Why Are My Prints Too Dark
This is the first in what we hope to be an educational series called Lobby Talk, where we try to provide illustrations and screen casts to get the best quality prints possible. In this first one titled ‘Why Are My Prints too Dark’, hosted by Brian Wells, Art Director at FinerWorks and myself, we discuss how the truth to the problem of prints being too dark can actually be found in the file itself. Most of the time people’s monitors are exceptionally bright therefore images seen on screen appear brighter than they really are. Along with our discussion I provide a Photoshop tutorial which shows you how you can check an image to see if it might be too dark and how to make the necessary corrections to the file if it is.
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