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beautiful print on screen, terrible once printed

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:38:50 GMT

I have been struggling for many months now with inability to print any resemblance to what is on my screen. I have spent countless hours on the phone with both Epson and Abode. Epson had me, finally, print in Preview rather than Photoshop. The print was much closer than anything I have printed in Photoshop. Epson has been a bit helpful but Adobe puts me on hold to ask "an expert" about my questions for at least 80% of the hours I am on the phone with them. I follow Scott Kelby's books exclusively and find them to be fantastic but so far I have not been able to solve this problem with his instruction. I have correct paper profiles and am.

Photoshop CS6, Mac OXS 10.6.8, Epson 2880 printer. Please tell me what other information I need to provide to give what is needed to help me. Help. Please. Thanks.

Incompatibility; what I see on screen and what the print looks like

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:16:12 GMT

I am new to this; digital photography, CS6 and this forum. So please excuse my clumsiness. Somewhere there is a list of all the information I should post with my question. I do not know how to access this list. So, this is my first inquiry. How do I become more fluent in this forum?

I have been struggling for over a year trying to get my prints to look anything like what I see on my screen.

Adobe phone help was entirely useless. Epson has been patient but not necesarily helpful. Today, in my tenth phone session with them, we may have stumbled upon something. Rep had me print my test print in Photoshop. Awful, as usual. Then he had me print the same print in Preview. Much closer (tho not perfect) to the true color. He said the problem is with Photoshop.

I am too new at this to guess at his accuracy. But the printing through Preview was an eye-opener. The printer can print somewhat accurate to screen version.

Please tell me what info is needed to post an informative question and where to access this list of information. I have a 14 month pileup of photos I would like to print but cannot proceed. HELP.

CS6, I am not working in RAW (That is a whole other universe of confusion for me.)

Mac OS X version 10.6.8

Nikon D800

Epson 2880 printer

Thanks for your patience with someone who was very comfortable with my F4 film camera and CS2, but is entirely lost in the digital world.

composites; sizing for each image

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:55:44 GMT

I made my first composite yesterday, and although time consuming it went without a glitch....until the last step. I followed Scott Kelby's directions (Photosop CS6 Book), as I find his directions straight forward and very complete. But when I combined the two images, both being 3" by 6", the foreground image was too wide. The width of my foreground image was cropped off and there was nothing I could do, no matter how many things I tried to correct this. I cropped both to 3 by 6 and the image size, when I checked this, agreed. Any suggestions?

Composites; sizing for each image. CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:20:51 GMT

I made my first composite yesterday, without a glitch.....until the last step; merging. I followed the Scott Kelby method (CS6 book) as I find his instruction very easy to understand. The last step, merging, was where I ran into a problem. The two images were cropped to 3" by 6". I checked the image size from the drop down box, and here too, the image was 3" by 6". When I merged these the foreground image was suddenly too large and the sides were cropped off. Any ideas?