Why are my photos darker after I print them?
It depends what you have done or not done as to why your prints are darker. If you have an LCD computer screen, they will be. All LCD screens have brightness defaults which are too bright. So you can wind down the brightness by 50% to improve quality. Then you have to calibrate the colour. The old CRT screens can be calibrated by adjusting the brightness and contrast.
You can also fix this problem by editing in Photoshop.
To determine if your screen is too bright, hold a blank white sheet of printer paper next to a white document in Photoshop. It should match in brightness and colour. If not, increase room lighting or reduce brightness of screen.
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May 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Thanks for sharing the useful tip. I used to wonder once printed, why my pictures are not as bright as seen, and then I stopped using my photo printer and started going for digital print studios to get the pictures printed.