RGB colors when ordering prints?

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RGB colors when ordering prints?

I've been working on a high sports team poster, designed in Photoshop Elements. I hope to get it printed through the iPhoto on-line service.

The background color was set in PSE by using the RGB values of the school colors. Will this information be used when it is printed? The red looks a bit pale on my inkjet printer sample and I was hoping that higher quality printers could take advantage of the info for more accurate color.

Power Mac G5, 1.8 x 2, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Nov 14, 2010 1:57 PM

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Old Toad

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Nov 14, 2010 6:02 PM in response to kwolson

As long as the image file has the standard RGB color profile, the colors should be reproduced faithfully. I have PSE set to embed the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 color profile whenever saving a jpg file.

I've not ordered prints from Apple so can't attest to the accuracy of the color. However, if they are way off Apple has been good at making things right.

OT

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