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My images are hazy and I don't know why

New Here ,
May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017

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Hello. I am illustrating a book. I've been doing it since 2014, but this is the first time I have run into this problem.  The first image you see looks fine, no issues, but when you look at the second one you can tell it looks hazy. I just noticed this the other day and I don't know why all of my images minus page 1 and 2 ( I've completed 9 images so far) look hazy. I have the color set to CMYK mode so the color doesn't darken during printing. Could that be the reason why my images look the way they do? I could really use some help right now.

Thanks in advance!

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Community Expert , May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017

This is extremely flat and low contrast, and with a black level way up in the mid grays. Brightening will only make it worse.

You need to increase separation and contrast in the shadows, and by a substantial amount at that. A curve like this would only be the starting point.

curve2.png

For this to print properly, it would have to look something like this:

Page+6c.jpg

Don't work in CMYK! I can't emphasize this enough. You don't even know how it will be printed. You only convert to CMYK at the very end, and even then only

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May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017

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Hi emilyk,

As the images you are saving look hazy, Could you please let us know which format are you saving the images in?

Which version of Photoshop are you using and on Which operating system?

Could you try saving them as tiff?

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Sahil

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I was using Photoshop 2015 at first that is when I notice they were hazy. I updated to the newest version to see if it would help. I save the images as photoshop files and JPEG.

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It could be a profile issue. What CMYK color space are you working in? When do you see the haze, when you are working on the illustration or in the exported jpeg? How are you exporting the jpegs?

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I'm just clicking on "Save As" on the file tab and choose JPEG before I save.  I'm using CMYK Sliders and CMYK Spectrum

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Does your final image have to be a jpeg? If you are saving for print, why not use a TIFF or an EPS? JPEG are meant for compression and with CMYK, you are probably losing color information. Please try saving it as a TIFF and let us know if it helps.

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OK I'll give it a try

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I turned it into a TIFF and its still hazy. Could it be hazy due how dark the image is?

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Is it happening with all images or only this particular image?

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I've created 9 images in total. The only picture that are not hazy are pages 1 and 2.

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How is the book to be printed, on a desk-top inkjet printer or via a commercial litho/digital printer?

Will you be adding text?

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I don't know how the book is going to be printed. I complete the images and give them to author by email or flash drive. He uses Create Space, so I don't know how the entire process works.

The one thing I'm going to try and do to fix the haze in my images I'm going to lighten up the picture.

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This is extremely flat and low contrast, and with a black level way up in the mid grays. Brightening will only make it worse.

You need to increase separation and contrast in the shadows, and by a substantial amount at that. A curve like this would only be the starting point.

curve2.png

For this to print properly, it would have to look something like this:

Page+6c.jpg

Don't work in CMYK! I can't emphasize this enough. You don't even know how it will be printed. You only convert to CMYK at the very end, and even then only if you have received a confirmed final CMYK profile from the printer.

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The example you shared just looks extra dark to me. Like it's got a lot of black in it.

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Work in RBG, if you've already converted to CMYK, then go back to the orginals.

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Ok, I'll change the color mode, that looks like that is going to be the only way to fix this problem. Thanks for helping me.

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You should start out in RGB from the beginning - converting a CMYK file to RGB is generally a bad idea.

Ideally, you should start out with a 16-bit RGB tiff or PSD, and do as much work as possible on adjustment layers.

Exactly how are you creating these illustrations?

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