A few flowers

[SharonH]

A few flowers, hopefully I can get a few more soon but not a lot is flowering at the moment.

Dandelions, much hated by many gardeners but loved by bees. Personally I think they are quite pretty and a beautiful colour.



Osteospermum/African Daisy -



Unknown but very pretty. I printed this one out today and it is extremely dull as a photo, needs bringing to life somehow -



Magnolia -



I believe this is Quince, could have been taken on a better angle now I look at it.

[Isac]

They are all lovely Sharon. Great vibrant colours. Your unidentified flower #3 is probably prunus spinosa (Blackthorn).

Print Issue:
1. What paper are you printing on? If it's plain paper the colours will never be as good as you see on an illuminated monitor. Use photo papers and print at the highest quality available. Even cheap matte paper is 10 times better.
2. If your images look dull when printed you may need to boost the Saturation and sometimes Brightness can help.
3. Change your image to 300 PPI. If it's an RGB from your camera, it is probably set to 72 PPI.
4. In the print dialog box, set Color Handling: to Printer Manages Color. When you installed the printer software, it should have install the profiles for Photoshop which you will see in the Printer Profile: box.
5. Set Normal Printing and Rendering Intent: to Perceptual.

I hope this helps. Let me know if it print better.

[SharonH]

Thank you, got to be honest it was the cheapest photo paper I could find as I have just decluttered and put the nice paper up in the attic which is a pain to get to, it was for a bullet journal so is not too important but I will do that not for the rest :-)