…so from now on, I’m only doing photography in black and white.

So today I was trying to print out a photo I took in Italy for a photography contest that Mom thinks I should enter.

Here’s the one I picked:

Now, one would think this would be a simple process. You edit the photo, you print the photo, and the print looks like what you see on the screen.

Wrong!

It’s actually worse than that. Not only is it all but impossible to get a print to look like what you see on the screen, but because of how Photoshop handles color, the colors change depending on whether or not you’re inside Photoshop. That is, if you open it outside of Photoshop, the colors are different, and those colors are different from what you get in the print.

Did I mention that things look really different depending on if you’re using Windows or Mac?

This is such a basic problem that you’d think it would have been dealt with years ago. I don’t think it’s an unusual expectation for my photos to look the same anywhere I open them.

Ok. There’s my rant for the day.

Edit: Did I mention that, just as I had a more or less acceptable solution, our printer ran out of ink?

Also, as part of the photo contest, we have to title the photo. Any suggestions?

Speaking of photos, I’ve edited and uploaded the photos from Vienna. You’ll get your post soon.

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