I am new to both this forum and photo retouching. Have been doing restoration for about a year using Adobe Elements. I use an Epson 1650 scanner and Epson 820 Photo for printing. Trouble is, the skin tones always come out too red from the printer. Everything looks good on the screen using Adobe Gamma. Any suggestions on correcting this? Gregory
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Hi Gregory,
Welcome aboard. Color matching has given me fits, and I don't claim to know much about it. But I'm using the Epson 870, which will allow me to increase or decrease colors when I use the properties/custom/advanced options before printing a file. This has worked pretty well for me. I don't know if you have the same options, but if you do, it's worth a try. My prints are very close to what I see on the monitor.
Ed
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If your prints are too red, I think you should add cyan to offset the red. I would try adding quite a bit of cyan (maybe 100), then try a test print. If that's too much, try again using 50. Play with it until you get what you need. When you finally get it, you can save the custom settings to use whenever you want to make more prints. I'm sure this isn't the best way to handle it, but it's been working for me. Of course, my prints were in the ballpark to begin with.
Ed
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