Hi, Gary.
I'm confounded on your insistence to put words in my mouth and over react to my using a big box vendor printer for 8x10's for home display. Take a powder and move on.
I'm also confounded how you can't see with your own eyes the print match in the soft proof example above of the shot of my display and 8x10 as confirmation of how off the Walmart print is from the source file.
I never said Walmart one hour photo dry lab is the go to printer. I just demonstrated just how accurate to the characterization of color errors the ICC profile showed me by assigning it to the sRGB source image. I've done this many times using DryCreekPhoto profiles of a number of local one hour photo labs to pre-visualize these errors for printers that print in sRGB which was the color space the ICC profile was built from at DryCreekPhoto.
I could have converted to that DryCreekPhoto profile and gotten a match but I didn't because I didn't print a test file to do a previsualization. The odds of getting a match to a color dump like the source image by assigning an ICC profile built from the same sRGB space printer miles away is rare with most one hour photo printers so this indicates how valuable and accurate building a printer profile can be even of some unknown off the wall printer.
You're absolutely correct Tim, I have been rather fixated on your apparent fixation with the Walmart Print Lab. WOOPS...there I go again, letting my fingers get ahead of my brain and writing something I probably shouldn't have. However, what's done is done and I will do as you suggested and "
take a powder". I'm sure you will be most happy to read those words, and I don't blame you for that. You have offered a bit more information in your most recent post and I now understand your reason for such research, I think. However, there is still one bit of information I would like to get from you concerning the viewing/judging of your prints, whether from Walmart or from your own printer. One more time, can you please let me know the intensity of the light falling on the prints you are viewing. That is a very important piece of information that I cannot seem to find on this forum, an average "
standard" intensity of the lighting use to view/judge prints.
I do apologize for being a PITA Tim. Perhaps we will have a more productive conversation at some point in the future.
Have great day -- seriously,
Gary