Digital Camera - facial colours

Loobeylou

Having just got a digicam for Crimble I have spent the last couple of days trying it out.

Have taken several pictures, both inside and out of the house, and when printing some of them off I find the facial colours not too good - they look strange somehow.

General pictures turn out great, but as I have two grandsons I obviously wish to take photos of them.

The camera is a Canon Ixus 750 and I have Zoom Browser Ex programme supplied with the camera which is on my computer. I have an Epson Sylus Photo R300 printer.

Any tips for getting faces more lifelike and natural?

tigermatt

It sounds like it could be a problem with your printer. Do the facial colours appear correct when you view the photographs on the camera?

Try cleaning the heads on your printer and see if that helps. It could be that one of the nozzles for one of the colours is blocked :rolleyes: and it can't mix the colours correctly because the ink squirt out of the cartridge into the print head.

Loobeylou

Did the printer checks - thanks for the suggestion - however, they were fine.

The funny thing is though that of the few pictures I have printed off, one or two of the faces have come out normal colours, and some have looked as though there is colour toning missing - faces rather pinkish and looking as though they are wearing heavy stage makeup.

John_Gray

I was rather tempted to suggest that you might inadvertently have set the Clown setting on the camera.

But instead, I will just ask what sort of paper you are using to print on? You can get some odd results with cheap/nasty paper -- but it really should be consistently odd results... Photo-quality paper, although breathtakingly expensive, should give very good prints.

John

Loobeylou

Actually printed off on good quality glossy photo paper, so it should have been OK.

deanos

Try a different program to print off the pictures.

windym_2

Hi,

I have an R300 printer and use a Canon Ixus 55.

I use cheapie cartridges at £1 a go from https://www.northdevoncomputers.com and anything but Kodak paper - its just the worst. I nearly always go for Epson paper or even Tesco photo paper. I only use Picture It to manipulate my prints but find a you have to use Epson print manager to make slight changes.

When you select print, make sure (and sorry if you know and do all this) you have the correct type of paper selected. Using printing properties, tick 'photo enhance' and then click the advanced option and tick digital camera correction. I find these settings work perfectly on my prints.

If this doesn't solve it, you could try uploading a couple of prints to a printing website. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=1243015 and get some free prints mailed back to you. Compare the standard. If its the camera thats faulty (and it could be) then it will show up in the prints from the mail.

It could be that your ink supply needs sorting, heads cleaning etc. But I would try the above and see how it goes. When I used to use Kodak paper I would try all sorts of printing preferences and it would drive me mad. It may take a bit of time but trial and error with perseverance should pay off.

Just a tip for printing samples - make sure you write the preferences down on the hard copy so that you don't lose track of which settings you have tried.

Hope that helps, hang in there, you've a great combo in printer and camera so should get stunning results.

ManAtHome

Do these problem pictures look a bit odd on screen as well? If so, could be that they are on the edge of needing flash - you can get strange colour casts when the camera's 'white balance' feature is fooled (eg pointing at a window when indoors with flourescent, long-life, or halogen lights; outdoors when overcast/cloudy).

If you can edit the pics, try reducing the red and blue (or increasing the green) a bit. If your software doesn't let you do this, try Irfanview - this is free and has some image manipulation options.

tigermatt

ManAtHome wrote:

try Irfanview

www.irfanview.com

Loobeylou

There seem to be various options to choose from when going to https://www.irfanview.com - which one please?

windym_2

I think the various options you are talking about may just be different places to download? Any one should do.