Too dark or not?

[Alcadhrim]

Those are three shoots and on my screen they lok nearly as I wanted. But When I print, they are too dark.
My lcd display is calibrated but I wonder if I've a printer problem or a^photoshop problem.

Every opinion welcome!

[Leendert Smit]

I am not sure why you prints look darker. It could have something to do with printers working better with CMYK pictures instead of RGB ( all pictures taken with your camera are in RGB color scheme). In photoshop there must be a way to convert your picture to a different colorscheme that matches your printer better.

Leendert

[Alcadhrim]

That's possible indeed. I'm not (at all) a photoshop pro so I could have make some stupidities like that. Thanks for advice I will check.

[bvanant]

Getting correct prints from photoshop will take some work. Assuming that your monitor is really calibrated (Spyder or some other hardware), you will need to calibrate your printer/ink/paper combination and learn to use ICC profiles from Photoshop.

If you send a print to Costco or some other on-line printing company is it still dark? If so then maybe your printer is not the issue it might be the monitor.

Which printer/inkset/paper are you trying to print from? We can give you step by step guidance if you let us know
Bill