Dark Images
I have received my book in rapid time and the overall quality is good. However, the images are extremely dark. I am not sure whether this is the printing process or there is something I can do to ensure that the images are brighter and the colour more vivid. Can anyone advise?
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fee_m, You need to provide a lot more information about how you made your book. But with what little you provided I would guess that you are using an uncalibrated monitor. One in which the brightness level is much too high. That said, I’m a little surprised that if you imported camera images the exposure would be so far off that all of the pictures were underexposed.
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Hi there, If you think you may have received a misprint, please contact Blurb customer support at http://www.blurb.com/help/order_support It’s of course possible that lcarreira is correct. However, we can investigate your case and resolve it for you if you’ll send us an Order Quality inquiry via that link above. Best regards and thank you for Blurbing, Jeremy
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I’ve found some images to come out darker than profiled in my computer, monitor, and printer. I’m not sure what causes this, but a few prints that come out bright and even slightly over exposed can come out dark in a blurb book. Mind you my monitor, printer etc are perfectly calibrated and profiled. It seems if your image appears darker in blurb’s preview mood then it will print that way. You can compare a dark image in preview and then in cs or lightroom, and sometimes blurb’s preview will be darker. So just increase exposure slightly say 1/3 to 2/3 stops. Also try increasing fill lite, decrease shadows all very slightly. I find this corrects the darkness in images in preview. If it looks right in preview it will look right in the book. This darkness in photographs usually apears if at all in b&w or darkly shadowed images.
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