen state and mental health. lately im using argyll and is giving me better results than fiery color profiler. and it's free ...

is Canon paper better than Permajet?

@glyndewis

4 жыл бұрын

Depends what you're after to be honest...each have their own look / feel so it's a taste thing. Permajet do archival paper too which is important.

So I was absolutely gob smacked when you showed you had to routinely make a large brightness and contrast adjustment after going through the full routine including making your own paper profile. That's not how its meant to work after all that effort. I dont make my own paper profile, I just do hardware calibration on my monitor and use the supplied factory profiles and I dont have to make any brightness and contrast adjustments to get accurate results. Those crude brightness and contrast adjustments in lightroom are widely considered to be for people who havent gone to too much trouble calibrating things accurately and just want to quickly get a reasonable accurate print without too much fluffing around. Thats not you! After all that effort you should not have to be doing that! Your setting the luminosity on your monitor when you calibrate for a reason. If your having to then make another significant brightness adjustment at the end then you have something amiss. Seriously!

@georgehendrix4176

4 жыл бұрын

It is quite common for photographers to calibrate their monitors to a comfortable working luminance, and then adjust an image prior to printing to achieve the desired result. You indeed do set your luminosity on your monitor when you calibrate for a reason. And that's to achieve a consistent result. If you determine that the luminosity should be set dead on for printing, that is a personal choice. Setting it at another level and adjusting it to suit at print is an equally valid personal choice.

@markrigg6623

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgehendrix4176 I get what your trying to say but he hasnt said hes deliberately setting the luminance for comfortable viewing knowing he will have to compensate for this further down the workflow. The whole theme of the vid is getting a "perfect" print and the fact is after doing all that calibration hes only getting color accuracy, the other 2 main variables of contrast and brightness are not "perfect". The other thing is the correct luminance level on the monitor which corresponds with an accurate print is normally regarded as comfortable and I dont recall any printing tutorials I've seen saying you should edit your photo at an uncalibrated luminance level . Having prints come out too dark is the most common issue with printing and you can always by trial an error make adjustments to fix that. Hes been still forced to do that after all those efforts with expensive calibration devices. Thanks for the response.

@georgehendrix4176

4 жыл бұрын

@@markrigg6623 Well, you're right-he hasn't said if he's adjusting luminance away from calibrated level. And he was lauding the perfect print based on those calibration and profiling procedures. Maybe Glyn will weigh in on that. Comfort is the common reason to boost the light.. A monitor calibrated for print is a lot darker than the levels most of us keep our devices at for everyday use, and are therefore accustomed to. Adjusting the luminance from the calibrated recommendation shouldn't make printing "trial and error" beyond the need to produce a couple of test prints to confirm the proper amount of brightness to dial in from that point on. So, I work on a regularly calibrated monitor, in controlled lighting, using professionally produced custom ICC profiles for the four papers I've been using for quite some time. And I still generally like to add in a bit of contrast when printing (via photoshop, and I don't consider the adjustments crude). And sometimes I adjust the black point for black and white prints. In my opinion, paper and a digital monitor just never quite match up, no matter how hard I try.

@markrigg6623

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgehendrix4176 Yeah fair enough and your certainly right about comparing prints (reflected light) to the transmitted light of monitors. I will say however that video is not a good advert for going to the extra effort of paper profiling. If I paid for that equipment and got a result like that it would do my head in!