Printing

[arphot]

I recently was asked to take some family children portraits. The request was based on a friend seeing and liking some of my photos on the web. Most of those are landscape, nature and such. I had never even attempted portraits before. Well, after the shoot I went home to go over the images (which I chose to shoot in RAW and Hi-Q with my Canon Digital Rebel to ensure I have decent files to work with). The first thing I noticed (gulp!) was that they were all aslant! I guess that's the least of my worries, since I can straighten that issue out, so to speak. But, to get closer to the point, I tried to work on the post production (Digital Photo Pro & PS CS3) and adjust any levels and saturation. Well, I must have overdone something, because the image came back with a greenish tint. Before I go and post the image (as that might require some permissions), I'd like to ask a question: Do I need to convert the images out of JPEG (like to CMYK or something else) for printing? I have been getting the "proofs" at Walmart. I have been taking the RAW images and working them in DPP (white balance adjustments mostly), then converting them to JPEG and working the straightening and saturation in PS CS3. I think that the green tint may have come from over-saturating. If I've left out any key info, let me know. Any help in getting these prints proper would be hugely appreciated. Thanks, Kirk

[teaking]

Do they look alright on the screen? if the green isnt on the screen it sounds like a colour profile thats different. I dont really use Photoshop but can you choose the colour profile it uses to display your work? its usualy the one for your monitor or standard RGB one. Thats why sometimes things look different when your print because the printer uses a different colour profile... or maybe I am just plain wrong lol

[arphot]

The image didn't look green on the screen. I hadn't played with the color profile although, that can be adjusted in PS. I do not have a full understanding of that subject which is partly why I am in a quandry about prints. I have had photos printed at CVS and Walmart in the past, but they were just point and shoot images and I didn't even adjust those. I just want to make sure that these people get an acceptable product. I am going to pick up another 8x10 proof tomorrow that I only slightly adjusted. Hopefully, that will work out fine. In the meantime, hopefully there'll be some more enlightenment from the group.