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My first prints from my GH5 are a disaster! Where am I going wrong?

Started Sep 21, 2017 | Discussions thread
Danielvr Veteran Member • Posts: 6,860
Re: My first prints from my GH5 are a disaster! Where am I going wrong?
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What I was doing was going to Lightroom and exporting the pictures to be printed on shiny thick paper.

STOP!

These book printers use equipment and automatic corrections carefully tuned and calibrated to make the best out of plain out-of-camera snapshots. Don't try to outsmart them - just process your raw files to full-size (!) JPGs that look good on screen and you should be fine. The photos won't look as bright as on your monitor because paper has a smaller dynamic range - but they should otherwise look very good.

Again, be sure to submit full-sized images - in the case of your 20MP camera I think that would be 5184 x 3888 pixels (smaller only if you have cropped them) - don't resize them and don't have them resized in exporting. From your description of what went wrong (grainy, no sharpness and definition) I suspect that this is where it went wrong. Maybe you can still return this book? Most suppliers seem to offer a satisfaction guarantee.

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