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Ruth Hardie

8 Years Ago

Color Quality Issue

The colors on my uploads appear dull. I have had my art(watercolor) professionally scanned and the prints here look spot on. I changed from a PDFs file to a JPEG... Could that be he issue? Any other thoughts in this regard? Thank you!!

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Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

be sure that you save it in sRGB and not cymk or anything else. usually things aren't saved as a pdf. i can see it as a PSD file. you'll want to crop these clean and add more keywords as well.

---Mike Savad
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Peggy Kahan

8 Years Ago

I've had this issue for some time. I do digital photography as well as digital painting. My images are in RGB. They look fine here on the website but when I ordered a few to see for myself how they looked printed up I was dismayed at how dull they are. In addition, some of the colors seem "off". I've redone several of them, increased brightness, contrast, saturation and that sometimes helps. But not always. I just tried printing up one of my images on my little home computer - a Canon MG6120. Not professional by any means but the colors were bright and clear compared with the same image which I just received as a card. I thought it might be my monitor until I test printed just now.
In addition, I've had a couple of images that had elements cropped out. Birds on the bottom of an image for example. Is there a template I need to use so that I stay within certain guidelines?
I've only sold a couple of things so far, besides those I've bought for myself. I've become fearful now that someone will buy something and will complain about the drab, colorless product they get back.
I appreciate any comments or suggestions.

 

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