Newbie Question My Photos print and show desaturated color

Please click on the link below and read the entire site carefully.  Then follow the instructions to the letter.

http://www.gballard.net/psd/cmstheory.html

In a nutshell:

• Calibrate and profile your monitor.  Set the resulting profile as your monitor profile.  Never use a device independent color space (such as ProPhoto RGB, Adobe RGB or sRGB) as your monitor profile.  Only use your calibrated profile specific to your monitor.

• honor the embedded profile in each file;

• when sending your images to a run-of-the mill lab, convert your images to sRGB (do not use assign profile; use CONVERT to profile) and embed the sRGB profile in them.

The above site explains it all to you.

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Wo Tai Lao Le

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Big-Steve wrote:

 

…I have applied camera profile settings such as landscape, to raw files…

Both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw ignore all your in-camera settings (except Exposure and White Balance) in RAW files.  In-camera settings apply only to JPEGs.

I was kind of having the same problem. Thanks though for your advice. It really is a great help.