Printing images.

[Princess Luna]

I have no idea where should I put this so moderation can replace the thread where they see fit.

 

My question might sound insane to some but bare with me, I have always had this odd habit of setting the colors HUE on nVidia's Control Panel (Adjust Desktop Color Settings) to 339º on any desktop I own, including my notebook through Intel's own control panel.

 

Why? Well I simply feel it looks better, enhanced in a way and also gives me that exclusively feeling that my display's different than most people Ohh and The Witcher 3 with the HUE on 339º looks absolutely stunning. Reasons aside my question may sound stupid but here it goes.

 

I understand fully that say images, even screen shoots of my gameplay they all are correctly colored as the HUE change only works to me, if I SS something even with the HUE changed and open the image file on another system it will show the original no HUE changed colors, so far great;

 

HOWEVER what happens if I try to print an image while with the HUE changed? You see I only thought about it now, the printed shoes image (I work with shoes exporting) I just did looks awfully too similar to what I see in my screen, to me personally that's not a problem but to work the printed version needs to be in the correct coloring always.

 

Therefore the question rise up, if I print something even with my HUE changed in the GPU/iGPU settings, it will carry the Original coloring right?

[AshleyAshes]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I have no idea where should I put this so moderation can replace the thread where they see fit.

 

My question might sound insane to some but bare with me, I have always had this odd habit of setting the colors HUE on nVidia's Control Panel (Adjust Desktop Color Settings) to 339º on any desktop I own, including my notebook through Intel's own control panel.

 

Why? Well I simply feel it looks better, enhanced in a way and also gives me that exclusively feeling that my display's different than most people Ohh and The Witcher 3 with the HUE on 339º looks absolutely stunning. Reasons aside my question may sound stupid but here it goes.

 

I understand fully that say images, even screen shoots of my gameplay they all are correctly colored as the HUE change only works to me, if I SS something even with the HUE changed and open the image file on another system it will show the original no HUE changed colors, so far great;

 

HOWEVER what happens if I try to print an image while with the HUE changed? You see I only thought about it now, the printed shoes image (I work with shoes exporting) I just did looks awfully too similar to what I see in my screen, to me personally that's not a problem but to work the printed version needs to be in the correct coloring always.

 

Therefore the question rise up, if I print something even with my HUE changed in the GPU/iGPU settings, it will carry the Original coloring right?

Your GPU is only modifying the color as the image is being sent to the display rather than modifying the image data itself.  Think of it like adjusting the bass or frequency response on a music file you're playing, you crank the knob to up the bass, but the music file you're playing is unmodified.  If you save that song to share with someone else, they'll not hear your changes to the bass.  Color correction in your GPU settings is like that, it's making changes only just as it goes into the display, so any 'print screen' image would need you to make post processing changes in Photoshop or another image program to have that change represented during printing.

 

Similarly, if you posted said screen shot on this forum, no one here would see the changes you set in your graphics settings, we'd see the color as our graphics adapters are set to present the color.

[TVwazhere]

12 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I have no idea where should I put this so moderation can replace the thread where they see fit.

 

My question might sound insane to some but bare with me, I have always had this odd habit of setting the colors HUE on nVidia's Control Panel (Adjust Desktop Color Settings) to 339º on any desktop I own, including my notebook through Intel's own control panel.

 

Why? Well I simply feel it looks better, enhanced in a way and also gives me that exclusively feeling that my display's different than most people Ohh and The Witcher 3 with the HUE on 339º looks absolutely stunning. Reasons aside my question may sound stupid but here it goes.

 

I understand fully that say images, even screen shoots of my gameplay they all are correctly colored as the HUE change only works to me, if I SS something even with the HUE changed and open the image file on another system it will show the original no HUE changed colors, so far great;

 

HOWEVER what happens if I try to print an image while with the HUE changed? You see I only thought about it now, the printed shoes image (I work with shoes exporting) I just did looks awfully too similar to what I see in my screen, to me personally that's not a problem but to work the printed version needs to be in the correct coloring always.

 

Therefore the question rise up, if I print something even with my HUE changed in the GPU/iGPU settings, it will carry the Original coloring right?

It should, your monitor color settings shouldnt affect the printed out colors. If it did, my CAD drawings would look different depending on if I printed them off on one of the TN panels to the left or right of me versus the IPS panel in the middle!

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, AshleyAshes said:

Similarly, if you posted said screen shot on this forum, no one here would see the changes you set in your graphics settings, we'd see the color as our graphics adapters are set to present the color.

I thought as much, I was just concerned if the same applied to printing ^^

 

Thanks for the information.

[MrMarriarty]

No the difference you have there is addiative colour (light/RGB) and subtractive colour (printing/CMYK) if you look at the gamut curves of CMYK they are tiny compaired to RGB. To colour correct images your need to use photoediting software (photoshop, lightroom etc) being a printer by trade i can tell you changing how your display looks will have 0 effect on the file its self