- [Voiceover] When you print your images,
one thing you'll want to get as close
to accurate as possible are the colors and the tones.
First of all, it's very important
that you calibrate your monitor using hardware.
If you don't have a printer at home,
then you can just use simple monitor calibration device.
But if you are serious about printing
and you have your own at-home printer,
you may want to consider getting a calibrator
that calibrates the color between your monitor
and your printer.
Calibration ensure that what you see on your monitor
is what other people will see on their monitors,
and also, it's what you will see when you print your photo.
In the print module, when you are setting up your print job,
there's a color management section that allows
you to set your profile.
If you are printing directly to your printer,
then it recommends that the printer manages the profile.
You likely have special software or print settings
that care directly connected to your printer.
So you'll need to go into those settings
to make those adjustments.
However, you can choose other to select a color profile
if you have one installed on your computer,
and if I use this toggle to drop down,
it's just basically telling me that it's managed
by the printer, so I need to make sure that I go in
and set that inside of my printer settings.
If I select JPEG file and print this to a JPEG,
now I have the option to actually change those settings.
If you're printing it for web use,
then I recommend keeping the sRGB profile.
Some online print labs will also request
that you embed the sRGB profile into your JPEG file as well,
but if you need to change it,
click on that dropdown and you can select from the list
or go to other if you have your own ICC profile
installed into your computer.
Next, let's discuss intent.
You have two options, perceptual and relative.
If I were to click back and forth between the two of these
while watching my image, no change is actually happening.
This setting is data that communicates
with the printer when you finally print this file
on how to actually handle the colors
that it can't see in the printer.
If you were to select relative,
then all of the colors, let's say the oversaturated colors
that cannot be produced in the printer,
are printed at the most similar color
that the printer can reproduce.
This may lead to all of the similar colors and gradients
for example to be printed as the same color
with no graduation or different shades of those colors.
Perceptual, on the other hand, tries to keep
those shades the same, but the colors may be less saturated
as a consequence.
And last we have the print adjustment.
If you were to check that box and start scrolling,
the photo's not going to make any changes.
You will want to use this setting if you printed a photo,
but your printer or whatever printer you're using
is printing it too dark, too light, or too flat.
So if I printed this image of this shark,
and I held it up alongside my computer monitor
and noticed that it was maybe one or two stops too dark,
I would add some brightness to it to compensate
for the printer making that image too dark.
This may take some trial and error,
and if you have a printer at home,
then you can fine tune this setting
so that way you can set it the same amount
for almost all of the images that you print.
And by the way, if you were to push the brightness up,
and I'll go ahead and push it all the way to 100
for example purposes, and print it as a JPEG file,
you will see a change in your photograph
when you actually print this to file,
and I'll show you real quickly what that looks like.
So I'll click print a file, and I'll just give this a name.
And once that has printed, if I go into that image,
you can see that I've added a lot of brightness to it,
and it printed that way as a JPEG file.