Darkroom print scanning nightmare

Hi all,

I'm having g somewhat of a minor meltdown trying to scan my darkroom prints. I am printing 9.5x9.5 inches, scanning using an Epson v500 then stitching the two images together in photoshop cs5. So far so good. I am then editing in Photoshop and using silver efex to get my image right. Then I reduce my tiff size and use "save for Web and devices" to get a jpeg. When I open the jpeg on a device such as a phone or tablet it is way off. There's hardly and blacks, there's light flare all around the edges of the image and everything is a horrid green colour (the original has a nice slightly warmtone). I am using a monitor calibrated using a Spyder 2.

I know that compared to a calibrated monitor mobile devices will be a little off but this is ridiculous! Can anyone offer any sage counsel?

Does your resulting jpeg look okay on your monitor?

Have you verified the the jpeg file is saved with sRGB color space? (saving for web should do that, but with a tone/color rendering problem, is the first thing I'd double-check).

In general, you're going through quite a few contortions in post, and are well-removed from your original image. That said, evidence of image degradation should show itself on your monitor, not just on mobile devices.

Are you saving it or loading it to the internet with sRGB or what? It might have something to do with the color space. Can you post samples of the files before combining them, after combining and they last ones you opened with the phone or tablet?

Hi Alan,

After working on it in photoshop I just select save for Web and devices. Then set it to jpeg and srb and hit save. It looks ok after that when I view it in my monitor in the standard image viewer. It's when I open it on a device or another computer that it looks crazy. The computer is off at the moment - I'll try and post some images tomorrow.

if your final is BW have try tried desaturation after silver efex?

just read your above, have you tried a manual conversion for web? ie set resolution and color space then save as jpeg?

Hi Doyle,

Is is a black and white print however they are toned so do have some colour. I will try a manual save as a jpeg and see how that goes. Thanks for the tip.

Maybe what you are viewing the image on is not colour managed - i use Irfanview with a plug in matches CS6 exactly so when i edit then check an image out - always the same - some devices are not colour managed. And cannot handle anything other than 8 bit