11-05-2009, 06:01 PM
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How to Lighten a Page??
If I want to slightly lighten up a lot of finished LOs before sending them off to print - what is the best way to do this?
Do you make the opacity of the whole page a little less, or is there some other function to do this like changing the levels or brightness? Do you do it to the PSD file or the JPG? TIA 
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Barbara ****** Cameras - Panasonic G2 M4/3 with 14-42 and 45-200 kit lenses, 20mm 1.7, 100-300 zoom and using all my old legacy 35mm lenses - Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 (P&S), a great little camera Computer Stuff - Dell PC with Windows7 and dual 24" monitors, Adobe Elements10, Wacom Intuos4 tablet and my new Dell XPS 17 laptop. 
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11-05-2009, 06:37 PM
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You can flatten the PSD into a JPG, and then duplicate the whole LO and change the blending mode to screen, then fiddle with the opacity until it looks good. Hope that makes sense!
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Sarah  Equipment: Canon T2i (550D) with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, 55-250mm f/4-5.6, 50mm f/1.8, and 400mm f/5.6L lenses Software: Windows 7, PSE 6.0 (Editor and Organizer), and PSCS 4
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11-05-2009, 07:16 PM
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What software are you using?
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Cassie My Gear: Nikon D300s w/18-200mm VR & 50mm 1.4 Software: Adobe Photoshop CS4, PSE 9, Lightroom 2  
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11-05-2009, 07:28 PM
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PSE7 (which I used to create the layouts) and also have an old copy of PS 6.0
The pages look fine on my computer screen but print just a little bit too dark for my taste.
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Barbara ****** Cameras - Panasonic G2 M4/3 with 14-42 and 45-200 kit lenses, 20mm 1.7, 100-300 zoom and using all my old legacy 35mm lenses - Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 (P&S), a great little camera Computer Stuff - Dell PC with Windows7 and dual 24" monitors, Adobe Elements10, Wacom Intuos4 tablet and my new Dell XPS 17 laptop.
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11-06-2009, 06:20 PM
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Thanks Sarah, I have been fiddling around with the process you described and it seems to be doing what I wanted. Just need to print out a few to compare.
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Barbara ****** Cameras - Panasonic G2 M4/3 with 14-42 and 45-200 kit lenses, 20mm 1.7, 100-300 zoom and using all my old legacy 35mm lenses - Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 (P&S), a great little camera Computer Stuff - Dell PC with Windows7 and dual 24" monitors, Adobe Elements10, Wacom Intuos4 tablet and my new Dell XPS 17 laptop.
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11-06-2009, 07:20 PM
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Barbara,
I hope you can get it the way you like it---the only danger with adding the screen layer is that sometimes your light colors can get overblown. But you'll find something that works, I'm sure!
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Sarah Equipment: Canon T2i (550D) with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, 55-250mm f/4-5.6, 50mm f/1.8, and 400mm f/5.6L lenses Software: Windows 7, PSE 6.0 (Editor and Organizer), and PSCS 4
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11-07-2009, 12:20 PM
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Are you calibrating your monitor? I find that's the best way to make sure what you see on the screen matches what you print. Also make sure that you have not checked "printer manages colors" option in your printer software. For calibrating, I use the Spyder and Eye-One software.
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