Printing a portrait saved as .jpg. The colors in the flesh tones are washed out and subtle shadows are also diminished from the original painting. I have read through the manual on soft proofing, but this is very confusing, and I don’t see ow to solve the problem. There must be a simple way to print out a painting the way it is drawn. I would love some help. Tom H
The description isn’t enough; you will have to provide access to both the original .kra file as well as the .jpg file so people can investigate what might have gone wrong. And information about the printer and which profile you used for the printer, of course.
In general, ink just cannot reproduce what a screen can show.
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Hi
Color management, from screen to printer is something not easy to manage, because many parameters have to taken in account:
- original image color space
- target printer color space
And other parameters have also a heavy impact on final result: - monitor calibration is correct or not
- paper and inks used
You can read here an excellent article about how it’s not easy:
Usually, the best thing to do is to provide a JPEG with sRGB ICC profile to printer, and they do the stuff to print it to obtain the best result as possible (normally, but they sometime just print file without doing any adjustment…)
Some printer will ask for CMYK files with a specific color profile, and in this case it’s a little bit more complicated for user…
Anyway, if monitor is not calibrated, don’t expect to be able to print something with the same result than you have on your monitor…
Concerning your print, did you print yourself at home? Inkjet, laser? Which type of paper?
Or did you send your work to a professional? in this case, did they ask you to provide specific file format/color space?
Grum999
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I printed on my Cannon inkjet at home and at STAPLES office supply - Laser. very similar results.
What I want to do is send this to a professional to print on a canvas.
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You can try to use the soft proofing function in Krita to preview result on a CMYK color space
You might have some tuning to do (appropriate choice of CMYK color profile according to your Canon printer, and rendering conversion) and may be apply some filter to fix color…
Grum999
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You really cannot expect any print to give results similar to what you see on screen unless you have the actual icc profile for the printer and use that to soft-proof.
And, yes, this is complicated, but there’s no way around it. Going from light-emitting diodes in the colors Red, Green and Blue, to light-reflecting inks in the colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (or Key, to be terminology-accurate) is not easy. This is something that needs knowledge, experience and understanding of the physics of light.
Your printer at home cannot fill that gap, and I Staples isn’t a professional printer either: to put it very directly: I wouldn’t expect anyone at Staples to actually have the first inkling of knowledge about color management and printing.
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That’s my first smile today 
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